BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



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Hastings. John', with his wife Eliza- 

 bctli, arrived iit Chester a short time 

 before the arrival of the I'ro|trietarv, 

 or in company with him, and settled in 

 Nether Providence. From the appoint- 

 ments assigned to him by the meeting, 

 it may be inferred that he was advanced 

 in years at the time of his arrival. Eli- 

 zabeth died in 1684. but he lived till 

 1G;i8 ; and as his death is recorded at 

 Haverford, it may be inferred that he 

 had removed to that place. 



H.\sTixGS, JosHTA, arrived in Penn- 

 sylvania with his wife Elizabeth and 

 fiimily, a short time previous to the ar- 

 rival of the Proprietary in 1G82, and 

 settled in Nether Providence, probably 

 on the same tract of land marked on 

 Holmes" map John llanlings, whose son 

 he probably was. He was a member 

 of the first Grand Jury empanneled in 

 Pennsylvania of which there is any re- 

 cord, and which held its sittings at 

 Chester in Sept. 1082, a short time be- 

 fore the arrival of William Penn. He 

 was a memberof Assembly in 1684, and 

 served other public trusts. As a mem- 

 ber of the Society of Friends he main- 

 tained a good standing. He removed 

 to Philadelphia, where he died in 1724, 

 his wife having died one year before. 



Hastings, Henry, was a resident of 

 Upland long before the arrival of Wil- 

 liam Penn; was a member of the first 

 jury that sat within the limits of Penn- 

 sylvania, (1677) of which any record 

 has been preserved, and was also a 

 member of the first jury under Penns 

 government. It does not appear that 

 he was a Quaker. He held a large 

 tract of land in Chichester, and may 

 have occupied it in his latter years. 



Hayks, Jonathan, with his wife. 

 Mary, was settled in Marple as early as 

 1684. He was much the largest land- 

 holder in that township ; was a man of 

 ability and influence, and appears to 

 have acted on his own judgment. He 

 was a Justice of the Court, and repre- 

 sented the County in the Provincial 

 Assembly. He had a daughter Mary, 

 a son Jonathan and perhaps other 

 children. .Mary intermarried with Evan 

 Lewis, of Newtown, and Jonathan with 

 Jane Rees, of Merion. It is supposed 

 that he came to his death by the hands 

 of an assassin. See page 223. 



Hayes, Richard, Sen., with his wife 

 Issatt and two sous, Richard and John, 

 emigrated from llmiston, Pembroke- 

 shire, Wales, to Pennsylvania in 1687, 

 and settled in Haverford. He was a 

 Friend, was advanced in years at the 

 time of his settlement, and died in 

 1697. 



Hayes, Richard, Jr., son of the 

 above Richard, continued to reside 

 during his life on the same premises 

 that he and his father had settled upon 

 at the time of their arrival. In 1697, 

 he married Elizabeth, the daughter of 

 Henry Lewis, of Haverford, then de- 

 ceased. Having received a better edu- 

 cation than was usual among the early 

 immigrants, and being withal a man of 

 excellent business qualifications, he 

 was almost constantly kept in some 

 public employment. Still he found 

 time to give very constant attention to 

 his religious duties, and also to manage 

 his pecuniary affairs to great profit and 

 advantage. In company with David 

 Morris and Samuel Lewis, he, about 

 the year 1707, erected a mill on Darby 

 Creek, for a long time known as " Ha- 

 verford new Mill," (now Leedom's mill) 

 which he managed himself till the pe- 

 riod of his death in 1738. He was a 

 Justice of the Courts of Chester County; 

 served as a member of the Assembly 

 seven years, and was for a long time 

 one of the Commissioners of the Loan 

 OfiBce. His children were, Joseph, 

 Mary, Hannah, Richard and Benjamin. 

 Joseph intermarried with Hannah, and 

 Richard with Sarah, daughters of Lewis 

 David, of Haverford ; Mary, with John, 

 son of John Jacobs, of Perkiomen ; 

 Hannah, with James Jones, of Block- 

 ; ley, and Benjamin, with Mary, daugh- 

 j ter of Jonathan Jones, of Merion. The 

 annexed facsimile is taken from his 

 Ledger, kept by himself at the mill. 



Hendrickson, Jacob. The first 

 appearance of this man on the Dela- 

 ware River, was as a soldier under the 

 ; direction of the noted Dutch Comrais- 

 ■ sary, Andries Hudde. in the year 1646. 

 ! He was doubtless present and partici- 

 ! pated in the squabbles between his 

 ! commander and Governor Printz, 

 I when any work was to be done. 

 I Having spied out the beauty and rich- 

 I ness ot this land while in the perform- 

 1 ance of his dutv as a soldier, he 



