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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



1693. It is believed that he was born 

 in this country. The name appears to 

 have been changed to Joranson. 



Key, Moses, migrated from Middle- 

 wiih, in the county of Chester, Eng- 

 land, in 1700, and upon his first arri- 

 val here settled in Nether Providence. 

 Early in 1702 he married Elizabeth, the 

 daughter of John Yearsly of Thornbury, 

 and at that time, or a little before, had 

 fixed his residence in Concord. He 

 was a member of the Society of Friends, 

 and by trade a blacksmith. His chil- 

 dren were, Lettice, William, Mary, Eli- 

 zabeth, Moses, Hannah, John, Robert, 

 Rebecca and Ann. 



King, Thomas, settled in Con^^ord 

 as early as 1686. He was in member- 

 ship with Friends, and died in 1706, 

 leaving his wife Mary, but no children, 

 to survive him. 



Kinsman, John, from Fifel, in the 

 county of Wilts, England, was settled 

 in Chichester as early as 1684, and 

 was married to Hannah, the daughter 

 of John Simcock the same year. He 

 was an active member of Chichester 

 Friends' meeting, and the monthly 

 meeting was sometimes held at his 

 house. As a citizen, he held a respect- 

 able position in the community. His 

 children were, Elizabeth and Hannah, 

 the former of whom married John But- 

 ton, in 1704. He died about the year 

 1701. 



Kirk, John, from All Freetown, in 

 the county of Derby, England, settled 

 in Darby, now Upper Darby township, 

 in 1687. He was married to Joan, 

 daughter of Peter Ellet, (now changed 

 to Elliot,) of Kingsessing, the next year 

 after his arrival, at Darby meeting, of 

 which they were both members. A 

 family of eleven children was the result 

 of this marriage, all of whom were 

 living at the time of his death in 1705. 

 He devised his mansion farm to his son 

 William, a part of which is still owned 

 by his descendants. To his other sons. 

 500 acres in Philadeli)hia County 

 (.Montgomery) was given. 



Lamplew. Nathaniel, was an early 

 Quaker settler on the Delaware below 

 Marcus Hook. In 1686, he married 

 Susanna, the daughter of John B'^azer, 



of Chichester, then deceased. At this 

 time he was a Friend, but his name dis- 

 appears from the records in 1688, and 

 as it is known he continued to reside 

 in the neighborhood, he probably dis- 

 continued his membership. 



Laerson, Neels, (alias Friend) an 

 early Swedish inhabitant of Upland. 

 He owned 182 acres of land, embracing 

 what is now the central part of the 

 present town of Chester, most of which 

 subsequently became the property of 

 David Lloyd. The earliest Courts of 

 Upland County of which we have the 

 records, were held at his house, and 

 subsequently at the "House of defence,"' 

 which was built on his land, where, 

 doubtless, the Courts under the Pro- 

 prietary government were for some time 

 held. He kept a kind of tavern, and 

 entertained the Justices of the Upland 

 Court, a service which he had also 

 performed for the Justices of an earlier 

 Court, the records of which are now 

 lost. There is evidence that he acted 

 as an arbitrator by appointment of this 

 Court as early as 1673. As early as 

 1668, in conjunction with Oele Raw- 

 son, he purchased land on the east side 

 of the river, which they had previously 

 bought of the Indians. This noted 

 Swede died in 1689, leaving a widow, 

 Anico, (Ann) and several sons, who 

 were afterwards known by the name 

 of Friend^ or had that name as an alias. 

 The widow survived her husband till 

 about the year 1724, when she died at 

 the advanced age of 106 years. \_See 

 file of 0. C. papers, office of the Clerk of 

 Q. Sessions, West Chester.'] From this 

 circumstance it may be concluded that 

 Neels Laerson was a native of Sweden. 



Langham, Robert, was an early re- 

 sident and owner of hxnd in Chichester. 

 He died early in 1708, leaving a wife 

 and children. It does not appear that 

 he was a Friend. 



Lawrence, David, with his wife Eli- 

 nor and two or three children, emi- 

 grated from Pencheston, Pembroke- 

 shire, South Wales, in company with 

 his father-in-law, Thomas Ellis, and 

 settled in Haverford township. He had 

 witnessed the sufferings and persecu- 

 tions of his father-in-law in his pative 

 land, and had come here with a miud 

 and a will to maintain " the truth" in 



