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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



of Friends' Academy in Philadelphia, 

 but returned to Radnor to reside early 

 in the latter year. On the 9th of the 

 5th month, 17f»9, he married Alice, the 

 daughter of Isaac and Hannah Jackson 

 of New Garden, Chester County, and, 

 in the following year, removed to 

 Westown Boarding-school, then re- 

 cently established by the Yearly Meet- 

 ing of Philadelphia, where he had 

 charge of the mathematical department 

 till 1808, when he established a private 

 boarding-school in New Garden. This 

 school, in which mathematics was a 

 primary study, was continued in suc- 

 cessful operation many years. About 

 the year 1819 he published an Arith- 

 metic. This was soon followed by a 

 work on Algebra, and one on Plane and 

 Spherical Trigonometry. For a time he 

 edited a periodical called the "African 

 Observer." He was author of the Life 

 of William Penn, contained in the 

 '' Friends" Library ;" of a treatise " On 

 Oaths ;" one " On Baptism;" a review 

 of Dr. Cox's " Quakerism not Chris- 

 tianity," and other pamphlets. In 1847 

 he engaged in the publication of the 

 " Friends' Review," which he continued 

 to edit till his death, July 14th, 1856. 



Llewellyn, Morris, was born at 

 Castlebith, Pembrokeshire, South 

 "Wales, in the year 1645, and his wife, 

 Ann, whose maiden name was Young, 

 was born two years later They mi- 

 grated about the year 1686, to Penn- 

 sylvania, and settled in the northwest 

 part of Havcrford township. Morris 

 had suffered persecution in his native 

 country by distraint for the payment of 

 tithes. They were exemplary members 

 of the Society of Friends, Morris being 

 frequently entrusted with responsible 

 appointments by the meeting. Their 

 children were David, Mary, Morris and 

 Grilliih — all born in Wales, except the 

 last named. David intermarried in 

 1706 with Margaret Lawrence, of Ha- 

 verford, and, after her decease, with 

 Margaret Ellis, of Gwynedd, and Mor- 

 ris with Elizabeth Thomas of Merion. 



Lock, Lawrence Charles, (Lauren- 

 tius Carolus Lokenius,) who officiated 

 many years on the Delaware River as 

 the clergyman of the Swedish congre- 

 gations, came over during the adminis- 

 tration of Governor Printz. He was, 

 doubtless, persecuted during the Dutch 



ascendancy on the river, but it cannot 

 be truthfully said that he led such a 

 faultless life as became his sacred call- 

 ing. After the English obtained pos- 

 session of the river, his temporal af- 

 fairs rapidly improved. In 1675 he had 

 surveyed to him 350 acres of land 

 '' where 011a Stille hath formerly 

 dwelt," and he also became the owner 

 of a large tract of land in, or very near 

 the town of Upland (Chester), where 

 he probably resided some time, parti- 

 cularly when he had charge of Chris- 

 tiana and Tinicum churches. It is said 

 that he died in 1683. 



Longworthy, John, though not a 

 Welshman, fixed his place of abode at 

 a very early date, in the midst of the 

 Welsh Colonists of Radnor, and soon 

 became a large landholder there He 

 was, however, in membership with the 

 Quakers, and in 1683 was married to 

 Jane Cool of Chester Monthly Meeting. 

 Their children, so far as is known, were 

 John and Benjamin, the former of 

 whom, in 1711, intermarried with 

 Margaret the daughter of Rowland 

 Richard, and a year afterwards, the 

 elder John was married to a second 

 wife named Jane Englebert. 



Lownes, Jane, an original purchaser 

 of land in England, came from Cheshire, 

 where she had sutiered persecution in 

 the distraint of her goods in 1678, for 

 attending Friends' meeting at Newton 

 and Selsby. She was the widow of 

 Hugh Lownes, and was accompanied 

 to this country by three sons, James, 

 George and Joseph. James married 

 Susannah Richard, in 1692 and George, 

 Mary Bowers, a woman from New 

 England, in 1701. Jane, on her first 

 arrival, located her purchased land in 

 Springfield township, upon which a 

 cave was built that for some time ac- 

 commodated the family as a dwelling. 

 The site of this cave is marked by a 

 stone planted by her descendants in 

 1799, which bears the date of the 

 patent for the land (1685.) The meet- 

 ting records show the presence of Jane 

 Lownes here, in May, 1684, and she 

 probably had arrived a year earlier. It 

 was usual to occupy lands a long time 

 before they were patented. 



Lloyd, David, a Welshman, and one 

 of the most eminent of the early set- 



