BIOQRAPniCAL NOTICES. 



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tiers of Pennsylvania, arrived at Phila- 

 delphia in 1G86, and at first settled in 

 that city, where he married Grace 

 Growden a most estimable lady. By 

 profession he was a lawyer, and Wil- 

 liam Penn being well acquainted with 

 his abilities and legal attainments, 

 commissioned him the same year as 

 Attorney General of the Province. 

 Ho was greatly in advance of his age, 

 in his views of good government, 

 and particularly in a correct compre- 

 hension of the rights of the governed. 

 These he advocated with so much zeal 

 and ability, that he rarely failed in 

 carrj'ing his point. In opposing what 

 were then called, " the proprietary 

 interests," but what often were nothing 

 more than proprietarn pretensions, he 

 acquired the reputation, particularly 

 with those in interest with the govern- 

 ment, of being perverse and factious as 

 a politician, but time has served to 

 correct that judgment, for the instances 

 are few indeed, where the positions 

 assumed and the arguments advanced 

 by him, would not be fully sustained 

 and approved by the present age. 

 His integrity and abilities were never 

 questioned. 



Besides the office of Attorney Gene- 

 ral, he was Deputy Register General 

 under his ^Yelsh friend, Thomas Ellis ; 

 Deputy or Clerk of the Master of Rolls ; 

 was frequently a member of the As- 

 sembly, and speaker of thai body. In 

 1717 he received the appointment of 

 Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and con- 

 tinued to hold thatotlice till his death. 

 As a Quaker, David Lloyd was zealous 

 and consistent, frequent in his atten- 

 dance at the meetings of that Society, 

 and sometimes appearing in the minis- 

 try. The Welsh Friends, whose meet- 

 ings he sometimes visited, submitted 

 difficult questions arising in church 

 matters to his final determination. In 

 his family " he was exemplary ; treating 

 all about him with humanity, and 

 choosing rather to be loved than feared." 



In 1G91, he purchased a large tract 

 of land at Chester, embracing a con- 

 siderable portion of what is now the 

 improved part of the borough, but he 

 did not remove to that place till about 

 the year 1700. His only dwelling-house 

 at Chester, now known as " the Com- 

 modore Porter house" was built by 

 himself. He left no children, and few 

 relatives in this country. He died in 



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1731, aged seventy-five years. His 

 wife survived him twenty-nine years. 

 The remains of both repose in Friends' 

 burial ground at Chester. 



LfCAS, RoBEKT, one of the Justices of 

 the Court of Upland County, under the 

 administration of Governor Markham, 

 before the arrival of William Penn, set- 

 tled up the Delaware, in what is now 

 Bucks County. He probably arrived 

 with the settlers of Burlington, N. J. 



Haddock, Mordecai, was the oldest 

 son of Henry Maddock of Loom Hall, 

 Cheshire, England. In 1081, Henry 

 and his brother-in-law James Kenerly, 

 purchased ir)00 acres of land in Penn- 

 sylvania, and arrived here some time 

 before the Proprietary, in 168 2. In 

 IGS;!, part of this joint purchase, sup. 

 posed to be 800 acres, but really more 

 than 1100 acres, was located in Spring- 

 field adjoining Ridley, and James 

 established his residence upon it. In 

 a few years afterwards James died, 

 leaving his share of the joint purchase 

 to his nephew, the subject of this notice, 

 and shortly afterwards, his father 

 Henry, who returned to England, con- 

 veyed the other half to him. Mordecai 

 appears to have made a visit to Penn- 

 sylvania about the year 1G87, and re- 

 mained here for some time, but returned 

 to England, and it was not till 1701, 

 that he returned with his family, 

 and fixed his permanent home on his 

 estate. He was in membership with 

 Friends. 



Malin, Randal, with his wife Eliza- 

 beth, from Great Barrum in Cheshire, 



England, arrived in 1G82 or 1G83, and 

 fixed their residence in L^pper Provi- 

 dence. They were both active and in- 

 fluential members of the Society of 

 Friends, meetings being sometimes held 

 at their house. Elizabeth died in 1G87, 

 leaving two sons, Isaac and Jacob. 

 Randal was married a second time in 

 1693, to Mary Conway, daughter of 

 Valentine Hollingsworth of Newcastle 

 County, by whom he had two daugh- 

 ters, Hannah and Rachel. His death 

 occurred about the year 170o. For 

 making a prayer in a meeting in his 

 native country. Randal Malin was fined 

 £20 5s, for which distress was made of 

 his household goods, corn and hay. 

 (Besse. i. 107.) 



