BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



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ed the ground occupied by Concord 

 Friends' niceting-housc and grave-yard. 

 In 1708. his wife being deceased, he 

 contracted a second marriage with Hes- 

 ter Dix. He was one of the original 

 shareholders of the first Concord mill. 

 His cliihlren by his first wife were, 

 George, John and Aaron. It is not 

 known that he had any by his second 

 wife. 



Meriditu, David, came from the pa- 

 rish of Llanbister, Radnorshire, Wales, 

 in 1G83 or 1()84, and settled in Radnor 

 township. His name appears on the 

 minutes of the monthly meeting earlier 

 than that of any other Radnor Friend. 

 He was accompanied to this country by 

 his wife Katharine and their five child- 

 ren — Richard, Mary, John, Meridith 

 and Sarah. Katharine died in 1G88, 

 and in 1690 he was married to JIary 

 Jones, a widow, of Upper Providence, as 

 his second wife, by whom he probably 

 had no children. He had been a Friend 

 twenty years in his native land. The 

 time of his decease is not known ; but 

 from the circumstance of his name dis- 

 appearing from the minutes of his meet- 

 ing in 1695, it is supposed that it oc- 

 curred about that period. He had 

 suifered imprisonment in Wales on ac- 

 count of his religious principles. 



Miles, Richard, was one of the 

 Welsh purchasers of land from Richard 

 Davies, in Wales, in 1682. He was a 

 resident of Radnorshire, and probably 

 emigrated shortly after his purchase, 

 and located his land in Radnor town- 

 ship, where he settled. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Society of Friends, and in 

 1688 intermarried with Sarah, the 

 daughter of his Welsh Quaker neigh- 

 bor, John Evan. He died in 1713, 

 leaving his wife Sarah and children — 

 Richard, James, Evan, John, Jane, Sa- 

 rah and Abigail to survive him. 



Miles, Samuel, with his wife Marga- 

 ret, emigrated from Radnorshire, in 

 Wales, in 1683, and at first settled in 

 Philadelphia. As early as 1G86, and 

 perhaps earlier, they had removed to 

 Radnor township. They were in mem- 

 bership with Friends, but their names 

 are not frequently connected with the 

 business affairs of the Society. Their 

 children were Taraar and Phebe. Sa- 

 muel died in 1708. Tamar intermarried 



with Thomas, the son of William Tho- 

 mas, of Radnor, and Phebe with Evan, 

 the son of Owen Evans, of Gwynedd. 



Miles, Giuffith, an early Welsh 

 Quaker colonist of Radnor. After his 

 marriage with Bridget Edwards, of the 

 sanje township, in 1692, his name dis- 

 appears from the records. 



Miller, Hfnry, with his wife Sarah 

 and several children, emigrated from 

 the parish of Dunster, Somerset county, 

 England, in 1714, and settled in Upper 

 Providence. He had previously lived 

 in the parish of Bradnich, in the 

 county of Devon, where, in the year 

 1704, his son John was born. A 

 daughter, Dorothy, and a son, Henry, 

 were also born in the same par- 

 ish. His son George, father of the 

 late George Miller, was born in Upper 

 Providence in 1716. Henry Miller, by 

 trade, was a manufacturer, and after 

 his arrival here he had a small manu- 

 facturing establishment, at which he 

 made serges, camlets, &c. He also 

 kept a store for the sale of these and 

 other articles. He was strict in his re- 

 ligious duties as a member of the So- 

 ciety of Friends, and for some years was 

 the Clerk of Chester Monthly jpeetiug. 

 In 1717, three years after his arrival in 

 the country, he was a representative 

 from Chester County in the Provincial 

 Assembly. Henry died in 1730, and 

 his wife the next year. 



MixsuALL, Thomas, with his wife 

 Margaret, came from Stoak, County 

 Palatine of Chester, England, and ar- 

 rived in 1682, having had the mis- 

 fortune to lose a daughter on the 

 passage. Thomas Minshall was one of 

 the original purchasers of land in Eng- 

 land, part of which he located in Nether 

 Providence, his dwelling being near 

 the meeting-house, which was erected 

 on land given by him for the purpose. 

 He was an active and iufluential mem- 

 ber of the Society of Friends, and it 

 was from the meetings held at his 

 house that Providence meeting had its 

 origin. Margaret died in 1727, in her 

 sevent^'-fifth year, leaving Thomas to 

 survive her. Their children, so far as 

 is known, besides the one above men- 

 tioned, were Isaac, who married Re- 

 becca, daughter of Dr. Griffith Owen 

 of Philadelphia, Jacob, who married 



