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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



was continued a member till the me- 

 morable meeting of that body in 1776. 

 The part he took in securing the inde- 

 pendence of the United States is fully 

 given in the body of this work. This 

 was the last session he attended, for he 

 died in April, 1777, aged fifty-three 

 years. His body was interred in the 

 grounds of St. Paul's Church, Chester, 

 and over it a neat monument has been 

 erected, upon which some of the facts 

 stated above are inscribed, and also the 

 following prophetic message, which 

 was sent from his death bed to such of 

 his friends as censured him for his 

 boldness in giving the casting vote in 

 favor of Independence: "Tell them 

 that they will live to see the hour when 

 they shall acknowledge it to have been 

 the most glorious service that I have 

 ever rendered to my country." 



MoRTONSON, Morton, was a native of 

 Sweden, but was not among the ear- 

 liest Swedish emigrants to the Dela- 

 ware River. His residence was in 

 Amosland, a little west of Muckinipat- 

 tus creek, where he resided as early as 

 1672. Morton Mortonson, Jr., it is 

 supposed, was his eldest son and im- 

 migrated with him. He had two other 

 sons, Andrew and John. Morton, jr., 

 died in 1718. The elder Morton was 

 living in 1693. 



Natlor, Robert, with his wife, Eliza- 

 beth, migrated from Manyash, County 

 of Derby, England, and settled in what 

 is now Upper Darby township, in 1683. 

 His dwelling was near Xai/tor's Run, and 

 doubtless that stream derived its name 

 from him. He had been married but 

 a short time before leaving his native 

 country. Their children, so far as is 

 known, were only two — John and 

 Elizabeth. Both Robert and Elizabeth 

 were alive in 1707. Thcj- were both 

 Quakers at the time of their arrival 

 here. 



Need, Joseph, from Arnold, in the 

 County of Nottingham, England, came 

 to America in 1 686, and settled in Dar- 

 by, now Upper Darby township, west of 

 Darby Creek. He was a member of 

 the Society of Friends, but was not 

 very active in meeting affairs. In 

 lGO:i he was married to Rebecca Ilindc, 

 by whom he had several children. His 

 daughter, Rebecca, married John David 



(changed to Davis), in 1714, and his 

 daughter, Ann, Nicholas Fred, of Bir- 

 mingham, in 1720. Joseph Need died 

 in 1741. 



NiELSON, Anthony, an early Swedish 

 settler, who owned and occupied a 

 tract of land, extending from Crum to 

 Ridley Creek, about a mile from the 

 river. His wife appears to have been 

 the daughter of Margaret Matson, the 

 only person ever tried for witchcraft in 

 Pennsylvania. 



Newlin, Nicholas, a gentleman in 

 easy circumstances, with his wife and 

 family, emigrated from Mountmdick, in 

 the County of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1683. 

 He had embraced the profession of 

 Quakerism some time before, and, it is 

 rather strongly intimated in his certi- 

 ficate, that his reason for removal was 

 " his fparfulness of suffering there for 

 the testimony of Jesus." Be that as it 

 may, his conduct here showed him to 

 be a man firm in the performance of 

 what he believed to be his duty under 

 all circumstances. He settled in Con- 

 cord and built a mill there in very early 

 times. For a time he served the county 

 as one of the Justices of the Court. 

 Meetings were held at his house as 

 early as 1687. His two sons, Nathaniel 

 and John, both unmarried, accompa- 

 nied their father to this country. 



Newlin, Nathaniel, son of Nicholas 

 Newlin, emigrated from Ireland with 

 his father, and was of age at the time 

 of his arrival here. In 1685 he mar- 

 ried Mary Mendenhall, also an immi- 

 grant, and a sister of Benjamin and 

 John Mendenhall. He was a man of 

 good abilities, and exercised consider- 

 able influence, both in the meetings of 

 the Friends and in the community at 

 large. During seven years, at different 

 times, he was a representative from 

 Chester County in the Provincial As- 

 sembly, and was frequently employed 

 in other important trusts. He contin- 

 ued to reside in Concord as long as he 

 lived, and held a large amount of real 

 estate there as well as elsewhere. A 

 brick dwelling-house erected by him in 

 1699, upon the site of the present 

 dwelling of John Sharpless, was stand- 

 ing till within a few years past. His 

 children were Jemima, Elizabeth, Ni- 



