BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



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civil affairs and to his religious duties. 

 We find him "taking his turn" as a 

 townsliip otticer and serving as a juror; 

 in laying out roads and negotiating 

 with the Indians ; in performing the 

 duties of sherifl" and acting as a justice 

 of the county court ; as a memljcr of 

 the Provincial Assembly, and at length 

 of the Executive Council. To religious 

 matters he was equally attentive. Ills 

 name constantly appears in the minutes 

 of the Society of Friends among those 

 who were most active in settling dif- 

 ficulties and in promoting deeds of 

 benevolence. lie frequently appeared 

 in the ministry, and sometimes employ- 

 ed his pen in the defence of tiie doc- 

 trines of his sect. His reply to one 

 Daniel Leeds was liberally subscribed 

 for by the meetings. He was a firm 

 man and of the strictest integrity, and 

 though an intimate friend of the cele- 

 brated George Keith, when that gen- 

 tleman chose to attack, what was re- 

 garded by Caleb Pusey as true Quaker 

 doctrine, he did not hesitate to sustain 

 the testimony that was pronounced 

 against him. It was from Caleb Pusey, 

 that Smith, the early historian of Penn- 

 sylvania, obtained much of the material 

 from which his work was composed. 



His daughter, Ann, died within a 

 few months after her arrival, but her 

 loss was supplied by another daughter, 

 born in 1G86, who was also named 

 Ann. They had one other daughter, 

 Lydia, but no sons. He removed to 

 Marlborough, Chester County, where 

 he was again married. He" died in 

 1726, at the house of his son-in-law, 

 John Smith, in the 76th year of his 

 age. 



Pyle, Robert, of Horton, in the 

 parish of Bishops Canning, Wiltshire, 

 England, malstcr, was married to Ann, 

 the daughter of William Globy, of Ilil- 

 perton, in the same county, yeoman, the 

 16th of the 9th mo., (November,) IGSl. 

 The exact time of the migration of this 

 young couple to America is not known, 

 but we find them settled in Bethel as 

 early as 1684. They were both in 

 membership with Friends, but Robert 

 was by no means a nominal member. 

 Early gatherings of the Chichester 

 Meeting were sometimes held at his 

 house, and in 1706 he was one of a 

 committee to establish a meeting at 

 Nottingham. In civil affairs also lie 



was frequently called upon to take a 

 part. He was a representative in the 

 Provincial Assembly several years, and 

 also served a long time as one of the 

 Justices of the County Court. His 

 children were Sarah, Robert, AVilliam, 

 John, Mary, Jacob, Joseph and Daniel. 

 He was alive in 1717 when his brother 

 Nicholas died. 



Pyle, Nicholas, immigrated and 

 settled in Concord as early as 1G86. 

 He was a brother of Robert Pyle who 

 settled in Bethel. In 1688 he married 

 Abigail, the daughter of Joseph Bush- 

 ell, by whom he had six children, viz., 

 Mary, Edith, Nicholas, Samuel, James 

 and Joseph. He appears to have been 

 a man of good business qualifications 

 and accumulated a considerable pro- 

 perty before his death, which occurred 

 in 1717, while his wife was still living. 

 He was one of the owners and pro- 

 jectors of '• the Concord Mills," and 

 was otherwise useful as a pioneer in 

 developing the resources of the coun- 

 try. He represented Chester County 

 in the Provincial Assembly six years, 

 and served in many other civil em- 

 ployments. In religion he was earn- 

 estly devoted to the doctrines and 

 principles of Quakerism. His In-other 

 Robert came from Bishops Canning in 

 Wiltshire, which was probably the 

 place of his nativity. 



Radley, John, settled in that part of 

 Birmingham or Thornbury not included 

 in Delaware County, was a worsted 

 comber by trade, and as he left chil- 

 dren in England, it may be supposed 

 he was advanced in years at the time 

 of his emigration. He died in 1703, 

 the mansion property passing to his 

 son William. Radlo/s Run has its 

 name from this famiiy. He ajjpears to 

 have lived in Westown in 1693. as he 

 was appointed constable for that town- 

 ship that year. 



RvTHERow, or Rytherich. Rkese, 

 from the parish of Llanwenog, County 

 of Cardigan, Wales, was a large land 

 holder in Haverford, and resided in 

 that township temporarily as early as 



Rawson, Olle, or Wolley, (Oele 

 Raessen,) an early Finish or Swedish 

 settler on Naaman's Creek, and one of 



