BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



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and had proceeded so far as, in tlie 

 language of Friends, to " pass meeting" 

 with her. But some ditference having 

 arisen between them, they came before 

 the meeting and mutually released each 

 other. This was the second time that 

 this lady had " passed meeting" and 

 recanted. 



Williamson, Daniel, immigrated to 

 Pennsylvania at an early date, but was 

 not among the earliest colonists. He 

 was in membership with Friends, was 

 unmarried, and probably came from 

 Cheshire, England. In 1G85 he mar- 

 ried Mary Smith at Chester Meeting, 

 and settled in Newtown township pro- 

 bably after his marriage. He was a 

 man of considerable influence, fre- 

 quently represented Chester County in 

 the Provincial Assembly, and, in 1727, 

 died while a member of that body. His 

 children were, Robert, Daniel, John, 

 Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Margaret and 

 Abigail. The site of his dwelling is 

 now that of the residence of Mrs. Lydia 

 Thomas. His son John was a noted 

 Quaker preacher. 



William, Hugh, an early settler in 

 Radnor, intermarried with Susanna 

 Griffith in 1693, and continued to reside 

 in that township. Their children were 

 Elizabeth, Catharine, Job and Susanna. 

 They were Friends, and doubtless both 

 Welsh immigrants. He was the owner 

 in 1711 of the mill now owned by 

 Tryon Lewis, and it may have been 

 erected by him. 



Willis, John, came from England, 

 and about the year 1700 settled in the 

 west end of Thornbury. He does not 

 appear to have been a Quaker, though 

 he intermarried with Esther, the young- 

 est daughter of William Brinton the 

 elder. He died in 1732, leaving a son 

 John and two daughters, Esther and 

 Ann — also a second wife, Mary. 



WiTHKRs, Ralph, came from Bishop's 

 Canning, in Wiltshire, England, and 

 settled at Upland sometime before the 

 arrival of William Penn For a time 

 be held the office of Deputy Treasurer 

 of the Free Society of Traders, and 

 was afterwards one of the Justices of 

 Chester County, and sat as a Justice 

 with the Proprietary, at the first Court 

 for that County, over which he presided. 



He was also for a short period a mem- 

 ber of the Provincial Council. He had 

 been identified with the Quakers since 

 1657. In 1660 he suffered imprison- 

 ment on account of his religious prin- 

 ciples, and again in 1678, for having 

 married contrary to the directions of 

 the church liturgy. He was also one 

 of the ministering Friends who issued 

 the epistle from London Yearly Meet- 

 ing in 1675. He died in 1684. 



Withers, Thomas, was a relative of 

 Ralph Withers, and probably migrated 

 from the same place (Wiltshire, Eng- 

 land.) He was in membershij) with 

 Friends, and in 1692 was married to 

 Elizabeth Collet, according to the 

 usages of that Society. He settled in 

 Chichester as early as 1684, and be- 

 came possessed of considerable lands 

 there and elsewhere. He devised his set- 

 tlement in Chichester to his eldest son 

 Ralph His death occurred in 1720. He 

 was the second sheirtf of Chester County. 



Wood, George, with his wife, Han- 

 nah, and children, came from Bonsall, 

 in the County of Derby, England, their 

 certificate being from "Matloch, Mony- 

 ash and Ashford" Monthly Meeting of 

 Friends. He was a man of considera- 

 ble property, but advanced in years at 

 the time of his arrival in 1682. Seve- 

 ral of his family died in a short time 

 after he came to the country, but he 

 lived till 1705. 



Wood, John, son and heir of the 

 above George Wood, immigrated with 

 his father, and settled in Darby in 

 1682. In 1687 he married Jane, the 

 daughter of John and Barbara Bevan, 

 of Haverford, by whom he had the fol- 

 lowing children, viz ; Ann, George, 

 William, John, Barbara, Aubray and 

 Abraham. His wife, Jane, dying in 

 1703, he, in 1707, married Rebecca 

 Faucet, the widow of Walter Faucet, 

 (whose maiden name was Fearne) by 

 whom he had two children, Joseph • 

 and Hannah. He died in the year 

 1728, at an advanced age. Through 

 life he manifested an interest in the 

 affairs of the Society of Friends, of 

 which he appears to have been a faith- 

 ful member. 



Webb, Elizabeth, was eminent as a 

 minister among Friends, and in 1697, 



