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Young, Sr., built a house on Front Street for £ 1,000. On 

 November 23, 1753, Ann Christiana married John Leech and 

 the whole family, William Young, Sr., William Young, Jr., 

 Catherine Young and Mr. and Mrs. John Leech moved to 

 Kingsessing. Later, on March 21, 1755, William Young, Sr., 

 and his two children William, Jr., and Catherine moved to a 

 farm of 50 acres woodland at Kingsessing purchased at £5 per 

 acre of Captain Collis, of Blockley. They thus became neighbors 

 of John Bartram, whose place was located on the Schuylkill 

 River. There were born at Kingsessing as the children of John 

 and Ann Christiana Leech the following persons: 



July 9, 1756, William Leech, 



June I, 1759, John Leech, 



May 4, 1 76 1, Elizabeth Leech, 



Oct. 15, 1763, Maximilian, 



Nov. 22, 1765, Henry and Catherine (twins). 

 On January 13, 1763, William Young, Sr., bought 15 acres of 

 land from John Kite in Blockley for £60, perhaps from the 

 proceeds of the sale of 400 acres of land in Virginia for £65 cash. 

 The first entry concerning William Young, Jr., is under date 

 of February 12, 1764, when he sailed for England with Captain 

 Culton by request of the King. He must have commenced the 

 business of nurseryman and gardener in 1761, for we have this 

 reference to him in a letter of Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina to John Ellis of London dated July 25, 1761 

 (Smith's "Linnaean Correspondence," I: 512; Rhoads's Re- 

 print): "I have at last met with a man who is to commence 

 nurseryman and gardener, and to collect seeds, plants, &c., 

 for the London market. He is a sensible, careful man, and 

 has a turn for that business. He shall receive all the advice 

 and assistance that I can give him. I must beg your interest 

 in his favour; that you would bespeak what custom and com- 

 missions you can procure for him from your gardeners or nursery- 

 men, or for any gentleman who may want what our province 

 affords. He wants much to be acquainted with Mr. Gray and 

 Mr. Gordon, at Mile, End; and I must beg that you would pro- 

 cure some commission from them to him. He is to employ his 



