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between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, about two months 

 after his son's death, Wilham Young, Sr,, who became sick on 

 May 15, died of apoplexy with his clothes on, aged 73 years. 

 This accounts for the fact that the son was not mentioned in 

 his father's will (see Rhoads's Reprint, p. X). Later John 

 and MaximiHan Leech, in August, 1785, went to Gunpowder 

 Creek for their uncle's body and found it, and on September 12, 

 1785, John Leech and William Young's widow took a carriage 

 with three horses with a leaden cofifin for the body. They re- 

 turned on September 16, 1785, and buried William Young in 

 the Burial Ground at Kingsessing. On December 23, 1785, 

 John and Ann Leech began to keep tavern and raised a sign 

 "A Citron (Orange) Tree and the Rising Sun." The final 

 entry of interest concerning William Young, Jr., is that on 

 June 15, 1786, his nephew, John Leech, bought his property in 

 Kingsessing for £175, payable in six years, and that his widow, 

 Martha Young, sailed on July 9, 1786, from Philadelphia for 

 Dublin, Ireland, with her second husband, Mathias Newton 

 Smith, an Irishman, born in Londonderry, a sailor on the ship 

 Lady Hill, Captain Campbell. It might be said in closing that 

 Harry K. Leech and his son Frank R. Leech are lineal descendants 

 of Ann Christiana, sister of William Young, Sr., who died January 

 14, 1814, aged 77 years as the widow of John Leech, who died 

 according to the family records on January 27, 1804, aged 78 

 years. 



The family journal kept by Ann Christiana Young makes no 

 mention of "Colly" mentioned in the will of WilHam Young, Jr., 

 probated on July 19, 1785. In the will, he left the farm to his 

 wife Martha and after her death to his "Boy Colly," who was 

 to be "lerned to read and write and so must be sent to lern it." 

 Mr. Rhoads in his prefatory note suggests that Colly was prob- 

 ably named after Peter Collinson, but he thinks it strange that 

 he did not call him his son, if, indeed, a son he was! I would 

 suggest that William Young, Jr., meant his negro boy, or black 

 servant, for in England Colley is a country word for soot, and 

 a water-colley means a water blackbird, just as a colley (collie) 

 dog meant originally a black sheep dog, or possibly a dog kept 



