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Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.)
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s married to a secondwife named Jane Englebert. Lownes, Jane, an original purchaserof land in England, came from Cheshire,where she had sutiered persecution inthe distraint of her goods in 1678, forattending Friends meeting at Newtonand Selsby. She was the widow ofHugh Lownes, and was accompaniedto this country by three sons, James,George and Joseph. James marriedSusannah Richard, in 1692 and George,Mary Bowers, a woman from NewEngland, in 1701. Jane, on her firstarrival, located her purchased land inSpringfield township, upon which acave was built that for some time ac-commodated the family as a dwelling.The site of this cave is marked by astone planted by her descendants in1799, which bears the date of thepatent for the land (1685.) The meet-ting records show the presence of JaneLownes here, in May, 1684, and sheprobably had arrived a year earlier. Itwas usual to occupy lands a long timebefore they were patented. Lloyd, David, a Welshman, and oneof the most eminent of the early set-
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BIOQRAPniCAL NOTICES. 481 tiers of Pennsylvania, arrived at Phila-delphia in 1G86, and at first settled inthat city, where he married GraceGrowden a most estimable lady. Byprofession he was a lawyer, and Wil-liam Penn being well acquainted withhis abilities and legal attainments,commissioned him the same year asAttorney General of the Province.Ho was greatly in advance of his age,in his views of good government,and particularly in a correct compre-hension of the rights of the governed.These he advocated with so much zealand ability, that he rarely failed incarrjing his point. In opposing whatwere then called, the proprietaryinterests, but what often were nothingmore than proprietarn pretensions, heacquired the reputation, particularlywith those in interest with the govern-ment, of being perverse and factious asa politician, but time has served tocorrect that judgment, for the instancesare few indeed, where the positionsassumed and the arguments advancedby him, would not be fully susta

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