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 Thirteenth 
 Annual 
 
 Banquet 
 
 Chester Counb; 
 Historical Societij
 
 Thirteenth Annual 
 
 BANQUET 
 
 Chester County Historical Society 
 
 New Century Club House 
 
 West Chester, Pennsylvania 
 
 December 13^ 1917
 
 DR. JESSE C. GREEN, at the end of hit first century 
 
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 Thirteenth Annual Banquet 
 
 of the 
 
 Chester County Historical Society 
 
 Introduction by the Toastmaster 
 
 R. riinjPS: Guests and Fcllow-AIembers of the Chester 
 Cniinty Historical Society: We welcome you all here 
 tonig-ht most heartily. This is the largest attendance at 
 any banquet that this society has had. and it is due to the 
 fact that we are here tonight to honor the foremost and most dis- 
 tinguished citizen of West Chester, Dr. Jesse C. Green. Every one 
 here is proud of his county, and we are proud of it chiefly because 
 of such lives as that which has been lived by this distinguished man 
 at my right tonight. It is such lives as his that have made the 
 history of this county something to be proud of. 
 
 I have not presided at any meeting of this Society in which it 
 has been so easy to find persons who were willing to speak. They 
 wanted to speak about the life and career of this man. As a matter 
 of fact, I have not asked a single person to speak tonight who has 
 not gladly consented to ap])ear and to speak, not one; and 1 am iirst 
 going to ask a distinguisJUMl member of Dr. Green's profession to 
 h>c speak tonight, Dr. Darby, of Philadelphia. He and Dr. Green 
 
 i graduated from the same class at the same time, from the Dental 
 
 College of Philadelphia, and like our Dr. Green is one of the most 
 distinguished members of his profession in this state and the United 
 States. 
 
 I have great pleasure in calling upon Dr. Darby. 
 
 ST'SSSO
 
 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL UANQUET 
 
 Remarks of Dr. Edwin T. Darby 
 
 R. TOASTMASER, Guests and Fellow Participants in this 
 unusual and happy occasion: Some years ago Elbert 
 Hubbard, who went down with the Lusitania. was makinq; 
 a lecture tour through the West, and it chanced that he was 
 obliged to wait for a few hours in Omaha in order to connect with 
 the train on wdiich he wished to go further West. He said that as 
 he stepped out of the train he saw a beautiful station, very much in 
 architectural design like a Grecian temple. As he stepped into the 
 large and spacious waiting room and took his seat, he heard a train 
 pull in, and presently there walked in from the platform a woman 
 from the humbler walks of life, carrying a large l)ag in her hand and 
 two small children hanging to her skirts. She took a seat in the 
 station not far from him, and he noticed that she looked care-worn 
 and perturbed. Presently he saw a woman come through a door 
 leading into the waiting room. She had on a white cap and a white 
 apron, and she went to this woman and said a word to her and wem 
 out. Presently she returned with two pillows and a coverlet. She 
 beckoned to the woman, and she went and laid down on a settee in 
 one corner of the room, and was covered up, and the woman with 
 the white apron and the white cap went out of the room again, and 
 presently returned with two glasses of milk and a cup of tea and 
 handed them to the woman and her children. He said, "The thing 
 was so unlike an}-thing that I had ever seen in the East, that I 
 pinched nnself to see if I were really alive.'' And since I have been 
 sitting here tonight, and considered that it is many years since I 
 have looked forward to this event — I sav many years, some years — 
 to this event, and now that I am sitting at the table with a man a 
 hundred years old, I feel like pinching myself to see if I am really 
 alive. 
 
 It is such an unusual occasion. I do not remember to have 
 ever seen any one who had talked with a person a hundred years old 
 until now. In the summer, in the August of 1865, I drove into 
 West Chester with a friend from ]\larvland, let me sav from that
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 5 
 
 town whicli is known as a Ciretna Clreen, where so nian\- people go 
 to get married. I"^ll<tiin. [ droxe into IClkion with Dr. I ling, later 
 of Paris, and lie said, "1 want to take \()n u]) into Chester County to 
 see my old preceptor. Dr. McClellan, of Cochranvi'le." We called 
 on Dr. McClellan, and then he said lo me, "Xow 1 want yon to go 
 with me to West Chester to call upon Dr. Jesse Green," and he said, 
 "He is a man that you will be glad to meet." So in August, 1865, 
 or fifty-two years ago. 1 first met Dr. Green. To show you what a 
 memory he has, a year ago today I spent part of the afternoon with 
 him and 1 said, "Doctor, we have known eacli other a good manv 
 years." He said, "Yes. I first met thee in 1865. Thee and Dr. 
 Bing called upon me in the summer of 1865." "\'es/' 1 said, '"you are 
 right." 
 
 But I can tell you another instance where his memory was 
 e(|uall_\- gi)()d. In 1876 Dr. Green and myself were ap])()inted 1)\- the 
 State Society of Pennsylvania examiners for candidates for their 
 license from the State of IVnnsylvania. It was our dut\- un (ic- 
 casion to go to Pittsburgh or to sit in Philadelphia or elsewhere and 
 examine canrlidates for their licenses. On one occasion we went to 
 Pittsburgh, and we spent a day or two or more there. When we 
 retm-ned we werj corivinced that we had been to the dirtiest city in 
 the world, and it took us some days to get that dirt ofT of us. We 
 occasionally referred to our tri]) to Pittsburgh and the dirt we en- 
 countered there, but 1 don't think an\- details of that visit were men- 
 tirncd. More th'in forty years after tliat 1 sat at dinner with him 
 on.e night and he said. "Doctor Dar])y. does thee remember that trip 
 we r.iale to Pitt.-.burgh?" I said. "Yes." "W'ell," he said, "does 
 thee remember a foreigner, a Russian 1 think he was, whom we ex- 
 amined, and Udue of us could ask him a (piestion that he could not 
 answer.'" 1 said, "i do remember that there was a very bright man, 
 a fcn-eigner, there." "Well." he said. "dt)es thee remember that he 
 didn't have $30 to pay for his license?" I remembered that be- 
 cause I was treasurer of the Board, and two or three weeks after- 
 ward he came to West Chester and ]):iid his $30 and took liis 
 license. .So a memory like that is something. 
 
 When _\(iur president wrote me asking me if I would speak on 
 this occasion, I replied that 1 would, and he said he would like me to 
 say something about dentistry in 1S17 and T()1T. but he said. "I
 
 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET 
 
 hope the most of your remarks will be upon Dr. Green." That re- 
 minded me of a story that I once heard of a man, a good country 
 deacon, who took a check for a large sum of money to a bank to be 
 cashed. He handetl it in and the cashier said to him, "What de- 
 nomination will you have " "Well," he said, I will take some 
 iMethodist and some Presbyterian, but I will take the heft of it in 
 hard-shell Baptists." (Laughter.) Dr. Philips wants me to devote 
 the most of my time to Dr. Green, and I am not going to take very 
 much of your time. Perhaps I can not make better use of the time 
 
 1 have than to devote it to Dr. Green. However, I will say this, to 
 comply with the promise. When Dr. Green began life dentistry 
 was not a profession. It was far from it. If I may go back a few 
 years earlier, during or up to the time of the Revolutionary War, 
 there was but one dentist in America. Robert Wolfendale came to 
 this country in 1765, and remained here two years and went Dack to 
 England. The next dentist that anything was known of in this 
 country was a man by the name of LeMair, who came over from 
 the French Army and was cjuartered during the war at Providence, 
 Rhode Island. While there he taught Josiah Flagg, a young man 
 of 18 or 20, what he knew of dentistry, and Dr. Flagg located in 
 Boston soon after the war was over and continued there until the 
 time of his death. The next following LeMair — I was going to say 
 Dr. Hudson, but there was one who antedated him. However, 
 when LeMair came to this country, it was during the War of the 
 Revolution. After the revolution was over he continued to practice 
 for a short time, as did Dr. Flagg, his pupil, in Boston. But soon 
 after that came Gardette, to Philadelphia. Dr. Green I think will 
 remember the elder Gardette as well as the son, who were in practice 
 up to perhaps 1835 or thereabouts. It was not until 1839 that it 
 could be said of dentistry that it was a profession, because no calling 
 is a profession until it has a literature of its own and until it has 
 schools for the education of its students. There were no such 
 schools, there was no literature, to the time that Dr. Green was 
 born. In 1839 the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was 
 founded, and then such men as are very familiar to Dr. Green who 
 were concerned in that were Henry H. Hagen and Chapin A. Har- 
 ris, and such men as Gardette, of Philadelphia, both the elder and the 
 younger, and Dr. Robert Arthur, of Baltimore, and men of that
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 7 
 
 type. But the man with whom Dr. Green was probably the most 
 famiHar, or whom he met in the early associations, were men like 
 Chapin A. Harris, like Joheil and Elisha Palmer, of Syracuse, John 
 B. Rich, of New York. All of those men were contemporary with 
 Dr. Green, but Dr. Green has outlived them all. Dr. J(jhn Rich 
 came nearer to attaining the age to which Dr. Green has attained 
 than any of those whom I have mentioned. In fact T have never 
 known a dentist who has reached the age of one hundred. Dr. 
 Gordon Palmer came very near it. I wrote Dr. Green a year or two 
 ago saying, "I have just cut a clipping from the 'Dental journal' 
 which I enclose, stating that Dr. Palmer is the oldest dentist in the 
 w^orld. I know that this is not true. You antedate him \)y at least 
 two years I think." I sent this clipping anfl in a few days 1 received 
 a beautiful letter from him, beautifully written I mean — in which he 
 said, "The editor or the author of this clipping you sent me is wrong. 
 I was born in 1817. Mr. Palmer was born in i(S20." He antedated 
 him by nearly three years. 
 
 But now to get back to Dr. Green himself. As I say, I have 
 known Dr. Green for more than fifty years. He was good enough 
 when I was a very young man, and I was starting in Philadelphia, 
 to let me come to his home, and Mrs. Darby and I often spent Sun- 
 day with him at his own house here in West Chester. His children 
 were living at his luMiie then. One of the things that impressed me 
 at that time, and im])resses me now, is that he was a man of great 
 industry. He was everlastingly at work. If he was not at work in 
 his profession, he was at work on something equally interesting to 
 him and equally important to others. He kept the weather record. 
 With, great diligence and punctuality he made these records. I re- 
 member that three times a day he would take the wind gauge, the 
 water fall, the condition of the tliermometer and barometer, note it 
 down in his book, and at the end of the month that report went to 
 Washington. 
 
 But that was not half that he did. He was collecting all the 
 time, and he probably has today one of the best collections of Conti- 
 nental money extant. lie has one of the greatest collections of 
 "shin plasters" that were issued during the Civil War. He has in 
 addition to that fractional curroncx of almost ever\- kind and everv 
 degree, besides bank notes, state notes and the like. In fact, there
 
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 is hardly a thing of interest that he has not gathered together, and 
 autographs and letters innumerable. Some of the happiest hours I 
 have ever spent with him were spent with him in a place that you 
 ladies of the audience prol)ably never saw, and that was his work 
 shop, a work shop where he did almost everything, from the mak- 
 ing of a fishing tackle or fishing rod to a microscope; and he made 
 with his own hands two or three most iK'autiful microscopes, copied 
 after the best instruments made ])y the great Joseph Zentmayer, of 
 Philadelphia. They were not amateur work. It was the work of a 
 skilled mechanic, antl I have no doubt those will go down perhaps 
 with this very Society as illustrations of his manual skill. 
 
 But furthermore, in that shop of his he could show you the his- 
 tory of dentistry from almost the earliest period, I think, beginning 
 as he did, before there were dental schools, beginning as he did be- 
 fore there was anything l)ut a preceptor, who would give you just so 
 much for so nnich money and no more. He would tell you just how 
 little he could for so nmch money and that was all. Today dentistry 
 professes to be a liberal profession. We give everything we know 
 for nothing. We tell all we know and sometimes we tell a lot more 
 than we know, and give it to people for nothing. Dr. Green had a 
 preceptor, I suppose, but the most that he did and the most that he 
 has done during his life has been reached and worked out of his own 
 brain. Away back in the early years of his own practice he took 
 the kaolin and feldspar and the silex from the ([uarry. ground it into 
 powder, carved his own teeth, and baked them in the oven, enam- 
 eled them, re-baked them, and riveted them to the gold and silver 
 plates, and those teeth — I have no doul)t there are scores and scores 
 or thousands of them buried with those who wear them (Laughter 
 and applause). That was dental art, that was dental skill, and Dr. 
 Green possessed that in a wonderful degree. 
 
 One moment more. When T came to sec more. When I came 
 to see Dr. Green in 1865, he was just about as busy a man as I ever 
 saw. His olHice, his waiting room, was tilled with patients. Most 
 of them I judge belonged to the Society of iM-iends. because his 
 practice was made up largely of those sweet-faced old ladies that I 
 saw in his of^ce. When I say old ladies, I mean ladies of all ages. 
 His office was filled with them. He was flying back and forth from 
 his operating room to his laboratory or w<M-k shop, and he went
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 9 
 
 back and forth like a flash of Hghtning from one to the other, and 
 after a little he had time to come and say to me, "Xow just wait a 
 few minutes, I want to see you. Wait a few minutes and I will give 
 you all the time there is." We waited and in due course of time 
 we had a lovel\' conversation with him, and then our friendship be- 
 gan. I say to you, fellow friends of his, those of you that have lived 
 with him for many, many years, know that his character is beyond 
 reproach; that he is a genial, gentlemanl}-, lovely character. And 
 may I say to you (turning to Dr. Green), my honorable friend, my 
 dear old friend of fifty years, that my one hope now is that you may 
 live to see many returns of this glorious day. Way God be with 
 you and keep you, and may you be a blessing to us as you have been 
 a ])lessing to all who ha\e known you. (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 Dr. Philips: The members of our Society feel that no oc- 
 casion like this is complete without our having a suitable poem from 
 our friend and fellow-countian. Professor John Russell Hayes, and 
 I am sure that he has something good for us tonight.
 
 10 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET 
 
 Remarks of Prof. John Russell Hayes 
 
 ROFESSOR HAYES: Mr. Toastmaster, Dr. Green and 
 Friends: I rememl)er, forty or more years ago, when I 
 was a boy, I used to think of certainly what seemed to me 
 venerable _i^entlemen as the types of the gentlemen of 
 the old school, of which Dr. Green is the oldest living exam- 
 ple. — Addison May and Washington Townsend and Frank- 
 lin Pyle and Joseph J. Lewis and Dr. Green. You know 
 children look upon middle age as very venerable, and I thought of 
 Dr. Green and his friends as rather ancient gentlemen then. But 
 now that I am in middle life myself, comparatively speaking, he 
 seems to me more youthful than he seemed to the wondering eyes 
 of childhood. 
 
 Our Grand Old Man 
 
 Some men resemble comets in their fiijjht, — 
 
 They flame a while, then vanish from the sight, 
 Not so our ccnturicd friend; in him wc find 
 
 Ihe long career that crowns the trancinil mind. 
 The full ripe years of joy and peace that bless 
 
 Ilis ordered life of calm and quietness. 
 And his serene rlnlosoiihy that teaches 
 
 As fine a faith as many a i)u1pit preaches. 
 
 The Quaker virtues which he learned in ynuth 
 Have yielded him their beauty and their truth: 
 
 Serenity and wisdom, as we know. 
 
 And strong good sense, have filled to overflow — 
 
 Through decade after decade in its flight — 
 His classic head so canny and so white. 
 
 O for the healtli like his that can defy 
 
 The pleasant pains of terrapin and pie, 
 That laughs at doctors, and that gives such sleep 
 
 As ev'ery morning brings thanksgiving deep! 
 Rugged and ripe and ruddy, still he fares 
 
 About his daily tasks, his little cares, 
 With bonhomie and buoyancy that tell 
 
 Of sunny seasons wisely spent and well.
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY II 
 
 Sunny! — I think it is the very word 
 
 For this Old Bov as bonnie as a bird! 
 Our sunny-hearted friend, of sunny life, 
 
 Knows not the clouds of foolish hate and strife, 
 Sunshine and cheer and love have had their part 
 
 In keeping warm his ever-youthful heart; 
 And were all men as wise and just as he, 
 
 I know that woeful war could never be. 
 
 O, would such words were mine that I might say 
 
 How much we love and honor him today! 
 This crowded room, these thronging friends, but tell 
 
 How all the land this ni.j;ht is wishing well 
 To him, the sunny-hearted and serene, 
 Our Grand Old Man. — our well-loved 
 JESSE GREEN. 
 
 John Russell Hayes. 
 
 Dr. Philips: Our next speaker has been a resident of this 
 county only fifteen or sixteen years, and he is therefore still only a 
 probationer. Hut we have all learned that when we want to know 
 something of the history of Qiester Cotmty, or of anywhere else for 
 that matter, we cannot get it l)etter or more interestingly than from 
 Professor Buriduim, and we are very glad to have him with us 
 tonight.
 
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 Remarks of Prof. Smith BurnKam 
 
 |R. TOASTMASTER, DR. GREEN, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 Dr. Philips has very well said that modesty ought to require 
 an adopted son of this county to remain quietly seated on 
 an evening like this. It has not been my good fortune to 
 know Dr. Green personally very much, and yet I have lived in Ches- 
 ter County, and in this borough of West Chester, long enough to 
 appreciate and to feel something of that honor and respect which we 
 all bring him tonight. Dr. Philips, when he asked me to speak, 
 said that I should briefly contrast or describe the age in which Dr. 
 Green appeared upon the scene of life, and our present time. That 
 is a pretty big jol), to attempt to describe the West Cnester of today 
 and the Chester County of today and the world of today compared 
 with the world, so different from the one we now know, upon which 
 this grand old man appeared a hundred years ago. And yet it 
 seemed to me that if I were to attempt it at all, for the sake of his- 
 torical accuracy I ought at least to Ijack up my statements with 
 documentary proof, and so 1 have a couple of documents here that I 
 would like to introduce in evidence. I believe. Judge Hause, that is 
 the way to do it in court? 
 
 Judge Hause: Entirely proper. 
 
 Professor Burnum: This one, ladies and gentlemen, (unfold- 
 ing paper) as a picture of the comnumity of West Chester on the 
 thirteenth day of December, 1917. It is today's copy of the Local 
 Neivs. I introduce it in lieu of any attempt to describe this borough 
 at the present time, because if you would know what West Chester 
 is, who the people are who live in West Qiester, what they do and 
 the things they don't do, read the Local Nczvs. Moreover, you will 
 get, beyond that, the news of the world. That is one of the striking 
 contrasts between now and a hundred years ago. I notice in the 
 paper of this afternoon late news of Copenhagen and Stockholm 
 and Rome. You know how long it took to get news from those
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY I3 
 
 places when Doctor Green was a boy? Xot on the same clav, I 
 want to assure you. And then there is every other phase of Hfe, — 
 society and poHtics and business, and the "What Thev Sav" 
 column, said to be the most read part of the paper. I simplv sul)- 
 mit this, stopping in passing- to say that I have never seen in the 
 United States a local paper in a town of this size that can compare 
 in real merit with the Local A^czi's. 
 
 Xow, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce Xo. 2. 
 This is a picture of the West Chester of a hundred years ago. I 
 could not get one for the exact day, the 13th of December, 1817, 
 because they only published a newspaper once a week. But this is 
 the local paper of West Chester, The Chester and Delaware County 
 Federalist for Wednesday, December 17th, 1817. the week corre- 
 spending with tliis week, and the week in which our good old friend 
 made his Ijow U])()n this mundane s])here. Here, then, it is a verv 
 different world that you have pictured in this paper. In tlie first 
 place, there isn't a word of what w^e will call news in it. Tliere are 
 seven colunuis of the sixteen columns devoted to advertising real 
 estate for sale. Evidently Chester County is a better place than it 
 was in 1817. Most of the folks seem to have been trying to sell out 
 and move away from here, and 1 notice that a number of those who 
 advertise their property for sale add that the} are proposing to sell 
 because they want to go to the western country. You see that is 
 where the good folks all went in those days. Some of them came 
 back. 11iere was a reason for all this advertising of land for sale. 
 Times were very hard in 1817, for the war of 1812 had been hitting 
 this country where it lived then. 
 
 Furthermore, the western countrv was just then developing. 
 The State of Illinois is one year \ounger than Dr. Green. The 
 State of Indiana is one year older than he is. The State of Missis- 
 sippi was born the same year that he was, and there were two or 
 three other states that came into the Union within two or three 
 years of the time of liis birth. It was just tlu' time when the East 
 was overflo\\ing into the West. — that great migratory movement 
 wliich followed the War of i8t2. 
 
 There are many other interesting things in this paper. Things 
 for sale — it doesn't altogether compare with the sort of stuff that 
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 tliat the fact that goods are imported seems to be the main thing, 
 "Ships just arrived with frish Hnens and skins and coatings and 
 flannels." After giving a long list of goods of this sort, the adver- 
 tisement winds up by saying, "We also have in stock queensware, 
 groceries, medicines, hardware, drugs and paints," — a comljination 
 you probably wouldn't find in any store in West Chester at the 
 present time. 
 
 There are some other differences between that time and now 
 suggested by this paper. I don't remember ever having seen the 
 complete text of the message of the Governor of Pennsylvania in 
 the Local News. It may be possible. The complete text of the 
 message of Governor Snyder in in this paper, three solid columns 
 of it. But President Monroe, who was sending his first message to 
 Congress in this same month, gets two lines: "The leading Federal 
 prints speak of the President's message in terms of high approba- 
 tion." That message had been sent in about two weeks before 
 that two-line statement appeared in the local paper in West Chester 
 in those days. More land for sale on page 3; not a single personal 
 item in tlie whole paper, beyond the two-line statement or two and 
 a half lines, that "Mrs. Isabella Philips, of this borough, hr^^s just 
 died in an advanced year of her age, after a long and painful illness." 
 That is the only item of news there is in the whole paper. 
 
 Our friends a hundred years ago had one thing on the 
 Local Nci^'s. This is a far more literary journal than the Local News. 
 One fourth of the whole paper is devoted to literature, the real thing. 
 Half a column is devoted to a local poet. He doesn't choose to 
 sign his name. Nearly tw^o columns of an essay on the subject of 
 slavery, or rather anti-slavery. Even at that early time this good 
 old Chester County stood for the freedom of the slaves. The local 
 paper a hundred years ago was running a novelized version of the 
 "The Merchant of A'enice" as a continued story. It has a few 
 anecdotes about George Whitefield, and then — remember that this 
 was just after the War of 1812 — it has this interesting news item 
 from Washington City, with some local comment: 
 
 '•November 29th." That is the news from Washington City of 
 November 29th appears in the West Chester paper of December 
 T^tli. That shows something of how the news traveled. This is 
 the item quoted:
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1 5 
 
 "Mr. Incledon was received last night l)y a fashionable and 
 overflfnving audience. Mis merits were acknowledged by universal 
 shouts of applause from every quarter of the house. Though 
 somewhat impeded in the execution of the final notes from the 
 efTect of a slight cold which he contracted in coming from Baltimore 
 (where his voice is reported to have been in the best order) yet his 
 performance was truly gratifying." 
 
 The art critics of West Ch.ester in those days comments on that 
 subject in the following words: 
 
 "The subjoined paragraph is of tt:io momentous and interesting 
 a nature to pass over without special notice. What a pity that Air. 
 Incledon should have been so unfortunate as to have taken cold! 
 How unfortunate for the good people of Washington, but how 
 charming must have been his voice at Baltimore wlien it was in the 
 'best order." He had better get a certificate of it. C), exquisite! 
 I'hilli]>s in Xew York, Incledon in Philadelphia, Tweedledum in the 
 Xorth, Twcedledee in the South, both just imported. How is 
 plain Brother jonothan l)ewitched with th.e follies of John Bull!" 
 
 That is a picture of the comnnmity a hundred years ago, and I 
 have no douljt it is a fairly accurate picture of what they thought 
 and talked aI)out in those days. It is a faint ])icture of West 
 Chester. You cannot furnish contemporary evidences of all the dif- 
 ferences, but possibly tradition might be called into service. Doc- 
 tor William Darlington was res])onsible, I think, for the statement 
 that in the West Chester of those days, when the winter came on, 
 the ladies all hibernated until the frost was well out of the ground in 
 the next spring. We have beautiful evidence here tonight that all 
 that sort of thing has passed away so far as West Chester is con- 
 cerned. 
 
 It was a wonderful world into wliich our old friend was born 
 l)ack in 1817. It is very ancient history, from our point of view, 
 most of it forgotten. — just two years after Napoleon Bonaparte had 
 fallen from ])ower. He was living on that liltle Rock Island down 
 in the South Atlantic. It was just two years before Andrew Jack- 
 son won his famous victory on the field of New Orleans. Dr. 
 Green was six years old when the Monroe Doctrine was born. 
 There were nineteen states in the l^nion instead of forty-eight, when 
 he entered the Union. The European world had just come out of
 
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 a war of a quarter of a century. The United States had just passed 
 through the War of 1812. We had hardly anything hke the indus- 
 trial system that we know to-day. In fact, the first high tariff law 
 was passed the year before Dr. Cireen was born. We were just be- 
 ginning to build up American manufactures, which had been stimu- 
 lated by the high-tariff law of 18 16. 
 
 However, you don't want to hear me talk ancient history very 
 long. Let me just suggest very briefly three or four great changes 
 that this good man has seen come over this world of ours in the 
 last hundred years. I suspect that the changes in his life time, in all 
 the fundamantal ways of living and thinking, are greater than the 
 changes of five hundred years before that time. 
 
 In the first place, the most significant of all for the life we all 
 live, he has lived through the time that we know as the industrial 
 revolution. He was born into a world of household industries. 
 There was hardly anywhere in this country in those days what we 
 would call a factory in the modern sense of the word. He came 
 into a world where probably 90 per cent, of all the people lived in 
 country homes. He is today in a country where, by the census of 
 1910, a little more than 30 per cent, of the people listed in gainful 
 occupations make a living in agriculture and not more than 50 
 per cent, of the people live in what you might call rural conditions. 
 That is a wonderful change in itself, due to the changes in industry, 
 the outgrowth of invention, the development of power. There was 
 not in the United States a mile of railroad or a locomotive. The 
 first successful steamboat had been in operation about eight years 
 when Dr. Green was born, and if we come down through the years, 
 McCormick and Hoe and Goodyear and Morse and Field and 
 Edison, and all the other great inventors who have given us the 
 machinery that lightens labor and transforms industry, were doing 
 their work. This man is a contemporary of all the men I have 
 mentioned. So he has seen our modern industrial world come to he 
 what it is today. 
 
 P.ut after all, there have been other great changes. Perhaps 
 the most significant political change in the last hundred years has 
 been the growth of democracy. We were starting here in America, 
 in his boyhood, an experiment, an experiment, thirty or forty years 
 of age at that time, an experiment in democratic self-government,
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ly 
 
 which, had hardly touched the rest of the workl. The downfall of 
 Napoleon in 1815 meant a reaction in favor of absolutism probably 
 everywhere in Europe. And so the life span of this man, our hon- 
 ored guest here tonight, covers that period of time when the seed 
 of democracy, planted down there in Independence Hall in Philadel- 
 phia, in the immortal statement in the opening paragra])hs of the 
 Declaration of Independence, has been scattered broadcast, has 
 taken root in the fertile soil of the love of liberty in the hearts of the 
 people in the countries of the world, and has given us the great 
 boon of self-governing nations that are leagued together at tliis 
 hour to make the last great fight to make democracy safe every- 
 where. (Applause.) 
 
 He has seen the making of the American nation, for the nine- 
 teen little States of 1817 were not a nation. Men did not think of it 
 in that way. In those days men used to resign from the Ignited 
 States Senate to become members of their State Legislature. Who 
 would think of doing anything of that sort now? The emi)hasis 
 was on the state. The state was the im{X)rtant thing. But during 
 the last hundred years the country has been welded together by 
 common interests, a common past, tied together by ropes of steel 
 and iron, by its great rivers, arteries of steam])oats. welded together 
 physically in the awful flame of the war which saved the l^nion and 
 made the country free from the curse of slavery, and following that 
 the wonderful development of nationality of the last fifty vears. We 
 sometimes hear the voice of criticism in regard to the lack of unitv 
 in America today. I want to say to you, my friends, and I speak as 
 one who has studied something of the history of the United States, 
 that while we may criticize, there never was an hour in its history, 
 certainly never at the opening of any of its historic wars, when the 
 American people were so united, so possessed of a solidarity of 
 thought and purpose, as they are today. (Applause.) That united 
 solidarity, that sense of nationality, is a growth. It did not come all 
 at once, and this man, our guest, has seen that. He Iras been a 
 ]:)art of it. He has lived through it. 
 
 May I mention before I close one other thing? He has seen 
 one of the most remarkable contributions to the intellectual life of 
 the world, the intellectual growth of the last hundred years has been 
 quite as remarkable as its industrial or political growth. In the
 
 l8 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET 
 
 field of literature he is the contemporary of Emerson and of Haw- 
 thorne, and of Lowell and of Foe and of Washington Irving. He 
 is a contemporary of Tennyson and of Browning, of Mctor Hugo 
 and of Tolstoi. The great men whose names make glorious the 
 Images of literature in the last hundred years are his contemporaies. 
 And then what a list migiit be given of those who in the field of 
 science have given us the modern conception of life, the Darwins 
 and the Wallaces and the Spencers and the Huxleys, and the more 
 recent great names who have given us antiseptic surgery, who have 
 developed the germ theory of disease and who have given us all these 
 recent inventions which have made our world the progressive world 
 that it is today! 
 
 It is a great thing to have seen this, and as we have heard 
 tonight, to have been no small part in the development of this great 
 forward movement of civilization, with its amelioration of human 
 suft'ering, with its phinanthropy and its huinanitarianism. with its 
 finer spiritual nature, when we compare it with the world in which 
 we lived a hundred years ago. 
 
 And I must not stop without saying one word more, that this 
 wonderful century through which our friend has lived, this wonder- 
 ful new century in which he enters tomorrow morning and in which 
 we hope he will live for a long time and see a great deal more of 
 this progress, begins at a time when all that has been meant in a 
 hundred years of democracy and lil)erty and hope for a better day, 
 is ensfaged in a bitter conflict with the last great enemies in all the 
 world to these things that made the nineteenth century's growth 
 glorious. Mav it be his good fortune to live to see the ultimate 
 triumph, as he has seen the growth of all that America has stood for 
 since the time of her foundation. (Applause.) 
 
 Doctor Pittltps: W^e are glad to see come into our meeting 
 tonight a former citizen and indeed a native of West Chester and 
 Chester County, who is temporarily living outside of the county. 
 But I am sure he is coming back here: he wants to live to be a cen- 
 tenarian, too, — Dr. Speakmau, of Swarthmore. I know he has 
 something good for us tanight.
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HTSTOKICAL SOCIETY I9 
 
 Remarks of Dr. W. W. Speakman 
 
 AM sure that is (lisa])i;()inting- to you, as it is unexpected to 
 me. Jf Doctor IMiilips asked me to say anything, he 
 spoke in a very hjw voice, for I have never heard it before. 
 I don't get a chance to mingle with governors and college 
 presidents every day, so I am going to take that opportunity tonight. 
 Mr. Toastmaster, Honored Guest of the Evening and Ladies 
 and Gentlemen. I have known Dr. Green for many years, ever 
 since he was a young man (laughter), ever since he was a young 
 man of sixty years old, and I have watched his growth and his de- 
 velopment, and I have seen him ripen into maturity, but whether I 
 will ever see him ripen into an old man is very doul)tful. lUit 1 
 am sure tonight that I feel it enough honor and enough privilege to 
 have received an invitation, without the special ]:)rivilege and dis- 
 tinction of having l^een asked to i)articipate in this most wonderful 
 occasion. I am sure, now that 1 have removed nuself from the au- 
 dience, that it is a very handsome audience. You look like a beau- 
 tiful bouquet, you fair women and you handsome men, and it seems 
 very appropriate to me that at the head of this beautigul bouquet 
 should be the century plant. (Applause and Laughter.) A cen- 
 tury plant which is all green. (Laughter and A])])lause.) And a 
 century plant which tonight is in full l)loom. 
 
 1 have noticed tonight that very few of the ladies have been 
 asked to speak, and I do not want to usurp the office of the Toast- 
 master, but I hope that T will be here long enough to hear some of 
 the ladies tonight speak. It is not hard to get the ladies on their 
 feet. .A friend of mine, a minister, ( 1 have some friends in that 
 profession) said that t)ne evening as he was about to conduct his 
 services a gentleman approached him very hurriedly, and very much 
 agitated, and wanted to get married. The minister said, "Well, 
 now, my friend, we are just al)out to commence the services and 
 there is no time to marry you. The congregation is here, but if 
 you and xour xoung lad\ will lake a seat in the congregation I will 
 give vou an o])portunit\' a little later in the service to come for- 
 ward."" So they took a seat in the audience, and after a while the 
 minister said, "Here endeth the reading of the first lesson. If there
 
 20 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET 
 
 are any present who would like to be joined in the holy bonds of 
 matrimony, they may now come forward." He said seventeen 
 women and one man got up. (Laughter.) So you see after all the 
 man had his pick. He came in with one and had the opportunity 
 of choosing from seventeen. 
 
 I am not going to prolong the evening. I generally make my 
 best speech out of what has preceded me. Tonight I don't feel at 
 my best. I had two youthful heroes when I was a boy and lived in 
 West Chester. One was Benny Biddle, the ice cream man, who 
 used to start them aching, and then Dr. Green, the man who fixed 
 them. 1 have many things in common with Dr. Green, because 
 latel}- I often feel a hundred years old, which he is, and it seems to 
 me that he only feels the age that I am. 
 
 Oh, the years that are ^iltled with unalloyed gold, 
 Are the years that have kept thee from e'er growing old; 
 For the rose in thy cheek is as blooming, I ween. 
 As on December 13, eighteen-seventeen. 
 
 Thy eye is undimmed. and undimmed is thj- mirth. 
 
 Thee has smiled through this life from the day of thy birth; 
 
 Thy mind is unclouded, and thy step is as light, 
 
 Good digestion still follows a grand appetite. 
 
 And many a molar thee pulled, and pulled fine; 
 Thee pulled one for me, in eighteen-sixty-nine. 
 Thy brow is unfurrowed. no wrinkles are seen; 
 Thee has changed not a wit, since 1817. 
 
 So here's a good health to our guest of tonight, 
 May the future to- follow be radiant and bright; 
 May friends and may friendships be ricnes untold. 
 To hold thee and keep thee from e'er growing old. 
 (Prolonged Applause.) 
 
 Doctor Philips: T don't need to tell any one here that we 
 are honored tonight in having with us a man who a few years ago 
 held the highest position that the people of Pennsylvania can give 
 to any man, and I know you will all agree with me when I say that 
 no man who ever was Governar of this State was more honored and 
 more highly esteemed than Governor Stuart. He has done us a 
 ereat honor in being with us tonight, and I have great pleasure in 
 introducing him to you.
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 21 
 
 Remarks of Governor Stuart 
 
 R. CHAIRMAN, DR. GREEX, and Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 I really did not come tonight to make any speech or any 
 address, and if I had. I would feel less like making one 
 ■than I ever did in my life after listening to the gentlemen 
 who have just spoken. But I come here upon an invitation sent me 
 by the President of your Society to be present at this hundredth 
 anniversary of the l^rth of Doctor Green, whom I have known ever 
 smce my boyhood. He first came into my life when I was a lad, 
 and I had the honor of waiting upon him and wra])ping up goods for 
 him and delivering them at this railroad station for him. I am here 
 tonight not as a former Governor of Pennsylvania or anything of 
 that kind, but simply as a citizen of Pennsylvania to show my high 
 regard and affection for the distinguished guest of the evening 
 tonight. 
 
 Every time I get on my feet I feel a good deal like the man in 
 the story told of the toastmaster who was waiting for a long while 
 before he introduced the speaker of the evening, and at last, very 
 nervously, he turned to him and said, "Will I introduce you now or 
 let them enjoy themselves a little while longer?" (Laughter.) 
 That always comes to me, particularly when 1 approach an audience 
 
 such as I see before me tonight. 
 
 But I do want to say, and say it most earnestly and sincerely 
 that, after a friendship and acquaintance of very nearly fifty years 
 v.ith Doctor Green — he has seen me grow from boyhood to man- 
 hood, and 1 have known him continuously from that time to this — 
 that it is not so much to me his great success in his profession, the 
 great love and afTection that everybody in West Chester and every- 
 body that knows him has for him, but to my mind his whole life is 
 such an incentive to every young man who will study it and who 
 wants to grow up to be not only a good man but a good citizen. It 
 is the greatest incentive in the world for them to be that kind of a 
 man. It is not the great industries of the state, it is not the rail- 
 roads and everything of that kind, all necessary and essential; but 
 after all, the most important thing to develop in this and any other 
 state, and in the country, is good men and good citizens, and in that 
 respect with good citizens and good men, the country is safe.
 
 22 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET 
 
 I was asking" Doctor Green while I was sitting here to give nie 
 some httle receipts and so forth, because I thought I would like to 
 live long myself if I could, and he told me some of the things. I 
 was reminded of a little story that I heard Mr. Davidson, the head 
 of the Red Cross War Board, tell before I came here to your little 
 gathering. He was speaking of the great work done by the great 
 nien of many races to help him in the work of this war. Somebody 
 said to him, "Afr. Davidson, you nmst worry a great deal." "No," 
 he said. "That reminds me of a story. I remember a man who told 
 me he didn't worry at all. He hired somebody who did the worry- 
 ing for him. He was asked, 'How do you mean that?' He said, 'I 
 engage a man and pay him a big salary to do the worrying for me.' 
 'How is that?' 'I have engaged so and so. and I have agreed to 
 pa}- him $400 a month in order that he may do all the worrying.' I 
 said, 'That is remarkable. You can't afford to pay a man $400 a 
 month to do that or anything else.' 'Well,' he said, "that is the first 
 worrying he does. That is the first worriment he will have'." 
 (I>.aughter.) 
 
 Now, my friends, I just wish t(^ thank the Society for the 
 honor and privilege of being here, and as referred to a few moments 
 ago. Dr. Green has lived all through this hundred years, and today 
 he is living perhaps in the most critical period in the history of this 
 country. If you had heard the story today of the great work done 
 bv the Red Cross, the American Red Cross, you would be glad and 
 proud to tliink that you were Americans and American citizens, and 
 probal)ly when the history of this great catastrophe is written the 
 brightest chapter in that liistory will be the work done by the 
 women of America in this great world-wide war. Theirs is the 
 sorrow^ when war spreads its terrors. Have you ever sat at a 
 railroad station and seen the troops go oiT at this time? I have. 
 Have you seen the mother walk up with her boy, the wife walk with 
 her husband, the sister walk up with her brother? And there is not 
 a tear, not a tear until after they have turned away, all giving them 
 willinglv as a great sacrifice for you and for me, in order that this 
 ffreat county may be preserved for the future, for those who come 
 after us. (Prolonged Applause.)
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 23 
 
 DocToK I '11 imps: Wf must not delay this mectini^ much 
 longer tonight. We have had before our Society (Uudng its quarter 
 of a century many lionorcd geusts, but, my friends, we have had 
 none J am sure who is so generally esteemed and so highly deserv- 
 edly honored as our chief guest of the evening; and now, before we 
 separate, I am going to introduce to you Doctor Jesse C. Green, 
 the honored guest of the evening, on his one hundredth birthday. 
 
 Remarks of Dr Jesse C. Green 
 
 EXTLEMEX: I am glad to see you all. but I don't know 
 
 where I am. 1 seem to have been completely engulfed, 
 
 and I don't kncnv hardly what point to get out at. I have 
 
 spoken to this Society in reference to some past things 
 
 years ago, and it won't do to repeat them lest you think I have but 
 
 one idea. 
 
 As I sat there I have thought of old Doctor Darlington. He 
 lived just in this neighborhood. It was the only house that was 
 here, and we boys at school thought he was a wonderful man be- 
 cause he could s])eak l'"rcnch. We didn't have an\thing of that 
 kind at that time, ami as ni_\' friend was speaking about Ualtimore, 
 1 remember having gone there in 1824. when it was all woods on 
 the north side of it and a great morass on the front. When I re- 
 turned I hadn't been there for forty years, and 1 saw a man that was 
 watching us. At that time when we went there first there was a 
 good deal of thieving going on, and 1 said to this man. "When I was 
 here last that was a woods, that was a morass." "Sure, sir. your 
 n^emory is verv good." That was the answer I got. 
 
 There are so many things that crowd into my niintl, but I 
 thought I might just say one thing or two that will be of some ad- 
 vantage to this association. I remember very well when Judge 
 Futhey was writing the History of Chester Count\-. he wrote to me 
 to know what time the moon rose on the 20th of. September. 1777. 
 (Laughter.) He said that "Tradition has said that it was a stormy 
 night." I turned to my almanac of 1777 and there T found the 
 moon rose at 8.23. It was full on the T7th, and he wrote me back, 
 "Now, that has settled the question that has bothered historians
 
 24 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET 
 
 ever since." So you see there is some advantag'e even in old alma- 
 nacs, and some of us old men may be some use, we don't know. I 
 have almanacs from 1740 up to the present time, for every year, and 
 I am frecjuently spoken to to know just what happened, and so forth. 
 
 And again, one of my friends here has spoken about the great 
 West. I heard my grandfather say when I was a boy that one of 
 his uncles went up and bought all the land where Downingtown 
 stands. That is not as far West as the place my friend alludes to, 
 but his father said to him, "Go and throw it up. Who would ever 
 want to go as far west as Downingtown? Nobody would be fool 
 enough to go out there. That is no place to go at all." I often 
 think of what my grandfather told me in reference to the Revolu- 
 tion. He, together with my other grandfather, was present at the 
 time of the Batlte of Chadd's Ford, and they were on the south 
 bank. That is where Rocky Hill was in that day, and an officer 
 come to him and said, "You better go home." They were then in 
 their twentieth year, which was a very important year, for we all 
 know a good many things about that time. He said to them, "You 
 better go home." My grandfather said they didn't go, but after a 
 while there was a ball went right along in front of them. He said 
 they went home then. He told me the people went in the cellars 
 to avoid the balls, and every horse he had was taken except one, 
 and that belonged to his mother. They couldn't catch her. She 
 would go over the fences. Horses would do that in that time as 
 well as today. 
 
 And so it goes. These are just a few things I believe I didn't 
 tell before, and I don't care to go over them all and tell so many 
 things. I am very much satisfied and pleased, and ought to be 
 from what has been said, and I feel that I have said all that would 
 be advisable tonight. Good night. (Prolonged Applause.)
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 25 
 
 Letters of Regret 
 
 Doctor Philips: I'.efijre \vc separate I want to read two oi 
 three Ijrief letters which 1 have received in connection with this oc- 
 casion. Before I read the letters, let me read a telej^^rani which just 
 came from Long- Branch, New Jersey, addressed to Mr. Stuhbs, the 
 Treasurer of the Society. It is from Mrs. Uriah H. Painter, of 
 you all know. She says: 
 
 "It is impossible for Mrs. Cunning-ham (her daughter) and 
 myself to be present this evening at the banquet. We regret it ex- 
 ceedingly, and ])lease congratulate most heartily Doctor Jesse 
 Green for us on his one-hundredth l)irthday, and the Historical So- 
 ciety in having Ijecn al)le to have had him with them so long. 
 
 A. L. Painter." 
 
 I have just two or th.ree letters. I haven't tried to have many. 
 Here is one which will interest the people of West Chester and those 
 of us who live here, to know that we have a fellow-citizen who is 
 now nearl}- a hundred and five years old, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth 
 Phipps Hasting^s, in excellent health, I)ul unable to come out at 
 night-now. She has sent the following letter declining regretfully 
 our invitation to l)e here tonight: 
 
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 "West Chester, Pa., December 7. 1917. 
 Dr. Philips: — To you and the members of the Historical 
 Society which you represent I send most hearty greetings. Be as- 
 sured that the invitation to grace your banquet as an honored guest 
 is deeply appreciated, especially in celebrating- Doctor Green's cen- 
 tenary anniversary. Tt would give me great pleasure to sit at your 
 festive board, but ntjtwithstanding I am only a little less than five 
 vears Dr. Green's senior, 1 have limitations, and attending evening 
 banquets is one of them. To Dr. (ireen I send sincere congratula- 
 tions, with the hope that if he desires it. he may outstrip nie in the 
 game of life. Yours very truly, 
 
 Ann Eliza Pinrrs TT asttncs."
 
 26 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL KANQUET 
 
 This is a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania. It is ad- 
 dressed directly to Dr. Green, but sent to me to be given to him 
 tonight: 
 
 Executive Mansion, Harris])urg-, Pa., Nov. 23, 1917. 
 
 Dear Dr. Green: — I have learned that the Historical Society 
 will on December 13th tender you a testimonial bancjuet on the oc- 
 casion of your century anniversar\'. I have been asked to attend, 
 l)ut onl}' imperative engagements prevent my coming. 
 
 1 wish to join your other friends in sincere congratulations to 
 you ... I pray God to bless you and grant you great peace 
 and content in your golden years. The Lord has been good to 
 you, and you have been loyal to Him and His cause, which is the 
 cause of all true citizens. 
 
 That your contimung years may be rich in all things He loves 
 to bestow upon those that love Him, is my earnest wish, and my 
 fervent prayer. \'ery truly yours, 
 
 M. G. Brumbaugh." 
 
 Nearly three years ago, man}- of the people here tonight will 
 remember, I am sure, that former President Taft was in West 
 Chester as a guest of the town and a lecturer here. At a little re- 
 ception given him at the close of the lecture he met Doctor Green 
 and was very much interested in him. He had, I think, never seen 
 any one as old as Doctor Green, who was then in his ninety-eighth 
 year, whose faculties and mind were so bright and keen as his were ; 
 and when he had gone back to his home in New Haven he wrote a 
 letter back to West Chester, and among other things he asked par- 
 ticularly to know how his dear old century plant, Doctor Green, was. 
 So we wrote to former President Taft and asked him to be here 
 tonight, and he has sent the following letter, which, with the othei 
 letters, I will hand over to Doctor Green at the close of our exer- 
 cises: 
 
 "New Haven, Conn., November 27th, 1917. 
 
 My Dear Dr. Philips: — I am very sorry not to be able to accept 
 the invitation of the Historical Society to attend its annual banquet 
 on December 13th. in honor of Dr. Jesse Green's looth birthday. 
 Few are permitted to live as long as Dr. Green, and to retain their 
 faculties as completely as he. He is young because he interests 
 himself in every activity, and is a most useful and upright citizen. 
 I hope that Dr. Green may live many more years. It is an inspira-
 
 CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 27 
 
 lion to know and see one who stands as high in the estimation of his 
 fellowmen as does Dr. (ireen, and who l)y simple living-, and re- 
 straint from sclf-indnlgence, has rounded a century. Please present 
 to him my warm congratulations and very best wishes. 
 
 wSincerely yours. 
 
 Wm. H. Taft." 
 
 We come to the close, my friends, of what I am sure we all 
 agree has been a most interesting and successful occasion. The 
 Society has held many of these banquets, but none so well attended, 
 and none, it seems to me, quite so successful and interesting as this 
 one has been. I want to thank the Committee which arranged the 
 banquet tonight on behalf of the Society. I want to thank the 
 ladies of the New Century Club for the splendid care they have 
 taken of us, and I know they will all join with me tonight in wishing 
 Dr. Green upon the new century that is before him years of ha]:)pv. 
 successful life and his happiness will be our happiness, for he lives to 
 make others happy. And now we are closing our evening, and i 
 bid you all good-night.
 
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 married 
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 t Susanna Jones. 
 
 cu, 
 
 Henrv Bowman . , 
 b. 1698, 
 in Derbysliiro 
 • married 
 iHannah Tavlor 
 
 f.Iohn Year.sley. 
 d. 1708 
 
 . -^ from Cheshire, 1700 
 Elizabeth 
 
 L d. 1728 
 
 Robert Pvle 
 
 f b. 1660, d. 1730 
 
 'Nicholas Pyle 
 
 /'-Mciioias fvie 
 J b. 1625. d. 1691 
 i m. 1656 
 
 l^Edith Musprat 
 
 { m. 9-16-1681, 
 
 j in Wiltshire, England, 
 
 l^Ann Stovy 
 
 f Peter Dicks, 
 d. 1704 
 
 / 
 
 William Stovy 
 
 James .' Dicks 
 
 m. 1681 
 i Esther Maddock. 
 ^ b. 1661 
 
 fKandal Malin 
 
 from 
 
 Great Barrow 
 
 Cheshire 
 
 First wife 
 
 I Elizabeth 
 
 ^ d. 1687 
 
 'David Jones 
 of Whiteland 
 d. in 1710 
 
 'Cornelius Bowman. 
 
 of Derbyshire 
 
 married 
 ^.Vnn Tavlor 
 
 Xathan Maddock 
 Alice 
 
 TIenrv Tiowman 
 
 d. '1714 
 
 married 
 Alice Stubbs 
 
 /WATCI^MAL ^NCI:5'ri?Y
 
 From a Registry of some Early Arrivals in Pennsylvania: 
 
 The Ship Delaware, from Bristol! in Old England, John Moore 
 Commander, Arrived here the i ith of the 5 month 1686: 
 
 Thomas Greene, husbandman. Margaret, his wife,; Thomas and 
 John, their sons; Mary Guest, his servant, for 7 years to come from 
 the third day of May 1686. 
 
 Richard Moore, Brickmaker, & Mary his wife, and children, 
 Mary & John. 
 
 Sarah Searle his servant for 4 years to come from the 3rd of May, 
 1686. 
 
 Henrv Guest, sawver, and Marv his wife, & Henrv his sone. 
 
 From other sources it appears that the wife of Richard Moore 
 was the daughter of Thomas Green. 
 
 In that day many unmarried women came as servants with 
 friends and relatives in order to obtain the 50 acres of land which 
 William Penn had promised to servants. 
 
 An old deed, brought from England, now in possession of the 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, shows that in 1672 some land 
 in Birmingham. England, was conveyed by Joan, widow of John 
 Guest, to her son George Guest, afterward of Philadelphia, and that 
 it was adjoining land of Thomas Greene; ])ut whether the last named 
 was the settler in Pennsylvania is not known. 
 
 Gilbert Cope.
 
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