Narratives Of Early Pennsylvania West New Jersey And Delaware 1630 1707 Volume 13 Scholars Choice Edition

Author : Albert Cook Myers
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230268460
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 written by Albert Cook Myers and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... chased a small tract of land,1 married the widow of Thomas Llwyd * of Penmaen. You have heard tell in Dyffryn Clwyd Of Thomas Lloyd of Penmaen. He now went to live near the woods. It was a very rare but pleasing thing to hear a neighbor's cock crow. My father had now only one small horse; and his wife was much afflicted with the tertian ague. We might suppose that many things would be revolved in the mind of a man in such a situation as this; but I never heard him complain of the difficulties under which he labored. Everything was agreeable to these innocent people; although in want of some present necessaries, yet they were peaceable and friendly to each other. In process of time, however, the little which he had prospered, so that he became possessed of horses, cows, and everything else that was necessary for him, or even that he wished; indeed he never coveted much. During the latter years of his life, he kept twelve good milch cows. He had eight children, but I was the eldest. Having lived in this manner twenty-four years, he now became helpless and infirm, and very subject to difficulty of breathing at the close of his day's labor. He was a muscular man, very careful and attentive to his worldly occupations. About the end of July [1707], eighteen years to last July, he became sick, and much enfeebled by a severe fever; but asthma was his chief complaint. Having been thus five weeks indisposed, he departed this life, ' leaving a small farm each for my brother and myself, a corresponding portion for my sister, and a fair dower for my mother. My sister married 1 His farm of 300 acres was in the southern part of Radnor Township, in Chester, now Delaware County, about midway between present Bryn Mawr and Newtown Square. I than Creek flows..