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151	BIOGRAPHY: Seth Cadwallader was born in Horsham, Bucks County, PA on October 11, 1796. He was the son of Abel and Ann Cadwallader. He moved to Milton, PA as a young man. His first cousin once removed, Mary Cadwallader had married Seth Iredell in 1795. They moved to Milton in the early 1800s where Seth Iredell had a mill and was President of the first Milton Bank. The records say that Seth Cadwallader started in the mercantile business in Milton in 1812. Since he would have been only sixteen years old at that time, it seems likely that he went to Milton to work for his cousin Seth Iredell and that Iredell later helped Seth start his own business. Seth married Elizabeth Hammond of Milton in 1824. They had ten children, but only four of them lived to be adults. Seth Cadwallader did well in business. He was a prosperous merchant. He retired in 1854 after forty-two years in the merchantile business. His son Albert was also a merchant in Milton, but Albert was only thirteen when his father retired and could not have taken over the business from him. Seth Cadwallader died in Milton on August 24, 1863. His wife Elizabeth died June 3, 1880. They are buried together with six of their children in the Milton Cemetery.	Seth (5) CADWALLADER
152	The house was on Lot 99, and was purchased on Mar 21, 1831 from Joseph and Christiana Gibson. On Apr 7, 1845, Seth purchased the adjacent property on Broadway, to the corner of Elm St. and adjacent on Front (Water) St. to James P. Sanderson's lot, from the estate of Bethuel Vincent.	Seth (5) CADWALLADER
153	He began his practice in Enola, PA, then moved to West Fairview, then to Mechanicsburg. All three places are across the river from Harrisburg.	Seth Iredell CADWALLADER, M.D.
154	James Case was made a freeman on Oct. 18, 1668, when living in Westerly, Rhode Island. He was a member of the Grand Jury at Newport on Oct. 20, 1669. He was living in Little Compton, R.I. in 1685 when he married Hannah or Anna.	James CASE
155	It is probably this William Case that sailed on the "Dorset" from Gravesend, England, on September 30, 1635, coming from Aylsham in Norfolk, England. There were other men with the surname "Case" who lived in nearby MA and CT, and they may have been related--Edward, Henry, Thomas, Richard, John, and James. Land transactions show William selling his interest in Connacut and Dutch Islands in 1658. He was a freeman of Newport in 1655, and deputy in 1667, 1673, and 1675.	William CASE
156	Arrived from Germany Dec 20 1686.	Johannes Peter CASSEL
157	All surviving children are listed at home.	Augustus Stoughton CHAPIN
158	Children at home were Clarence, working as a machinist, James, working as a saddler, and Mary.	Augustus Stoughton CHAPIN
159	He was on the first Civil War draft list, and was recruited Nov 11-13, 1862, into Company A of the Third Regiment.	Augustus Stoughton CHAPIN
160	It may have been mumps or chicken pox, both of which can cause hearing loss.	Benneville Haag CHAPIN
161	He died in Geisinger Hospital from complications after gall bladder surgery.	Clarence Augustus CHAPIN
162	He laid out the land into town lots for building.	Edward Watson CHAPIN
163	Sons Lemuel and Milton Kerr were living with her, as well as Edward Chapin and Hannah (Correy) Chapin.	Mary CHAPIN
164	The soda fountain was the Holland Tea Room at 15 Broadway.	Ruth Young CHAPIN
165	Written by Ruth Chapin Hill in 2009 Sarah was nicknamed Teddie. She was born in 1885, the eldest child of Hettie Haag and Clarence Augustus Chapin. When I was a little girl, Mother (Ruth Young Chapin Hill) told me that Teddie had studied shorthand and typing as a young woman and worked as a secretary. (This is a very hazy memory and may be wrong.) Many years later I learned that Teddie had had an affair, short lived I understood, with Lloyd Woodling. They eventually ran away to get married, couldn't find a justice of the peace, and gave up on the idea. That was the end of it. When Teddie discovered she was pregnant, she informed Lloyd Woodling. By that time, he was engaged to someone else. He offered to break the engagement and marry Teddie, but she refused. The baby was born at the home of family friends in Philadelphia on January 21, 1921. Teddie named him David L. Wilson. David was raised in a foster home, served in the air force in World War II and Korea, and graduated from Penn State. He and his wife, also a Penn State graduate, had four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Soon after his birth, he was seriously ill and spent time in Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. That may be why Teddie trained as a nurse at Children's Hospital. Teddie did private duty nursing. Back in those years you registered with individual doctors and were employed to nurse their patients. Teddie was registered with doctors on the Main Line. There was a young Italian doctor who had married an Italian girl and brought her over to the States. They had a son. The wife was homesick and returned to Italy to visit her family and show off her son. (Teddie learned later that the wife never returned to her husband.) Teddie was hired to go along as nurse for the infant son. That was probably in the late 1920s. They sailed for Naples on the Conte di Savoia, first class. Teddie thought Naples was fabulous. From Naples they went by train to Florence. Apparently the wife's family was well-to-do, aristocratic although not noble, and lived in a huge old palazzo. After a grimy train trip, the American nurse naturally expressed a wish to take a bath. The big elegant palazzo had no indoor plumbing for the bathtub. The servants had to heat water down in the kitchen, carry it up in buckets and pour it into some sort of tub. The elegant, austere family patriarch officiously saw to the filling of the bath, repeatedly swishing his hand through the water to check on its temperature and announcing when it was ready. When it was time to leave Florence, Teddie traded in her first class return ticket, bought a third class ticket from Cherbourg or Le Havre on the Ile de France, and spent the difference in seeing Paris, including the Follies Bergere. My mother, her sister, was scandalized. In the early 1930's Teddie accompanied an asthmatic boy to the southwest. It was thought at the time that the dry desert climate was good for asthmatics. They flew first to Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the flight, a motor of the plane caught fire and they had to make an emergency landing. Her patient saw no improvement in Albuquerque, so they went on to Tucson, Arizona, where Teddie stayed at least a year. As I remember, she didn't like the heat of the desert southwest. At the end of the job, having saved her money, she flew down to Mexico on some small airline that had no terminal facilities. If you needed the "facilities" when they made local stops, you left the plane and went out behind a bush. She stayed at a small inn in Mazatlan. The owners had a pet boa constrictor. One morning Teddie got up and found the snake resting in the shade of a tree. About a foot or so below its head there was a large bulge. When Teddie asked about it, the owners informed her that the snake had eaten the pet cat! There were no screens on the windows and Teddie's room was on the ground floor. She didn't sleep well, waking often expecting to see the snake slithering into her room. Visiting us, she talked about the boys who dove off cliffs to retrieve coins. She talked about Popocatepetl, the mountain outside Mexico City. She talked about Lake Xochimilco and the floating gardens. She sailed from Veracruz to New York City. Mother and I went in to meet her ship in the spring of 1935. Teddie nursed in the DuPont family on a number of occasions. Once, when I was quite sick and she came to visit, she had somehow inveigled her spoiled brat patient to part with one of his many toys and she brought me clay of some sort. At some time, an older female member of the DuPont family was driving in New York State, Staten Island, if I remember correctly. There was a bad accident and the elderly lady was in the hospital for weeks, too shattered to be moved home. The DuPonts did not trust the New York nurses, and Teddie was not authorized to nurse in New York State. Trusting Teddie, they hired her to oversee the licensed nurses in the hospital. Teddie admitted that was a difficult job, checking on fully competent nurses for the DuPonts. A friend of Teddie's was a nurse for General George Goethals, after whom the Goethals Bridge on Staten Island was named. He was also the engineer officer who built the Panama Canal. The friend went on vacation, so Teddie took the job for two weeks. Another friend, Esther Niedermyer (later her partner in the Chapin-Niedermyer dress shop), nursed Elliot Roosevelt's first wife when she was pregnant. She was an heiress and decided she needed care because she was "sick". At some time in her career Teddie was governess to Christine Cromwell. There was a wealthy couple named Cromwell who had two children, a son and a daughter. The daughter, Louise Cromwell Brooks, married, divorced, went to France in World War I and was reputed to have been General Pershing's mistress. While in France she met and eventually married an officer on the general's staff, and became General Douglas MacArthur's first wife. They were later divorced. The Cromwell son was James H. R. Cromwell. He married the heiress to the Dodge motor car fortune, Delphine Dodge. They had a daughter, Christine Cromwell. They divorced. Later, James Cromwell married Doris Duke, the "richest girl in the world", heiress to the Duke tobacco fortune. Eventually the Cromwell father died and his widow married E.T. Stotesbury, a senior partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. and head of Drexel & Co., a multi-millionaire of that era. He was socially prominent and eminently acceptable in Main Line society. His wife was not! The story goes that old E. T. forced her acceptance through his clout in the banking world: issue and accept invitations or else! Teddie entered the picture because James Cromwell and Delphine Dodge were divorced. Delphine had custody of their daughter most of the year. When Christine was with her mother she was actually cared for by a French governess, Ma'mselle. When she went for some shorter period of time to stay with her father, she actually went to live with her grandmother, Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury at Whitemarsh Hall on the Philadelphia Main Line. During World War II the treasures of the British Museum were evacuated and stored secretly at Whitemarsh Hall. The Hall no longer exists. In its place now is a housing development. Mrs. Stotesbury did not like Ma'mselle, so when Christine came to stay, Grandmother got rid of the French governess and hired Teddie to serve in that capacity for the duration of Christine's visit. There were many stories about Mrs. Stotesbury's silliness. Every morning Mrs. Stotesbury would hold court in her boudoir, stretched out on an elegant chaise lounge. The heads of all the departments would appear in order and outline their plans for the day. When it was Teddie's turn, Mrs. Stotesbury would hear her out and then assign whatever car was necessary for her plans for the day. Evenings, when Mrs. Stotesbury went out, her personal maid would bring the appropriate wrap to the head of the grand staircase and hand it to the footman. The footman would carry the wrap down the stairs and turn it over to the butler. The butler would then present the wrap to Mrs. Stotesbury's escort, who would help her on with it. What a production! Teddie did not stay long in that position. Christine missed Ma'mselle so desperately that she got sick. Her doctor finally insisted that Mrs. Stotesbury make peace with Ma'mselle and bring her back to care for Christine. Teddie left. But before she left she was asked to return later and take the case when Christine had her tonsils out. Teddie refused. She said she was used to taking responsibility for the lives of her young patients, but she refused to take responsibility for the millions of dollars that Christine represented. That was all her doting family was interested in. When the Dodge grandfather died, he left his daughter, Delphine, some funds in trust, but the bulk of his estate went to his granddaughter, Christine. Hettie Haag Chapin died February 13, 1935. Teddie was executrix of her mother's estate. By 1937 she had retired from nursing and opened a dress shop across from the movie theater in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in partnership with Esther Niedermyer. After a number of years, Teddie gave up the dress shop, and Esther bought her out. Retired in Lewisburg, she was known to have been a children's nurse. At some time someone came to her and asked if she would take on a case at the State Industrial Home for Women in Muncy, the state prison for women. A prisoner was due to give birth and they wanted Teddie to attend the birth and look after the infant until they figured out what to do with it. She accepted. Then she returned again when a second prisoner was due to give birth. Eventually she went to work at the prison as a warden. Mother and I visited, and Teddie took us around. It was an open-campus arrangement and sat far back from the road with open farm fields all around. There were cottages, dormitory-like buildings, not particularly large as I remember. The rooms were pleasant, very much like a dormitory - bed, desk, chair - curtains, bedspreads, etc. - except, of course the prisoners were locked in at night. The inmates worked on the farms, canned some of the produce. In one basement, I remember, there was a large sewing room where some of the inmates made uniforms for prisons. Teddie talked a lot about the inmates and the security measures. While there were no walls, the prison was relatively isolated and most of the prisoners were city girls. If one escaped, the state police would be notified and they would send cars to specific locations where the girls were likely to turn up. While Teddie was there, only one escape succeeded through sheer brazenness. A car drove up to the front of one of the cottages, the prisoner walked out and got in, and off they went! She was not recaptured, at least not before Teddie left. Teddie was fascinated by the inmates, girls from such brutal backgrounds. Her stories were an eye-opener and an education for me. One inmate Teddie compared to Hedy Lamar, the movie star. She was gorgeous, in prison for every crime except murder. Another girl was convicted of having chopped up her sister's illegitimate baby. Yet another inmate, middle-aged and a teacher's wife, had become suspicious of her husband. She followed him one night to his little love-nest, and shot him dead. Her only regret was that when she got out of prison she would be too old to marry again. There were riots, too. In one, Teddie was thrown down some steps and broke her wrist. It never healed properly, her hand was slightly angled after that. She retired from the prison in 1951. She had moved to Muncy by that time. From then on she worked at odd jobs, for a while part time in a gift shop. Mother and I visited that shop. Teddie was enthused about the odds and ends that were sold there. Eventually Teddie gave up and moved to a Presbyterian retirement home. She died in 1963 at the age of 78.	Sarah Haag CHAPIN
166	Sarah and Lloyd were never married. She made up a name for her son to hide the fact that he was born out of wedlock.	Sarah Haag CHAPIN
167	She resigned her position as custodial officer at the Muncy State Industrial Home on 8/12/1951.	Sarah Haag CHAPIN
168	The soda fountain was the Holland Tea Room at 15 Broadway.	Sarah Haag CHAPIN
169	Elizabeth married second Thomas Ford, and came to New England with him and her son Aaron Cooke.	Elizabeth CHARDE
170	Katherine was a Quakeress, who had been cruelly persecuted in Boston. Her first marriage was to John Chamberlaine, by whom she had five children.	Katherine CHATHAM
171	Josiah was in Wethersfield as early as 1638, the year he married Elizabeth. The earliest known land record of Josiah Churchill was in 1641. According to "Genealogy of the Puritans", by Hinman, Josiah Churchill "was a gentleman of more than a medium estate for the time in which he lived, and of reputation in the colony". He was a juror, was elected a constable, and was chosen one of the two town surveyors.	Josiah CHURCHILL
172	She was the widow of Rev. Phillip Gloninger of Lebanon, PA.	Elizabeth CLARK
173	Joseph was one of the earliest settlers of Dedham, and one of the thirteen who undertook the settlement of Medfield.	Joseph CLARK
174	John Cole lived in Salem until about 1675. He was one of the inhabitants who protested against taxes in 1668. He moved to Malden, and about 1684 moved again to Lynn. John's second wife, Sarah, was tried for witchcraft. The trial was at Charlestown, and she was acquitted Feb. 1, 1693.	John COLE
175	This may be the Thomas Cole who came to New England in the ship Mary and John, on March 24, 1633, and was an original proprietor of Hampton, Mass. Records show that Thomas Cole lived in Salem in 1649-50 and was recorded as a husbandman.	Thomas COLE
176	Roger Conant emigrated to Plymouth in 1623, where he remained until 1625, when in company with Rev. Mr. Lyford, he removed to Nantasket. He remained there but a short time, and proceeded to Cape Ann, where he was invested with the superintendence of the Dorchester Co., engaged in the fishery's and agricultural pursuits. He was the first Governor in the Colony of Mass. Bay.	Roger CONANT
177	BIOGRAPHY: Robert W. Correy, machinist and postmaster, was born in Milton, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1833. His father, George Correy, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1786, a son of Robert and Rachel Correy. He came to Milton when a young man, started one of the first wagon maker shops in the town, and was the manufacturer of the old Dearborn wagon a number of years, after which he was engaged in the mercantile business twenty-five years. He was a public spirited man, and was highly esteemed by all. He was one of the organizers of the Presbyterian church, and a member of the same over fifty years. In politics he was a Whig. He married Susan, daughter of John Evans, of Roaring Creek Valley, Columbia County, and reared a family of seven children, four of whom are living: Rachel; Hannah M., wife of E. W. Chapin; John K., of New York, and Robert W. The subject of our sketch received his education at the public schools, and learned the trade of machinist. In 1855 he and his brother John K. engaged in the mercantile business, succeeding their father under the firm name of J. K. Correy & Company, and continued about twenty years. Mr. Correy then engaged in the foundry and machine works under the firm name of Correy, Bailey & Company, and continued until 1873. He then became employed in Shimer's matcher-head factory as machinist, and has since held that position. In 1856 he married Lucretia, daughter of John Murray, by whom he has four children: George, a machinist in Milton, who married Belle Hagenbach; John M., druggist, of Milton; William, and Robert Irwin. Mr. Correy is an active member of the Republican party, and has served as overseer of the poor fifteen years. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. June 26, 1890, he was appointed postmaster at Milton, and August 27th following took possession of the same, with his son, John M., as deputy.	Robert W. CORREY
178	Permelia was born while her parents were living in Hebron, Tolland Co., CT. The Cox	Permelia COX
179	Robert was a Freeman in 1666. He was a member of a military co. of men from Marblehead and Salem. The company engaged in the war with the Narragansett Indians under the chief King Philip. Robert was wounded in the famous "Swamp Fight" in Dec. 16-19, 1675. One record states that his first wife's name may have been Mary Jenkins. His first four children were born in Scituate. After his second marriage he moved to Prince St. in Boston, where his other children were born. He owned considerable property, and was a fisherman by trade.	Robert COX, Sr.
180	Betty and Laurence Hill invited her to their parents' golden wedding anniversary in 1948, but she refused. It seems the Cadwallader family had never accepted her, and she was still resentful after all those years.	Louisa A. CRAWFORD
181	She moved here after her home burned.	Louisa A. CRAWFORD
182	She was born on a farm between Milton and Watsontown, PA.	Louisa A. CRAWFORD
183	The house burned on Nov 8, 1934.	Louisa A. CRAWFORD
184	During the time that John Daniels lived in Milton, he served as: constable, surveyor of highways, sealer of weights and measures, fence viewer, town trustee, selectman, plus many church committees. About 1735, John and Eleanor, son Nathaniel, and daughter and son-in-law--Eleanor and William Sumner--moved to Pomfret, CT. He bought a mill. John was a representative to the General Court of CT, and a Captain in the militia. In 1760 he sold the mill site and appears no more in the records. No record of his death.	John DANIELS
185	His parents moved from Dorchester to Milton--now a part of Boston--where John Daniels became a prosperous inn keeper. He was active in town affairs, and was appointed: highway warden, constable, overseer of the poor, fence viewer, selectman, and, he was one of those appointed to represent Milton in "running the bounds" between Milton and Dorchester. After his first wife, Dorothy died (sometime after 1686), he remarried to Abigail by whom he had one daughter, Hannah, born in 1695.	John DANIELS
186	William Daniels emigrated from England, probably as a young man, and settled in Dorchester (now a part of Boston). He married Catharine Grenaway. Her father gave them all his property, and right to the common. They then moved to Milton, and he built a tavern on the old road which ran over Milton Hill. Catharine gathered the neighboring Indians around her in her house on Milton Hill to teach them to read. William and his family were close to the church. He lost 2 daughters in childbirth, and his son-in-law was killed by Indians.	William DANIELS
187	The ancestors and place of birth of Richard Day remain a mystery. The first record of him is his marriage to Ruth Pouchee in 1748, in Lunenburg, MA. By June 7, 1755, Richard and Ruth were among eight families living in an outpost called Ipswich Canada--later renamed Winchenden--located on the border of N.H. A Petition was sent to the Governor on that date, asking him for protection from the Indians who were threatening attack upon their tiny fort. The men could not leave the fort to harvest their crops and food was scarce.	Richard DAY
188	The site was formerly Supplee Chapel, established in 1770 on the Supplee family farm.	Magdaline Deborah DEHAVEN
189	An immigrant from England, whose homestead is recorded in 1641 in Wethersfield. The will of John's father-in-law, Richard Treat, mentions a John Deming, Sr., which may be referring to the father of this John Deming. John was a deputy at various courts, and in 1656 was one of a committee "to give the best safe advice they can to the Indians". He was a prominent man in the affairs of the Conn. Colony, and was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and possessed of some education.	John DEMING
190	Jonathan was born and died in Wethersfield. His first wife, Sarah, died in child-bed, at the birth of her daughter, Comfort. He married, second, Elizabeth Gilbert. The birthdate of Jonathan Deming is determined by the record of his death, which states that he "died suddenly, aged about 61 as he supposed".	Jonathan DEMING
191	Margaret DePetmer was the daughter of John DePatmer. This John was the son of John and Sarah DePatmer, and the grandson of Philip DePatmer of Patmer Hall.	Margaret DEPATMER
192	suffered a severe stroke in 1997 and was placed in a nursing home.	Helen Hafner DIEFENDORF
193	He was buried in the Old Cemetery.	Elisha DOUBLEDAY, IV
194	He was buried in the Ravenna Cemetery.	Frank DOUBLEDAY
195	She was buried in Riverside Cemetery.	Harriett DOUBLEDAY
196	He was buried in the North Sherwood Cemetery.	Harry A. DOUBLEDAY
197	He was buried in the North Sherwood Cemetery.	Harvey Matt DOUBLEDAY
198	He was buried in the North Sherwood Cemetery.	Hiram DOUBLEDAY, Sr.
199	He was buried in the North Sherwood Cemetery.	Hiram S. DOUBLEDAY
200	He was buried in the North Sherwood Cemetery.	John Marion DOUBLEDAY