Misc. Notes
Resident of Marlborough, formerly of Derbyshire.
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CALDWELL, Vincent came from Derbyshire, England, about the year 1699, and brought a certificate to Darby Monthly Meeting, of which, for a time, he was a member. Though a young unmarried man, he was a preacher of some note, and during his sojourn at Darby made a religious visit to Maryland with the approbation of the meeting.
In 1703 he was married to Betty Peirce, daughter of George Peirce, of Thornbury, and soon after settled in Marlborough, Chester Co., where he died in 1720, aged forty-five years. He continued to be an approved minister till his death.
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Vincent's name is listed in the 1715 Tax Roll of Marlborough Township, Chester, PA, organized about 1704.
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"In 1707 Vincent Caldwell, Thomas Wickersham, Joel Bailey [Caldwell's son-in-law?], Thomas Hope, Guyan Miller, and others, being settled in Kennet and the east end of Marlborough, had liberty to keep a meeting for worship sometimes in private houses. In the year 1710 a piece of land was purchased and a meeting-house built, which was enlarged in 1719; in 1731 it was further enlarged."
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9, 11, 1717.— "The friends that wear appointed to seek & settle a suitable place in Kennett to Build a meeting house upon reports that that part of Vincent Caldwell’s Land that Lyes betwixt the two roads that goes to Notingham and into the woods seems to them most Proper, but some of the friends of that meeting Request another Quarter’s time for Consideration, where they may settle the same to their Generall satisfaction."
1689[A number of Caldwells are listed in this publication. Relatives and descendants of Vincent's?.
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Misc. Notes
December 29, 1701 Land Patent
George Pierce to Vincent and Bettie Caldwell signed by Commissioners of William Penn; Edward Shippen, Griffith Owen, Thomas Story, James Logan
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Cox House Chain of Title. The home known as “Longwood” in Kennett Square, Chester county, PA, in 1829 would became the property of John and Hannah (Peirce) Cox, abolistionists and part of the Underground Railroad. Hannah (Peirce) Cox was the great-grandneice of Bettie (Peirce) Caldwell.
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