Misc. Notes
William “the Younger” or William “the Builder” [See his father’s notes]
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William Brinton, Jr., born Staffordshire, England, 1666, accompanied his parents to the wilderness of Birmingham township, Chester county, when a youth of eighteen years [1684], and assisted in founding a home there.
In 1697, his father conveyed to him the homestead farm, upon which he erected a stone house, still standing [1911], about three-fourths of a mile south of Dilworthstown, on the gable end of which still appears the initials of his and his wife's names and the date of erection, 1704. [See photo of the William Binton House circa 1704 in Multimedia]
He was an elder of Birmingham Meeting, and trustee of the land on which it was erected. He took considerable interest in provincial affairs and was a member of Assembly in 1714 and 1721.
An esteemed member of Birmingham Meeting, he was buried at Birmingham, October 17, 1751, aged eighty-five years. He married, December 9, 1690, Jane Thatcher, daughter of Richard and Jane Thatcher, who had settled near the Brintons, in Birmingham.
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He built a house on the homestead in 1704, which is still in good repair and occupied by Henry Faucett.
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Built the Brinton 1704 House.
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The Delaware County township which officially became Chadds Ford on December 11, 1996, has a 300-year history as "Birmingham Township."
The Battle of Brandywine took place here on September 11, 1777. Although a defeat for Washington and his struggling American troops, it marked a turning point in the Revoltionary War.
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