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Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.)
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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vania; that people who come from far, & spend theirwhole day there, may have something proper to entertain them-selves with, or to read to one another between the seasons of Wor-ship morning and afternoon : & tis for this end intrusted to ycare of (the) Protestant Dissenting Minister who preaches there,and to his Successors, to be used by him or them in their weeklyStudys, when they please, and to be secured & devoted to theUse of the Congregation on y Lords days. Jan^ 30^ 1735-6. The Book is committed to the care of M. Benj. Hawley tobe carried over to Pennsylvania, and after he has kept it in hisown hands and made the best use of it for six months, that istill the 30: of July next, he shall deliver it to the hands of thepresent Protestant Dissenting Minister for the purposes before-mentioned. The book is at this time in the custody of the Rev. James W.Dale, the minister now in charge of the Middletown church, whokindly furnished a copy of the above writing for this work.
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 399 In early times, no provision whatever was made for heatingthe hody of tlie Middletown church even in the coldest weather.At such seasons, a fire was provided in a small session room ad-joining the church, to which the people resorted hefore takingtheir seats in tiie congregation. For nearly a century and ahalf, Middletown was the only Presbyterian Church in DelawareCounty—a number of the members residing at a distance of fromeight to ten mdes from their place of worship. One of the tombstones in the grave-yard, bears the followinginscription :— Here lieth the body of Bernhard Vanleer, M. D. Physisianin Physick—who departed this life, January the 2Gth 1790aged 104 years. Friends weep not for me, for all your tears are vain.Prepare to meet the Lord, that we may meet a;;ain. His wife Christiana—died March 29th, 1815, aged 88 years& 7 months. The earliest inscription noticed bears the date of 1724. Since the division in the Society of Friends, a

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