Taylor’s plan of Kinsey Tract.

History of the John Kinsey plantation and the Taylor Deed Plan.

Kinsey patented 539 acres in 1702. The Taylor deed plan shows James Abraham with 125 acres; John Robert Ellis with 125 acres; Daniel Walker 226 acres and 50 acres out of a 60 acres plot, total of 526 acres, all from Kinsey’s tract.

James Abraham is in the tax records from 1718 to 1732. No Chester County will or administration. John Robert Ellis is not in the tax record but a John Robert is in the list from 1715 to 1724. He sold 154 acres in 1728 to Thomas Godfrey, who is in the tax records from 1715 to 1754.

The plan shows John Jones as owning the land north of the Havard tract but it never passed to him in fact, although he may have been farming it. John Jones does not appear in the tax records until the 1750s.

Stephen Evans in tax records from 1715 to 1753 but this includes both Stephen Evans senior and junior. Evans purchased the land (200 acres) in 1709 and transferred it to his son in 1722. (Stephen Evans senior married Mary Walker, youngest daughter of Lewis Walker, born 1707 – this does not make sense as their son was born before 1722).

Kinsey was a Quaker who lived in Philadelphia.