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Source: Mike Bertram
Date: 24 October 2010
Original members
John Parry Tredyffrin tax list 1730 - 1737
Thomas Hubbard, Tredyffrin 1715 - 1754
Thomas Martin, Tredyffrin 1715 - 1754
Thomas Lloyd, Tredyffrin 1734 - 1735
Isaac Davies - a bit of a mystery. There is no Isaac Davies in the Chester County tax lists. There is an Isaac Davis in Tredyffrin 1740 - 1760. Before that date there are a couple of references to an Isaac Davis in Thornbury and Marple.
John Griffith, Tredyffrin 1715 - 1737
Matthew Martin - there is no person of that name in the early Chester County tax lists. There is a Matthias Martin who was in Whiteland 1718 - 1721 and then Charlestown 1722 - 1740.
Thomas James, Tredyffrin, 1720 - 1750
Trustees
James Abraham, In Tredyffrin tax records 1718 - 1732
John David , In Tredyffrin tax records 1715 – 1730
James David of Tevduffrin Township, yeoman, In Tredyffrin tax records 1715 – 1735
David Jenikins of same place and a weaver, In Tredyffrin tax records 1732
Jno, Barry of Havford Township, tanner, and
Lewis Williams of Whiteland Township or Charlestown,
John Rees, mason of same place,
Emmanuel John, taylor, of same place,
David Griffith, laborer, of Whiteland,
Morgan Davie, cordwainer. of Whiteland,
Morris Rees, yeoman, of Uwchlan Township.
It was deeded to them as trustees of the existing society or congregation of Presbyterians in the Welsh Tract.
References: The Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Ruth Moore Styer, TEQ 8-1 (November 1953); Early Memories and an Historical Sketch of Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Emily Wilson Nassau, TEQ 14-4 (October 1967); The Wilsons and Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Eleanor D. Chworowsky, TEQ 22-4 (October 1984); Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Mary Robertson Ives, TEQ 22-4 (October 1984); Great Valley Presbyterian Church by Mary Robertson Ives, TEQ 32-1 (January 1994)
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