Reparation Requests after the Revolutionary War

The following men in these townships applied to the new government for reparation after the war with Britain was over.

BIRMINGHAM TOWNSHIP

• William Dilworth
• Charles Dilworth
• Joseph Dilworth
• Charles Porter
• William Chapman
• John Martin
• William Harvey, Jr.
• John Bennet
• George Brinton
• Israel Gilpin
• Thomas Hannum
• John Henderson
• John Chamberlain
• Gideon Gilpin
• Jesse Graves
• Thomas Davis
• James Dilworth
• Charles McCrea

CHARLESTOWN TOWNSHIP

• George Lutz
• Llewellyn Davis
• William Bodley
• Benj. Longstreet
• Patrick Anderson
• John Varley
• Philip Rapp
• Alex. McCall
• Richard Tompkin
• Daniel Downing
• Theophilus Davis
• George Scholfield
• David James
• Henry Miller

COVENTRY TOWNSHIP

• Jacob Shook

EAST BRADFORD

• Richard Strode

EAST MARLBOROUGH

• James Jefferis
• John Jackson
• Caleb Jackson
• Isaac Calvert

EAST NANTMEAL TOWNSHIP

• Branson Vanlear

EAST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP

• John Kerlin
• Thomas Harris
• Jacob Coffman
• Christian Zook
• Henry Souders
• Randal Malin
• Joseph Malin
• Thomas Cummings
• John Templeton
• William Harris
• James Robinson
• Cornelius Dempsey
• David Cloyd, Esq.
• John Bartholomew
• Miles Welsh
• John Rettew
• Thomas Mellon

EASTTOWN

• Robert Stephens
• Michael Binger
• Christopher Rue
• Casper White
• Peter Uble
• Gen. Anthony Wayne
• Martha Davis
• Judith Rue
• Mary Nichols
• Sarah Scott
• Lewis Morris
• Rev. David Jones
• Whitehead Wetherby
• Richard Robinson
• James Morris
• Benjamin Junkin

GOSHEN TOWNSHIP

• Thomas Lewis
• Thomas Rees
• John Bowen
• Elizabeth Oliver
• Ralph Forester
• Jarvis Hall
• Robert McLaughlin and Alexander Boggs
• Evan Williams
• William Jones
• Thomas Patterson
• Elias Davis
• John Underwood
• William Patterson
• Jacob Beaumont
• John Patton
• Joseph Brown
• John Michen
• Jonathan Garrett
• Mary Garrett
• Israel Matlack
• John Hoopes
• Lydia Davis
• Ann Goodwin
• Richard Goodwin
• Jonathan Matlack
• Charles Carter
• Geo. Smith's estate
• Geo. Hoopes

KENNET TOWNSHIP

• Nathan Norton
• John McFarlan
• William Hickman
• Peter Bell

LONDONGROVE

• Dr. Francis Alison, late Senior Surgeon General Hospital

NEW GARDEN

• Isaac Allen
• James Allen
• William Allen
• Andrew McIntire
• David Fame
• William Whiteside
• James Miller

NEW LONDON

• John Jack
• John McKee

NEWLIN TOWNSHIP

• Richard Barnard
• William Hanna
• David Eckoff
• James Shields(by Fitzpatrick and Doughtery)

OXFORD

• John Ruston (slaves)

PIKELAND TOWNSHIP

• Christopher Teany

THORNBURY TOWNSHIP

• George Brinton
• Sampson Smith
• Wm. Arment
• William Londen
• Catherine Davis
• Isaac Davis

TREDYFFRIN

• Benjamin Davis
• Nicholas Findebander
• William Dewees
• John Havard
• Adam Ginder
• Devault Beaver
• Dr. John Davis
• Abel Rees, at Lord Cornwallis' quarters
• William Curry
• Mary Howell
• Isaac Griffith
• Christian Workizer
• David Havard
• Valentine Showalter
• Jacob Baugh
• Thomas Pennington
• Samuel Davis, storekeeper
• John Brown
• Thomas Waters
• John Wilson
• John Rowland John Frick
• Lydia Jones
• Samuel Richards
• Samuel Harvard
• Samuel Jones
• Gen. Howe's headquarters
• The Baptist Meeting-House
• David Wilson
• Isaac Davis estate
• David Davis

WEST CALN TOWNSHIP

• William Clingan, Esq.
• William Henry

WEST BRADFORD

• Richard Baker
• James Marshall
• James Trimble
• Jonathan Buffington
• John Highfield

WEST MARLBOROUGH

• Tristram Moore
• Abner Cloud
• Thomas Jones
• Thomas Welsh
• Thomas Travilla

WEST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP

• Evan Anderson
• Jeremiah Jarman
• James Dunwoody
• Daniel Thompson
• David Dunwoody
• John Boyers
• Ezekeil Rigg
• John Bull
• David Williams
• Edward Lammey

WESTTOWN TOWNSHIP

• John Hunt
• Caleb James
• Thomas Taylor
• James Brown

WILLISTOWN

• Joseph Rowland
• Caleb Smedley
• Erasmus Lloyd
• Isaac Yarnall
• Phineas Massey
• Joseph Thomas
• Samuel Davis
• Samuel Jones
• Thomas Jones' widow
• Samuel Thomas
• Hannah Rose
• Isaac Thomas

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Those mentioned as those who 'suffered' the war losses, from Chester Township

• John Crosby
• the late David Cowpland
• Benj Bartholomew, stolen by British Army under Howe
• Alex. Mills, by Mr Johnson commissary of the British Army, commanded by Dunop and Colonel Sterling
• Sarah Day's furniture destroyed by the British 1777-8
• Estate of James Mathers, by a party of Scotch and Hessians, marching from Wilmington to Philadelphia
• Edward Vernon, by the same
• Sarah Thomas, by the same
• Wm. Evans, team pressed
• Geo. Spear, saddle
• Wm. Kerlin, harness
• Thomas Logan, sundries
• Elisha price, cart
• Henry Myers, a cow
• Thomas Pedrick, horse
• James Beatty, sundries
• John Odenheimer, 2 horses
• Mary Withy
• Raper Hoskins, sundries
• Rob't. Ferguson
• Estate of Capt, Stork, sundries
• Estate of Val. Weaver, sundries
• Estate of Mary Norris, sundries
• Martin Carter, sundries
• John Posell, sundries
• Widow Deacon's estate, sundries
• John Hogan, sundries
• Joseph Neidy, by British under Cornwallis
• Ann Davis, by British under Cornwallis
• Henry Hale Graham, by British under Cornwallis
• Adam Grubb

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This page updated on February 18, 2009