Biographical Sketch of Benjamin CHANDLEE (1881); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Candace Roth . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** From THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881); pg. 496 CHANDLEE, Benjamin, son of William Chandlee, of Kilmore, in the county of Kildare, Ireland, came to Philadelphia, and learned the trade of a clock and watchmaker with Abel Cottey, whose daughter Sarah he married, 3,25,1710, and about 1715 settled on a tract of land in Nottingham which had belonged to her father. There he built a smithy and made brass cow-bells, then much needed. In 1741 they sold the property and removed to Wilmington, where he died about 1745. The children of Benjamin and Sarah were Mary, m. to Neal McCaskey; Cottey, d. 10,9,1807, aged ninety-four years, 5 months, 21 days; William, m. Mary Elgar; Benjamin, m. in 1750, Mary, daughter of Goldsmith Edward Folwell, of Wilmington. He settled in the village at Brick Meeting, and with his brother Cottey manufactured clocks, compasses, etc.