Biographical Sketch of The FLEMINGS (1881); Chester County, PA

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from THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope


The Flemings in Caln were all descended from a Scotsman named Wm Fleming, who 
arrived in around as  a young man, before 1714 .
           Wm Flemings possessions were at first on the east side of the west 
branch of the Brandywine, near the present Coatesville.  Here he erected a home, 
and the first survey to Wm is dated May 29, 1714.  The family subsequently 
became the owners of large tracts on the west side of the creek, in Sadsbury and 
west Caln.  Wm died before 1733, leaving sons - John, Wm, Henry, George, James 
and Peter - and daughters, Mary, wife of David Cowan and Susannah, dau of Wm 
Cowan.
    Geo built a corn-mill, bolting mill, millhouse and other improvements on the 
land left him.  He died unmarried.
  James died May 3, 1767, at 64, and was buried at Upper Octara, leaving a son, 
John, b 1731.  He lived on a farm near Coatesville...was an officer in the 
providencial service, member of the Constitutional Conv. of 1776, and in 1778, 
one of the Reps. from Chester to the General Assembly.  Died 1814, at age of 83.
  John Jr..wagon-master during the Rev. war, and present at the battle of 
Brandywine.  Elder in Upper Octorara Church 1799..d 1832.
Henry Fleming, son of John Jr, born in Sadsbury..acting magistrate...volunteered 
for the war of 1812...died 1865 at  82...wife was Letitia Park..she died in 
1858.
   Geo, another son of John Jr...lived in West Brandwine..and was an elder in 
the Fairview Presby church.
    (by the late 1800s there were still many descendants of Wm Fleming, the 
original steeler, byt non owned any part of the lands of their ancestors.)