Biographical Sketch of the John FAIRLAMB; Delaware County, PA

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from CHESTER AND ITS  VICINITY DELAWARE CO IN PA, by Martin 1877;

Mr John Fairlamb Hill died at Chester, June 14, 1870, in the 90th year of his 
age.  He was at one time a very prominent man in the county and from his stone 
quarries at Crum, Eidley and Naaman's Creeks, he furnished much of the stone 
used in the Delaware Breakwater, near Cape Henlopen.  He married, July 10, 1804, 
Eleanor Crosby Martin, the widow of Dr. Wm Martin, of Chester, who died of the 
yellow fever, caught in attending the crew of a British vessel, lying off 
Chester, Sept 28, 1798.  Eleanor was a daughter of John Crosby, late an 
Associate Judge of Delaware Co, and Ann Peirdce, his wife, of Ridley Creek 
quarries.