Early Area Masonic Members: Delaware County, PA

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from CHESTER AND ITS VICINITY, DELAWARE CO IN PA, by John Hill (1877)

A Y M Lodge #69. was formed in June of 1796.  The following were early member;
Preston Eyre                 1796
Daniel Harmony
jacob Barker
Peter Stimble
James Shaw
Thomas Vernon
Abraham Kerlin
Wm Pierce                     1797
John Wood
Joseph Hall
John Saffer
Seth Levis
James Sharpless
Geo McNeally
Edward Engle
Wm Ford
Wm Anderson
John Entriss
Robert Hall
Robert McNeally
Joseph Harrison
John Thompson
James Craig
Lewis Cornot
Aaron Moreton      1798
Wm Haughy
Evan PEters
Wm Witerman
Benj. Neidy
Geo Bail
Wm Willis
Geo Gill
Nathaniel Sykes
Jona. Y Haight
Joseph T Heath
John Rowan
Abijah Price                 1799
Joseph Engle
Samuel Pennell
J9ona. Salyards
Abraham Philips
Thos. Coburn jr           1800
Enoch Welsh
James M Walker
John Sealah
Wm Robinson
Michael Oburn
Charles Farren
James Merryhew
Samuel Hooff             1801
Job Vernon
Abraham Palmer
John H. Cheney
Joseph Merryhew
Wm Miller                  1802
Wm Wright
John Attmore
Henry Wood
Robert Pennell           1806
Jas. Mendenhall
Joseph Holston           1807
Wm Baker
Francis Patterson
Joseph T John
Samuel Iddings
Wm Moore                 1808
Robert Watton
Robert Given
David Stewart
John Makie
John Dermont
Daniel  MacAllister
Samuel Blanchard      1809
Wm Fell
Cornelius Mackey
Septimus Flounders
Geo Warner
John Young
Thomas Fell
Jonas P Fairlamb
John Pearl                1810
Charles Cooper
Robert   Davidson            1811
Thomas Ottey
William Geary
Job H Terrill
Terrence Campbell          1812
John Barber
N. Wilkenson                  1813
James Cummings
David Cummings
Israel Thomas
Aaron Wood
Robert Patterson              1814
Isaac White
John Caldwell                   1815
Joseph Neefe
James Nelson
Isaac Barton
Joseph Weaver                1816
John Martin                      1817
John Harland
Mark Winter
John Thomson
Joseph Piper
Joseph Bowen
Nathaniel Newlin
Benjamin Kirk
George Irwin
Nehemiah Baker
Wm Robinson
George Spear                 1818
Thomas D Barnard
Jona. P. Worrall
M. Richards Sayres
Daniel Howe
George Caldwell
John Welch                      1819
Geo Elkins
John J Richards
Moses Cox
Joseph Black
Dr Ellis C Harland
Jesse Harmer
George Hawkins                  1820
Joshua A Pearson
Robert Beale, Esq.
Thomas Barker
Richard Dutton
Geo Grantham
John P Crosby                   1821
William Tussey
John Irwin
Edward Richards, esq..        1822
Joseph Thatcher
John J Thurlow
Geo W Bartram
Francis Murphy
Charles Attmore
Jas Brattin, esq.
Wm Corkey                        1823
Zedekiah W Flower
Oliver Stevenson
John Taylor
Henry G Kerlin                     1824
Samuel R Lamplugh
Wm Martin, esq.
Samuel Shaw jr
Dr Samuel Anderson
Rev R U Morgan
John Chochran
James Sloan
      (at this time the title of esquire was only given to Judges of the Courts, 
Justices of the Peace, or to those occupying official postions in the State.)


Initiated after 1825
Joseph Luscure
John Martin, carpenter
Albert Pearson
Jacob Effinger
Joseph Hall
John Hinkson
John Shaw
Joseph Baker
Ezekiel Norman
James O'Hara
James Evans
Joseph Rhoads
Isaac Thomas
Samuel Hale
John Zeilin
Benjamin  Hulings
Jehu Broomhall
Thomas Williamson
John Hart
Thomas Baker
Isaac Briggs
John Schofield
James Holms
Hugh McLaughlin
Oswald Patchell
Wm Fox
Melville Thomas Hard
Francis Graham
Isaac Williams
 Wm Garthwait
Alexander Wright
Thomas MdKinney
Joseph Williams
           The Lodge surrendered its charter in 1836.