Delaware County PA Archives Obituaries.....NEWLIN, Mary November 24, 1790
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Genealogy of the Dunwoody & Hood Families and Collateral Branches, by Gilbert Cope, 1899

Died, on y{e} 24{th} of this instant, Mary Newlin, of Concord, in the one 
hundred and second year of her age.  She was born in the township of Thornbury 
in y{e} county of Chester in Pennsylvania, about twenty-six miles from 
Philadelphia, which was at that time the western frontier of the then 
province.  She was a woman of hale constitution, affable and Cortious to her fr
{ds}; Hospitable and kind to strangers and y{e} poor, Industrious & 
temperate.  She retained her memory and sight to the last period of her life.  
She spun and knit till within nine weeks of her death.  Idleness & Sloth were 
her greatest bane.  She was buried in fr{ds} burying ground at Concord, 
attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends, 11th month 26th 1790.  
She told me, about sixteen months past, that she remembered when her father 
and others deaded the timber, and burned the leaves, and hoed in their wheat 
by hand, there being few horses and scarce a plow in the setlement; that the 
natives were very kind to them, supplying them with bear's meat venison, wild 
fowl, and eggs in plenty, and thought the white people conferred an obligation 
on them by receiving it.

Additional Comments:
{} indicates superscript.  Mary nee WOODWARD was the wife of John Newlin, son 
of Nathaniel Newlin & Mary Hendenhall.  Book also mentions "Original in 
possession of Mary Newlin, of Waterville, Delaware Co., Pa., 1863"

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