This is such an incredible answer to my request for directions to Dutton locations in Delaware & Chester Co., Penna....that I am forwarding it to the list. This "Internet Thing" is certainly an amazing, powerful tool! This fellow provided all this wonderful information....which oughta go into our data base for future visitors to the area.....and the news clips provide much new info that will prove helpful to us as well. I have thanked this fellow sincerely. By the way.....my trip is "on" and I'm getting very excited. I'll be visiting the Chester Co. Hist Soc.....wanna see the Cope Collection of early photographs.....and I see where he wrote the Darlington Fam.Hist. also. Have we looked at that?? Stay tuned.........pictures at 11 !! Phyllis -----Original Message----- From: Mark.Christy@decisionone.com [SMTP:Mark.Christy@decisionone.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 8:35 AM To: phyllis@webnet.com Subject: Re: FW: Need directions! Hi Phyllis! I hope you have a nice visit to Del. Do. I'm not sure just exactly where the Dutton house is however I do know where the Dutton Mill was, (there were many Dutton's throughout the Chichester / Aston area) and that property is still standing. What I do know is (please have a map nearby), the Chester Friends Meeting is located at the corner of 24th Street and Chestnut Street, Chester. It is in the vicinity of Widener University, (abt 1 mile north). If you can obtain a map of Delaware County, find the intersection of Interstate 95 and Routes 320 and 352. If you locate Widener University (in the City of Chester) you'll see the intersection. I-95 runs north and south, 320 and 352 "fork" off of that and twist around in a northerly direction. Follow Rte. 320 North. You'll begin to intersect 14th, 15th, 16th streets, etc. Follow north until you intersect 24th street. Turn left (west) and proceed to the next intersection (Chestnut Street (parkway)). You are there!!!! The historical marker states that was the place Robert Wade met William Penn when he arrived in Chester. Mount Hope Methodist Church is in Aston Township. Find Route 452 which runs completely through Aston Twp. Rte 452 travels from Interstate 95 all the way to Route 1. If you follow Rte 452 north from I-95, around the middle of Aston Twp, you will find an intersection which is fed 5 ways (5 Points.) Look for Concord Road. Follow Concord Road west. When you see Neumann College, you are there. Mount Hope Church is at the bend in the road, and the cemetary is in the rear. Back to the Dutton Mill. Find Routes 352 and 452 on your map. At the southern tip of Aston Twp where 452 enters (at Chichester Twp), and the northern tip of "Brookhaven" where 352 runs north from Brookhaven into Middletown Twp, there is a road named "Dutton Mill Road". If you have a map of Delaware County, follow Dutton Mill Road between Rts 352 and 452. At the Brookhaven / Aston Township line, there is what is known as the Chester Creek (Chester River in the old days). There is a 12 room mansion which was built in the 1700's, destroyed by flood and rebuilt in 1832, the old mill, since converted into a home, and two or three more 18th century homes located on Dutton Mill Road where it passes over the creek. I'll look tonight, but this was property purchased by a Dutton from a man named Coebourn. Coebourn received a land grant from William Penn. If I can find my book, I'll look up the information and provide you more detail if you like. I hope you have a safe trip and good luck in your search. P. S. Here is some reading material from local newspapers of the time. I don't know if they interest you, but here they are anyway. Enjoy and have a safe trip. Mark. January 26, 1838 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Advertisement CLOVER MILL - The subscriber has been at a considerable expense to render the process of cleaning clover seed complete. He has in operation one of Burrels patent machines, which are the best that have yet been put into use, and is now ready to accommodate those who may favour him with their custom. << JOHN DUTTON>> , Jr. Aston, near Village Green, Jan. 26th 1838. August 3, 1838 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Real Estate REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE. - To be sold at Private sale, a valuable tract of land situate in Aston township, Delaware county, near Village Green and Concord road, 18 miles from Philadelphia, 4 1/2 from Chester, 3 miles from the Philadelphia and Wilmington Railroad, 1 1/2 miles from seven large cotton Manufactory, besides other Manufacturing establishments on Chester creek, where there is an excellent market for wood, lumber and all kinds of produce, bounded by lands of William Thatcher, Salkeld Larkin and others, containing 104 3/4 acres, near 50 of which is under heavy timber, and ten of watered meadow, in a good state of cultivation, being lately limed and divided into convenient enclosures. The improvements are a good two story stone dwelling, with four rooms on a floor, with a well of excellent water at the door, frame barn with stone stabling sufficient for 20 head of stock, with water that will run to the yard, stone spring house over an excellent spring near the dwelling, a clovermill and sawmill in complete order, with a good supply of water and in an excellent neighborhood for business, and gearing sufficient for a threshing machine, a small expense would gear a mill for grinding grain. A thriving young orchard of different kinds of apples, and a variety of other fruit trees, convenient to schools and places of public worship, 1 1/2 miles from the sate railroad route, and about the same from a tannery, &c. For further information apply to the subscriber residing thereon. << JOHN DUTTON>> , Jr. March 27, 1840 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Death Notice At his residence in Chester township on the 19th inst., << JOHN DUTTON>> , aged about 70 years. The deceased came to his death from a wound in the arm, receioved while attending a saw mill. Mr. Dutton was an old resident of Chester township, and was universally respected and beloved by all who knew him for his sterling honesty and uprightness. January 21, 1842 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN News PATENT IMPROVED PORTABLE CHAIN PUMP. << John Dutton>> , of Aston township, in this county, has lately taken out letters for an Improved Portable Chain Pump, which we should judge from the drawings and explanations given us, will prove vastly superior to the common pump now in use, as it will discharge much more water in the same time with less power, and will elevate it two hundred feet it required. The cost of fitting up one of these pumps will be much more economical than the wooden pumps, being so constructed as to do away with the impure taste and sediment always to be found in the water from those pumps. It is easily kept in repair, and so fixed that frost cannot injure it. Mr. D. offers state, county, or township rights for sale on reasonable terms. November 2, 1849 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Death Notice In Buffalo, New York, on the 20th inst., Mr. << JOHN DUTTON>> , of this county. His remains were brought to his home, and interred in the burying ground in Upper Chichester. September 26, 1851 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Death Notice At the residence of Jonathan Dutton, in Chester township, on the 12th inst., Mrs. ANN DUTTON, relict of << John Dutton>> , deceased, in the 79th year of her age. January 6, 1860 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Real Estate ORPHANS'COURT SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE - By virtue of an order of the Orphans'Court of Delaware county, will be sold at public sale, on the premises, in Aston township, in said county, on THURSDAY, the second of February, 1860, at one oin the afternoon, all that plantation, late the estate of << John Dutton>> , deceased, bounded by lands of Daniel Thatcher, George McCracker, Joseph Haycock, Samuel Wells and Edwin Hannum, and the new road leading from the Concord road to the Chichester road, containing ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR ACRES, more or less, seventy five of which are in a good state of cultivation, the remainder heavily timbered, and the whole farm is well fenced, and has a good stream of water running through it, with a clover mill, saw mill and water power upon it. The improvements consist of a STONE DWELLING HOUSE, thirty by thirty five feet, with two rooms on the first floor, four on the second, and a well of excellent water with a pump therein near the door; a frame tenant house thirty by fourteen feet, with three rooms on the first floor and four on the second, and a cellar and spring house under; a double floored barn forty eight by fifty feet, carriage and straw house adjoining. There is a young apple orchard and a number of other fruit trees on the premises. This property is located in a desirable neighborhood, near Village Green, and within four miles of Chester, and eight of Media. Persons wishing to view the place, previous to the sale, can apply to T.V. DUTTON, residing thereon. Conditions made known at the sale. J.M. BROOMALL, Trustee. May 16, 1862 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Marriage On Thursday, the 23d of April last, by the Rev. James W. Dale, at the residence of the bridefather, in Chester township, Mr. << JOHN DUTTON>> and Miss HATTIE B. BEATTY, eldest daughter of John Beatty. September 23, 1851 VILLAGE RECORD Death Notice On the 12th inst., in Delaware county, ANN DUTTON, widow of << John Dutton>> , dec, aged 79 years. The End!! Phyllis Ryerse <phyllis@webnet.com> on 09/17/98 06:56:31 PM Please respond to "phyllis@webnet.com" <phyllis@webnet.com> To: PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com cc: (bcc: Mark Christy/NotesOne) Subject: FW: Need directions! Is there anyone there who can help me locate some places I'd like to visit when I come to Delaware Co. in two weeks?? A live person (!) <grin> who knows the area and can help me pinpoint a specific place?? I'm decsended from John Dutton who was one of the very early settlers in the area. One of his descendants, Kingsman Dutton built a HOUSE in 1753...... "about half a mile from the wouth-west corner of Aston Township near the east branch of Chichester Creek." Can you help me figure out where that is today?? I don't know if the township lines have changes......or the county lines have changed........maybe I should be talking to someone in Chester County. I really need some direction here! The house was still standing in the 1930's and if it's still there today, I'd like to visit it......and take some pictures to share with our Dutton Family Association. It is said that a stone in the west end gable bears the initials R.D. and M.D. and the date 1749. Are you familiar with such a house? I'd also like to visit the Chester Friends Meeting.......if that building still stands.........and also the Mount Hope Methodist Church and Cemetery. I don't know where it is located. Sure hope somebody can help push me in the right direction! Thanks for your help! Phyllis Ryerse (Atlanta, GA)