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    1. RE: [PaOldC] Map of Chester 1683 (Jasper Yeats, Feree, Slaymaker)
    2. Mal Humes
    3. "At the July court 1698, a deed was acknowledged by John Hoskins to John Simcock, John Blunston, Samuel Levis, Jasper Yeats and Jonathan Hayes, the justices of the county "for all that piece of land whereon the new court house stands, contayning in breadth to the street 29 foot to Chester creeke, unto them and theyr sucksessors for ever; the deed bearing thd date the 9th day 4th month called June An Dom. 1697." I was curious about the Jasper Yeats mentioned her because I'd recently been reading up a little on a Jasper Yeates who was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster that had a close relationship with the Slaymaker family that got a 1710 land grant with Marie Feree for much of the land around. Turns out the grandson of the early magistrate went on to have a rep as one of the most poerful men in PA politics in the late 1700s, at least per one reference I'd seen. It just struck me as interesting that there was an earlier Yeats by the same name who appears also to have been a mover and shaker a century or more earlier. I'm curious of the son of the first Jasper was also involved in PA government in some way. http://www.famousamericans.net/jasperyeates/ "YEATES, Jasper, merchant, born in Yorkshire, England; died near New Castle, Delaware, in 1720. He emigrated to the West Indies, and afterward removed to Chester, Pennsylvania, where he built and resided in a venerable mansion that is still standing, and was afterward Mrs. Deborah Logan's. He also erected extensive granaries on the creek. In 1701 he was constituted by William Penn one of the four burgesses of Chester, and in 1703 was elected chief burgess. In 1694 he was appointed justice of the court for Chester county, and from 1704 till 1710 and from 1717 till his death he was associate-justice of the supreme courts of the province of Pennsylvania and the lower counties on the Delaware. In 1696 he was admitted to a seat in the provincial council of Pennsylvania. In 1700 he was elected a representative of New Castle county in the general assembly of the province, and, after the separation of the lower counties on the Delaware, was chosen a representative and speaker of their assembly.--His grandson, Jasper, jurist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 April, 1745 ; died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 14 March, 1817, was graduated at the College of Philadelphia in 1761, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1765, and in 1774 was chosen a member of the Lancaster county committee of correspondence, of which he became chairman in 1776. Fourteen years afterward he sat in the convention that ratified the constitution of the United States. From 1791 until his death he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. In 1794 President Washington appointed him a commissioner to confer with the inhabitants of the western counties of Pennsylvania, for the settle-meat of the whisky insurrection. Judge Yeates preserved notes of judicial proceedings in which he took part, and prepared them for the press. They were issued, after his death, as "Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, with some Select Cases at Nisi Prius, and in the Circuit Courts, from 1791 till 1808 " (4 vols., Philadelphia, 1817-'19).--His daughter, Catharine, benefactor, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1783; died there, 7 June, 1866, devoted a legacy of $26,000 to founding the Yeates institute for the education of young men for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and also contributed to its maintenance the sum of $800 yearly."

    06/12/2006 05:55:11
    1. MALIN family from Goshen, Chester Co., 1820-1830
    2. Link Davis
    3. Hello List, Anyone familiar with the name John MALIN from Goshen, Chester County, PA between the years 1820 to 1830? If not, can you direct me toward someone that might know the family history? Link

    06/12/2006 11:44:26