James Nixon, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County. on April 3, 1731 bought 100 arce farm, 3 miles north of present day, Wilmington. He was a native of Ireland and probably a Presbyterian (he may have attended the Lower Brandywine Presbyterian Church, founded in 1720. Thomas Milhaus appears in New Garden, Chester Co. 28 day of Feb. 1729/30, presented his Irish cerfiticate. He had come from Timahoe County, Kildare, Ireland. They had with them a servant girl, Ann Cuunningham, age 16. Thomas Milhause settled on a 200 acre farn in Steyning Manor, 3 miles west of Kenneth Square and 11 miles from Wilmington. His deed lists him as a cooper (barrel-maker). Thomas Milhaus moved to Pikeland twp. Chester Co., in 1744, his will written Feb. 2 1765, leaves his 3 eldest son, John, James and Thomas, 5 shillings, he mentions his wife Sarah Parker and his youngest son, William (went to Ohio in 1805. James Nixon died in Brandywine Hundred in 1775. He leaves his wife Mary 60 pounds plus 1/3 of his estate. To his 3 married daughters, a sum of money, to his daughter Jean, a sum of money. His eldest son George, he left the plantation where John Reily formely lived. To son James Jr, he left the plantation "where I am now living". The oldest son George moved to western PA. William Milhau's grandson, Joshua V. Milhaus went to Indiana in 1854. George Nixon's grandson, George Nixson the 3rd went to central Ohio in 1853. Frank Nixon, the latters grandson went to Calif., in 1907, met and married Joshua Milhaus's granddaughter, Hannah Milhaus, who had gone to Calif. in 1897. Their son Richard Milhaus Nixon was born in Calif. in 1913. Question, did the two coopers, Thomas Milhaus and James Nixon ever meet? Best Wishes, Geri