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From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: [PaOldC] early surveys - Nantmeal
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:47:21 -0400


The Name Nantmeal was formerly, and properly, written Nantmel, being derived from Nantmel, in Radnorshire, Wales, from where some of the first settlers came. The following are some of the early surveys made on the head of the north branch of Brandywine and the acreage;
William Powel 300 acres
Thomas Callowhill 500
William Iddings 284
Thomas Rees 260
John Broomal 400
David Thomas 300
Daniel Moore 237
William Trego 200
John Moore 200
Richard and John Peirsol 400

some ffrench Creek surveys, names dates an acreage;
James Logan 1000 acres 1715
Jeremiah Jarman 200 1718
Owen Roberts 1000 1715 300 acres 1719
Wm. Davis 100 1718
John Williams 240 1719
Philip Rogers 200 1718
Samuel Nutt 250 1717 650 acres 1719 150 acres 1720
Mordecai Lincoln 150 1720
Nicholas Rogers 200 1719
Henry Hockley 200 1719
Simon Meredith 200 1720





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