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Subject: Re: [PACHESTE] History of Chester County
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:32:57 EST
I found one reference to a William F. Mitchel [sic] as part of a group that
founded a library in Unionville. I can't resist copying the entire passage:
"To all to whom this may come before, Greeting---That we the underwriters
have it in contemplation for the Improvement of young minds and a fireside
enjoyment to those of information and all who have a love of the acquirement
of usefull knowledge, to erect a Library by subscription. We do hereby
solicit and pray all those who have rising families or a disposition to be
acquainted with religious and moral History to aid and assist in the
stimulation of this invaluable intention which no doubt will feed the mind
with food of Instruction and animate the senses, from trifling amusements to
matter of more sublimity and lasting enjoyments.
" We please ourselves with the Idea that it will lead youth out of
rusticity to refinement of manners and cloath their address with ease and
gentleness in assemblies of superiority, and inculcate in them a degree of
decent pride that will surmount the rude and unpolished habits they are so
subject to imbibe, without the cultivation of which, of itself, is in a
descending situation and wants good nursing to bring it from thence to
suavity of manners and good degree of Latitude for Phylosophyzing with
rationality on the operations of nature and her wisdom like ways. It likewise
will add energy to our states, harmonize our rude passions, and promote
Innocent and social loquacity in arguments of weight and Importance teach men
to be good Husbands and fathers, women to be good wives and mothers, which
will pave the way to delectable tranquility and outvie all terestrial things
and calmn our mindes into peace and quiet. We do therefore consent each and
every one of us to subscribe the sum of five dollars for the augmentation of
the library, which we promise to pay when a sufficient sum shall be
accumulated to establish a decent collection of Books, the which will be
advertised for a meeting to chuse representatives, &c.
"Shares (each person one): Thomas Griffith, Garnett Jackson, Robert
Buffington, Charles Wilson Jr., Jesse Buffington, Nathan Hayes Jr., Henry
Marsh, Joshua Harlan, David Taylor, Isaac Bailey Jr., Joseph Pyle, George
Jackson, Levi Bailey, William Whiting, Caleb woodward, Caleb Chalfant Jr,
Thomas Webb, John Smith, Abishal Clark, William Taggart Jr., Parker
Wickersham, William Stuart, Robert Wilson, Joseph Peirce Jr., William F.
Mitchel, Thomas Baker, Andrew Hamilton, George McFarlan, Joseph Pyle,
Jeremiah Bailey, William Tagart, Philip Ward, John Mills, Joseph Pusey,
Mordecai Hall, Isaac Commons, Ezekial Rubencam, Job Hayes, Isaac Swayne,
James M. Gibbons, John J. Windle, Caleb Pusey Jr., Amos Greenfield, John
Erwin, Nathan Swayne, Thomas Worth Sr., Benjamin Parker, Richard Baker,
Waters Dewees, Plummer Edwards, Isaac Pyle, David Peirce, Moses Pennock,
Thomas Peirce."
The authors add: "There is no date to this paper but it doubtless belonged to
the first decade of the present century (1800s). The library was sold out
several years ago."
Conni, other Mitchells listed in the index are Adam, Alexander, Andrew,
Edward, Dr. G. Q., George, James, John, Joseph, Mary (Elwen), Robert.
Wm. Mitchell appears again on page 204 as one of the taxables in 1753 in the
township of Sadbury.
Margaret
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