ARNOLD, RICHARD, with his wife Sarah, was an early settler in Thornbury, but not one of the earliest. It does not appear that he was a Friend, though some of his children were. He had ten children, all born before 1714, viz.: John, Grace, Thomas, Josiah, William, Elizabeth, Richard, Sarah and Anthony, several of whom were married according to the rules of the Society of Friends. Richard, the elder, died in 1720, his son John having died unmarried three years earlier.

ASHBRIDGE, GEORGE, a member of the Society of Friends, had settled within the bounds of Chester Monthly Meeting as early as 1688, then, probably, quite a young man. In 1701 he married Mary Maylen of Providence. Their children were Joseph, John, George, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Mary, Aaron, Hannah and Phebe. At the time of his death, in 1748, he owned and occupied a plantation in Chester township.

ANDRIES, LACE, was, for a time, one of the Justices of Upland Court. He was a Swedish immigrant and resided in Moyamensing.

BAILEY, JOEL, was an early settler in the vicinity of Chester—probably at first west of Chester creek above the mill. In 1687 he was married according to the usages of Friends to Ann Short, after which he became a resident of Aston. In 1704 the family removed to Marlborough. Their children were Mary, Ann, Daniel, Isaac and Joel. Their descendants are numerous in Chester county at the present day. Joel Bailey died in 1732, at an advanced age.

BAKER, JOSEPH, with his wife, Mary, migrated from England as early as 1685, and settled on a large tract of land in Edgmont. They had several children at the time of their arrival. Of these, Hannah intermarried with Francis Yaruall, and Dorothy with Philip Yarnall. He devised all his land in Edgmont to his son, John, born in this county in 1686. Joseph was in membership with Friends and was frequently concerned in the business of their meetings. He was also an influential man in the community and represented Chester County in the Provincial Assembly. He died in 1716 leaving his wife to survive him. His John, who died in Philadelphia in 1685, came from Edgmont, in Shropshire, England, which was, doubtless, the transatlantic residence of Joseph, and hence the name of the township in which he settled.

BALDWIN, THOMAS, settled on the southwest side of Chester creek above Chester mills, about the year 1697, but afterwards removed to Chester, where he died in 1731. His children were Thomas, Joseph, William, Anthony, Mary, Martha and Elizabeth.

BALDWIN, JOHN, was an early settler in Aston township. In 1689 he was married according to the usages of Friends, to Katharine Turner, a widow. Though in membership with Friends, he does not appear to have taken much interest in the Society. Their children were two—Ruth and John, the latter of whom was married to Hannah Johnson. The elder John was a brother of Thomas and Francis Baldwin. By trade was a blacksmith, and came to reside in Chester in the latter part of his life, where he died in 1732, leaving a considerable property. Both his children were then deceased. Francis Baldwin was also a settler in the neighborhood of Chester as early as 1686.

BARBER, ROBERT, was an early resident of the borough of Chester. He was in membership with Friends, and in 1690 married Hannah Ogden, also a member. He appears to have carried on the shoemaking business. Died in 1708.

BALL, JOHN, came from Derbyshire. England, and settled in Darby, now Upper Darby, in 1689. It appears that he had been married in England, as his »on Roger was married to Mary Scothorn in 1709. They were in unity with Friends.

BARNARD, ISAAC D., son of James and Susanna Barnard, was born in Aston township in 1791. His father being elected sheriff the following year, purchased a farm near the borough of Chester, upon which he resided till 1800, when, baring received the appointment of Register, Recorder, Prothonotary and Clerk of the several Courts of Delaware county, he removed into the borough. Neither on the farm, nor while residing within the town of Chester, had young Barnard any opportunity of obtaining more than an ordinary common-school education. At the early age of thirteen years he was taken from school and employed in the office of his father as a clerk, in which situation, by his obliging attention and aptness in the performance of his duties, he soon gained the confidence and respect of those whose business caused them to visit the office. His father died in 1806, but young Barnard had become such an expert clerk, and with all so much of a favorite in the office, that Thomas B. Dick, who succeeded his father, very wisely secured a continuance of his services. In 1809 he left Chester and entered the office of F. Wolbert, Prothonotary of Philadelphia, where he continued till the spring of 1811, when he returned to Chester and entered the office of William Graham, Esq.. as a student of law. While still a student, and shortly before he became of age, he obtained a captain's commission in the regular army ; and soon after war was declared with Great Britain, in 1812. he was employed in the recruiting service, and opened a rendezvous at West Chester. Early in the spring of 1813 he proceeded, with his company, to Sackett's Harbor and joined the regiment of General Winder—was present at the capture of Fort George, in May of that year, and by his gallantry in that affair, and the good discipline of his command, commended himself to the favorable notice of his superior officers. He received the appointment of major out of the regular order of promotion, and in that capacity was with General Izzard at Plattsburg, where his conduct again received the approbation of his commander. In the battle at Lyon's creek his conduct in executing a gallant charge elicited the special notice of General Bissell.

After the close of the war, Major Barnard left the army, resumed his studies, was admitted to the bar in 1816, and commenced the practice of the law at West Chester. He soon received the appointment of Deputy Attorney General, and in 1820 was elected to the State Senate—the County of Delaware giving him his whole majority. In 1826 he was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Shulze—and about a year afterwards was elected to the United States Senate. In 1881, on account of ill health, he resigned his seat in the Senate, but while a member of that body he became a prominent candidate before the Democratic convention for nomination as Governor of the State,and was only defeated by a combination of corrupt factions. Not long after he commenced the practice of the law, he was married to Harriet, the eldest daughter of Judge Darlington of West Chester, but they had no children. His death occurred in 1834, at the age of forty-three years.