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Title: History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limits to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware county institute of science, Media, Pa
Subjects: National history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed by H. B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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a, where it was probably joined by stragglingparties who had not reached Chester : one of these, accom-panied by a wagon load of the wounded, with a surgeon, reachedGibbons tavern in Springfield about ten oclock on the night ofthe battle. Here their wounds were dressed and their wantssupplied with everything the house could afford. They leftearly in the morning, for fear of being overtaken by the enemy.1 While the American army was stationed on the Brandywine,Washington occupied the dwelling of Benjamin Ring, a milefrom Chadds Ford, as his headquarters. This house is nowowned and occupied by Joseph Harvey, and has undergonesome modifications since it was occupied by the father of hiscountry. The annexed lithograph represents the appearancethe building then presented, as nearly as those who had beenacquainted with it could convey the same to the artist, with theexception that it then had what is called a hipped roof. 1 Related by Mary Ash, aged 96 years, now deceased. f <j§m - -;.*
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1777.) HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 311 The quarters of La Fayette were at the dwelling of GideonGilpin, who was still living in the same house when La Fayettevisited this country in 1825. The procession that accompaniedthe General to the Brandywine battle-ground, stopped in frontof the house while he paid his respects to old Gideon, who wasthen on his death-bed. This property is now owned by SamuelPainter, who has erected a neat mansion near the old house,which yet remains in nearly its former condition. A little above the road leading from Dilworths town toBrandywine, on the descending ground, there stood a smallhouse occupied by a man named Brown at the time of thebattle. When Brown discovered that the Americans were re-treating, followed by the British, he ran out of his house, andhuzzaed for King George at the top of his voice. An Ameri-can rifleman within hearing, indignant at his treachery, shotBrown just as he re-entered his dwelling, the ball passingthrough the fleshy part of

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