Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Moses MENDENHALL

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Before coming to America, Moses bought 500 acres of land located along the Brandywine River on 5 Sep 1685 from John Ewen, whose brother, Roger, bought them from William Penn on 20 Jun 1682. Moses never requested a survey for this land. He came to America in 1682 but did not like the primitive lifestyle of the American colonists and stayed in PA only somewhat more than a year.
However, before he left Pennsylvania, he had submitted an application for land in the province. Some of the land in Pennsylvania for which Moses Mendenhall had made application was located in what is now Kennett Township near the Delaware line where the affluent suburban area of Mendenhall can now be found.
In a letter of 28 Jul 1687 from William Hitchcock of Marlborough, England to John and Amy Harding, John Kingsman and his wife and ye widow, Beezer in PA, William Hitchcock mentions that Moses had agreed to buy land but then had not gone back to PA because his mother did not want him to go and the cost of the land was too high.
Moses Mendenhall conveyed his land in Pennsylvania to his brothers, John and Benjamin and to his sisters Margery Martin and Mary Newland. Of this land, 125 acres were located on the east side of the Brandywine Creek at the forks and the remaining 375 acres in Kennett Township.

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