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Notes for Francis CHADSEY

Biography In the year 1707, one of the members of Assembly for Chester county, was FRANCIS CHADSEY.- He was a large landholder in the township of Birmingham, on the left bank of the river Brandywine, at a fording place which, seventy years afterward, acquired historical notoriety, as the crossing
where General Washington attempted to intercept the British army, in its march from the head of Elk to Philadelphia. The place was originally known as ChadseyFord, though the owner subsequently abbreviated his name to Chads, or reduced to a single word, and written Chadsford, for convenience. It was
always be associated, in our history, with the BATTLE OF THE BRANDYWINE. Francis Chads died in 1717, leaving one son, John, who died in 1760, childless.
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