appointed him as one to prepare an account of the order of the Society of Friends in the meetings for discipline in England and for government of meetings here and also one of a committee to select the site and to build the Bank Meeting House near Front and Arch Streets, erected in 1685.

At about the centre of the five thousand acres purchased and along the line of what was afterward the old Lancaster Road, Wynnestay was built, the older part being erected in 1689 as is inscribed on a wide joint of mortar in the gable end. The other end was built in 1700, and while it is doubtful whether Doctor Wynne lived in the house it is known that his only son Jonathan lived there and it was probably erected for him. Doctor Wynne died in 1692 and the estate went to Jonathan and his wife, who was Sarah Greaves and whom he had married in 1694.

The house is now located at Fifty-second and Woodbine Avenue in the Thirty-fourth ward of Philadelphia, and the land of the Wynnes is now largely in Fairmount Park, in the George's Hill section, and where the centennial buildings of 1876 stood. The first house was a twostorey stone building with a single room on each floor and a pent roof above the first. The second part was a trifle

higher than the first, but a new roof, which is the only change, has put all on a level. There is a new wing now, in the rear, built in conformity with the original and the fences surrounding it have given way to hedges. The nine Lombardy poplars, five running parallel to the south front of the house and four at a right angle, have gone.

Jonathan Wynne was succeeded at Wynnestay by his son Thomas, who married Mary Warner in 1722. Their son Thomas, who married Margaret Coulton, was the next owner. At the outbreak of hostilities with England he was taken prisoner and remained in captivity until 1781. His wife and children remained at Wynnestay and bravely resisted the harassing British soldiery. Thomas was a lieutenant in the "Flying Camp" under command of Colonel Lambert Cadwalader and was captured at Fort Washington on the Hudson.

A skirmish occurred at the Black Horse Tavern, near Wynnestay, and during one of the excursions of a British troop some of them attempted to steal all the eatables, but Margaret Coulton Wynne resisted them until a detachment of Continentals under Potter came up and drove them off, killing three who are buried in the lawn. Many bullets and cannon balls found in the grounds prove the troublous times that surrounded the little family then. In 1782 Thomas was dead and his son Thomas took possession with his wife, who was Elizabeth Reese. He ran away to the army when fourteen, but returned after three months. After them came the son Samuel, who married Phoebe Sharp from Cumberland County, New Jersey, and then their son Joseph whose wife was Elizabeth N. Matlock.

The eighth generation and the last of the name to live in the house was the present Thomas Wynne, and from the heirs of Samuel Wynne the estate was sold, about 1872, to the Smedley family who now own it and preserve it in splendid condition. There is only about

an acre of open ground surrounding the house and the present pretty suburb of Wynnefield has sprung up about it. Thomas Wynne still sits in the gallery of Merion Meeting, as his ancestors have done before him, and takes an active interest in the concerns of the Society of Friends.

Descendants of Doctor Thomas Wynne are numbered among the families of Cook, Wister, Cadwalader, and Roberts, and the family name has been made widely known by Doctor S. Weir Mitchell's novel, "Hugh Wynne."

HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP, MONTGOMERY

LEWIS-WILCOX-CRUICKSHANK-ROSS-BRINTONEYRE-ASHHURST

N the year of grace 1682 Henry Lewis, a Welsh Quaker, established himself in Haverford Township, then Chester, now Delaware County, on the banks of Cobb's Creek near the city line and the present Old Haverford Road, and named his estate Maen-Coch. He shortly built a substantial stone house that afterward became a part of Clifton Hall, as the estate was called by a subsequent owner and so styled until it received the title of the Grange in 1780. About seven miles from the old Court House at Second and Market Streets, this abode of Henry Lewis was then in the depths of the wilderness and even now after the lapse of more than two centuries it enjoys a measure of rural seclusion that is scarcely to be looked for in a place so near the city.

Under a succession of owners Maen-Coch, Clifton Hall, or the Grange, experienced many vicissitudes of addition and embellishment until in late Colonial times it became one of the most justly celebrated seats in the vicinity of Philadelphia and so remained until a very few years ago. Now, shorn of its former honours, deserted, dilapidated, overgrown, with rank weeds profanely encroaching on its once faultless walks and borders, and an unrestrained confusion of lawful growths jostling each other in unkempt array, the Grange yet maintains a cer