![]() on a tract of land about half-way between Delaware and Susquehannough. At a meeting of the Commissioners of Property in Philadelphia, Cornelius Emerson represented “twenty families, chiefly of the county of Chester” in requesting twenty thousand acres “to make a Settlmt. In early 1701 a small group of Quakers from the settlement of New Castle on the Delaware River (then part of Penn’s lands) moved to the rich watershed of the Octoraro Creek and the North East River. However, in 1680 Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore, gave his nephew George Talbot “Susquehanna Manor,” a thirty-two-thousand-acre tract that extended from the Susquehanna River to the Delaware River and included a portion of southern Chester County, which gave rise to disputes that continued for the next eighty years. Soils were fertile, timber of all sorts was abundant, and numerous rivers and creeks provided transportation and power for saw mills, gristmills, and other industrial enterprises. Part of William Penn’s original land grant, the southernmost portion of Chester County was noted by the late seventeenth century for its valuable natural resources. Research by the authors has identified many additional structural and stylistic features used by cabinetmakers and house joiners working in this area, which was settled primarily by English Quakers and Scots-Irish Presbyterians. However, to date this latter group cannot be firmly associated with the Nottingham area through any well-documented examples. Another group, largely consisting of high chests, has short cabriole legs dovetailed to battens that attach to the case bottom with large wooden screws. One group, comprising various case forms, is distinguished by the use of ogee feet with bracket cusps that scroll around to form a circle or stop just short of a circle. ![]() The broad eastern branch of this creek forms the boundary between southern Chester County and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, continuing south into Maryland (fig. Size of nonfamily households: 224 1-person, 70 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 9 5-persons,Ģ04 single-parent households (74 men, 130 women).For decades furniture collectors and dealers have used the word “Octoraro” to describe several distinctive groups of furniture made in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, and northern Cecil County, Maryland, in the vicinity of the Octoraro Creek. Size of family households: 484 2-persons, 324 3-persons, 324 4-persons, 174 5-persons, 53 6-persons, 84 7-or-more-persons, In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population).In nonfamily households: 440 (159 male householders (108 living alone)), 154 female householders (116 living alone)), 127 nonrelatives.In family households: 5,065 (1,252 male householders, 191 female householders)ġ,328 spouses, 2,036 children (1,883 natural, 51 adopted, 102 stepchildren), 57 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 78 other relatives, 91 non-relatives.Household type by relationship: Households: 5,505 ![]() 2 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farmsĨ8.3% of residents of East Nottingham township speak English at home.Ĥ.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 7% don't speak English at all).Ħ.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).Ġ.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).3 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus).6 people in homes for the mentally retarded. ![]() People in group quarters in East Nottingham township, Pennsylvania:
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