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The History of Chester County, Pennsylvania,by J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, 1881, has the following account of Robert Williams: Robert Williams, of Merion, widower, was married at the house of Hugh Roberts, 4.19.1691 to Gwen Cadwallader. About the year 1700 they were settled in Goshen, probably on land then of Griffith Owen, at or near the present Goshen Friends' Meetng. He was sometimes called the King of Goshen, and it is claimed that he was the first settler in the township. Tradition says their first residence was a cave, and on that occasion, when their hearth-fire went out, he had to go seven miles to get it renewed. Goshen Meeting was held first, it is believed, at his house, though the record says at the house of Griffith Owen, but the latter doubtless lived in Philadelphia. In 1715 they lived in Uwchlan township, and in that year conveyed the Goshen homestead to their son Ellis. Though he had considerable land in Goshen, he appears to havebeen straitened in circumstances, so that in 1702 Friends of Haverford contributed £19.9d.8s to him to build a new house, he having received Friends "kindly and openhearted," and keeping the meeting in hishouse. In 1710, Edward Roberts complained of him for debt, and the meeting advised him to sell some of his land to pay for it, and even appointed persons to assist him in doing it. He died in 1734, at the age of eighty-seven years.
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