Ferry, and I shall dispose of the remainder in such manner and at such place as will be most likely not only to annoy the Enemy in their Passage but to give the earliest Information of any attempt of that kind.
"To Hon'ble Thomas Wharton, Junr., Esqr.,
"President of the Council
"of Safety, Philadelphia."
Now this Duncan Williamson, founder of the family, was not so absorbed in farm and ferry as to forget the important matter of child-training. For, in 1679, he made an agreement by which one Edward Draufton, also a resident of that township, was to teach his children to read the Bible. The fee was to be two hundred guilders, and the limit of time one year.[1]
- ↑ John Wanamaker evidently got this information from the records of Upland Court, where we find that Edward Draufton sued Dunck Williames for breach of contract. There was some difference of opinion as to Draufton's ability as a quick teacher. The court record reads:
"The Plt demands of this Deft 200 Gilders for teaching this Defts children to Read in one Yeare.
"The Court hayeing heard the debates of both parties as alsoe ye attestation of ye witnesses Doe grant judmt agst ye deft for 200 gilders wth ye Costs.
"Richard Draufton sworne in Court declares that hee was p'sent at ye makeing that ye agreemt was that Edmund draufton should Teach Dunkes children to Read in ye bybell & if hee could doe itt in a yeare or a halfe yeare or a quartr, then he was to haue 200 gilders."
