The house is on the east end of the 1683 William Bezer land grant of 300 acres. William Willis purchased 15 acres from Isaac Kimber in 1798. The original 2 1/2 story 18’x24’ house was built by William Willis in 1802. Willis was a tailor by trade. In 1836, he sold the property to George Walter. In 1838, Walter sold it to Isaac Williams, a shoemaker. During Isaac…

By 1718, Thomas Marshall Sr. (1694-1741) owned 250 acres and built a house over a spring on the western end of the land. In 1727, Marshall and his wife Hannah Mendenhall made the center section of the house. The original mansion house was described as a 36 x 22 feet, three-story brick home with an attached 15 sq. Ft. Brick kitchen. In 1802, the property consisted of a…

The Samuel Hannum House was built in the mid-1700s to mid-1800s. The exact building date of the original home is unknown. The property is part of an initial land grant comprising 500 acres acquired by George Stroud in July 1682. John Hannum purchased 100 acres from this tract in 1705. John Hannum’s great-grandson, Samuel Hannum, built the present house. The property is listed in 1848 as having a…

The Levi Mattson House, also known as Federal Farms, is a large two 1/2-story rough fieldstone house built in 2 sections. The southwest section is the original house, which was built in the 18th century, and the northeast addition was built by Levi Mattson in 1803. The land consisted of an original 200-acre parcel that passed through multiple owners, including John Moore, Mathias Kerlin, Henry Oborne, William Oborne,…

The deeds for the land started in 1683 when 200 acres went to James Brown and then to John Simcock in 1685. Simcock sold 50 acres to James Hayward, who acquired another 50 acres from Andrew Maclure. Patrick Gamble purchased 160 acres of land from Mary Hayward in 1760. Gamble constructed a 30 x 28 foot two-story stone house on the land. After his death, his grandson Robert…

The John Myers House is a c. 1833 stone farmhouse along Smithbridge and Temple Roads. The John Myers House sits on John Hazelgrove’s 500-acre land grant. Henry Pierce purchased 250 acres from this tract in 1707 and then passed 62 acres to his grandson William Pierce and Henry Myers. John Myers, the son of Henry Myers, built this house in 1833. A date stone on the house reads…

The Daniel Pyle House was built c. 1790 as a log structure on a 200-acre land grant originally deeded to George Lea by William Penn in 1702. According to the 1798 Glass Tax, Pyle paid 200 pounds of taxes for the 22’ x 16’ log house and a stone smokehouse. The log section of the house on the left contains a wooden date marker for Daniel and Prudence…

This stucco over brick house was originally built c. 1713 by Mathias Kerlin on the western end of the 1682 George Thompson 200 acre land grant. Additions were added to the property in 1787 and 1905. Mathias Kerlin was a tavern owner and one of the earliest settlers in Concord Township. He obtained a tavern license in 1722, and operated his tavern near the intersection of Concord Road…

The Moses Palmer — William Hannum house was built c. 1775 by Moses Palmer on the 200 acre John Hubbert-William Oborne land tract. Moses Palmer owned 86 acres of land that was bisected by Concord Road, and built the house on the east side of the road. He farmed 50 acres of land across the street on the west side of Concord Road. The property stayed within the…