Septimus Cadwallader and Sarah Dallas

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Husband Septimus Cadwallader ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA
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         Father: Septimus Cadwallader (      -      ) 2
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Wife Sarah Dallas ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 F Lydia Cadwallader ²

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           Born: 1 Jun 1799 - Redstone (later Brownsville), Fayette Co, PA 2
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           Died: 15 Mar 1870 - Philadelphia, PA 2
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         Spouse: William Beckford Irish (1773-1850) 2 3 4

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2 M Evan Cadwallader ²

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3 M Joseph Cadwallader ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Septimus Cadwallader

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He and his wife came from Redstone, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and settled a large tract of land at what came to be called Quakertown; he ran a tannery and comb factory. They were Quakers.

He built a stone house in Quakertown in 1805, which was in good preservation a century later.

On the ground where Quakertown now stands, the first settler was probably Septimus Cadwallader, who came from near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1800, possibly not until 1804. He settled on a four hundred-acre tract, and built a frame house very near where the present stone house stands on the old place, at the foot of the hill, on the bank of the river. The old homestead is now owned by a German living in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1805 Mr. Cadwallader built the present stone house. He had worked at the milling business at his old home, and when he arrived in Mahoning township he built a grist-mill on the Mahoning a short distance north of his house. The mill was a frame structure, and was afterwards moved away from the river and set on the stream which he called "Falling Spring" run, near the falls now known as Quakertown Falls. After moving the mill he put in a carding machine, and operated that for some time. Mr. Cadwallader, Benjamin Sharpless and Talbot Townsend, all three of whom settled here, were Quakers, and from this circumstance the place became known as Quakertown. Mr. Sharpless came in 1808, and Mr. Townsend probably shortly before.
John Shearer was also one of the early comers, and had a fulling-mill on the brow of the hill, on the run, and afterwards moved it to another location a little southeast. Mr. Cadwallader had a linseed-oil mill, and some other parties built a grist-mill on the run at the foot of the hill, and Mr. C. probably built a saw-mill also. An old grist-mill is now standing at the top of the hill, probably built by Cadwallader and his son-in-law, Sharpless. It is now abandoned and falling to pieces, as are all the others. The wheel in this mill is twenty-eight feet in diameter.
Mr. Cadwallader's son, Septimus, Jr. built a tannery early, and, about 1830, another one was started by Main Cadwallader, who, after running it a year or two, took in George W. Jackson, of Pittsburgh, as. a partner. These are the only tanneries ever located in the place. Nothing is now left of any of the mills or tanneries, except, in a few instances, old decaying frames.
A bridge was built across the Mahoning, nearly opposite the Cadwallader stone-house, about 1832, but it had too many piers, and the ice gorged and carried it away the next Winter. It has never been rebuilt. [HLC 1877, 82]

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 579.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 77.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 329.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 829.