Notebook:Christopher Huston of Mill Creek Hundred

This item was originally posted by Dan Welch to the Wigton Walker mailing list, or privately to Q and is presented by permission. These postings are collected as part of Project Notes for Families related to the Wigton Walkers in Old Chester County
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see:

this link for a Chester Survey 1683 map which shows a Mill Creek flowing into Darby Creek near the Delaware River. Keep in mind that the area between Darby Creek on the north and Brandywine Creek on the south was originally heavily settled by both the Scotch-Irish and the Quakers.

So Christopher Houston of Mill Creek may have written about this creek rather than the modern Mill Creek found in north central Delaware. This would make some sense as Hugh Linn is known to have lived fairly closely to Darby and our newly discovered James Huston is fairly well documented in the area as early as 1718. However, Christopher's Will is reportedly a Delaware Will.

I do wish I could read the map better as it shows many names - the sole one I can make out is Simcock - the same surname that appears in Margaret Lightfoot's 1732 Will.

Speaking of Margaret Lightfoot's Will; sisters Margaret Woodward and Abigal Woodward descended from Edward Woodward of England. Sisters Hannah Edge, Jane Edge, and Abigail Edge descended from Jacob Edge, an American son of an English settler. All these sisters (teenagers at the time the Will was written) were near neighbors of Margaret Lightfoot and no known blood kinship to Margaret can be discovered. However, Margret's brother Thomas Pulford lived nearby for many years. The Pulfords were from England. There may be an unknown connection via the Pulfords.