Among his neighbors, were George and Alice Guest, members of the Society of Friends, who had emigrated to New Jersey in 1680, but had removed to the site of the future Philadelphia in 1682. There they resided, for a time, in a Cave in the Bank of the Delaware, until they could build a house for a dwelling place. In 1685, their family was increased by the birth of a daughter, whom they named Phoebe, but before the end of that year, George Guest, the father, died.
