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Charles named it Pennsylvania, in honor of Penn's father, an admiral to whom a Royal debt was owed. In 1681 King Charles I of England established a new colony and appointed his friend William Penn as its Proprietor. Each wave of settlers made treaties with the indigenous population, often for the same land as those before them, but by about 1750 most of the Lenape had left land they were told was no longer theirs.

Early maps show our area first as part of New Sweden and then New Amsterdam it was not until the land passed to English control that extensive settlement began. The area that is now Haverford Township was the territory of the native Lenape people when European settlers arrived in the 17th century. It has been edited and updated by Kathy Case and Richard Kerr of the Historical Society and the Haverford Township Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee.) Peg was a dedicated leader in the Haverford Township Historical Society and architect of the Township's Historic Preservation ordinance.

(This history is based on one written for the Delaware County Bicentennial in 1989 by Margaret 'Peg' Johnston. HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP: A (sorta) BRIEF HISTORY

Lower merion township settlement ardmore