D - E

People beginning with D - E.

Thomas Davison, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

Thomas Dell
Member of Uxbridge meeting, attended William Penn's marriage to Guilielma Springett in 1672 and was also mentioned in the indenture which conveyed the land for the meeting house twenty years later.

Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713)
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature says: "Thomas Ellwood, son of an Oxfordshire squire, was a man of liberal education, who, though he moved in good society, was constrained in early years to throw in his lot with the despised “people of God.” He was an intimate friend of William Penn and Isaac Penington; and, through the good offices of the latter, he was for some years engaged as reader to the poet Milton in his blindness. It was Ellwood, according to a doubtful tradition who, after reading with delight the manuscript of Paradise Lost, suggested to Milton the theme afterwards worked out in Paradise Regained."

Ellwood kept a wonderful diary, including his time in prison, which is now available at Project Gutenberg. It's a very interesting and entertaining read. Did the accounts for the first Uxbridge Meeting House although these are not mentioned in his diary.