. The Nottingham set- tlement was composed almost exclu- sively of Friends, or commonly called "Quakers," and was very extensive and apparently prosperous, not only as a farming community, but in their religious organizations, and a number �of "Meetings" were established prior to 1700. Very early in the

made many superior clocks and a different type than this 1771 in some essentials. In corroboration of the fact that I have not found any positive evidence, further than family traditions, that any clocks were made prior to 1770, are these facts:- 1. At that period there were but few families of

dis- tantly connected with the family. James H. Whiteside, now residing in Christiana, Lancaster county, is like- wise a lineal descendant, still bearing the name. William Whiteside, the law- yer, was well known to a number of our older people, as he did not die until 1865. He seems to have had a fair