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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Part one focused on the family of Judson Rittenhouse and Martha Bodine, who lived on the farm now known as the Sarah Dilts Farm Park in Delaware Township for most of their lives. The farm was purchased by Judson\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s father, Wilson Bray Rittenhouse, in 1844. This article will first describe Wilson and his family, and then will trace the history of this property back to the first European owner.<\/p>\n
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In the process, I will be able to correct my previous chain of title for the Rittenhouse-Dilts Farm in which I claimed that it had been owned by Isaac Larew. I have discovered that was not the case.<\/p>\n
Here\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s another correction–it was written somewhere that Wilson B. Rittenhouse acquired his farm from his father. In fact, Wilson bought it on his own, on September 24, 1844, from Cornelius and Sarah Wilson. It was a farm of 63.26 acres for which he paid $1,897.08.1<\/a><\/sup> The property was bordered by the Hagaman farm, William W. Wilson, Henry Lawshe, Wilson Hunt, and John Hunt.<\/p>\n The farm does not appear on the Cornell Map of 1851, but it does on the Philadelphia Map of 1860.2<\/a><\/sup> On what is now Buchanan Road one can find on the map \u201a\u00c4\u00faW. B. Rittenhouse.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 That stretch of road was surveyed in 1857.<\/p>\n <\/a>The odd thing about this map is that the continuation of the road that ends up in Sergeantsville, known today as Rittenhouse Road, had not yet been surveyed. A petition to survey it was submitted in 1866. But that does not mean the route was not used. In early deeds, before either road was made public, they were known as \u201a\u00c4\u00fathe road from Sergeantsville to Dilts Corner.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 (For more on Rittenhouse and Buchanan Roads, see Rittenhouse Road<\/a>.)<\/p>\n As mentioned before, Wilson B. Rittenhouse bought the farm and built the first (and only) farmhouse there in 1844. This was not long after Rittenhouse had married his second wife Ury Ann Ent (c.1813-1888), daughter of John Ent, Sr. and wife Rebecca (maiden name unknown) of Sandy Ridge.<\/p>\n Wilson Bray Rittenhouse was born September 26, 1813, the seventh of nine children of Jonathan Rittenhouse and Delilah Bray. At the time his parents were living near Stockton, but later on moved to a property at Sandy Ridge owned by Charles Sergeant. When Wilson reached adulthood he became a teacher at the Vandolah School nearby.<\/p>\nWilson Bray Rittenhouse & Ury Ann Ent<\/h4>\n