Phineas Eachus  ‎(I2969)‎
Name:
Phineas Eachus

Gender: MaleMale
      

Birth: 1735 27 17 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death: after 1781 ‎(Age 46)‎ West Whiteland
Personal Facts and Details
Birth 1735 27 17 Goshen, Chester County, Pa

Baptism The Original Homestead, West Chester

Marriage Sarah Trego - 23 November 1757 ‎(Age 22)‎ Goshen Meeting

Occupation Inn Keeper, Turks Head Tavern, West Chester.
Death after 1781 ‎(Age 46)‎ West Whiteland

Reference Number U03001
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Parents Family  (F1128)
John Eachus
1708 - 1779
Hannah Haines
1717 -
Phineas Eachus
1735 - 1781
William Eachus
1737 -

Immediate Family  (F1136)
Sarah Trego
1737 - 1799
Virgil Eachus
1758 - 1839
Benjamin Eachus
1759 -
Abner Eachus
1761 - 1845
Paris Eachus
1763 - 1856
Mary Eachus
1764 - 1794


Notes

Note
Phineas Eachus son of John Eachus & Hannah Haines, was at one time a large landowner, Owning much of the present site of West Chester. Where he was from 1762 to 1768 the proprietor of the first inn, which was called the Turks Head Tavern**. He was also the owner of the Original Homestead. Becoming surety for his friends, he lost the property, The land passing into the possession of Isaac Matlock. and the Inn being purchased by John Hoopes.
Goshen MM minutes: 9th Dec 1768 Phineas Eachus uncle, William Eachus lost money by being security for him.
6th Jan 1769 Phineas Eachus disowned.
8th Feb 1771 Sarah wife of Phineas disowned.
List of Capt. Joseph Johnsons Company of the Township of Goshen 1781. Phineas is listed as private 3rd class..

** His Grandfather Robert Eachus sailed to America with one of the ships provided by the Minshull Family, The Turks Head was the Minshull Family Coat of Arms

Background;
The history of West Chester is intimately connected to its role as a transportation hub. West Chester is situated on high ground between the Brandywine and Chester Creek watersheds, at a point that attracted travellers since the earliest days of
recorded history, The Great Minquas Trail of the Lenni Lenape passed through the area in the 17th century, connecting settlements and trading posts in the lower Schuylkill Valley with fur-producing regions to the west.
The first roads in the area were laid out in the early eighteenth century. Although neither the "Old Lancaster Road" ‎(US30)‎ not the "Old Baltimore Pike"‎(US1)‎ passed through West Chester, William Penn's "Street Road"‎(PA926)‎ passed a short distance to the south, and the "Strasburg Road" passed along what later became the north edge of the borough. A road from Wilmington to Reading ‎(PA100)‎ passed directly through the centre of the future borough, and another early road‎(PA100)‎ ran southwest from the site to Jefferis' Ford on the Brandywine, near modern Lenape Park.
In 1762, a local cooper named Phineas Eachus applied to the Pennsylvania Legilsature for permission to open a "public house" for travellers on the Wilmington-to-Reading Road, at the intersection ‎(presently Gay and High Streets)‎ with the road from Jefferis' Ford to Philadelphia. Permission was granted, and Eachus' house became the "Turks Head Tavern", named for the sign used to mark its location. That Tavern, and its surrounding community, became the nucleus for the borough of West Chester, which was incorperated on March 20, 1799.
‎(taken from "A Brief History of Transportation in West Chester" by Jim Jones)‎

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Family Group Sheet ‎(FG1/2)‎
A Brief History of Transportation in West Chester ‎(A1-17)‎

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Family with Parents
Father
John Eachus ‎(I2960)‎
Birth 1708 35 18 Chester County, Pa. US
Death 19 January 1779 ‎(Age 71)‎ Chester County
9 years
Mother
 
Hannah Haines ‎(I2968)‎
Birth 4 January 1717 22 22 ‎(in/of)‎ Goshen Township, Pa

Marriage: 22 November 1734 -- Goshen MM, Chester County, Pa
1 month
#1
Phineas Eachus ‎(I2969)‎
Birth 1735 27 17 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death after 1781 ‎(Age 46)‎ West Whiteland
2 years
#2
Brother
William Eachus ‎(I2970)‎
Birth about 1737 29 19 ‎(in/of)‎Chester County, Pa. US
Family with Sarah Trego
Phineas Eachus ‎(I2969)‎
Birth 1735 27 17 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death after 1781 ‎(Age 46)‎ West Whiteland
3 years
Wife
 
Sarah Trego ‎(I2989)‎
Birth 26 June 1737 44 42 Honey Brook Township, Chester County, Pa. US
Death 26 December 1799 ‎(Age 62)‎

Marriage: 23 November 1757 -- Goshen Meeting
1 month
#1
Son
Virgil Eachus ‎(I2990)‎
Birth 1758 23 20 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death 9 October 1839 ‎(Age 81)‎
1 year
#2
Son
Benjamin Eachus ‎(I2992)‎
Birth 1759 24 21 Goshen, Chester County
2 years
#3
Son
Abner Eachus ‎(I2991)‎
Birth 1761 26 23 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death 1845 ‎(Age 84)‎ Willistown, Chester County, Pa
2 years
#4
Son
Paris Eachus ‎(I2993)‎
Birth 1763 28 25 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death 1856 ‎(Age 93)‎
1 year
#5
Daughter
Mary Eachus ‎(I2994)‎
Birth 1764 29 26 Goshen, Chester County, Pa
Death 14 October 1794 ‎(Age 30)‎