This is the West Grove Friends Meeting, located in West Grove, PA. Ezekiel Hamilton and Lydia Pennock Hamilton are buried here along with many of their family, including Elizabeth, James, and Mary Hamilton. Also Mary Hamilton's husband, Wilson Dorey, and their child Clarice Dorey d'Apery and her husband Tello'd Apery. Ezekiel was born in 1817 and died in 1888. He was 71. Lydia was born in 1825 and died in 1910. She was 85. One of Ezekiel's sons was Willis Moran Dore' Hamilton, a country doctor who died in 1903 at the age of 36. That was the same year my father, Harry Dore' Hamilton was born. I am sure he was given the name of Dore" after Willis Moran Dore' Hamilton. No proof of this however. I guess we will never know. Built upon the brow of a gentle hill in Chester County's West Marlborough Township, Primitive Hall is a handsome manor house which stands today much as it did when it was constructed by Joseph Pennock in 1738. The house dominates a tract of land more modest than the 1,250 acres of which it was the focus nearly 260 years ago, but the quiet countryside of farms and rolling fields is even today an appropriate setting for this sturdy structure. The Hall, now owned by the Primitive Hall Foundation, a non-profit organization whose Board of Trustees comprises descendants of Joseph Pennock, is a huge house of generous proportions. But it is simple in its plan. The structure, which faces south, is 52'2" wide at the front and 40' deep along the sides. A unique adaptation of the William Penn town house plan (it is actually two Penn-plan houses connected by a center hall), the house is made up of four three-story brick sections, one in each corner of the building. The photo on the right is the rear elevation of the home. Plans are in the works to build a kitchen on the rear elevation as it was during Joseph Pennock's days. You can see the foundation of the old kitchen on the right hand photo. All four sections are connected to the large center hall which runs from the south front of the house to the back. Each room has a corner fire-place, and the four west rooms -- two up and two down -- share a chimney, as do the four east rooms. There is a west cellar and an east cellar, but the earth beneath the brick-floored center hall has not been excavated. To the left is the Faggs Manor Presbyterian Church. It is here that many of the Hamilton's are buried, including Pennock Fred Hamilton and his wife Idella. Also some of their children, including Benjamin, Earl, Fred and Idella Shivery Hamilton. The church was founded before the United States Revolution, in 1730. The first floor of the church contains a kitchen and meeting room while the sanctuary itself is on the second floor. Below is the London Grove Friends Meeting, located only a few miles from Primitive Hall and only several minutes from Cochranville, PA. It was built by Joseph Pennock and some of his friends in the mid 1700's. Many of the Pennocks of Chester County are buried there. It is surrounded by many huge oak trees which I am sure are as old as the building itself. It is a wonderful example of Quaker Meeting Houses found all over Chester County. To the left is Camp ShiHam, located in Hyner, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. This rustic hunting and vacation camp was built in October of 1934 by Harry Hamilton and his brothers and Paul Shivery, the husband of Idella Shivery Hamilton. The cabin has undergone many changes since it was built over 65 years ago. An addition was added in 1935, electric in the early 1960's as well as a complete interior renovation of pine paneling. A cement porch was added in 1995. The camp was severely vandalized in 1998. However, repairs were made by friends and camp neighbors.