John Waight bought 1,250 acres of land to be surveyed and assigned in Pennsylvania from William Pardoe,2457 a fellow-member of the small Quaker community in Coventry and the original grantee of William Penn.

The main part of the land was in Sadsbury Township in Chester County.

After John Waight’s death, the land was divided. There was a parcel of 725 acres belonging to “The heirs of John Waight,” with Sarah Wright shown as an abutter.2460 The survey shows date of June 1, 1709. A Sarah Waight also received land in Chester. Her survey, dated February 22, 1707,2461 doesn’t quite fit with the one of John Wright’s heirs. I suspect Sarah is John’s daughter, though I am not quite clear about the rights of women to own land.

In the agreement with the First Purchasers, “Penn promised to reserve ten acres of land in Philadelphia for each 500 acres purchased, planning a ‘greene country towne’ that would extend for miles along the Delaware River. In order to promote the settlement of the colony and hinder speculation, Penn stipulated that purchasers seeking 1,000 acres or more would have to settle a family on each 1,000 acre lot within three years.”2462 I am not sure whether the land was in fact settled in the first three years following the patent. John Waight received 25 acres in the Philadelphia Liberties area, abutting land of Thomas Lloyd, a Quaker and Dolobran Lloyd, and Governor-General of Pennsylvania.2463,2464

Together, the parcels 725 + 500 +25 totalled 1,250 acres.