East and West Goshen Townships
Goshen Friends Meeting
The Goshen Monthly Meeting was established in 1703 after their request was approved to start their meetings at the home of David Jones in Goshen. A year later, they made a request to have a place of worship built in the area. In 1722, the Goshen Monthly Meeting was set apart from the Chester Monthly Meeting. In 1736, the original log house was rebuilt into a stone structure we know it today. In Birmingham and Goshen, there were meetinghouses erected within 100 yards of each other, one Hicksite, one Orthodox.
Lord Cornwallis Was Here!
On September 16, 1777 after defeating Washington's army in Brandywine, General William Howe planned an attack by instructing Lord Cornwallis to take his route by Goshen Meeting House and Lieutenant-General Knyphausen by the road to Downingstown from Ashton towards Goshen as Washington's army was marching on Lancaster Road.
Bibliography
"From Brandywine to Philadelphia." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 34, no. 2 (1910): 229-232.
Futhey, John Smith and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: With Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881): 239.
The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal · Volume 3. (Philadelphia: John Richardson, 1830): 214.