Caleb Pusey
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Caleb Pusey House
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| Location | 15 Race St., Upland, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°51′4″N 75°23′13″W / 39.85111°N 75.38694°WCoordinates: 39°51′4″N 75°23′13″W / 39.85111°N 75.38694°W |
| Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
| Built | 1683 |
| Architectural style | Jacobethan Vernacular |
| NRHP Reference # | 71000706 |
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| Added to NRHP | March 11, 1971 |
| Designated PHMC | June 09, 1967 |
The Caleb Pusey House, built in 1683, is the second oldest English house in Pennsylvania open to the public (Wall House in Cheltenham Township is the oldest). Built in a vernacular English yeoman's style, it is the only remaining house where William Penn is known to have visited. It stands on the 100 acres (0.40 km2) near Chester Creek which Penn granted Pusey, a plantation which the latter named "Landing Ford". It is located in what is now Upland, near Chester. Since the 1950s, the building and grounds have been owned by the Friends of the Caleb Pusey House, Inc. The house was restored and the property is operated as a historic house museum.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Caleb Pusey, formally Caleb Bartholomew alias Pusey, (c. 1650–1727) was a Quaker lastmaker (a maker of wooden foot molds for cobblers) and a friend and business partner of William Penn, the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. Pusey came to the colony from England in 1682, having been born in the parish of Lambourn, to manage Chester Mills for Penn. Situated on Chester Creek west of Philadelphia, they were the first Proprietary grist mill and sawmill in the colony. From 1701, Pusey served as a justice of the provincial supreme court. Pusey became involved with the local Quaker community, as well as local government. He wrote a number of pamphlets, several in defense of William Penn.
The Caleb Pusey house, at 15 Race Street, Upland, Pennsylvania, is likely the oldest house in the state. Caleb Pusey, a Quaker, came to Pennsylvania from England in 1682 with his wife Anne Worley and her two sons, Francis and Henry, from her first marriage. He and Penn had shipped with them on The Welcome, a prefabricated mill to build in the colony. The first winter in Pennsylvania they only were able to finish a pit-house, and lived in severe conditions. Anne had a miscarriage.
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