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"The stockholders of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company will hold a meeting next Monday week to discuss the advisability of accepting or rejecting a proposal which has been made to buy up that portion of the turnpike extending from the upper end of Hestonville to Bryn Mawr, a distance of fifteen miles. The purchasers have no pecuniary motive in view, but simply aim at converting the road into a fine carriage drive and thereby brightening the attractiveness of Bryn Mawr. The amount offered for that portion of the road is $8000, and it is believed it will be accepted. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company is one of the oldest chartered corporations of its kind in this State. The road was originally sixty miles in length, but some years ago that portion of it between Lancaster and Coatesville was sold at another time a portion of it was sold to Hestonville Railway Company, combining in all these sales about forty miles."
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A Proposal to Buy a Portion of Lancaster Turnpike (1880)
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America's Historical Newspapers —<em> Philadelphia Inquirer</em>
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1880-04-02
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An $8000 offer to purchase the section of the Lancaster Turnpike that ran by Villanova's campus and also the Moulden's property.
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1880
Lancaster Turnpike
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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Moulden Family
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“Com vs Wm Molden Jr, Assault and battery with intent to kill. The case as presented by the Commonwealth is that Wm Molden Sr, keeps a disreputable house on the Lancaster turnpike near Bryn Mawr. On the 1st March last the defendant and one John McClellan became engaged in a dispute over a game of cards while under the influence of liquor, as a result they began shooting at each other, both being pretty well wounded. The shooting was partially done in the yard. The defendant did not desire a lawyer. He took the stand and testified that they had been drinking heavily during the day and were well under the influence of liquor, when they sat down about 3.30 in the afternoon, to engage in a game of cards. As soon as the quarrel began he went upstairs to secure a revolver, knowing McClellan had one, and thinking it necessary for his defense. As he came down the stairs McClellan fired through the door at him. When he opened the door McClellan shot him in the breast and then it was that in self defense he shot twice at McClellan and him in the side. Most of the shooting occurred in the yard, and sixty feet from the road side. Verdict, guilty of affray.”
“Com vs. John McClennan, aggravated assault and battery. McClellan is the other of the two men engaged in the quarrel over a game of cards which occurred on the first of march at the Lancaster turnpike near Bryn Mawr. William Molden, Jr. was tried on the same charge, he being the second man in the fight. McClellan testified that he caught Molden cheating in a game of Euchre and accused him of it, which resulted in a scuffle. As soon as Molden got loose he went up-stairs to get his revolver. Hushen said to him “Look out, here comes Molden with his revolver” He (witness) then drew his revolver and fired merely for the purpose of scaring Molden who immediately after opened the door and shot him in the side. They then chased each other around a tree, both shooting, but he only shot in self-defense, as he knew Molden would kill him if the opportunity arose. He shot Molden during the chase around the tree, in which he shot twice. It was one of these shots which struck Molden in the breast. Verdict guilty.”
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"Criminal Court" in <em>The Conshohocken Weekly Recorder </em>(1889)
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The Conshohocken Weekly Recorder's coverage of court decisions for both William Moulden Jr. and John McClennan in 1889 following their altercation. Moulden was charged with "assault and battery with intent to kill" and John McClennan with "aggravated assault and battery."
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1889-06-08
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Assault
John McClennan
Shooting
William Moulden
William Moulden Jr.
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“The Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd was the prosecutor in a criminal case heard before Justice of the Peace Ralph N Warner, Jr of Rosemont on Tuesday. The Defendant was Alfred Tunnel, colored, who was charged with trespass. Tunnel was held in $300 bail for trial in court at Norristown.
The church recently purchased the old Moulden property on Lancaster Avenue. After the surveys were completed a gardener was engaged to plant a hedge on the fence line along the avenue.
When the gardener began work, J. Howard Supplee, who resides opposite the church property, entered a protest, claiming that the hedge was not on the property line. The church authorities were positive that it was on the line furnished by the surveyor, but Mr. Supplee insisted that it decreased the legitimate width of Lancaster Avenue 3 feet.
The gardener proceeded with his work, and the 3 foot strip of land became disputed property. On Monday, it is asserted, Mr. Supplee ordered Tunnel, who is in his employ, to drive a two-horse wagon on the contested tract. Tunnel, it is claimed did so and allowed the wagon to remain on what the church claims is its land.
Thereupon the church authorities caused Tunnel’s arrest. Threats of injunction proceedings and suits for damages have been made by both sides, and further legal complications are expected.”
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The Conshohocken Recorder, vol. 19, issue 24
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"Fighting the Church" in <em>The Conshoshocken Weekly Recorder</em> (1900)
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1900-05-11
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After the Mouldens' deaths, the Augustinians sold the Mouldens property to the Memorial Church of the Good Shepard in Rosemont, however, the Memorial Church of the Good Shepard was pulled into a legal dispute over the boundary of the property in 1900.
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Church of the Good Shepard
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William Moulden
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Moulden Family
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"A special court for hearing arguments for new liquor licenses was held on Wednesday. After hearing the cases, Judge Stinson said he could not turn a deaf ear to the recommendation of the last grand jury, and therefore refused the following: Mary Barrett, hotel Conneaughtown; Robert Ville, hotel Norristown; Hugh Bell, hotel, Lower Merion; H.B. Long, restaurant, Norristown; John Grant, hotel, Lower Merion; John Welsh, liquor store, Norristown; License were granted to the following: H.G. Barnes, hotel, Souderton; Wm J. Mouldin, hotel, Lower Merion; Patrick Quigley, liquor store, Conshohocken."
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The Conshohocken Recorder, Vol VI, No. 16, page 3
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"Granting Licenses" in <em>The Conshohocken Weekly Recorder</em> (1882)
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1882-06-17
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Conshohocken Weekly Recorder reports that William Moulden's hotel has been granted a liquor license.
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Liquor
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William Moulden
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Curfew sounds promptly at 11 o’clock. The bar at the roadside tavern closes business. Customers in the room at the time are invited to leave, or, if they choose, to join in night prayers with the family. And night prayers means recitation of the rosary.
One could not find such a tavern on the roadsides of the whole United States today, in all probability. It is not the fashion of “taverns,” as the beer-drinking places, even on city streets, are called today. Nor is it the fashion of their patrons. If the tavern-keeper were so inclined, the customers simply would not have it. They are only getting started at 11 o’clock. Curfew is out of fashion all together. More’s the pity perhaps.
Some people may doubt whether there ever existed such aa tavern with such conscientious proprietors, forgetting that in the pre-prohibition days there were States where licenses to sell hard liquors and beer were granted with considerable liberty but where there time limits on drinking and it was deemed within the functions of government to fix a time when bars should close and patrons should go home to bed or otherwise dispose of themselves.
But this particular tavern and its proprietors did exist. Reverend F. E. Tourscher, O.S.A., of Villanova College, tells the story, in adding some interesting information concerning “Billy and Mary Moulton” (Moulden, correctly), to whom Tom Daly made allusion in a recent column on this page.
They were a rare couple, ex-slaves and pure black. “When we knew them in the ’80s,” Mr. Daly said, “they gave a gay touch to the solemn celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at Villanova.” Father Tourscher adds that Mary’s silk gown was of vivid green and a band of the same color encircled Billy’s hat, with a large rosette on his coat. This no doubt caught the eyes of the collegians of the eighties.
Continuing, Fr. Tourscher writes: Apart from this mark of devotion to St. Patrick and a love of display in the “wearing of green,” I find in the old records at Villanova some notes that tell of other qualities in members of the Moulden family worth of interest.
William Moulden, Sr., was brought out to the Rudolph Farm (now the premises of Villanova College) by John Rudolph, the owner of the farm, about 1833. William was then about 15 years of age. He was the son of Isaac Moulden and Mary Marshall, who were the property of the Rudolphs on their estate in Maryland. William, however, was born in Philadelphia.
Slave Born But Given His Freedom: William Moulden was made a “freeman” September 5, 1840, by a certificate signed by Jane A. Rudolph, the widow of John Rudolph and one of the daughters of Thomas Lloyd first shorthand reporter of the Proceedings of Congress. Mrs. Rudolph, with her mother and sisters, lived in the farmhouse, Belle-Air, to the time of its purchase by the Austin Friars in 1842.
On the twenty-first day of February, 1841, William Moulden and Julia Thompson (both colored) were married in St. Denis’ Church, West Haverford, by Michael O’Connor, later the first Bishop of Pittsburgh. The “wedding dinner” for the Mouldens was held in the Rudolph home. William evidently was born of Catholic parents, the bondservants, of the Rudolphs or the Lloyds. Julia Thompson had been brought up by a Quaker family, “collectors in the Gulph”—probably this means that they kept the tollgate on the Gulph Road. Julia Thompson was received into the church in 1839, So far as is known the Mouldens were the first colored Catholic family on the “Main Line.”
In 1847, October 4, William Moulden acquired by deed a plot of land at the southwest corner of Lancaster Turnpike and Roberts Road where the Bryn Mary Telephone Exchange now stands. The tract contained two acres and sixty four perches, and is described as being bounded on the south or southwest by the “Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad”
Nesting and Raising the Brood: It was here, in a little frame house, that the Mouldens lived. Here, according to a note of Mrs. Maria Shea, who lived with the Lloyds a good part of her life, their thirteen children were born. The records of baptisms and confirmations at Villanova go back only to 1848. There are entries of twelve, perhaps only ten children in these records. They are described by Fr. Middleton as faithful and devout attendants at church services—always at church in all kinds of weather.
Some of the qualities of William Moulden and Julia may be inferred from the fact that they acquired and retained the ownership of what was then and is now a very desirable property in Lower Merion Township.
In their humble residence William kept his bar, under the License Laws of the time, and sold refreshments to wayfarers on the pike. Over the entrance was the legend in the nineties, “Liberty and Independence.”
William Moulden died April 1, 1893. By his Will date August 6, 1886, his property is left to his wife, Julia, and two surviving children, Mary and William junior. Julia, the faithful wife, died February 22, 1888. William junior died in Norristown, December 2, 1889. Mary, the last surviving member of the family, died April 7, 1898. All were buried from the church at Villanova and interred in the cemetery at St. Denis’.
F.E. Tourscher, O.S.A.
Villanova College
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"Men and Things: Story of the Mouldens, Born Slaves But Made Free by Their Owners, the First Negro Family of the Catholic Faith on the Main Line and Truly a Rare Couple" in the <em>Philadelphia Evening Bulletin</em> (1936)
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Fr. F. E. Tourscher, O.S.A, wrote this article on William and Julia Moulden in April of 1936 in response to Thomas A. Daly's March 17 article. Tourscher speaks about the Moulden's tavern and narrates important events in their lives. <br /><br />Tourscher started at Villanova in 1892, a year before William Moulden's death and a few years after Julia Moulden's death. Though he may have briefly known William Moulden and his daughter Mary, most of what's covered in this article occurred before Tourscher began at Villanova.
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Francis E. Tourscher, O.S.A.
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1936-04-09
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English
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Newspaper
F. E. Tourscher
Jane Lloyd Rudolph
Julia Moulden
Lower Merion Township
Maria Daly Shea
Mary Moulden
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Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
T. A. Daly
Villanova
William Moulden
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Moulden Family
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"Our thanks to Dr. W. T. J. for his thoughtful kindness in sending us for this day’s column copy of an old ditty explaining how the seventeenth day of March came to be “the day we celebrate.” But we must feed it to the office goat. It’s too well known, and it’s too long…
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It wouldn’t surprise us at all if some scout out on the Main Line should discover that two graves in St. Denis Cemetery show a generous feathering of green today, though all the rest are brown. Billy and Mary Moulton, who have lain there side by side for nearly half a century, were a rare couple. They were ex-slaves, and pure black. When we knew them, in the 80s, they gave a gay tough to the solemn celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and Villanova. Mary’s bulbous figure was always clad in an ancient silk gown of vivid green; a band of the same color encircled Billy’s hat and a large rosette or it ornamented his coat lapel."
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The Free Library of Philadelphia — Microfilm reel 405
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"Rhymes and Ripples: Green Memory" in the <em>Philadelphia Evening Bulletin</em> (1936)
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This newspaper article was published by Thomas A. Daly in the <em>Philadelphia Evening Bulletin</em> on March 17, 1936 (St Patrick's Day). Daly had been a student at Villanova in the 1880s, and decades later recalled St. Patrick's Day at Villanova. One paragraph of his article is focused on the Mouldens and describes them as "a rare couple." Daly, however, confuses the names of Julia (William's wife) and Mary (William's daughter) and insults her clothing and her body.
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Thomas A. Daly
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Free Library of Philadelphia
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1936-03-17
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Newspaper
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English
Julia Moulden
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Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
St. Patrick's Day
Villanova
William Moulden
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Moulden Family
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"Under the care of a Father, who for many of them was their teacher also, they were led, according to invariable custom, to a restaurant, though it was not so styled, about a mile away, where a highly respectable couple, colored people of the name of Moulden, kept a little shop for the sale of cakes, candies, ice cream, oysters, etc. Thence, after leisurely refreshing their wearied spirits with the above list of dainties, the juniors would wend their way more or less joyfully homeward."
"Pot ball was played at Mt. Misery”
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"Some Reminiscences: The Sports and Games in Vogue in Early Days at Villanova" in the <em>History of Athletics: Villanova College </em>(1923)
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This book is a compilation of essays describing extracurricular activities at Villanova in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The essay written by Fr. Thomas C. Middleton, "Some Reminiscences: The Sports and Games in Vogue in Early Days at Villanova," describes younger students visiting William and Julia's shop to purchase snacks and sweets on pages 9 and 10.
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1923
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Philadelphia: The Jensen Press
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English
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Thomas C. Middleton, O.S.A.
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Julia Moulden
Lower Merion Township
Villanova
William Moulden
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Moulden Family
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"William J. Moulden, colored, of Lower Merion, lived the life of a recluse for many years, having forsaken his wife and children and lived alone in a log hut. His estate consists of entirely real estate, valued at $9000. Rev. Francis Sheeran O.S.A. is his executor. The property is left to his wife and children for life and after their death he devises it to the Augustinian College, Villa Nova"
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Conshohocken Weekly Recorder, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, page 3
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"The Merions and the Vicinity" in <i>The Conshohocken Recorder</i> (1893)
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<em>The Conshohocken Weekly Recorder</em> reported on the value of William Moulden's estate at the time of his death. The newspaper shared that Moulden left the property to his wife and his children and, after their deaths, to the Augustinian College of Villanova, however, the article also described William Moulden as a recluse who deserted his family.
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<a href="https://powerlibrary.org/collections/welcome/">Conshohocken Free Library</a>
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1893-04-14
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Francis Sheeran O.S.A.
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Villanova
William Moulden