Miinn  was  one,  and  bought  five  aires  adjoining  the
house,  and  erected  the  present  Fish  House.  On
the  28th  of  January,  1868,  Jacob  Backeubach
bought  the  farm  and  Morgan  homestead  of  one
hundred  acres,  and  is  still  in  possession.
Benjamin  Morgan,  the  second  son  of  Alexander,
in  1761,  married  Jane  Roberts  and  settled  on  Pen-
saukiu  Creek,  part  of  the  homestead,  where  he  at
once  built  a  one-story  friime  house,  and,  in  1775,
built  the  present  stone  dwelling-house,  of  which
the  old  part  is  the  east  wing  of  the  house  now  owned
and  occupied  by  Dr.  J.  Dunbar  Hylton.  Their
children  were  Hannah;  Benjamin,  who  died  in
youth  ;  and  Benjamin  R.,  who  never  married.  At
the  death  of  Benjamin  his  estate  passed  to  Alex-
ander Morgan,  of  Philadelphia.  In  1838,  John  S.
Hylton,  a  native  of  England,  came  to  this  country
and  purchased  of  the  administrator  of  the  IMorgan
estate  two  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  known  as  the
Mount  Pleasant  farm,  and  one  hundred  and  seventy
acres  adjoining,  and  above,  on  Pensaukin  Creek,
the  Comus  Hill  farm.  On  this  large  tract  he  settled,
and,  in  1860,  finding  the  soil  in  its  loams  and  clays
was  well  adapted  for  use,  he  began  the  shipment  of
loam  and  clay  to  rolling-mills,  foundries  and  pot-
teries. It  Wiis  of  easy  access  to  Pensaukin  Creek,
where  the  material  was  loaded  on  vessels  and  con-
veyed to  its  destination.  The  trade  has  been  con-
tinued to  the  present  time  without  interruption.
In  187:;  the  business  passed  to  his  son,  Dr.  J.
