32 Stewarttown Road
32 Stewarttown Road
After buying the property on the corner of Stewarttown Road and Mill Pond Drive in 1848, Richard Tracey built a residence. Tracey, Stewarttown’s postmaster, owned a store in Glen Williams where he hired Timothy Eaton, who would later found Eaton’s. Tracey would become the first clerk of Esquesing Township’s first municipal council.
Tracey’s widow, Flora McNabb, married Lieutenant Colonel John Murray, a notable public figure who had significant connections to John Henry Shepherd. Shepherd escaped with his mother through the Underground Railroad into Canada, going on to work and live with the Murray family.
After buying the property on the corner of Stewarttown Road and Mill Pond Drive in 1848, Richard Tracey built a residence. Tracey, Stewarttown’s postmaster, owned a store in Glen Williams where he hired Timothy Eaton, who would later found Eaton’s. Tracey would become the first clerk of Esquesing Township’s first municipal council.
Tracey’s widow, Flora McNabb, married Lieutenant Colonel John Murray, a notable public figure who had significant connections to John Henry Shepherd. Shepherd escaped with his mother through the Underground Railroad into Canada, going on to work and live with the Murray family.