GAUSE, CHARLES, of East Nottingham, married Jane, daughter of Evan Powell, of New Garden, and died in 1732, leaving two sons--Evan, b, 1, 23, 1724-5, and Charles, b. 3, 11, 1731. The name is generally written Goss in the old records, and it is believed to have been so spelled by the family. Charles Gause married Grace Dixon, of Mill Creek, in 1753, and had several children. they went to what was then called the Redstone settlement, in the western part of the State. Evan Gause married "by a  priest" for which he made an acknowledgment to New Garden Monthly Meeting, 3, 30, 1754, but the maiden name of his wife Hannah, does not appear. They lived in East Marlborough, and their son William married, about 1781, Mary Beverly, of that township, by whom he had a large family of children.

GAUSE, CHARLES, of East Nottingham, married Jane, daughter of Evan Powell, of New Garden, and died in 1732, leaving two sons--Evan, b, 1, 23, 1724-5, and Charles, b. 3, 11, 1731. The name is generally written Goss in the old records, and it is believed to have been so spelled by the family. Charles Gause married Grace Dixon, of Mill Creek, in 1753, and had several children. they went to what was then called the Redstone settlement, in the western part of the State. Evan Gause married "by a priest" for which he made an acknowledgment to New Garden Monthly Meeting, 3, 30, 1754, but the maiden name of his wife Hannah, does not appear. They lived in East Marlborough, and their son William married, about 1781, Mary Beverly, of that township, by whom he had a large family of children.

JONATHAN GAUSE was a veteran teacher, who for more than half a century impressed a lasting influence upon hundreds of the best young men and women of Chester County. He was born Oct. 23, 1786, in East Marlborough township, on a farm adjoining that of the late Bayard Taylor, and now owned by his nephews, F. and W. H. Hannum, one mile north of Kennet Square. He was the third son of William and Mary Gause, and one of a family of eleven children, six boys and five girls, the former averaging six feet in height. His father, a brave soldier of the Revolutionary war, was of that hardy race, the Scotch-Irish, while his mother was of English origin, both of whom lived to the good old age of fourscore. Jonathan Gause's early education was obtained at a common country school and he was intended by his father for a mechanic; therefore, when it was thought he had enough book-learning for such a business, he was apprenticed to a master-mason, and worked at that trade two summers. But now an accident occurred which not only changed his vocation, but shaped and colored his whole future. One day he was helping his father in the harvest-field, when a sudden storm arose. He hurried to the barn, threw himself, wet and tired, upon the new-mown hay, where he soon fell asleep, and did not wakeuntil some time in the night when he was aroused by a severe pain in one limb. He suffered greatly for some weeks, and when he arose from a sick-bed it was found that his leg had shrunk, and he would probably be lame for lifel he did not, like Byron, turn misanthrope, but his natural intuitions asserted themselves, and he became a teacher. He now entered as a pupil the boarding-school of Enoch Lewis, in New Garden, where he obtained an excellent knowledge of English grammar, and made considerable acquaintance with the common branches of mathematical science, embracing the elements of geometry, algebra, surveying, measuration, plane and spherical trigonometry, and the principles of practical astronomy. His first essay in teaching was in 1807, in a little school-house which now stands in the Friends' meeting-house yard at Marshallton.