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In 1718 to 1720 surveys were made at the head of the western branch of Brandywine for Jeremy Peirsol, 350 acres; James Gibbons, 1200; John Adams, 500; William Cloud, 350; Henry Batterton, 300; William Buffington, 500; William Baldwin, 300; Thomas Baldwin, 125; Rich- ard Parker, 250; William Dean, Jeremiah Dean, and Mat- thew Wilson, each 200; and Edward Harris, 400 acres.
The Indians complained that James Gibbons' survey in- cluded their town, but it probably remained uncultivated a long time. Col. William Gibbons, a grandson, resided thereon for some time prior to the Revolution. Our ven- erable friend, Alexander Marshall, gives the following ac- count of the origin of the town of Waynesburg, now Honeybrook :
" About the year 1815 the ground on which the village of Waynes- burg, in Honeybrook township, now stands was an old field or com- mon that had not been fenced in since the making of the Horseshoe turnpike, on the north side of that road. On the south side of the turnpike was a tavern, called the 'General Wayne,' with a square, old- fashioned sign hung to the breeze, on which was painted what .pur- ported te he a likeness of the general on horseback, dressed in Rev- olutionary equipments, boots, and spurs, mounted on a chestnut- eerrel prancing stecd. This tavern-house stood on the left corner of a road that interseeted with the turnpike leading to tho Mariner's Compass, oow called Compassville. On the right side of this road stood a stone storehouse, kept by David Hackett, a single man, who bearded at the tavern. The tavern was kept by Jonathan Jones, who while living there represented, in part, Chester County in the Lower House of the State Legislature, and afterwards wns sheriff of Chester County. Besides these two buildings, there was a small two-
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LITTLE
RESIDENCE OF GEORGE FAUCETT, WESTTOWN.
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story stone house on the north side of the turnpike, about one hun- dred yards farther west. There was a school-house that stood lower down the turnpike, on the south side, near where the railroad now crosses aaid pike, and was called the ' General Wayno School-house.' This was about the position of things at the date above named.
"There was an Irish 'schoolmaster by the name of Stinson, who bad savod some money by teaching in the neighborhood for some years. He bought this old field by way of speculation, got it sur- veyed into town-lots, and made a lottery,-lotteries were then fashion- able and not unlawful. He sold the tickets mostly on credit, as al- most everybody eould buy un eredit at that date. The lottery was drawn, and those who drew lots fronting on the turnpike promptly paid for their tickets and received titles. Those who drew back lots were not so prompt, and many of them remained on Mr. Stinson's hands. In a short time some of the owners of front lots began to build. This encouraged others, and then the haek lots became more valuable. There was one drawback very discouraging, the want of water. The situation is on an elevated ridge dividing the head- waters of the East and West Brandywine Creeks. Wells had to be put down at considerable expense, which retarded improvement for some time, but even this has been overcome by enterprise."
HOPEWELL BOROUGH.
Incorporated May 2, 1853, the territory being taken from the townships of Lower Oxford and East Nottingham.
KENNET.
Kennet is first mentioned on the court records in Feb- rnary, 1705, when Henry Peirce appeared in court as constable for that township. In 1706 he was appointed supervisor of the highways, and Ezekiel Harlan succeeded him as constable. This township originally included all of Pennsbury and a part of Pocopson. The name of the township, Kennet, it is thought, was suggested by Francis Smith, who in 1686 had taken up 200 acres of land at the month of Pocopson Creek, within the original limits of the township. Francis Smith had come from Devizes, in Wiltshire, England, in which county there is a village called Kennet .*
We have seen a certified draft of Francis Smith's land, made by Isaac Taylor in March, 1711, probably after the owner's decease, on which the house and an orchard are located near and on the south side of Pocaupsing Creek, just below the first small branch on that side. The sur- veyor made a note that the land was surveyed in 1686, in right of Smith's original purchase of 500 acres, and that there was also surveyed to him at that time 300 acres more, at a rent of one penny per acre per annum.
At the time of the general resurvey of all lands taken up in the province, Isaac Taylor returned the following account of land resurveyed by him in Kennet, 1703, which would indicate but little progress as to settlements : Francis Smith, 440 acres ; Henry Peirce, 190; Robert Way, 425 ; Thomas Hope, 310; George Harlan, Israel Helm, and the Chandlers, 850 ; total, 2215 acres. A few years after this he estimated the number of acres in the township at 12,100, besides 2000 in Letitia's Manor not surveyed.
In addition to the above resurveys, Isaac Taylor made new surveys for the following persons : Peter Dicks, 554 acres, John Hope, 200, and George Harlan, 500, in 1702 ; Isaac Few, 600, and William Huntley, 200, in 1703; all near the Brandywine.
It was doubtless the desire to secure to his family some property in the event of his own death that induced Wil- liam Penn to convey to Sir John Fagg, of Sussex, England, 50,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania in trust for the benefit of his wife, Gulielma Maria Penn, and her chil- dren. This Sir John Fagg may have been a distant rela- tive, for it appears that Gulielma's maternal grandmother was Anne Fagg. This conveyance was, by the then cus- tomary form of lease and relcase, dated 4th and 5th of September, 1682, as recited in later conveyances; and if this date is correct, it must have been executed by Penn on board the " Welcome," during his first passage to Penn- sylvania.
The land remained unlocated until the proprietary's sec- ond visit to the province, and in the mean time Gulielma was deceased, as were all of her children except two, Wil- liam and Letitia. A warrant dated 17th of 12th month, 1699, was signed and directed to Henry Hollingsworth, requiring him to lay out some land for these children, and on the 25th of 2d month, 1700, he excented it by survey- ing a tract containing 30,000 acres. This survey included all of the present township of New Garden and the greater part of Kennet, with several thousand acres in New Castle Connty.
The large survey was divided, and the eastern part con- firmed to Letitia Penn by a patent dated 23d of October, 1701, under the following description :
"Whereas, there is a certain tract of land situate on the south side of Brandywine creek, in the province of Pennsylvania: Beginning at a bounded hickory tree standing by a branch of Red Clay Creek, called Burrow's ruo, being a corner tree of William Dickson's land, thence by a line of marked trees south and by west over Red Clay Creek at the fork thereof, twelve hundred and eleven perches to bounded black oak standing in a line of George Reed's land; thence by the said line west forty-two perches to a bounded black oak, being a corner of the said George's land; thence south south west, half westerly, thirty-six perches to a bounded hickory, being a corner of William Guest's land ; thence by ye said Guest's line west 112 perches to a bounded white oak being a corner of Brian McDonald's land; thence north fifty perches to a bounded poplar; thence west fifty-eight perches to a black oak; thence north west eighty-four perches to a bounded chestnut tree; thence south four degrees westerly one hun- dred and ten perches to a bounded black oak; thence west one hun- dred forty-four perches to a bounded black oak, being a corner of the aforesaid William Guest's land; thence by a line crossing mill creek, weat south west to a hounded tree standing near Peck creek, six hun- dred and seventy perches; thence north by a line dividing it from a large tract laid out for the use of my son William Penn, two thousand three hundred and fourteen perches to a bounded tree; thence east six hundred and thirty-five perches to a bounded white oak ; thence south six hundred thirty-eight perches to a bounded white oak ; thence east north cast two hundred and forty perches to a bounded red oak ; thence north east four hundred and twenty perches to a corner post of George and Michael Harlan's land; thencc by the line of their said land east north east four hundred twenty-seven perches to a bounded black oak ; thence south one fourth westerly nine hundred perches to a bounded black oak ; thence west north west two hundred sixty-eight perches to the place of beginning : containing fifteen thousand five hundred acres of land ; being one moiety (allowance being first made for lands within the same already taken up) of a tract of thirty thou- aand acres of land granted, by virtue of my warrant bearing date the seventeenth of the twelfth month, one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine, to my children William and Letitia Penn, in right and as part of fifty thousand acres by me originally granted to their mother Gulielma Maria Penn, to hold to her and her heirs forever : which said thirty thousand acres being by my order divided, the afore described moiety by my will and disposition becomes the lott and share of my said daughter Letitia, who requesting mec to confirm the
" The name is generally spelled with two "t's," but the original spelling on the old court recorda was with one "t," and it is apelled in England in the same way, both on early and modern maps.
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same to her by patent, Know Yee that as well in a due regard to the memory of my dearly beloved wife, ber mather deceased, as for the fatherly love and natural affection I bear to her my said daughter, Letitia Penn, I have given, granted and confirmed, and do by these presents for mee, my heirs, and successors fully, freely, and abso- Intely, give, grant, release, and confirm, to the said Letitia Penn, ber. heirs and assigns forever, all that the said described tract of fifteen thousand five hundred acres of land, as the same is now set forth, bounded and limited as aforesaid ; together with all mines, minerals, quarrys, meadows, swamps, cripples, woods, timber and trees, ways, waters, watercourses, libertics, profits, commodities, and appurte- nances, whatsoever to the fifteen thousand five hundred acres of land, or to any part or parcel thereof, belonging or in anywise appertain- ing ; together with all rents, issues, profits, commadities and advan- tages whatsoever, from any part or parcel of the said land heretofore to mee my beirs or successors reserved, arising or in anywise acern- ing ; as also all full and free liberty to and for the said Letitia Pena, ber heirs and assigns, to hawk, hunt, fish and fowl, in and upon ye premises herchy granted, or upon any part thereof; reserving always to all persons the fee of all or any parcel of land which has at any time been granted or confirmed to them by patent from myself or my commissioners of property.
"To have Hold, Possess, and Enjoy the said described tract of fif- teen thousand five hundred acres of land, with the appurtenances and all other the premises, to the said Letitia Penn her heirs and assigns forever, to the only proper use and bchoof of the said Letitia Penn, her beirs and assigns. To be holden of mec, my heirs and successors, proprietors of Pennsylvania, as of onr manor of Rocklands in the said province, in free and common soccage, by fealty only for all ser- vices. Yielding & Paying therefor to mee, my heirs and successors, a Bever skinn, to be delivered at Philadelphia al or upon the first day of the first month in every year, to such person or persons as shall be appointed to receive the same, and also, three full and clear fifth parts af all Royall mines, which shall from time to time happen to be found withia the limits of the premises hereby granted, free from all deductions and reprisals for digging and refining the same. And out of my own further pleasure, free will, certain knowledge, and meer motion, I have thought fitt to erect the herein before granted tract of land into a manor by the name of the manor of Stan- sing, and so will have it called from henceforth. To have and to bald a Court Baron, with all things whatsoever to a Court Baron be- longing, and to have and to hold view of ffraack pledge for the con- servation of the peace and the better Government of ye tenants hold- ing or hereafter to hold of the said mannor, and all other persons that shall dwell within the limits thereof, by the said Letitia and her heirs, or by her or their stewards; and in the same to use all things. that to ye view of ffraak pledge do belong. In witness whereof I have caused these letters to he made patents."
This was signed at Philadelphia by William Penn.
This description appears to include all of the township of Kennet, except that part lying east and north of the fol- lowing lines, viz. : the road leading south from Chandler Darlington's to the creek, thence a little north of east to the cross-roads, and by the road leading towards Chads' Ford, to its intersection with the eastern line of the township. Nearly one-half of the manor was in New Castle County. The name, incorrectly spelled in the patent, was generally written "Stening," though sometimes Staning, Steyning, or Staining. It was also called simply Letitia's Manor. That district which first received the name of Kennet is now Pennsbury, but it was not long before the manor was also included under that name. Letitia Penn had accom- panied her father to this country on his second visit, and returned with him again to England. They sailed on the 3d of November, 1701, she having three days before signed a power of attorney authorizing James Logan and Edward Penington to have the management of her property here. The latter died soon after, leaving James Logan as her sole attorney for some time. She having married William
Aubrey, a London merchant, they executed another power of attorney, dated 24th of December, 1711, to Samucl Carpenter and James Logan, who sold land in the manor to several persons.
In 1702, Gayen Miller purchased 200 acres in the manor, on the east branch of Red Clay Creek, including the eastern part of the present borough of Kennet Square. Between his land and the New Garden line a tract of 438 acres was purchased by Mary Rowland, of New Garden, in 1712. This included much of the beautiful valley-land thereabouts. In 1713 several persons purchased land in the manor, viz. : William Pyle, 280 acres next south of Mary Rowland; Alexander Stewart, 350 between Gayen Miller and the said manor line on the east; Silas Pryor, 371 next south of Stewart's; Caleb Prew, 200 acres; John Gregg, 400; John Cloud, 335 on the circular line ; Ellis Lewis, 293, in 1715, at the forks of the east branch of the creek, and 110 acres more adjoining in 1726; Jacob Bennett, 215 in 1717; Benjamin Fred, 200 acres, in 1716, where the Gap and Newport pike crosses the line; John Packer, 200 in 1720; Robert Roberts, 170 in 1723, and 69 adjoining in 1725 ; William Levis, 100 in 1730, etc. John Taylor, the surveyor, or his father, Isaac, surveyed lands in the manor for many persons in 1724 and 1725, amounting, in the whole, to over 6300 acres, but much of this may bave. been in New Castle County. Many of the purchasers werc doubtless seated on the land for some time before they ob- tained titles for the same.
KENNET RATE, 1715.
£ 8. d.
£ 8. d.
Gayen Miller.
0
8
6
Richard ffletcher
0
8
Michael Harlia
0
5
6
Thomas ffisher
0 1 10
Robert Way.
0
6
0
Joan Battin
0
2 10
Ezekiel Harlin
12
6 Thomas Robinson. 0
2
9
Aaron Harlin.
0
5
6
Mary Stewart.
0
4
0
John Hopes
0
3
7
William Shewin.
0
1
6
Isaac ffew
D
00
6
Edmund Butcher.
0
1
Samuel Heald
0
2
0
Joseph Taylor.
0
6
William Levis,
0
4
Evan Harry
0
4
Moses Harlia ..
4
2
William Horne,
0
6
3
William Harvey.
3
0
John Gregg, for 100% 0
3
4
William Webb.
0
4
2
Silas Pryor.
0
7
6
ffree Men.
Joha Heald. Va]. Hollingsworth
0
3
4
Peter Dix. 0
4
0
Alexander ffraser.
0
2 10
John Cox.
0
4
0
Daniel Magfarsia
3
.0
John Way
0
4
0
James Harlin.
0
2
6
Edward Way
0
4
0
Joshua Harlin ..
0
2
6
Nathaniel Way.
0 4
0
Caleb Prue.
0
8
Charles Jones
0
4
0
Samuel Hall.
0
0
Robert Hollin
0
4
0
William Barns.
0
2
0
James Bruce ...
0
4
0
Richard Cox
0
3
2
Joseph Cox
0
1
0
Total 8 10
6
In 1760 the court was petitioned for a division of the township into East and West Kennet by a line from the road at the division of Marlborough and Kennet, at Caleb Peirce's lane, and from thence, along a road lately laid out towards Wilmington, by John Powell's, to the township line. Ten years later a division was made, and Pennsbury taken from the eastern part.
KENNET TAXABLES, 1753.
Benja Taylor, W'm Temple, Richard Thatcher, Thos Carleton, Wm Webb, Jas House, Rebekah Webb, Jnº Way, Wm Harvey, Thos Har- lan, Isaac Mendenhall, Jacob Way, Wm Levis, Wm White, Jno Heald, Wm Marshall, Michael Gregg, Ellis Lewis, Sam1 Levis, Jacob Janay, Jaª Briaton, Benja Mendenhall, Jaº Pyle, Jos Bennit, Jacob Bennit, Jnº Nichols, Henry Dixon, Amos Hope, Dan1 Webb, Josiah Taylor, Jos Harlan, Jos Gregg, Jas Armstrong, Ja" Harvey, Wm Cooper, Robt
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8
4
0
0
0
2
0
2
2
0
"SUMMIT VIEW." RESIDENCE OF J. G. WEST, M.D.,
RESIDENCE OF EMMOR SEEDS, EAST BRADFORD.
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Lamhorn, Thon Wily, Thos Holden, Jos Walter, Robt Brown, Moses Fraizer, Jag Pryor, Robt. Culbortson, Jnº .Moore, Jnº Clark, Henry Simonson, Jnº Mcfarson, Joshna Harlan, Jas Hollingsworth, Jehu Hollingsworth, Thos Temple, Jesse Miller, Wm Wily, Jnº Eves, Jnº Fred, Jos Dixon, Thos Nichols, Hugh Harry, Amos Harry, Jas Hance, Sam1 Harlan, Geo. Baily, David Yarnall, Charles Holdman, George Miller, Abram Ford, Tho" Hannaway, Gabriel Clark, Jas Paul, Charles Porter, Walter Craige, Dennis Sullivan, John Talkinton, Richard Adkins, Eliza Wily, Jnº Dixon, Alex" Wilson, Jnº Martin, Humphrey Pasmore, Jas Laughlin, Archibald McCracken, Jnº Thomp- son, Tede Dun, Jnº Watts, Jns Watts, Jacob Heald, Brice Collins, Elijah Barns, Wm Lamborn.
Inmates .- Jag Harlan, Jas Hall, Jnº Green, Jacob Taggert, Stephen Hayes.
Freemen .- David Pnsey, Jnº Key, Jas Glenn, Frans Clark, Jnº Horner, Charles Hall, Dan1 Orr, Oliver Cope, Henery Welch, Richd Conlin, Michael Mardick, Patrick McClean, Frans Roarke, Arthur Donely, Henery Harvey, Walter Welsh, Abram Taylor, James Nethery.
LAND-OWNERS, 1774.
Robert Brown, William Baldwin, Robert Barr, Peter Bell, Jacob and James Brown, Thomas Carlenton, Gabriel Clark, Jesse Cloud, Robert Cooper, Isnac Chandler, Daniel Cloud, Walter Craig, Calvin Cooper, Enoch Dixon, Henry Dixon, Michael Gregg, Isaac Gregg, Solomon Gregg, Sarah Gregg, Jesse Harvey, John Harper, Josbun Harlan, Joseph Harlan, Zacheus Kay, Robert Lambory (Lamborn ?), William Lambory, William Lewis, Samnel Levis, Allen Langley, John Lamborn, John McFarlan, Charles McCauley, John Marshall, Thomas Milhous, George Meason, Jesse Miller, Jesse Mendenhall, John McEl- roy, Joseph Musgrave, Enoch Passmore, George Passmore, William Pyle, John Pyle, John Richison, Oliver Russell, Hugh Russell, Abra- ham Taylor, Caleb Taylor, William Tate, Joshua Sharpless, Jacob Sharpless, Joseph Sharpless, Francis Swain, Joseph Walter, James Walter, Robert Way, Ezekiel Webb, Sarah Webb, Benjamin Walker, William Wiley, George Walters, Joseph Walters, Jr., Andrew Yeat- man, Jacob Zempher.
KENNET SQUARE.
The borough of Kennet Square was formed from the township of Kennet, and was incorporated in 1855. The village, which formed the nucleus of the borough, bore the name of Kennet Square, and had been so called from a period anterior to the Revolutionary war. It is situated on the line of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Rail- road, in the midst of an exceedingly fertile district of country, at the head of the Toughkenamon Valley.
The inhabitants of Kennet Square, and of the township from which it was taken, are largely the descendants of the original settlers, and are noted for their intelligence and culture. The anti-slavery sentiment has always predomi- nated strongly, and in the days of slavery it was esteemed a hot-bed of abolitionism. The inhabitants, however, gloried in their sentiments, and many a wayfaring bondman received aid and comfort from them on his passage towards the North Star. It would have been a dangerous experi- ment in those days for any of its inhabitants to have pro- claimed their nativity south of Mason and Dixon's line. Its academies and seminaries have for years ranked high, and many youth from a distance are educated here. The old Unicorn tavern building-said to have been the scene of one of the outlaw Fitzpatrick's exploits-was acciden- tally burned about the year 1875. The scene of Bayard Taylor's "Story of Kennet" is laid in this and the adjoin- ing townships.
In 1769, William Dixson, of New Garden, conveyed to Joseph Musgrave, of Kennet, a lot of ground " near a place called Kennet Square," which is the first mention of the name which has come under notice.
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LONDON BRITAIN.
A considerable part of this township was included in the survey made for the London Company. If the reader will take up the map of Chester County, and extend the east and west lines of Londongrove township about as far south as Kimbleville, and connect them by an east-and-west line, he will have the east, west, and south lines of the London Company's tract, and can readily see the portion of London Britain included in it. An addition was made to the east side of the township by a portion taken from New Garden, but the date when this was done has not been observed.
Settlements were made at an early date by Welsh Bap- tists in the southern part of the township, and a church was established among them. The oldest tombstone in the graveyard bears date 1729. John Evans, who came from Radnorshire, in Wales, about the year 1700, was prominent among these settlers, and his son, of the same name, who died in 1738, hield large tracts of land, together with fulling. mills and grist-mills, on White Clay Creek. An Indian village was formerly on the ereck, near Yeat- man's mill.
The following petition will explain the organization of the township :
"To the worshipfull the Justices for the County of Chester on Delaware now in Court sitting :
"The Humble petition of the Subscribers Sheweth, Whereas find- ing the township of New London too Large for us or the officers to sarve therein, being never bounded on the Western Side thereof, we your petitioners Humbly pray that it may be Devided as thus: be- ginning at the west side of John Evans and soe to Run n Direct Corco froward to the north Side of thomas Evans', and north of John James' and soe to the north side of Thomas Morris' and thence to the Line of the manner, and soe joyning on the Line of the manner to the Line of New Castle, and soe to the aforesaid begining; und if you will be pleased to Grant of itt thus and call it by the name of Lon- don Brittain,-The officers being alsoe named on the back Side of this petition, for the Enshewing yenre,-And in your Granting of the Same your petitioners Shall be ever bound in Duty for to pray &c.
"John Evans, jun". John Evans, senior.
Lewis Jerman. Thomas Price.
Richard Whitting.
Owen Thomas.
Owen Edward. John Devonald.
David Davis.
Thomas Morris.
David William.
Thomas Evan.
Thomas Morgan.
David Evan.
Philip Rees.
John James.
Evan Hary.
Samuel Evan.
Rice Evnn.
John Jones.
Philip Dougless.
Jinkin John.
" Constable, Richard Whitting.
"Supervisor of the High ways, John Devonald.
" Overseers of the Poor, John Evans, Thomas Morris. Endorsed, " May, 1725 : allowd ye within peticon & refers ye sett-
ling of ye bounds of the said Township to next Court."
In May, 1775, the following petition was presented :
"The Petition of the inhabitants of London Britain Township in snid County most Humbly sheweth that whereas the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, Governor and Commander in chief of the Pro- vince of Pennsylvania, and the three lower Counties on Delaware, by his proclamation dated the fifteenth of September last, and likewise the eighth of April in this present year, hath established and Con- firmed the Western boundaries between the Provinces of Pennsyl- vania and Maryland, and therein required all persons Concerned to take due Notico thereof and act Agreeable thereunto by the Confirma- tion of which line more than the one third of the township of London Britain nforesaid will be Included and taken into the Province of Maryland, whereby said Township will be rendered very small not haveing more than twenty five freeholders therein : By which means
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the Inhabitants of said Township will be reduced to great hardships in maintaining the publick highways, supporting the poor and serve- ing in the different offices of Constable Overseers of the poor and highways, from their fewness in number. And your petitioners beg leave to shew that New London, the adjoining Township is large, and from its present location haveing a long slip of land that runs down between the Township of London Grove and London Britain aforesd until it Intersects the line of Newgarden Township, which piece or parcel of land your petitioners apprehends might be very Commodionsly annexed to the said Township of London Britain, and which would nearly make up the number of Inhabitants to said town- ship that it will loose by the settlement of the Provincial lines as aforesd. And your Petitioners begs leave further to shew that the division line between the township of New Garden and London Britain aforesaid is not sufficiently ascertained so as to prevent future disputes arising between said Townships. Your petitioners pray your Honors would be pleased to appoint Commissioners to run a line, begining in the western division line aforesaid, between the Provinces aforesaid, at or near the house of John Robinson, which was formerly in the township of Newlondon, now in the Province of Maryland, from thence running a North Course untill it Intersects with the township of London Grove aforesaid; then along with the said line of London Grove untill it intersects with the reputed linc of New Garden,-that the division line between the said Township of New Garden and London Britain may be so directed as to include the plantations of Evan Evans and Peter Evans in said Township of London Britain as heretofore always held and deemed from their first settlement untill it interseets the line of New Castle County; and your petitioners as bound in dutty will pray, &c.
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