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COURT-HOUSE, House of defence fitted up for a, 114; Friends' meetings appointed to be held in the, 137; order of the court in respect to the, 156; apparent sale of the, 156; sale of the old, to John Sim- cock, 194 ; deed acknowledged for the, 196; to be repaired, 200; an- other sale of, authorized, 204; old one to be pulled down, 212; ne- cessity of a new one presented, 206; old one repaired, 207; title of the, confirmed to Ralph Fish- bourn, 214; the last erected at Chester, 234; public records to be removed to the, 234; act for the removal of the, 336; a second re- moval act, 340; walls of a new one erected at the Turk's Head, 341 ; threatened demolition of the new, by the anti-removalists, 341 ; another removal act passed, 342 ; remarks ou early erected court- houses, 541.
CRANE HOOK, church erected at, 90. CREEKS, Minquas, early named, 40; Christina, named by Minuit, 21. CRIME, higher offences, where tried, 152 ; new modes of punishment for, in- troduced, 173; increase in the higher grades of, 179, improper punishment of, 186.
CRIMINALS, sent to New Sweden, 37, 58. CRUISE, JOHN, an impostor who came among Friends, 243.
CURRENCY, sewant (wampum) used as a, 53; beavers continued to be used as a, 89; remarks on the, 108 ; see " Paper money."
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DARBY, early settlement of, 147; ear- liest Friends' meeting at, 148 ; first meeting-house built at, 166; Cal- con Hook united with the town- ship of, 161; mill erected at, 191; town of, secured against damage by fire, 203 ; stocks built at, 242; militia rendezvous at, 304; Ame- rican army march through, 310, 324; notice of, 384; spelling of
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the name justified, 384 ; early town meetings of, 188, 384; town- ship of, divided, 385; library, 561. DARBY CREEK, guard boats to lay in, 293; fort near the mouth of, 299 ; fort at, to be garrisoned, 304.
DEBTOR, an insolvent, asks that his creditors may accept his servitude, 237.
DEEDS, acknowledgment of, in open court, 146.
DELAWARE, bay discovered by Hudson, 2 ; never seen by Lord Delaware, 2; visited by Capt. Argall, 3; names applied to the, 3; Capt. Mey visits and names the capes of the, 4; reported exploration of the, by Capt. Hendrickson, in the yacht Restless, 4; first appear- ance of European females on the, 9; patroonships to be established on the, 11 ; first colony planted on the, 12; disaster to the first colo- nists, 14; whales in the, 15, 16; Swedish expedition to the, 20; first permanent settlement on the, 21; military survey of the lands bordering the, 299; Roggeveen's description of the, 564.
DELAWARE COUNTY, act for the estab- lishment of, 344; old public build- ings purchased for the use of, 344; first election in, 346; courts of, organized, 346; poor-house of, es- tablished, 350 ; preparation to re- move the records of, 351 ; Bank of, incorporated, 352; Institute of Science, established, 357 ; statis- tics of, 441, 458, 461.
DE VRIES, sends the first colony to the Delaware, 12; goes on a whaling voyage and meets with whales, 13 ; the fate of the colony at Swanen- dael fully revealed to him, 13, 14 ; his visit to Fort Nassau, 15; voy- age of, to Virginia, 16; visit of, to Gov. Printz, 36:
DIAL, public, at Chester, 192.
DIVORCE, early, asked for on the ground of constant strife between the par- ties, 79.
DOMESTIC ANIMALS, early introduction of, on the Delaware, 33, 34, 80; cattle and horses to be marked, 151. DROUGHT, very severe, 359.
DRUNKENNESS, becomes a growing evil, 162.
DUKE OF YORK, grant to the, by his brother, 87; his grant to William Penn, 130 ; proclaimed king, 154.
DUKE'S LAWS, promulgation of the, 90 ; re-established by proclamation, 100 ; to be in force on the Delaware, 100.
DUCKETT, THOMAS, Friends' meetings held at his house, 149.
DUNOP, COUNT, repulse and death of, at Red Bank, 320.
DUTCH, claim of early discovery by the, 3; protest against the Swedish settlement on the Delaware, 22; jealousy of the, 38 ; land purchased from the Indians by the, 42; set up their national emblem on the west side of the river, 42; nego- tiate with the Indians on the Dela- ware, 50; interview of the, with Gov Printz, 51; limits proposed between the Swedes and the, 55; conquest of the Swedes by the, 67 ; cruelty of the, to the Swedes, 67 ; government established on the De- laware, 69 ; they surrender to the English, 88; reconquest by the, 99 ; establishment of courts on the Delaware by the, 99.
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EARTHQUAKES, early notices of, 248, 263, 270.
EAST TOWN, organized as a township, 204.
EDGMONT, notice of, 400.
EDMUNDSON, WILLIAM, early religious visit to Upland by, 104.
EDUCATION, first notice of, in Pennsyl- vania, 121.
ELECTION, early return for Chester County of an, 153; by means of white and black beans, 172; vote to be by ballot at the, 180; liberal party defeated at the, 219; places of holding the, 347.
ELSINBORG, FORT, erected by the Swedes, 31; abandoned, 58.
ENGLISH, early settlement on the Dela- ware attempted by the, 19 ; colony at Salem, 27; begin a settlement on the Schuylkill, 28; removal of the Salem colony effected, 29; complaints against the Dutch by the, 44; conquest of the Dutch by the, 99; government restored to the, 100.
EPISCOPALIANS, early organization of the, 202 ; church erected at Mar- cus Hook and Chester by the, 207, 208; earliest notice of a burial ground owned by the, 211. EQUITY, court of, held, 161.
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EVANS, JOHN, appointment of, as Go- vernor, 210 ; his character, 214; false alarm created by, 214; un- popularity and recall of, 216.
ESSEX HOUSE, early Quaker meeting held at the, 104; by whom erected, 104.
EYRE, ROBERT, appointment of, as clerk of the court, 146.
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FABRITIUS, REV. JACOBUS, pass to the Delaware granted to the, 94; in- stalled as the first minister at Wi- cacco, 115 ; order of the court for the collection of his dues, 124.
FAIRS, Friends appoint a committee to have oversight of the youth who attend, 222. See Chester and Chi- chester.
FAYETTE, MARQUIS DE LA, wounded at the battle of Brandywine, 309, 313 ; headquarters of, 311.
FELONS, instructions to Gov. Gordon, against laying duties on, 241.
FEMALES, European, first visit the De- laware, 9; first settlement of, on the Delaware, 33.
FENCE VIEWERS, earliest appointment of, 160.
FERRY, over the Schuylkill supported by Friends, 189, 195; one over the Schuylkill, a monopoly, 189; a road laid out to Chester Creek at the, 200.
FINLAND, Indian name and location of, 55 ; plundered by the Dutch, 65 ; extent of, 381.
FINNEY, WALTER, instructs persons in the art of making saltpetre, 288.
FIRELOCKS, number of, to be furnished by Chester County, 285; to be sent to Chester, 290.
FIRE-SHIPS, used in defence of the De- laware, 321.
FITZ PATRICK, JAMES, exploits of, 326; capture of, 327; conviction and execution of, 328.
FLEET, PROVINCIAL, list of vessels com- prising the, 289; prevents British vessels from ascending the Dela- ware, 290; loss on board of the, 324.
FOOT-WAY, laid ont from Chester to Chichester Creek, 179.
FORBES, GENERAL, reprimands a Dutch printer, 268.
FORESTS, appearance of, in early times, 258.
FORGE, early erected, 254; mentioned by Peter Kalm, 258.
FORT, Nassau erected, 7; location of, Nassan, 8; Christina erected, 21; Gottinburg and Elsinborg, erected, 31 Manayunk or Schuylkill, erect- ed, 38; Bever's Rheede, erected, 49 ; Swedes build in front of Be- ver's Rheede, 51 ; Manayunk de- scribed, 54, account of Korsholm, 54; Casimir, erected, 57; Casimir captured by the Swedes, and name changed, 61, 63; capitulation of Trinity, 66 ; Mifflin strengthened, 291, 299.
Fox, GEORGE, religions visit of, 98. FREEMEN sold into servitude, 186.
FREE SOCIETY OF TRADERS, incorpora- tion of the, 137.
FRENCH NEUTRALS, provision for the distribution and support of, 267. FRESHETS, remarkable, 348, 355, 359- 367.
FRIENDS OR QUAKERS, first to settle in Pennsylvania, 104; first meeting of, 103; first meeting of record, 134; order a meeting to be held in the court-house at Chester, 137; character of the early immigrant, 148 ; permit those not in member- ship to marry in their meetings, 175; support a ferry over the Schuylkill, 189, 195; large am- ounts appropriated for charitable purposes by, 195; preparative meetings established by, 198 ; public exposure of delinquents, 225: first disownment among, for insolvency, 232 ; appropriate mo- ney to secure the royal assent to the affirmation act, 236; action of the, in respect to slavery, 239 ; con- duct of, in respect to the French invasion, 262; disownments for taking up arms, 296; division of the Society of, 357. See Meeting- house, Burying-ground and Quakers. FUNERALS, large provision at, discou- raged by Friends, 240.
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GEOLOGY, of Delaware County, 403. GEOMANCY, the practice of, disallowed by Friends, 192 ; presentment of, by the Grand Jury, 193; fine im- posed by the court for practicing, 194.
GERMANTOWN, battle of, 317.
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GILDER, value of the, 108 ; long retain- ed as currency, 136.
GILEAD, officers appointed for, 161. GOATS, introduction of, on the Dela- ware, 33.
GOOKIN, CHARLES, appointed Governor, 217 ; meets the Indians at Cones- togo, 219.
GORDON, PATRICK, appointed Governor, 237; death of, 245.
GOSHEN, settlement of, 205; Friends' meeting established at, 205, 208, 210; early settlers of, relieved by the Welsh Friends of Haverford monthly meeting, 205; road to be laid out to, 210 ; organized as a township, 213; Friends of, to erect a meeting-house, 216; road laid out, 230; monthly meeting of Friends established, 232.
GOSPEL, extracts from the history of the Society for Propagating the, 532.
GOTTENBURG, NEW, fort at Tinicum, built, 31 ; destroyed by the Dutch, 68.
GRAND JURY, first in Pennsylvania, 136; early roads laid out by the, 146, 159, 163 ; official term of the, 161 ; puritanical vigilance and imparti- ality of the, 161 ; character of the, 168, 185, 186; watchfulness of the, over the interests of the coun- ty, 173 ; the foreman of the, pre- sented, 181; manner of present- ments made by the, 185; three members of the, refuse to serve, 201; term of office abridged, 214; presents the practice of Geomancy, &c., 193 ; certain books presented by the, 193; presents the neces- sity of stocks and whipping-post, 211 ; presents the old court-house as a nuisance, 212.
GRANGE, notice of the, 393; poem on the, 557.
GRANTS, abstracts from the most an- cient, 520.
GRAVE-STONES, removal of, ordered by Friends, 215.
GRAVE-YARD. See Burying-ground. GRAY'S FERRY, bridge at, destroyed, 321.
GREAT BATTERY, erection of the, 257. GREEN, purpose and location of the, 178; boundary and location of the, 178 ; street laid out along the, 178 ; purchased by David Lloyd, 555 ; confirmation of title of, 199; no burial ground on the, 211.
GUARDIAN, first appointment of a, 108. GUN-BOATS, construction of, 285.
GWYNEDD, Friends' meeting of, estab- lished, 208 ; monthly meeting of, organized, 222.
GYPSUM, introduction of, as a manure, 350.
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HALF-MOON, Hudson sails on a voyage of discovery in the yacht, 1.
HAMLET OF BETHEL, road laid out to, 163.
HAROLD, Friends' meeting to be held at, 137.
HANSON, MATTHEYS, as a magistrate, meets Governor Stuyvesaut at Tin- icum, 73.
HAVERFORD, earliest settlements in, 148 ; first religious meeting held at, 148 ; monthly meeting of, 149 ; Friends' graveyard established at, 149; complaint of Friends of, against the Indians, 155; Friends of, contribute toward building Cen- tre Square meeting-house, 158; first meeting-house erected at, 167 ; people of, refuse to be in- cluded in Chester County, 171; freemen of, vote with those of Philadelphia, 172 ; jurisdiction of Chester County acknowledged by, 180; mill erected, 201; anecdote of William Penn going to the meeting of, 201; road laid out, 194; College established, 358 ; no- tice of, 393.
HAYES, JONATHAN, acts as a justice of the court, 196; supposed murder of, 223.
HAZELWOOD, COMMODORE, galleys com- manded by, silence a battery, 318 ; battle of, on the Delaware, 321. HEALTH of early colonists, 34.
HELM, ISRAEL, testimony of, in favor of a Swedish purchase of lands from the Indians, 24 ; is a trader at Pas- sayunk, 79 ; appointed superinten- dent of the fur trade, 85 ; visits Sweden, 85 ; is appointed Coun- sellor, 90; asks compensation as Indian interpreter, 108.
HENDRICKSON, CAPT. CORNELIS, left in command of the yacht Restless, 4 ; report of his discoveries on the Delaware, 5.
HESSIANS, two executed, 314.
HISTORY, Sewell's, subscribed for, 236.
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HOCHHANMER, HENRY & Co., grant of land to, 26; colony established by, 26 ; object of the establishment of their colony, 27, 33.
HOG ISLAND, purchase of from the In- dians, 124; Indian name of, 124; to be overflowed on the approach of the enemy, 292, 304; attached to Chester County, 343.
HOLKER, PRIVATEER, crew of enlisted at Chester, 332.
HOLLANDARE, PETER, succeeds Minuit as Governor of New Sweden, 27. HOLLINGSWORTH, LYDIA, melancholy fate of, 393.
HOLME, THOMAS, appointed Surveyor- General, 133 ; arrival of, 133 ; let- ter of, to the Indians, 170.
HOLMES, GEORGE, attempts a settlement on the Delaware, 19.
Hoops, the ridiculous fashion of wear- ing, by women, condemned by the Quakers, 251.
HORSES, introduction of, on the Dela- ware, 17; race on Sunday, 194.
HOSKINS, JOHN, trespass of, on the county property, 178.
HOSPITALS, proposed location of mili- tary, 296.
HOUSE OF CORRECTION, keeper of the, appointed, 241.
HOUSE OF DEFENCE, to be fitted up for the court, 114; location of the, 114, 541; lane or street to be left to the, 122; was the first court- house, 150 ; Governor Markham's Council sat in the, 150.
HOWE, GENERAL, intention of, to attack Philadelphia by water, 297 ; a spy sent by, to procure pilots, 297 ; en- ters the Delaware, 301 ; army of, lands on Elk river, 305 ; remarks on his plan of the battle of Bran- dywine, 309.
HOWE, LORD, commands the British fleet, 316.
HUDDE, ANDREAS, report of, 32-38 ; appointed commissary on the De- laware, 40; quarrels with the Swedes, 41 ; is directed to search for minerals, 42; purchases land from the Indians, 42 ; controversy with the Swedes, 43; dines with Governor Printz, 43 ; appointed Secretary and Surveyor on the De- laware, 69 ; placed in command of Fort Christina, 72.
HUDSON, CAPT. HENDRICK, makes two unsuccessful voyages, 1; discovery of the Delaware Bay, 2.
HUNG IN IRONS, a convict ordered to be, 232.
HUNTER, EDWARD, the murder of, 353. HYDER ALI. armed vessel, captures the General Monk, 338.
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IMMIGRANTS, arrival of, 21, 25, 30, 47, 62, 70, 103, 118, 132.
IMPROVEMENT, a spirit of exhibited, 159; relative, of the first organized coun- ties, 189.
INDEPENDENCE, disavowed as an object of the military Associators, 284.
INDIAN CORN, early introduction of, on the Delaware, 34; to be received for taxes, 113, 156.
INDIANS, murder of the first colonists by the, 14; pretended purchase of land from the, by the Dutch, 18; Swede's purchase of land from the, 23, 24; Leni Lenape or Delawares, 35 ; five nations of, 35 ; Minquas, 35, 36; names of the local, 35; the Dutch invited to occupy the lands of the, 48; confirmation of the alleged Dutch purchase of lands from the, 50; convocation of and treaty with the, at Tinicum, 63 ; massacre of the Dutch on the Hudson by the, 68 ; Swedish ship Mercury protected by the, 70; war among the, 84; war apprehended by the whites with the, 95 ; pur- chase of land from, by William Penn, 144, 155; testimony of Friends against the sale of liquors to, 166, 167, 227; land extending two days' journey west, granted by the, 169 ; letter of Thomas Holme to the, 170; groundless apprehen- sion of a great insurrection by the, 168 ; visited by an unarmed party, 169; great uneasiness shown by the, 218; interview of the Go- vernor with, and significant com- plaints of the, 219 ; act to prevent the importation of, as slaves, 221 ; lands on the Brandywine claimed by the, 236, 240 ; grant to the Oke- hocking, 209; murder of, 238 ; war with the Delaware, 265 ; premiums offered for prisoners or scalps of the, 265; murder of atLancaster, 270; troubles on account of the, 270; dogs employed to hunt the, 271. INSTITUTE, of science established, 357. INTEREST, rate of, reduced, 234.
INTOXICATION, Friends' testimony against 234.
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IRON WORKS, notice of early, 258, 259; location of, 26,0.
IRONS, a criminal hung in, 232.
IVY MILLS, establishment of first paper mill at, 383: Catholic mission to, 241.
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JAIL, levy ordered to build a, 150 ; want of a, presented by the Grand Jury, 181; new, recommended, 368. See Prison.
JAMES II., proclaimed King, 154.
JURORS, number summoned, 226; ob- jection to sitting as, 228.
JURY, first in Pennsylvania, 119; sin- gular verdict of a, 144 ; of women, 174 ; indefinite report of a road by a, 196. See Grand Jury.
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KALM PETER, Visit of to Pennsylvania, 258.
KARAKUNG, 38; description of, 55.
KEITH, GEORGE, caused discord in the Society of Friends, 182; testimony against, 182 ; adherents to the doc- trines of, 198, 216; extracts from Journal of, 534.
KEITH, WILLIAM, appointed Governor, 227.
KELLYVILLE, notice of, 387,
KENNET, township of, organized, 213. KIEFT, WILHELM, protests against a Swedish colony, 22.
KINGSESSE, seat of Justice removed to the town of, 123.
KINSESSING, location of, 39, 40 ; descrip- tion of, 54.
KING'S ROAD, location of the, 167, 215 ; presented for not being cleared of logs, 173; to be sixty feet wide from Walter Fancet's fence to Dar- by, 199 ; relaid out, 215.
KOCK, PETER, as a magistrate, meets Gov. Stuyvesant at Tinicum, 73; resists the order of the Dutch to remove, 78 ; appointed Collector of the Customs, 85.
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LABOR, value of, 128, 260; kinds of, 260.
LAERSON, NEELS, court held at his house, 108 ; takes in church land, 120; stops the way to the Fly, 121 ; or- dered to leave a lane to the House of Defence, 122.
LANCASTER, county organized and laid off, 239; road surveyed to, 253. See Turnpike.
LANDS, act for the resurvey of, 206 ; grant of, to the Okehocking In- dians, 209.
LAWS, the Duke's, to be in force on the Delaware, 100; newly enacted to be read at the court, 199, 200.
LEAD, in great requisition, 291; dis- tributed to the provincial troops, 290.
LIBRARIES, 560.
LICENSES, to keep tavern, granted by the Governor, 213 ; singular appli- cations for, 242; a list of persons recommended for, 266.
LIGHTNING, a young lady struck by, 390.
LIME, introduction of as a manure, 350. LIMESTONE, road laid out to the, 186.
LIQUORS, prohibition of the sale of asked for by the Indians, 91, 102 ; license to distil required, 94; tes- timony of Friends against the sale of intoxicating, to the Indians, 166, 167.
LITERATURE, early, 230.
LLOYD, DAVID, appears in court on be- half of the Welsh, 180; notice of the liberal and just views of, 217 ; party of, defeated, 219 ; removes to Chester, 220 ; revises a Welsh book, 231.
LLOYD, THOMAS, appears before the Go- vernor and Council on behalf of the Welsh, 172 ; acts as Governor, 154.
LOCK, REV. LAURENCE CAROLUS. See Carolus, Rev. Laurentius.
LOGAN, JAMES, conduct of, 217.
LONG FINN, insurrection of the, 92; capture, conviction and sentence of the, 92, 93.
LOTTERIES, act for suppressing, repealed · by the Crown, 271; Quaker testi- mony against, 271.
LOTTERY, proprietaries, for the sale of land, 240 ; for the benefit of certain churches, 272.
LUNATIC ASYLUM, a rude one ordered to be built, 116.
LYING, a woman fined by the court for, 189.
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MAIZE. See Indian Corn.
MANAYUNK, location of Fort, 54. MANHATTAN, purchase of the Island of,
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from the Indians, 8; population of, 10.
MANUFACTORIES, origin of in Delaware County, 353 ; number and condi- tion of in the year 1833, 356; best sites for, 404 ; statistics of, 560.
MARCUS HOOK, grant of land to the six original inhabitants of, 118, 521; name changed to Chichester, 136; petition for a market and fairs at, 199; incorporation of, 205, 530 ; troops quartered at, 289; soldiers at, innoculated for the small-pox, 294 ; rifle battalion marches from, 308; notice of, 381.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM, arrival of, 125; as- sumes his office of Lieut .- Governor, 128; commission of, 129; council of, 129; interview with Lord Bal- timore, 129 ; appointment of Jus- tices by, 131; presides at the Upland Court, 132 ; appointed Go- vernor of the three lower counties, 182; appointed Deputy Governor of the Province, 192; held an In- dian slave, 219.
MARLBOROUGH, organized as a town- ship, 213.
MARPLE, notice of, 392.
MARRIAGE, illegal, 81, 121, 143, 151; Quaker plan of, adopted by others, 175; strictness of the court in re- spect to, 197 ; by Friends, before a Justice, 198; young Friends greatly restricted in courtship and, 198.
MARRIAGES, vain practices at, 248.
MARTIAL LAW, declared by Congress, 318.
MARSH LANDS, how held, 121.
MARTIN, WALTER, singular grant of land by, 209.
MARYLAND, commissioners of, order the Dutch to leave, 76; ambassadors sent to the authorities of, 76; bor- der troubles with, 232, 248; com- missioners of meet to run the cir- cnlar line, 243 ; order of King and Council for settling the boundary of, 247, 248 ; preliminary line run, 247, 248; difficulties made by the commissioner of, 250.
MASON AND DIXON'S LINE, final settle- ment of, 273, 274.
MAXWELL GENERAL, command of, at- tacked, 303; his position at the Battle of Brandywine, 307.
MEADOWS, companies of owners of, first incorporated, 269 ; military works erected on the, 319.
MEASURE, a standard of recommended by the Grand Jury, 173; Winches- ter preferred, 173.
MEDIA, town of named and laid out, 375 ; notice of, 388.
MEETING-HOUSE, Friends', of Chichester erected, 158 ; first, of Haverford, 167; of Darby, 166; of Chester and Radnor, 188; of Radnor, oc- cupied with the military, 328 ; old, of Chester, sold, 245.
MEETINGS, hour of commencement of religious, in early times, 267.
MENONISTS, a peculiar colony of, 82.
MERCER, FORT, a garrison placed in, 317 ; battle at, 320; evacuation of, 324.
MERCURY, arrival of the ship, in the Delaware, 70.
MERLIN FRIGATE, blown up, 321.
MEY, CAPT. CORNELIS JACOBSON, Visits the Delaware Bay, 4; erects Fort Nassau, 8,
MIDDLETOWN, when organized as a town- ship, 398 ; notice of, 398 ; present by Dr. Watts to the Presbyterian meeting of, 398.
MILES, COL. SAMUEL, commands on the Delaware, 289 ; humane letter of, 294.
MILITIA, call for, 297, 298; to encamp near Chester, 297; eighteen hun- dred ·forwarded, 303 ; call for five thousand, to rendezvous at Darby, 304; in 1814, the draft of, and volunteers from Delaware County in service, 351, 352.
MILL CREEK, names by which it was formerly known. 120.
MILLS, Swede's, 38, 55, 94, 120, 203 ; Hans Moenson's, 120 ; Chester, 147, 563 ; Thos. Cobourn's, 162 ; Haver- ford, 167, 191 ; Crosby's, 221 ; Wil- liam Davis', 218 ; Darby, 191 ; Con- cord, 191 ; early rolling and slit- ting mill, 259; order in respect to, 103; Capt. Hans Moenson's to be built, 120.
MINERALS, to be inquired for, 42 ; cata- logue of the localities of, in Dela- ware County, 414.
MINSHALL, THOMAS, meeting-house to be built on land donated by him, 202.
MINUIT, PETER, appointed Director of New Netherland, 8 ; arrival of, with the first Swedish Colony, 20 ; pur- chase of land from the Indians, 23; death of, 23.
MOENSON, HANS, resists the Dutch order
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to move, 78 ; mill to be built at his falls, 120.
MOLESWORTH JAMES, attempts to pro- cure pilots for Lord Howe, 197; arrest and execution of, 197.
MONMOUTH, DUKE OF, arrest of one sup- posed to be concerned with the, 159.
MONTHLY MEETING, first minute of Ches- ter, 134; Haverford regulates se- cular affairs, 188, 195. See Friends and Meeting-house.
MUD ISLAND, Fort on, erected, 269 ; ex- penditure on account of, 277. MULBERRY, white, introduced, 276. MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS, early established, 151, 161.
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NAAMAN, speech of the Indian Chief, at Tinicum, 64.
NASSAU, FORT, erected, 7; location of, 8; visited by De Vries, 15, 16; English attack on, 19; razed, 57. NECROMANCY, young men dealt with by Friends for practicing, 192.
NEGROES, proportion of, to the whites, 261 ; Friends deal with their mem- bers for buying and selling, 272; special tribunal for trying, 273, 556; education of, 347.
NEGRO SLAVES, introduction of, 33 ; be- come more general, 80; in great demand, 85.
NEW AMSTEL, Fort Casimer to be called, 70.
NEW AMSTERDAM, surrender of, to the English, 87.
NEW ENGLAND, sufferers from Indian depredations in, relieved by the Quakers, 195, 282.
NEW GARDEN, organized as a township, 213.
NEW HOLM, location of, 51. NEW LEYDEN, location of, 85.
NEW NETHERLAND, privilege of trading to, granted, 3 ; Directors of, 8, 17, 21.
NEWSPAPER, first, published in Delaware County, 354.
NEW SWEDEN, GOVERNORS OF, 27, 30; trade of, 37; arrival of Swedish vessels at, 47; conquered by the Dutch, 67 ; restoration of demand- ed, 85.
NEW TOWN, Friends' Meeting established at, 194 ; meeting-house erected at, 218, 220 ; notice of, 396.
NICOLLS, COL. RICHARD, commands the
English expedition for the reduc- tion of New Netherland, 87; acts as Governor, 89.
NOBLE, RICHARD, appointed Surveyor of Upland County, 123.
NORTHBY, location of, 161 ; officers ap- pointed for, 161.
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