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Israel Morris, Thomas Harper, Thomas Wharton, 

 Stephen Shewell, John Leacock, William Ball, 

 Joseph Wharton,jr.Wm. Morris, Jr. Samuel Burge, 

 James Coultas, Ed. Pennington, Jacob Cooper, 

 George Dillvvjn, Wm. Ransted, Wm. Dowell, 

 William Fisher, Joseph Saunders, Cadr. Evans, 

 George Gray, Sanil. Shoemaker, Henry Harrison, 



Joshua Howell, John Nixon, Saml. AVharton, 



John Howard, Philip Syng, Danl. Williams, 



Thomas Lawrence,T. Wharton, Jr. James Logan, 

 Evan Morgan, Jonathan Evans, William Parr, 



Sixty-four in number, exclusive of the Baron, the 

 owner of the occupied soil, an honorary member by 

 usage to this day. 



In 1760, the governor and assembly, for the purpose of 

 correcting some prevailing abuses and innovations on pri- 

 mitive usages, &c. passed the following act, comprising 

 them, entitled, "an act for the support of the Navy in 

 Schuylkill, and for the better regulating the Fishing 

 Company. " 



Whereas the Fishery in Schuylkill, is well known to be 

 the staple, natural and prime riches of our Colony, and de- 

 pends entirely upon our Navy, the victualling and mann- 

 ing whereof, hath hitherto been unequally sustained by a 

 few, whilst the advantages have been common and free to 

 all the members and Freemen of the said Colony; and 

 Whereas several innovations have been introduced, di- 



