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hoosey, Tomackhickow, Weskekitt and Talawsis, Indian 

 Shackamakers. Markham made several purchases pre- 

 vious to the arrival ef Penn, who with many of his 

 friends, chiefly from Sussex, sailed for America, and 

 landed at New Castle on the 27th October, 1682, where 

 he was received with demonstrations of joy. Penn then 

 went to Upland, now called Chester, where he convened 

 an assembly on the 4th of December. This body, dur- 

 ing a session of three days, enacted several important 

 laws, one of which was an act to natiu:alize the Dutch, 

 Swedes, and other foreigners. 



Penn was -devoted to the interest of the colony; he 

 lost no time in delays. No sooner, according to Gordon, 

 had the assembly adjourned, than Penn hastened to 

 Maryland, to see Lord Baltimore, who had set up 

 claims, arising from an indistinctness of grant, touch- 

 ing the boundary lines between the two provinces, which 

 caused much disquiet to the border colonists — -with the 

 intention, if possible to adjust the difficulties, he spent 

 several days, without being able to effect the object of 

 his interview with Lord Baltimore. The negotiation 

 was postponed till next spring.* Tlie dispute was 

 finally settled, in 1762! Penn spent some time in 

 Maryland, in religious visits, and then returned to 

 Chester. 



•Lord Baltimore relied on the priority and distinctness of 

 his own title ; while Penn defended a later and more indistinct 

 grant, on a plea which had been suggested to him by the 

 Committee of Plantations of England— that it had never been 

 intended to confer on Lord Baltimore any other territory but 

 such as was inhabited by savages only, at the date of his 

 charter; and that the language of the charter was, therefore, 

 inconsistent with its intendent, in so far as it seemed to au- 

 thorize his claim to any part of the region previously colonized 

 by the Swedes and Dutch— Gra^m, //. 341 ; also, Sec Ap- 

 pendix A. 



