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HISTORY OF 



they were in a rich country, and their knowledge of re- 

 sources, and of the free institutions which they were 

 about to transmit to their posterity, enabled them to 

 conquer all diiticulties."* 



" At the close of the year 1 682, according to Gordon, 

 the proprietary, with the assistance of his Surveyor 

 General, Thomas Holme, proceeded to lay out his 

 promised city, Philadelphia. During the first year 

 eighty houses were erected in the city, and an equitable 

 and profitable trade opened with the Indians. The 

 Governor chose his own residence in a manor, which he 

 called Pcnnsbury, siluited a few miles below the falls of 

 the Delaware, and about twenty-five from the city, 

 where he built a large and convenient brick house, 

 having an extensive hall for his Indian conferences." 



"The survey of the country inhabited by Europeans 

 having been completed, the proprietary, in 1682, divided 

 it into six counties; three in the province of Pennsyl- 

 vania and the like number in the territory of Delaware. 

 Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester, in Pennsylvania— and 

 Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex, in Delaware. The county 

 organization was completed by the appointment of 

 sheriffs and other officers." t 



The state of aftairs rendered it necessary for a second 

 assembly^ to be convoked, which met at Philadelphia, 



*Frost. 



tTl)c shcrilfs of each county in Pennsylvania, were, for 

 Philadcipliia county, John Tost; for Bucks, llichard Noble; 

 for Chcbtur, Thomas Uslier. 



JMcmbcrs of the second assembly, for Chester county, 

 were, John Iloskins, Robert Wade, George Wood, John 

 Blunston, Di.nnis Rucliford, Thomas Bracy. John Bezer, John 

 Harding, Joseph Phipps. 



