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for two years) at the end of two years and six months, 

 from the time of the survey of the said lands, (one-half 

 year's interest of the whole being abated), one hundred 

 and eighteen pounds fiuther, part thereof with interest, 

 included within one year, then next after one hundred 

 and twelve pounds (the mterest being mcluded) further 

 part thereof, within one year, then next after, the sum of 

 one hundred and six pounds full residue thereof, that of 

 all interest for the same, within one year, that next fol- 

 lowing, so that the said five hundred pounds and mterest, 

 a^ aforesaid, is to be paid in six years next after the time 

 of survey. And also that the said purchasers, their heirs 

 and assigns, shall pay imto the proprietary and Governor 

 William Penn, his heirs and assigns, the sum of one 

 sliilling sterling aforesaid, quit-rent yearly forever, 

 for every hundred acres of the said ten thousand 

 acres of land, and that said purchasers shall have said 

 lands free of quit-rent for the two first years next after 

 the survey thereof, and the said purchasers requesting of 

 us a warrant for the location and survey of the said land 

 aforesaid. These are, therefore, to authorize and require 



concessions to plant a family within three years after it was 

 surveyed, on every thousand acres. These regulations were, 

 however, not generally observed. 



By warrant, dated, July 5, 1712, there were surveyed, Nov. 

 1^ 1712, Pequea, now Strasburg township, for Amos Strettle, 

 3380 acres, who afterwards sold it in smaller tracts; the prin- 

 cipal persons to whom he sold, prior to 1731, were Henry 

 Shank, Ulrich Brackbill, Augustine Widower,- Alexander 

 Fridley, Martin Miller, George Snavely, Christian Musser, An- 

 drew Shultz, John Fonts, Jacob Stein, John Hickman, John 

 Bowman, Valentme Miller, Jacob Hain, John Hcrr, Henry 

 Carpenter, Daniel Ferree, Isaac Lefevre, Christian Stoner, 

 John Beiers, Hans Lein, Abraham Smith, John Jacob Hoover, 

 Septimus Robinson, Samuel Hess, Samuel Boyer, John 

 Musgrove. 



