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thee to survey or cause to be surveyed, unto the said 

 purchasers the full quantity of ten thousand acres of 

 land (with reasonable allowance for roads and highways) 

 in one entire tract, at or near the place aforesaid,- and to 

 subdivide the same (if they request it) into so many 

 small tracts or parts as they shall agree or appoint to 

 each of them his respective share to be holden by the 

 purchasers, their heirs and assigns, under the rents, pay- 

 ments and agreements aforesaid, subject to distress for 

 the said rent in case of non-payment, and of thy trans- 

 actions and doings in the premises, by virtue of these 

 presents thou art to make such returns into the Secretary's 

 office, with all reasonable expedition. Given mider our 

 hands and seals of the province, the tenth day of the 

 eight month at Philadelphia, A. D. 1710. 



EDWARD SHIPPEN, 

 GRIFFITH OWEN, 

 THOS: STORY." 

 To Jacob Taylok, Surveyor General. 

 Warrant Book, 1700—1714, p. 229. 



On the 23d of October, the land was surveyed and di- 

 vided among the Meylins, Herr, Keiidig, and others of 

 the company. 



Having erected temporary shelters, to answer their 

 wants, some set about it, and put up dwellings of more 

 durableness. Martin Kendig erected one of hewed wal- 

 nut logs on his tract, which withstood the storms and 

 rain — the gnawings of the tooth of time, for rising of one 

 hundred and ten years, and might, had it not been re- 

 moved in 1841, and its place taken up by one of more 

 durable materials, have withstood the corroding elements 

 for generations to come. They now began to build 



