28 HISTORY oy 



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 difficulties."* 



"At the close of the year 1682, 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 Pemisbuiy^ situated 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 Pemisyl- 

 vanla and the like number in the territory of Delaware. 

 Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester, in Pennsylvania — and 

 JS'ewcastle, Kent, and Sussex, in Delaware. The county 

 organization was completed by the appointment of 

 sheriffs and other officers." t 



The state of affairs rendered it necessary for a second 

 assembly^ to be convoked, which met at Philsidelphia, 



*Frost. 



fThe sheriffs of each county in Pennsylvania^ were, for 

 Philadelphia county, John Tost; for Bucks, Richard Noble; 

 for Chester, Thomas Usher. 



IMembers of the second assembly, fo? Chester county, 

 were, John Hoskins, Robert Wade, George Wood, John 

 Blunston, Dennis Rochford, Thomas Bracy, John Bezer, Joha 

 Harding, Joseph Phipps» 



