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last, for running a division line in the county of Chester, 

 and settUng the boundaries of the county to be erected 

 in the back parts of this province towards Susquehanna, 

 pursuant to the minutes of council of the 20th of said 

 February, the same was read, approved and confirmed, 

 and is in these words: 



"Pursuant to a warrant from the Hon. Patrick 

 Gordon, Esq., Lieut. Governor of the province of Penn- 

 sylvania, and comities of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, 

 upon Delaware, bearing date the 22d day of February 

 last past, We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, 

 met together on the 17th day of March, 1728-9, near 

 the head of the northern branch of Octoraro creek, and 

 with the assistance of John Taylor, Surveyor of the 

 county of Chester, run a line from the said branch to the 

 river Schuylkill, according to the courses following^ viz: 

 Beginning on a corner marked white oak standing on the 

 eastern side of the said branch, on the land of John 

 Minshall, thence north-east by north, five hundred and 

 eight perches to a chesnut oak standing on the top of a 

 barren mountain at the head of the branches of the said 

 Octoraro creek, thence along the said mountain, north- 

 east by east, three hundred and forty perches to a chests 

 nut tree, thence north north-east, four hundred and forty 

 perches to a white oak by a branch of Pequea creek, 

 thence continuing the same course along the said moun- 

 tain four hundred and eight perches to a chestnut oak, 

 thence north by east seven hundred perches to a white 

 oak near a small branch of Brandywine creek, thence 

 north by west six hundred and sixteen perches to a 

 chestnut tree standing on the top of a mountain at the 

 head of the western branch of the said Brandywine 

 creek, thence east north-east along the said mountain 

 two thousand two hundred and twenty perches to a 



