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2. To read his letter and the king's declaration to the inhabitants, and 

 to take their acknowledgment of his authority and propriety. 



o. To settle boundaries between Penn and his neighbors, to survey, 

 set out, rent or sell lands according to instructions given. 



4. To erect courts, appoint sherifts, justices of the peace, etc. 



5. To call to his aid any of the inhabitants, for the legal suppression 

 of tumult, etc.^ 



Markham carried also letters from Penn and the king to Lord Balti- 

 more, authorizing him to adjust boundaries. He arrived at New York 

 on June 21, 1(381, 0. S, and "Lord Baltimore, being in the province, had 

 an interview with Markham at Upland (now called Chester) which re- 

 sulted in discovering, from actual observation, that Upland itself was at 

 least 12 miles south of 40 degrees, and that boundaries (claimed by Lord 

 Baltimore) would extend to the Schuylkill. This discovery ended the 

 conference, and gave fresh incentives to Penn to obtain from the Duke of 

 York a grant of the Delaware settlements, as without such grant he had 

 now reason to fear the loss of the Avhole peninsula."''^ 



Penn soon after published an account of his province with the royal 

 charter and other documents connected with it, offering easy terms of 

 sale for lands, viz. : forty shillings sterling for one hundred acres, subject 

 to a quit rent of one shilling per annum forever. 



"Many persons from Loudon, Liverpool, and Bristol, embarked in his 

 enterprise; and an association, called the 'Free Traders' Society of Penn- 

 sylvania,' purchased large tracts of land. Articles of agreement between 

 the proprietary and the adventurers were formed, under the title of ' Cer- 

 tain conditions or concessions, agreed upon by William Penn, proprie- 

 tary and governor of the province of Pennsylvania, and those who are 

 the adventurers and purchasers in the same province, the eleventh of 

 July, 1681.'"^ This document is reproduced in Division X, No. 2. 



In the autumn of the same year [1681] Penn appointed three Com- 

 missioners, viz., Wm. Crispin, John Bezar and Nathaniel Allen, to pro- 

 ceed to the colony, arrange for a settlement, lay out a town and treat 

 with the Indians. His mind towards the latter may be seen from the 

 subjoined letter to them, which he sent to them by his deputy and com- 

 missioners:* 



"LoNDOX, the 18th of the Eighth month, 1681. 

 " 'My Friends: There is a great God and power, that hath made the 

 world, and all things therein; to whom you and I, and all people owe 

 their being, and well-being; and to whom you and I must one day give 

 an account for all that we do in the world. 



1 Hazard's Annals, p. 504. 2 Hazard quoting from Clialniers. 



3 Gordon. 4 Proud. Clarkson. Hazard. 



