OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Ill 



treat all the said Indians with the same civil regard that they would 

 an English subject; and that by all means they avoid that unbe- 

 coming practice of expressing or shewing their weak unhandsome fears, 

 by which they greatly expose themselves to remarks that are dishonor- 

 able. But because, on the late alarms, apprehensions have been raised 

 of insults from foreign Indians: To the end, that the inhabitants may 

 not in any case (should it unfortunately happen) be unprovided, I do 

 hereby direct and require all llis Majesty's liege subjects within the said 

 province and counties, that they be at all times duly furnished with 

 suitable arms and ammunition for their defence, to be used in case of 

 real necessity by the order and direction of proper officers, who shall be 

 duly appointed for that purpose. And that they fail not to appear with 

 them in proper time and place, if there should be occasion to use them, 

 in defence of themselves, their families and country. 



"Given in Council at Philadelphia, under my hand and the Great Seal 

 of the said Province, the sixteenth da}^ of May, in the first year of the 

 reign of our sovereign Lord George, the Second by the grace of God, 

 over Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, &c., 

 Annoq Dom., 1728. 



" God save the King." 



Up to this period the present limits of Lancaster county, and indeed a 

 large section of Pennsylvania, formed part of Chester county. The 

 county seat was Upland or Chester on the Delaware, 15 miles S. W. from 

 Philadelphia. The inconveniences arising from this circumstance are 

 stated in the subjoined minutes relating to the erection of Lancaster 

 county. 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, Feb. 6th, 1728-9. 



PRESENT : 



The Honorable Patrick Gordon, Esq., Lieut. Governor, 

 James Logan, William Fishbourn, ^ 



Eichard Hill, Clement Plumsted, 1 -r^^",. 



Isaac Norris, Samuel Hazle, i 



Samuel Preston, J 



A petition of the inhabitants of the upper parts of Chester county was 

 laid before the Board and read, setting forth, that by reason of their great 

 distance from the county town, where Courts are held, offices are kept, 

 and annual elections made, they lie under very great inconveniences, 

 being obliged in the recovery of their just debts, to travel near one hun- 

 dred miles to obtain a writ; that for want of a sufficient number of Jus- 

 tices, Constab'efv "ud other officers, in those parts, no care is taken of the 

 high-ways; To3?f^^yhips are not laid out, nor bridges built, when there is 

 an apparent iie^'^essity for them ; and further that for want of a Goal 



