OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 113 



The minutes of the preceding Council being read and approved, the 

 Governor informed the Board that pursuant to the resolve of last Coun- 

 cil, he had acquainted the House of Representatives with his intention to 

 erect the upper part of the County of Chester into a separate county, in 

 which they had concurred, and desired that an equal number of the in- 

 habitants of the lower and upper part might run the division line ; and, 

 therefore, he was now to recommend to the Board to choose fit and well 

 qualified persons for that service, and to consider of proper directions 

 for their guidance therein. And after due consideration thereof — 



It is ordered that Henry Hayes, Samuel Nutt, Samuel Hollingsworth, 

 Philip Taylor, Elisha Gatchel, James James, John Wright, Tobias Hen- 

 dricks, Samuel Blunston, Andrew Cornish, Thomas Edwards and John 

 Musgrave, or the major part of them, calling to their assistance John 

 Taylor, the Surveyor of Chester County, meet at some convenient place 

 near Octeraroe Creek or River, and cause a marked line to be run from 

 the most northerly or main branch of the said Creek northward, or to the 

 east or west thereof, as it shall be found most convenient, to the next 

 high ridge of barren or uninhabited hills that trend from thence to 

 Schuylkill River, keeping as near as may be to the ridge of the said hills, 

 and to proceed along the ridge thereof, yet with as few changes in the 

 course as their situation will admit, and fixing the same to the most con- 

 spicuous, natural and durable marks that may be the least subject to 

 uncertainty or variation : to be bounded southward by the southern 

 bounds of the province, and eastwardly the said Octeraroe creek; and 

 from thence the northern line to be by them run as aforesaid, to the said 

 hills, from thence the main northern or easterly branch thereof, above the 

 forks of the said river, to lie open to the westward and northward till 

 further order shall be given therein ; and to make Report of their pro- 

 ceedings to this Board. 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, May 2d, 1729. 



PRESENT: 



The Hon'ble Patrick Gordon, Esqr., Lieut. Governor. 

 Richard Hill, Thomas Laurence, ^ 



William Fishbourne, Samuel Hazle, [-Esq'rs. 



Clement Plumsted, ~ J 



A Return being made oy^he Order dated the 20th day of February 

 last, for running a Division Li!re in the County of Chester, and settling 

 the boundaries of the county to be erected in the back parts of this 

 Province towards Sasquehannah, pursuant to the minute 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 Honorable Patrick Gordon, Esquire, 

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