114 AUTHENTIC HISTORY 



Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Pensilvania and counties of New- 

 castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, bearing date the 22d day of Feb- 

 ruary 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 Octeraroe Creek, and with the assistance of John Taylor, Surveyor of 

 the County of Chester, run a Line from the said Branch to the Eivcr 

 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 live 

 hundred and eighty perches to a Chestnut Oak standing on the top of a 

 barren mountain at the head of the branches of the said Octeraroe creek 

 thence along the said mountain north-east by east three hundred and forty 

 perches to a Chestnut tree, thence north north-east four hundred and forty 

 perches to a White Oak, by a branch of Pequea creek, thence continuing 

 the sa,me course along the said mountain four hundred and eighty 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 Chestnut tree near the Western Branch 

 of the French Creek, thence north-east by east three hundred and fifty 

 perches to a red Oak, thence north-east one hundred and ninety perches 

 to a Chestnut Oak near another Branch of the said French Creek, thence 

 north-east by north two thousand one hundred perches to a corner 

 marked White Oak, standing by the said Eiver Schuylkill, about three 

 quarters of a mile below the house of John Burroughs." 



Henry Hays, Tobias^Hendricks, 



Samuel Hollingsworth, Samuel Blunston, 



Philip Taylor, Andrew Cornish, 



Elisha Gatchel, Thomas Edwards, 



James James, John Musgrave. 



John Wright. 

 "And the upper parts of this Province described as aforesaid, are hereby 

 declared to be erected, and are accordingly erected into a County by the 

 name of LANCASTER COUNTY. And 'Tis Obdered that the sarne be 

 signified to thellouse of Representatives, and the Return laid before them 

 for their direction in describing the boundaries thereof in the Bill now 

 before them for establishing Courts of Judicature, &c., within the them." 

 Ihe County owes its name, according to tradition, to John Wright a 

 native of Lancashire in England, who arrived in the province in 17M, 

 settled a Chester and removed to Columbia in 1726. A sketch of his 

 life will be found m the Biographical Division of this work 



