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When your Honour was with us at Conestogoe 3^our desire was that we 

 should not hurt any of 3'our people, which we carefully have observed, 

 and likewise that Ed. Parnell who was settled there, should go ofl" which 

 he did, which now grieves our hearts to see how little our counsels is 

 minded. We hear that one of William Penn's family is coming in this 

 country, but the truth of it we know not; we long to hear the truth of it 

 for we should be glad to see any of William Penn's family. 



We are now agoing out to hunt, so desire you to suppress your peo- 

 ple from settling there until we return from our hunting and then some 

 of our chiefs will come down to you and have some further treaty about 

 ye matter. 



From your Loving Brother, in behalf of ye rest of my Brethren, 



Decattelees, alias Capt. Civility. 



CoNESTOGCE, Sept. ye 28, 1730. 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, January 29th, 1730-31. Present: 

 The Hon. Patrick Gordon, Esq., Lieutenant Governor, etc. 



A petition of the Magistrates, Grand Jury, and other inhabitants of the 

 County of Lancaster, was presented to the Board and read, setting forth 

 that not- having the conveniency of any navigable water, for bringing 

 the produce of their labors to Philadelphia, they are obliged at a great 

 expense to transport them by land carriage, which burthen becomes 

 heavier through the want of suitable roads for carriages to pass. That 

 there are no public roads leading to Philadelphia yet laid out through 

 their County, and those in Chester County, through which they now pass, 

 are in many places incommodious. And therefore praying that proper 

 persons may be appointed to view and lay out a Eoad for the publick 

 service, from the town of Lancaster till it falls in with the High Road in 

 the County of Chester, leading to the Ferry of Schuylkill at high street, 

 and that a Review may be had of the said Public Road in the County of 

 Chester : The prayer of which petition being granted : 



It is ORDERED that Thomas Edwards, Edward Smout, Robert Barber, 

 Hans Graaf, Caleb Peirce, Samuel Jones and Andrew Cornish of the 

 County of Lancaster, or any five of them, view and lay out by course 

 and distance, a convenient high Road from the said town of Lancaster to 

 the Division Line between the Counties of Chester and Lancaster: And 

 that Thomas Green, George Ashton, William Paschal, Richard Buffing- 

 ton, William March, Samuel Miller and Robert Parke of the County of 

 Chester, or any five of them, do then join the above named persons of 

 Lancaster County, or any five of them, in continuing to lay out as afore- 

 said, the said Road from the Division Line aforesaid, till it falls in with 

 the King's high Road in the County of Chester, leading to Philadelphia, 

 and make Return thereof to this Board, And they the above named 

 persons of the County of Lancaster, or any five of them, together with 



