12 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



No. 2. 



Certain conditions, or concessions, agreed iqjon by William Penn, Propri- 

 etary and Governor of the i^rovince of Pennsylvania^ and those who are 

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

 one thousand six hundred and eighty-one. 



I. That so soon as it pleaseth God that the abovesaid persons arrive 

 there, a certain quantity of land, or ground plat, shall be laid out, for a 

 large town or city, in the most convenient place, upon the river, for 

 health and navigation ; and every purchaser and adventurer shall, by lot, 

 have so much land therein as will answer to the proportion, which he 

 hath bought, or taken up, upon rent : but it is to be noted, that the sur- 

 veyors shall consider what roads or high-ways will be necessary to the 

 cities, towns, or through the lands. Great roads from city to city not to 

 contain less ihivn forty feet, in breadth, shall be first laid out and declared 

 to be for high-ways, before the dividend of acres be laid out for the pur- 

 chaser, and the like observation to be had for the streets in the towns and 

 cities, that there may be convenient roads and streets preserved, not to be 

 encroached upon by any planter or builder, that none may build irregu- 

 larly to the damage of another. In this, custom governs. 



II. That the land in the town be laid out together after the proportion 

 of ten tliousand acres of the whole country, that is, two hundred acres, if 

 the place will bear it : however, that the proportion be by lot, and entire, 

 so as those that desire to be together, especially those that are, by the 

 catalogue, laid together, may be so laid together both in the town and 

 country. 



III. That, when the country lots are laid out, every purchaser, from 

 one thousand, to ten thousand acres, or more, not to have above one thousand 

 acres together, unless in three years they plant a family upon every 

 thousand acres ; but that all such as purchase together, lie together ; and, 

 if as many as comply with this condition, that the whole be laid out 

 together. 



IV. That, where any number of purchasers, more or less, whose num- 

 ber of acres amounts to five or ten thousand acres, desire to sit together 

 in a lot, or township, they shall have their lot, or township, cast together, 

 in such places as have convenient harbours, or navigable rivers attending 

 it, if such can be found ; and in case any one or more purchasers plant 

 not acccording to agreement, in this concession, to the prejudice of others 

 of the same township, upon complaint thereof made to the Governor, or 



