^8 HISTORY OF 



they were in a rich country, and their knowledge of re- 

 sources, and of the free institutions which they were 

 about to transmit to their posterity, enabled them to 

 conquer all difficulties,"* 



^•At the close of the year 1682, according to Gordon^ 

 the proprietary, with the assistance of his Surveyor 

 General, Thomas Holme^ proceeded to lay out his 

 promised city, Philadelphia. Diu'ing the first year 

 eighty houses were erected in tlie city, and an equitable 

 and profitable trade opened with the Indians. The 

 Governor chose his own residence in a manor, which he 

 called Pemisbury, situated a few miles below the falls of 

 the Delaware, and about twenty-five from the city, 

 where he built a large and convenient brick house, 

 having an extensive hall for his Indian conferences.'^ 



"The survey of the country inhabited by Eui'opeans 

 having been completed,, the proprietary, in 1682, divided 

 it into six comities; three in the province of Pennsyl- 

 vania and the hke nmnber m the territory of Delaware. 

 Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester, in Pennsylvania — and 

 NcAvcastle, Kent, and Sussex, in Delaware. The county 

 organization was completed by the appointment of 

 sheriffs and other officers." t 



The state of affairs rendered it necessary for a second 

 assembly^ to be convoked, which met at Philadelpliia^ 



♦Frost. 



fThe sheriffs of each county in Pennsylvania^ were» for 

 Philadelphia county, John Tost; for Bucks, Richard Noble; 

 for Chester, Thomas Usher. 



^Members of the second assembly, for Chester county, 

 were, John Hoskins, Robert Wade, George Wood, John 

 Blunston, Dennis Rochford, Thomas Bracy, John Bezer, Joha 

 Harding, Joseph Phipps. 



