1675.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 103 



surrendored by tlie Dutch, it will sufficiently explain the order 

 of the Special or General Court at New Castle to the Upland 

 Court, in relation to the maintenance of the minister for the 

 new church at Wiccaco, and the action of this Court in respect 

 to such matters that followed. 



A number of settlements ha<l been made on the Jersey side of 

 the Delaware, principally by the Swedes, but this year the ship 

 Griffith, from London, arrived with a considerable number of 

 emigrant passengers, several of whom were heads of families. 

 They were landed at Salem, where they made a settlement. 

 Edward, Robert and John Wade and Richard Noble arrived in 

 this ship.^ 



On the loth of May, tlio day after the adjournment of the 

 Special Court at New Castle, at which the Governor presided, 

 sundry matters of legislation^ or rather regulation^ that had 

 been omitted by the Court, claimed the attention of his Excel- 

 lency. These he embodied in a letter, which he directed " To 

 the. three several Co""" of delowar River or Bay." The "want 

 of corn mills, or not keeping them in due repair," he regarded 

 as "a great prejudice to the inhabitants and traders," and recom- 

 mended the Courts "to examine the same and cause all such 

 mills already made and the Bankes to be well fitted and kept in 

 due repair;" others were to be built "in convenient and fitting 

 places where none are;" and the Courts were to adopt regula- 

 tions in respect to tolls or prizes for grinding, applicable alike 

 to all millers or owners, whether of public or private mills. 



The Governor next gives important directions in respect to 

 keeping Records. Patents for lands were to be recorded in the 

 books of the respective Courts, and patents were to be applied 

 for by those who had taken up lands after the same had been 

 surveyed.^ 



Robert Wade, who came in the Griffith with Fenwick, settled 

 at Upland on the West side of the creek, on the same tract that 

 had been know^n as Printzdorp, and which had been recently 

 occupied by Mrs. Papegoya. This lady having been reinstated 

 in the possession of Tinicum, disposed of her Upland estate 

 either to Robert Wade or to some other person from whom he 

 obtained his title to the property. Be this as it may, William 

 Edmundson, an eminent minister of the Society of Friends, in 

 travelling through the country in 1G75, found Robert Wade set- 

 tled at Upland, where, with a few Friends, he held a meeting 



> Smith's Hist, of N. J. p. 79. See also Smith's Hist. Penna. in Reg. Penna. vi. 182. 

 One moiety of New .Jersey had been granted by Lord Berkley, one of the proprietors, 

 to Ji hn Fenwick. in tru.-t for Edwd. Billinge. It was under the charge of Fenwick, 

 who was a Friend, that the colonists who came in the Griffith made their settlement at 

 Salem. 



» New Castle Records. Liber A 62. 



