104 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1676. 



at his house. After meeting they took boat and went to Salem, 

 "where they met with John Fenwick and several families of 

 Friends, (who, with those at Chester,) had come from England 

 in that year with John Fenwick."' From thence Robert Wade 

 accompanied the travelling Friends to New Castle, where their 

 horses had been sent, and from thence to Upland. Doubtless 

 the House of Robert Wade, at which the meeting was held, was 

 the famous Essex House, at which William Penn was entertained 

 upon his first landing at Upland ; but whether it was erected 

 by Wade, or had been built by the daughter of Governor Printz, 

 when she occupied the premises, is uncertain. The fact that 

 Robert Wade, within, at most, a few months after his arrival in 

 the country, had house room sufficient for the accommodation of 

 a Friends' meeting, and was prepared to make a journey to 

 Maryland, would suggest that he had been fortunate enough 

 to secure a dwelling already erected to his hand. 



It is not known what other members of the Society of Friends, 

 of those who accompanied Fenwick, besides Robert Wade and 

 his family, settled at Upland. They were the first members of 

 that society who settled within the limits of our County or of the 

 Commonwealth. 



The special execution granted in 1672 to Mrs. Papegoya, or 

 " Jeuff"ru Armigart Printz," as she is called, and which put her 

 in possession of Tinicum, failed to satisfy the judgment obtained 

 against Andrew Carr and his wife. Sherifi" Cantwell is ordered 

 to proceed to a full execution of the judgment.^ 



About this time, William Penn, as trustee, became interested 

 in the settlement of West Jersey; a circumstance that brought 

 to his notice the not yet appropriated territory West of the De- 

 laware, and gave rise to the idea of planting a colony there on 

 principles that, in all future ages, will claim the admiration of 

 the world for their liberality. 



Since the final establishment of British rule on the Delaware, 

 Capt. Cantwell, in addition to his office of Sheriff and other ap- 

 pointments, had acted as the superior military officer. On the 

 23d of September, 1676, he was superseded in the latter office 

 by the appointment of Captain John Collier as "Commander in 

 Delaware River and Bay."^ On the same day Justices of the 

 Peace were commissioned for the jurisdictions of New Castle 

 and Upland, for one year or till "further order;" any three of 

 whom Avould constitute a Court of Judicature. Ephraim Her- 

 man was appointed Clarke of both Courts.^ 



1 Smith's Hist. Penna. in Haz. Reg. vi. 182. 



2 Haz. Ann. 423. 



^ New Castle Rec. A. i. p. 2. Capt. Collier was also appointed " Sub-Collector of His 

 Majesties Custouies of Now Castle in delawar." 

 * Upland Court Rec. 37. 



