120 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1678. 



above the mill in amesland Kill." The mill here alluded to is 

 the old Swedes mill erected by Gov. Printz, about the year 1644, 

 and doubtless the most useful institution in the country. The 

 inhabitants became alarmed at seeing land taken up "so near the 

 mill of Carkoen creek,"^ lest "the s*^ mill would bee Left desti- 

 tute of any land to gett timber for y^ use of s'^ mill, and upon 

 their representation the Court ordered that 100 acres of land 

 should be laid on the went syde of ye s** mill branch," for the use 

 of the mill. The Court also ordered that the 100 acres granted 

 to Jan Boelsen should be reserved for the mill, having first ob- 

 tained his assent. The mill tract on Holmes' map is on the 

 East side of the creek. It would therefore appear that 200 

 acres were reserved for the use of the mill, unless the tract on 

 Holme's map is incorrectly laid down. 



At the same Court, the erection of another mill was decided 

 upon. . "It being in consideracon that it was very necessary that 

 a mill be built in the Schuylkill ; and there being no fitter place 

 than the faall Called Capf bans moenses faalls; The Co'' are of 

 opinion that Either Capt° bans moenses ought to build a mill 

 there, (as bee sayes that bee will,) or else suffer another to build 

 for the common good of the parts."^ 



Where there are mills, there must of necessity be roads, parti- 

 cularly as settlements begin to be made in the interior of a 

 country. Hence the Court "ordered that every p''son should 

 w'^n the space of twoo months, as far as his Land Reaches, 

 make good and passable wayes from neighbour to neighbour, w*'' 

 bridges where it needs. To the End that neighbours on occasion 

 may come together. Those neglecting, to forfeit 25 gilders."* 



The interests of the Church also claimed some of the attention 

 of the Court. " Complaint being made by the Church Wardens 

 that Neeles Laerson has taken in (w''' Lotts of Land by him 

 bought of dom: Lasse Carolus here in Upland Towne) some of 

 the Church or glebb Land; — ordered, that Neeles Laersen shall 



1 Rec. Upland Court, 88. Darby creek, which empties into the Delaware below Ti- 

 nicuin, was for many years taken as part of Cobb's creek, and went by the names of 

 Mill creek, Carkoen creek, and Amosland kill or creek. Darby creek, above the junc- 

 tion of the two creeks, though much the larger stream, was regarded as a branch of 

 Cobb's creek. 



^ Rec. Upland Court, 115. The stream here mentioned is the present Mill creek, and 

 the site of " bans moens faalls," at Maylandville. A draft of this property, made by 

 David Powell in 1684, and now on file in the Surveyor-General's oflBce, represents a 

 mill pond and mill very near the present site of Maylandville. It was then the pro- 

 perty of William Clayton. 



3 Rec. Upland Court, 119. The Upland Court does not prescribe the manner of 

 making these roads. A few months later, the Court of New Castle made the following 

 order : "The highways to bee cleared as foUoweth, viz' — The way to bee made cleare of 

 standing and lying trees, at least 10 foot broad, all stumps & Shrulis to bee close cutt 

 by y^ ground. The trees mark' yearly on both sydes — sufiicient bridges too be made 

 and Kept ouerall marshy, swampy & diflScult dirty places and whatever else shall bee 

 thought more necessary about y« Highwayes afores'^." See New Castle Court Rec. 

 Book B. p. 146. 



