132 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1681. 



heard certain Indians speak against him and Captain Edmund 

 Cantwell ; the said Lassey Cock, upon oath, declared his inno- 

 cency, and that he had never spoken those words to the Indians, 

 or any of that nature, was thereupon cleared by the Court." 



Letters of Administration were granted by the Court to 

 Caspar Fiske on the Estate of Eusta Daniell — security in £100, 

 given to Robert Wade and William Clayton. 



Besides the English names already mentioned, there occur, 

 in the proceedings of this Court those of Richard Ridgeway, 

 Francis Stephenson, Richard Noble, John Champion, Thomas 

 Nossiter, John Wood, and William Cobb. These and many 

 others had become residents of Upland County prior to the date 

 of Penn's patent. Most of those who were Friends emigrated 

 with the early West Jersey settlers, but for some reason settled 

 on the West side of the river. 



At the next Court, which was held on the 30th of November, 

 Deputy Governor Markham presided, and James Sandelandes 

 and Thomas Fairman, with all those who held the last Court, 

 sat as Justices, except William Warner, who was absent. But 

 four cases were tried at this Court ; one withdrawn and one 

 continued. 



Three ships sailed from England for Pennsylvania this year ; 

 two from London and one from Bristol. No particulars of the 

 arrival of the John ^ Sarah, which is said to have arrived 

 first, are given ; but we are informed by Proud,^ that the 

 Bristol Factor, Roger Drew commander, •' arrived at the place 

 where Chester now stands, on the 11th of December, where the 

 passengers seeing some houses, went on shore at Robert Wade's 

 landing near the lower side of Chester Creek; and the river 

 having froze up that night, the passengers remained there all 

 winter." The other ship, the ^wwYi/, " having been blown off 

 to the West-Indies, did not arrive until the Spring of the next 

 year." 



Proud places the arrival of William Markham in one of these 

 ships, with certain commissioners, whom he says were joined 

 with him, " to confer with the Indians or Aboriginies of the 

 Country respecting their lands, and to confirm with them a 

 league of peace." It is possible that certain Commissioners 

 arrived on board of one or more of these vessels, but they were 

 not associated with the Deputy Governor as has been mentioned. 

 The only purchase of land that was made from the Indians for 

 the Proprietary before his arrival, was the large purchase on the 

 Delaware above Shackamaxon,^ which was made by Markham 

 alone, although the Commissioners were then in the country. 



The Commissioners were William Crispin, William Haige, 



1 Hist. Penna. i. 193. * Penna. Archives, i. 47^8. 



