134 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1682. 



in England,^ and it is supposed emigrated with him in 1675, but 

 .from some cause he preferred to settle at Upland, being, with 

 his wife, among the first Quakers who settled in Pennsylvania. 

 It is not therefore probable that a Friends' meeting was held in 

 Pennsylvania earlier than that year, — the first being held at the 

 house of Robert Wade. No meeting of Record was held till the 

 year 1681, the following being the earliest minute : 



"The 10'^ day of the ll"' month 1681. A monthly meeting 

 of Friends belonging to Marcus-hook, alias the Chester and Up- 

 land, held at the house of Robert Wade." 



These meetings for a time were held alternately at the places 

 designated, and constituted one monthly meeting. That held at 

 Robert Wade's eventually became " Chester Monthly meeting," 

 while from the Chichester, or Marcus Hook meeting, originated 

 at first the Chichester Monthly meeting, which subsequently be- 

 came merged in that of Concord. 



The only Quaker heads of families that were settled at 

 Chester and Marcus Hook, or in the vicinity of those places, 

 before the arrival of the first ship sent out by Penn, so far as the 

 author can discover, were Robert Wade, Roger Pedrick, 

 Morgan Drewet, William Woodmanson, Michael Izzard, Thomas 

 Revel, Henry Hastings, William Oxley, James Browne, Henry 

 Reynolds, and Thomas Nossiter. 



There were no other Friends then settled within the present 

 territorial limits of our County, but quite a number were located 

 higher up the river on the Pennsylvania side of it. 



The next Court for Upland County was held at Upland on the 

 14th of March, 1682, which, according to the Record, is still 

 within the year 1681. This Court was held by the same, or 

 nearly the same Justices, Deputy Governor Markham presiding. 

 The details of a trial that occurred at this Court are given, to 

 illustrate the manner of conducting judicial proceedings in these 

 primitive times : 



" J A , bound by recognizance to appear at this 



Court to answer our Sovereign Lord the King upon the accusa- 

 tion of Richard Noble, Peter Rambo Jun"", and Lawrence Law- 

 renson, who were bound over to prosecution. This Court pro- 

 ceeded upon indictment;"' to which the prisoner pleaded not 

 guilty : and put himself upon the tryal &c., of this Jury :" 



JURORS. 



" George Foreman Gent. Albert Hendrickson 



John Child Mons Peterson 



Nathaniel Allen Wooley Rawson 



Nathaniel Evans John Cock 



William Oxley Erich Cock 



John Akraman Peter Yoakum." 



Penua. Archives, i. 57. ^ There was no Grand Jury. 



