136 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1682. 



"•Mens Stawket from Ammersland to Karkus mill." 



" Peter Yokehara from Karkus Mill to Scliore kill [Schuyl- 

 kill] falls.'" 



" Andreas Eambo from Scliore kill falls to Tavvrony [Tacony] 

 Creeke." 



" Erick Mullikay from Tawrony Creeke to Poynessink Creek ; 

 Clause Johnson from Poynessink creeke to Samuel Cliffs." 



"John Akraman, from Samuel Cliifs to Gilbert Wheelers." 



Gilbert Wheeler's residence was in the neighborhood of Tren- 

 ton, which shows the territorial extent of Upland County. The 

 main road that required repairs appears to have crossed the 

 Schuylkill and other streams at or near the head of tide water. 



On the 12th of June, messengers from Lord Baltimore, with 

 letters to Governor Markham, arrived at Upland, but the Go- 

 vernor being on a visit to New York, James Sandelandes and 

 Robert Wade dispatched a messenger to him, with the Lord Bal- 

 timore's communication, and also a letter from them, advising 

 him that Commissioners were in waiting, ready to meet him, at 

 Bohemia river. 



"• The grant formerly made from Governor Markham to the 

 inhabitants of Marcus Hooke att their request for the calling 

 the name of the said ToAvn OhicJiester, which said grant bears 

 date the twentieth day of April 1682, and was read and pub- 

 lished in the Court held at Upland June the thirteenth Anno 

 1682, according to order as a record thereof." This was the 

 fourth Court held under Governor Markham's administration. 



At the first Court under his government, the English currency 

 of pounds, shillings and pence was introduced, but at this Court 

 there was a return to the old currency o^ gilders, so difficult is it 

 to change the established customs of a people. One verdict at 

 this Court is for 616 gilders, and there are several for a less 

 number. " Skipps of wheat," also occur in the proceedings. 



The next Court in order was held on the 12th of September, 

 1682. Governor Markham officiated as President, and was as- 

 sisted by several of the Justices that have been named. 



The first Grand Jury that ever sat in Pennsylvania of which 

 there is any record, was summoned to attend at this Court. 

 Their names, as given in the minutes of the Court, are William 

 Clayton, Thomas Brassey, John Symcock, Tho. Sary, Robert 

 Wade, Lawrence Cock, John Hart, Nath". Allen, William Wood- 

 manson, Tho'. Coebourne, John Otter and Joshua Hastings ; 

 being one half the usual number. These jurors were summoned 

 in the case of Lassey, alias Lawrence Dalboe, and are called 

 his " Grand Jury."^ 



1 Proud. Hist. Penna. i. 240, says that the Grand Jury that sat in the case of Pick- 

 erinfT, tried before the Council in 1683 for counterfeiting coin was the first, but this is 



