1685.] HISTORY OP DELAWARE COUNTY. 155 



perches more or less ; from thence N: N: W: by y" Land of Jno: 

 Ekley, 880 perches more or less ; from Thence Continuinrr the 

 y* said Course to the Scoolkill River, w"'' s** Scoolkill River 

 afterwards to 1)0 the natural bounds."' 



This line continues to be the Eastern boundary of Delaware 

 County to the North line of Ilaverford. The resolution of the 

 Council makes the next course run easterly instead of westerly, 

 and is probably a mistake, as Radnor township never extended 

 further easterly than it now does. 



In consequence of Christopher Taylor removing from Bucks 

 County to Tinicum, there were four members of the Council from 

 Chester County, viz : Christopher Taylor, John Simcock, "Wil- 

 liam Wood and Nicholas Newlin. 



Charles Aslicom had held the office of Deputy Surveyor for 

 Chester County under the Surveyor-General, Thomas llolme, 

 but the complaints against him were so numerous, and a misun- 

 derstanding having arisen between him and Holme, the Council 

 were obliged to issue an order prohibiting him from surveying 

 any more lands in Chester County. 



At a meeting of the Council, held on the 22d of the 7th 

 month (September), 1685, information was received from Capt. 

 Lasse Cock that the Indians were willing to dispose of their 

 lands between Upland and Appoquinomy. Thomas Holme, 

 John Simcock, and the Secretary (William Markham), or any 

 two of them, were accordingly deputed to make the purchase. 

 The result was a deed" from about a dozen Indian Kings and 

 Sachemakers, with unpronounceable names, executed on the 2d 

 of October, for "all the lands from Quing Quingus, called Duck 

 creek, unto Upland called Chester creek, all along by the west 

 side of the Delaware river and So betweene the Said Creeks 

 Backwards as far as a man can ride in two days with a horse." 

 The consideration did not vary much from what was usual in 

 such cases, except chat it included 40 Tomahawks. This grant, 

 with the one that has already been noticed, extinguished the 

 Indian title to the whole of Delaware County. 



Notwithstanding these sales of their lands, the Indians 

 bad no idea of yielding up the possession before they were re- 

 quired for actual occupation and culture by the whites. They 

 roamed through the forest as freely as ever, and were, some- 

 times, rather troublesome to the border settlers. This year 

 " the Complaint of y" friends. Inhabitants of Concord and 

 Hertford [Haverford] against the Indians, for y^ Rapine and 

 Destructions of their Hoggs," was laid before the Council. 

 Other inhabitants of the Welsh Tract, besides those of Haver- 



1 Col. Rec. i. 126. ^ Penna. Archives, i. 95. 



