1686.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 159 



in the place of AVilliam Wood, now deceased. David Lloyd, 

 who appears to have just arrived in the country, presented to 

 the Council his Commission from tlie Governor, as Attorney- 

 General of the Province, dated the 2ith of the 2d month 

 (April,) 16S6, and was duly qualified into office. 



Our staid settlers were rarely much affected hy events that 

 were transpiring in England, but the affair of the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth was too serious a matter to pass entirely unnoticed. The 

 following order of the Court is evidence that the Justices were 

 willing, at least, to make a shoiv of their loyalty after the unfor- 

 tunate result of the Duke's foray into England was known. 



" Ordered that the Sheriff take into custody the body of David 

 Lewis upon suspition of Treason, as also the body of Robert 

 Cloud for concealing the same, for that he the said Robert Cloud 

 being attested before this Court, declared that upon the 3"' day 

 of the weeke before Christmas last att the house of George Fore- 

 man, the said David Lewis did declare in his hearing that he 

 was accused for being concerned with the Duke of Monmouth in 

 the ^Yest Country." They were both bound over to appear at 

 the next Provincial Court. 



A spirit of improvement now begins to show itself. Orders 

 are issued by the Court for the erection of two bridges — one "• to 

 Albertus Hendrickson, Supervisor of the Highways belonging to 

 Chester, to forthwith erect a horse bridge in such a place as the 

 grand jury have already laid it out" — the other "to Bartholo- 

 mew Coppeck Supervisor of the Highways for Croome Creek, to 

 forthwith erect a bridge in the Kings road over said Croome 

 Creek." 



Besides determining upon the sites of the aforesaid two bridges, 

 the Grand Jury laid out and made " return of a Highway from 

 Bethel to Chichester (Marcus Hook) sixty foote broad." The 

 return is given as a specimen of the manner in which roads were 

 laid out in these very early times. 



" Beginning at the side of Concord toward the river, on the 

 street or Highway of Concord, first through the land of John 

 Gibbons, his house on the right side — then through the land of 

 Robert Southry late deceased, his house on the left side ; thence 

 through Robert Pile's land, his house on the right hand — then 

 through Joseph Bushell's land, his house on the left hand — Then 

 through Francis Smith's land — Then through Thomas Garrett's 

 land, his house on the right hand — Thence through Francis 

 Harrison's and Jacob Chandler's land down the point to a small 

 branch of Naaman's Creek — Thence up the hill to the first in- 

 closed field of Francis Harrison, the field on the left hand ; then 

 through James Brown's land, thence down to another branch of 

 of Naaman's Creek, through Walter Marten's laud up to the 



