170 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1688. 



^'•Philadelphia.'' " To my very louing friends, Shakhoppoli, 



Secanning, Malebore, Tangoras, In- 

 dian Kings, and to Maskecasho, Wawarim, Tenoughan, Terrec- 

 ka, Nessonhaikin, Indian Sakemakers, and the rest concerned."' 



" Whereas I have purchased and bought of you, the Indian 

 Kings and Sackamakies for the use of Governor William Penn 

 all yo' land from Pemapecka Creek to Upland Creek and so back- 

 ward to the Chesapeak Bay and Susquehanna Two days Journey, 

 that is to say as far as a man can go in two days, as under the 

 hands and seals of you the said Kings may appear and to the 

 end I may have a certain knowledge of the lands backward, and 

 that I may be enabled and be provided against the time for Run- 

 ning the said two days Journey, I do hereby appoint and author- 

 ize my louing friend Benjamin Chambers of Philadelphia, with 

 a convenient number of men to assist him, to mark out a Westerly 

 line from Philadelphia to Susquehannah, that the said line may 

 be prepared and made ready for going the said two days Journey 

 backward hereafter, when notice is given to you the said kings 

 or some of you at the time of going the said line, and I do hereby 

 desire and require in the name of our said Goven" Penn that 

 none of you said kings, Sakamakies or any other Indians what- 

 soever that haue formerly been concerned in the said tracts of 

 land, do presume to offer any interruption or Hindrance in making 

 out this said line, but rather I expect yo"" furtherance and assist- 

 ance, if occasion be herein, and that you will be kind and loving 

 to my said friend Benjamin Chambers and his company for which 

 I shall on the Govern" behalf, be kind and loving to you here- 

 after as occasion may require. 



Witness my hand and seal this 7'^ day of the 5"' mo. called 

 July, being the fourth year of the reign of our great King of 

 England &c. and 8'''' year of our Proprietary William Penn's go- 

 vernment. Thos Holme." 



This document is certified by Jacob Taylor, as being " a true 

 copy from the original,"^ The diagram, which is without date, 

 was probably made from a survey executed this year, and in pur- 

 suance of the foregoing notice. It shows that the line run passed 

 directly through this County ; the dwellings of four well-known 

 early immigrants being marked on it within the limits of Dela- 

 ware County.^ 



* Surveyor-Gen. oflSce, Ilarrisburg, " Old Surveys and Register of Land Warrants," 

 Book 14. 



' The starting-point of the line run for the two days' walk, as indicated by the dia- 

 gram, does not seem to correspond with the deed, and the course of the line, as is 

 shown by " A map of the South East part of Pennsylvania," by John Taylor, on file 

 in the Surveyor-General's office, was due west. Still the walk might not have com- 

 menced at the beginning of the line, and a little varintion in the course was not a 

 matter of much ccinse((ueuce to the Indians. The dwelling marked "Thos. Pearce " 

 on the diagram, was the residence of Thomas Pearson, the maternal grandfather of 

 Benj. West, the painter. 



