178 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1690. 



Upon the petition of David Lloyd, " a road or street was laid 

 out from his plantation to Chester Creeke to the public landing 

 place," as follows : 



" Chester, this 4"" of the 4''^ month 1690.— We the Grand In- 

 quest do lay out a street 30 feet wide, the one half of this public 

 street to be on one side the line dividing betwixt David Lloyd's 

 and the Green L. C. one half on David Lloyd's Land, the other 

 half on the Green's side, note that this street begins at the 

 public landing place at Chester Creek, and ending at the further 

 side of Joseph Richards his lot near David Lloyd's house ; note 

 also, that if any part of the 15 foot on David Lloyd his side, 

 which is laid out for the street, it must so remain." 



The street thus laid out is now known in the borough of 

 Chester as Filbert street, and we are thereby enabled with 

 great precision to locate " the Crreen" a plot of ground well 

 known at this period, and for some time afterwards, by that 

 name. This G-reen was Church land, and was no doubt secured 

 by the Swedes in anticipation of the erection of a church at 

 Upland. It is included in a patent^ for a larger tract granted 

 to " Rev. Laurenty Caroly minister to the Swedes," April 8th, 

 1669. This patent includes the whole river front from Upland 

 Kill to " Prissers Kill," and is referred to as " the minister's 

 land," in a patent granted to Jurian Kene on the 4th of August 

 of the previous year. 



"The Green" does not appear to have had any definite 

 bounds till the 11th of the 7th month, (September,) 1684, when, 

 upon a warrant of survey, a plot of nearly five acres in the 

 form of a parallelogram, extending 12 perches along the east 

 side of Upland Creek, and 65 perches along the river, was sur- 

 veyed and laid out "unto Swedes in Upland township."^ It 

 will be seen, hereafter, how this Church Glebe came to be appro 

 priated to secular uses. 



John Hoskins was presented by the Grand Jury for trespassing 

 "upon the County's land belonging to the prison house in 

 Chester." 



"James Sanderlands being called and examined about the above 

 said land, declareth that he did give all that land on which the 

 prison now standeth between the street and the creek, at the first 

 beginning of this Government, for to build a prison upon."^ 



1 Albiiny Rec. " Abstract of Patents," ii. 57. See Appendix, Note C. 



* The description in the Survey is as follows : " beginning at a corner post standing 

 by Upland Creek, being a corner of Eusta Anderson, and thence by the same S. 72° 



E. 65 per. to a corner post, thence S. 21° E. 12 perches to a corner post by House 



by Delaware river, thence down the several courses thereof to the mouth of the said 

 Upland Creek, thence up the same to the place of beginning." It is marked " A tract 

 of the Sweeds in Upland township. — See Book B, No. 3, Surveyor-General's Office, Har- 

 riaburg. 



3 This would seem to indicate that the first prison erected was not connected with 

 the Court-house, but doubtless stood on the same lot nearer the creek. Front street, 

 when laid out, passed between the Court-house and prison. 



