180 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1691. 



It was resolved and ordered by the Council this year, ''that 

 each county shall hencefForward Elect or give their SuflFrages 

 according to Charter, viz.: by y^ ballat." This mode of 

 election has ever since prevailed in Pennsylvania. 



The Friends" Monthly Meeting of Chester, now composed of 

 the four particular meetings of Providence, Middletown, Spring- 

 field, and Chester, became more earnest in respect to the 

 erection of a meeting-house on the lot that had been purchased 

 for that purpose. A committee for each meeting was appointed 

 to collect the necessary funds, and m the commencement of the 

 following year it was agreed, " that John Bristow and Caleb 

 Pusey do forthwith agree with and employ workmen in the 

 building the meeting house at Chester, (with stone) on the place 

 that was formerly bought for that purpose; the situation of 

 which, as also the manner of building the same, is left to their 

 own discretion, and that this meeting do defray the charge of 

 the same,^ so that it exceed not above one hundred pounds, and 

 that there be one convenient chimney at the least, and that the 

 said John Bristow and Caleb Pusey do give account of what 

 they have done." 



The Welsh inhabitants of Haverford and Radnor have, at 

 length, fully submitted to being annexed to Chester County. 

 The names of several from those townships appear as jurors, 

 and that of William Jenkins, of Haverford, as a Justice of the 

 Court. 



David Lloyd appeared on behalf of the recusant Welshmen, 

 and assured the Court, " that they were willing to pay according 

 to their proportions from the time they have been legally in this 

 county ; and after some debate it was agreed and acknowledged by 

 David Lloyd, that the Welsh who are reputed to be within the 

 bounds of Chester County, shall contribute towards paying the 

 tax, the same being assessed and levied upon them as upon the 

 inhabitants of Chester County according to due proportion & 

 priority of residence and settlement, the inhabitants of the County 

 of Chester indemnifying them the said Welsh from paying in 

 Philadelphia and be at the charge of altering the patents and 

 deeds which mention Philadelphia^ instead of Chester County; 

 provided that such their contribution to the said tax shall not 

 be prejudicial or made use of to debar them of any privileges the 

 Proprietor is or shall be willing and capable to grant or confirm 

 unto them." Thus ended the Welsh difiiculty ; and although 



1 The first subscription for building this meeting amounted to £56 7s., and was 

 made by 54 persons. 



2 In nearly all the early conveyances of land in Haverford and Radnor, it is described 

 as being in the " Welsh tract," and some of them also mention that the land is in the 

 County of Philadelphia; but the author has never seen that any alteration or change 

 has been made in any of these old title papers. 



