1693.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 187 



to one application for a road, which is the first adverse report 

 on the record. 



Upon the petition of the Inhabitants of Radnor to the Lieut. 

 Governor and Council " recjuesting a road to be laid outt from 

 the upper part of the s** township of Radnor unto marion ford," 

 a warrant was directed by the Lieut. Governor to lay out the 

 same.* 



Upon petition of the Inhabitants of Chester County to the 

 Governor and Council, settinj; forth that they had long suffered 

 for want of a division line between that county and New Castle, 

 it was resolved, "that for the present convenience of the fjovern- 

 ment and not for an absolute and final proprietarie division, (but 

 that the inhabitants on the borders of both counties may know 

 to which of the two to pay their levies, taxes &c.. and perform 

 their countie services,) the bounds of New Castle Countie shall 

 extend Northward to the mouth of Naaman's creek, and upwards 

 alonor the S. W. side of the northermost branch, (excludinfz; the 

 townshipps of Concord & Bethell) and not to extend backwards 

 of the northermost branch above the s"* townshipps."^' 



It is a source of regret that the minutes of Haverford Monthly 

 Meeting from the 5th mo. (July,) 1686, to the 5th mo., 1693, are 

 wanting, because that meeting was more particular than any 

 other in noting matters that would form interesting items for a 

 local history. During this period, the meeting at the Schuylkill 

 has ceased to be connected with this monthly meeting, but the 

 register of Marriages, still preserved, shows that the connection 

 continued till 1688. The Haverford Monthly Meeting is now 

 composed of the three preparative meetings of Merion, Haver- 

 ford and Radnor. 



It has been seen that the Welsh people, of which these meet- 

 ings were almost wholly composed, refused till 1690 to attach 

 themselves to any district in which municipal government had 

 been established ; claiming a promise from the Proprietary, that 

 they should form a separate community, with a view of deciding 

 all controversies and debates amongst themselves in their own 

 language and " in Gospel order." The monthly meeting was 

 doubtless the tribunal that regulated the secular as well as the 

 spiritual affairs of our Welsh ancestors for seven or eight years 

 after their first settlement; nor did they wholly entrust their 

 civil matters to the oflBcers of the law for some time after they 

 had submitted to a division of the Welsh Tract between the 

 Counties of Philadelphia and Chester. Thus, at the monthly 

 meeting held at Haverford in the 6th month (August,) 1693, it 

 was ordered, " y* Wm. Howell, Morris Llewelyn for Haverford, 

 David Merideth, David Evans for Radnor, Griffith Jones, James 

 » Col. Rec. i. 356. » Ibid. 349. 



