1694.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 189 



The above extracts are without date, but stand on the record 

 immediately above the following. It may therefore be inferred 

 that thry were enacted at the same, or at an earlier period. 



" Agreed by the Townsmen of Darby at the meeting house, 

 upon liC" day of the 12'" month, 169^5-4, [Feb., 1694,] that 

 whatever handy-Crafts men shall offer himself to inhabit in the 

 township, shall first continue forty days as a sojourner, to have 

 the approbation of the said township; whither he shall be re- 

 ceived as an inhabitant or no ; and that no person shall dare to 

 receive any stranger as an inhabitant before such probation and 

 grant of said Townsmen. 



'• Signed on behalf of the Town of Darby, by 



"■ Tho. Worth." 

 " Agreed at a Town meeting 1693-4, That Tho. Worth shall 

 as Clerk of the Town, signe all public agreements in behalf of 

 the town, and the same shall be as binding as if every mans 

 particular hand was at the same." 



The Court proceedings of this year are introduced by imposing 



upon Mary M a fine of "five shillings /or her lying. ^' 



A road was laid out "between Radnor meeting house and the 

 Schuylkill ford ;" and also one " from John Longworthy's house 

 to a road between Chester and Radnor." 



One Philip England claimed the monopoly of the Ferry at 

 High street on the Schuylkill, but from some cause, the Friends 

 of Haverford Monthly Meeting, with the assistance of some 

 Friends of Darby, supported a Ferry in the vicinity of that kept 

 by England, and employed a man named Nathaniel Mullinax to 

 attend it. England petitioned to the Governor and Council to 

 support him in his monopoly, which they eventually did, on the 

 ground that the Ferry was the Proprietor's right, a grant of 

 which was held by England. The decision of the Governor was 

 accompanied by a prohibition against all others " using anie 

 other ferrie within foure miles distance on either side of the river, 

 of the proprietors ferrie." 



A report made by a Committee of the Council this year, 

 giving the amounts raised in the several counties upon an assess- 

 ment of \d. per pound, will give some idea of the relative pro- 

 gress that had been made in the different counties : 



County of Philadelphia, 

 " New Castle, 



" Sussex, 



" Kent, 



" Chester, 



" Bucks, 



