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every colt one year old and upwards, 20 shillinp;.s ; for all cows 

 and oxen, from three years old and upwards, £,'2. lOs; for all 

 cattle one year old and upwards, at one pound ; for all sheep 

 a year old and upwards, at six shillings a piece ; for all male 

 negroes, from lO years old and upwards, to sixty, 25£ per 

 negro ; for all female negroes from 16 years old to sixty, at 20X 

 per negro ; for Chester mill at one hundred pounds, Joseph Co- 

 bourn's at £50, Darby mill at one hundred pounds, Hartford 

 [Ilaverford] mill at 20£ pounds, Concord mill at lOX pounds; 

 Jasper Yeates for his estate and calling 200 pounds, Caleb 

 Pusey for his estate and calling 100 pounds, Jeremiah Collett 

 for his estate and calling 30 pounds, Nathaniel Newlin for his 

 calling 20 pounds ; all ordinary keepers, for their callings, 20 

 pounds ; for all handicrafts that followeth no plantation for calling, 

 Ssliillingsa piece. — Subscribed by this present Grand Inquest." 



From the above extract we learn many interesting facts. 

 There were five mills in the county at this early date, besides 

 the Swedes' mill on the Philadelphia County line. The dates 

 of the erection of the Chester mill, and Cobourn's mill have already 

 been given ; and a presentment of the Grand Jury made in 1688, 

 shows that the Haverford mill was then erected. This mill was 

 on Cobb's Creek, near the place where that stream is crossed by 

 the road leading past Haverford meeting-house. Of the Darby 

 mill and Concord mill, the author has not met with an earlier 

 notice. The Concord mill occupied the site of the mill now 

 owned by Samuel Leedom. A mill was shortly afterwards built 

 lower down the stream by Nicholas Newlin, but not so low down 

 as the mill owned by John Hill.^ 



While it is not presumed that the full value of property is 

 given in the assessment, the relative value may be relied on as 

 nearly correct. We thus see that cleared land, under tillage, 

 was ten times as valuable as unimproved land near the river, 

 and twenty times as valuable as unimproved lands further 

 back, &c. 



Maurice Trent, before mentioned, brought another set of 

 boys into Court to be "judged." Their respective periods of 

 servitude were accordingly fixed by the Justices. It had become 

 a common practice at this period for servants who had run 

 away, or in any other manner caused loss or expense to their 

 masters, to be brought into Court for the Justices to determine, 

 what additions should be made to their terms of servitude, as 

 an equivalent for such loss or expense. 



At this time, there was considerable trade at Chester, and 

 also some at Marcus Hook, Hence we find appointments of 



1 From a conveyance made by Randal Malin in 1696, it would appear that a mill 

 was erected not far from Bishop's mill about that year. 



