204 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1701. 



Court and Grand Jury on the subject of Court-houses and prisons, 

 from the commencement of Penn's government down to this pe- 

 riod. After much study and research the author has embodied 

 his conclusions thereon, which will be found in the Appendix, 

 Note H. 



At the March Court, it was " ordered by the Justices and 

 Grand Jury, that the old court house be set on sale the 6th day 

 of the 3d month next, and in order thereto, papers be set up to 

 give notice that it is to be sold at vandew."^ And at the same 

 Court, in respect to a prison, it was " ordered that Jasper Yeates, 

 Ralph Fishbourn, Joseph Cobourn and Andrew Jobe be supervi- 

 sors for the building of a new prison upon the ground bought of 

 James Sanderland, and we order them to imploy workmen & 

 to provide materials for performing and carrying on the said 

 work, and the said Supervisors are empowered to receive the 

 levy from the collectors as they are raised and to pay the work- 

 men and to do all things material for the said work ; and they 

 are to build the said house 25 foot long and 18 foot wide in the 

 clear, or thereabouts, as they see cause — the said house to front 

 high street, and at the north corner of the ground." 



At the October Court, "James Sandiland by his attorney, 

 David Lloyd, delivered a deed to John Blunston, Caleb Pusey, 

 Ralph Fishborn, Robert Pile and Philip Roman for a piece of 

 land being 120 foot square in the township of Chester," for 

 which land, the grantees at the same time delivered a declara- 

 tion of trust, showing that the purchase was for the use of the 

 county. At the same Court, it was agreed by the Justices and 

 Grand Jury "^o repair the court house with all possible speed, 

 and they appoint Walter Martin, John Hoskin and Henry 

 Worley to be supervisors and oversee the work and to agree 

 with workmen, provide materials and finish the said work with 

 all expedition, and to provide a pair of stocks and whipping 

 post." 



Eastown was organized as a township this year. 



The new roads laid out have become so numerous, and the re- 

 ports of their location so indefinite, that a further notice of them 

 would prove tedious. It will therefore be omitted, except in 

 very particular cases. 



The tax laid for the support of the Government was very 

 unpopular. So much so that the constables returned that the 

 inhabitants were unwilling to pay or delayed payment, where- 

 upon it was ordered by the Court "that a warrant be issued to 

 the Sheriff" to collect the said levy." 



The establishment of Newtown meeting by Haverford Monthly 

 Meeting has already been mentioned. This was not regarded 



' This sale was made to John Simcock, and was to legalize a former sale to him. 



