1702.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 209 



purchasing in the town, which this meeting approves of, provided 

 they preserve and keep in good order the old Buri/ing plaee." 



King William died on the 18th of January, 1702, hut it was 

 not till the 10th of July that his successor, the Princess Anne, of 

 Denmark, was proclaimed at Philadelphia as Queen of England. 



But the most important event of the year was the legislative 

 separation of the three lower Counties from the Province. Be- 

 fore leaving the country, Penn had given his reluctant assent to 

 this separation, to take place at any time within three years. 

 It was now accomplished, very much against the wishes of 

 Governor Hamilton. From this time the separation was final. 



It appears from the following Warrant of Survey, the original 

 of which is filed in the Surveyor General's OflSce, that up to 

 about the time William Penn returned to England, a tribe of 

 Indians, known as the Okekockings, were seated within the 

 present limits of Delaware County. 



( L. S. ) ^'^^ '^^^ Commissioners of Property." 



^^^-^^^ Whereas Pokias, Sepopawny Muttagooppa and 

 others of y* nation called y'' Okehocking Indians in Chester 

 County with their families upon their Removal from their late 

 settlem" near Ridley and Crum Creeks, have by the Proprietors 

 ord'' and appointm' been seated on another certain tract in y* 

 said county, and on the said Ridley creek, neare y* head 

 thereof formerly surveyed to Griffith Jones, but by him left and 

 acquitted ti now belonging to y*" Proprietary : In which place 

 the said Indians request we would grant them a certain settlem' 

 under sure metes and Bounds, to them and their posterity in 

 pursuance of the Proprietors engagem' in that case made 

 before his Departure, who granted them, as 'tis credibly 

 affirmed to us, five hundred acres in y" s** place ; These there- 

 fore are in pursuance of the said Grant to authorize ifc require 

 thee to survey and lay out to the said Pokhais, Sepopawny, 

 Muttagooppa and others of y" s"* nation called y" Okekocking 

 Indians who were lately seated lower on y® s"* creeks &- their 

 Relations and to no other whatsoever the full quantity of five 

 hundred acres of land in one square tract in such place within 

 the aforesaid tract as the s* Indians shall desire : which said 

 five hundred acres we do hereby grant to the said Pokhais, 

 Sepopawny, Muttagooppa and others of the s'' nation called the 

 Okehocking Indians, who were lately seated as aforesaid and to 

 their Relations <k to no other, whatsoever, to have and to hold 

 to them the said Indians for a Settlem' and to their posterity of 

 the same nation of Indians (and no other) forever, Provided 

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