210 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1703. 



alwayes that the s** Indians, nor any of them shall not give 

 Grant or attempt to sell or any way dispose of any of the said 

 five hundred acres of land hereby granted to any p son what- 

 soever, But at such time as the s** Indians shall quitt or leave 

 the said place, it shall be surrendered to y*" Proprietary without 

 any further claim of the s** Indians or any person whatsoever by 

 or under them, their title or procurem*, and make returns into 

 the General Surveyor's office. Given under our hands and the 

 seal of the Province at Philadelphia the 15"^ of y^ 10* mo. 1702. 



Edwd: Shippen 

 " To Isaac Taylor Griffith Owen 



Surveyor of the County Tho. Story 



of Chester. James LoaAN." 



This tract to which the Indians were removed, is located in 

 the township of Willistown, in the present County of Chester.^ 



Early in 1703, Governor Hamilton died. The Council, 

 with Edward Shippen as its President, administered the affairs 

 of the Government till the end of the year, when John Evans, 

 the newly appointed Governor, arrived. 



Upon the petition of Humphrey Ellis, Daniel Lewis, and fifty- 

 eight others, " the principal inhabitants of y^ Welsh Tract," to the 

 Council, Samuel Richardson, David Lloyd, Rowland Ellis, Wm. 

 Howell, Wm. Jenkins, and Richard Thomas, were appointed to 

 view certain roads that had been laid out, and " to lay out and 

 survey one direct road of fifty foot in breadth, as convenient in 

 all respects as may be, both to y® inhabitants and settlers of y* 

 interjacent lands & travellers. Leading from Willm. Powell's 

 ferry, on Schuykill & passing Haverford meeting House to y* 

 principal part of Goshen Township, and thence continued in a 

 direct course to y^ upper settlements on Brandy wine.'' * * 



The laying out of this road indicates that the settlements 

 were rapidly progressing westward. This is corroborated by 

 the additional fact, that the Friends of Goshen were sufficiently 

 numerous to erect a meeting-house this year, at which the 

 quarterly meeting ordered a meeting to be kept every first day, 

 except the last first day in every 10th, 1st, 4th, and 7th months, 



1 See map of early settlements for the boundary of this tract. The following 

 minute of the Commissioners of Property, under date of 7th & 8th 10th mo. 1702, 

 throws some additional light on the subject of the removal of these Indians : " The 

 Ockanickon or Crum creek Ind"" having removed from their old habitation before the 

 prop>'* departure by his order seated by Caleb Pusey, Nicolas Pyle, Nath' Newlin & 

 Jos. Baker on the tract in Chester county formerly laid out to tirifify Jones, but now 

 vacant — " 



" But the s^ Ind"' expressing great uneasiness at the uncertainty of their settle- 

 ments, pres.xed and several times urged the neighboring Friends, that they might be 

 confirmed in some particular place, under certain metes and bounds, that they might 

 no more [be] like dogs, as they expressed themselves." 



