216 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1707. 



ascertain the number who took sides with George Keith. Some 

 of them returned to the Society, made an acknowledgment of 

 their error, and were kindly received. Others did not, and are 

 spoken of in the Society as jSeparatists. Between these and the 

 Society of Friends no very friendly feeling existed. In 1703, 

 Newtown Meeting reported to Haverford Monthly Meeting, 

 with which it was then united, " that divers that had formerly 

 separated from Friends, desire to join with them in their bury- 

 ing-place." It was the judgment of the meeting, " that they 

 should not be concerned with them while they so continue." 



And again, this year, " W T of Newtown attending 



the funeral of a child of one of his neighbors, a Separatist, and 

 one of the Separatists going to prayer, he unadvisedly took oflf 

 his hat, which he acknowledges to be a scandal to the truth, and 

 is sorry for it." 



A proposition was made last year, to Chester Monthly 

 Meeting, by the Goshen Friends, "for building a meeting 

 house and having a Grave yard nearEdgment road in Goshen," 

 but no action was then taken. This year the proposition is 

 renewed in these words: 



"Friends of Goshen meeting laid their intention, of building 

 a meeting house near Robert Williams by the Burying ground, 

 which this meeting hath nothing to object against."^ A meeting 

 was at the same time authorized to be held once a month in 

 Whiteland, and once in six weeks at James Thomas' in the 

 Valley/. 



At the February Court of this year, Jeremiah Collett, con- 

 stable of Chichester, was presented by the Grand Jury for 

 neglect of duty, in not presenting Mordecai Howill, " for work- 

 ing and suffering his children and servants to work and do 

 servile labor on the first day of the week." What was done 

 with Mordecai Howill does not appear, but the poor constable, 

 after pleading guilty, was sentenced by the Court, " to pay a 

 fine of five shillings and his fees, and then go Quitt." 



Heretofore, all bridges have been a township charge. All 

 the bridges on the recently laid out Queen's road, and all 

 bridges on roads leading to the same, are directed by the Court, 

 •to "be erected, repaired and maintained at the public charge of 

 the County of Chester." This order of the Court does not 

 appear to be in pursuance of any law on the subject. 



1 This meeting-house does not appear to have been completed till 1709, on the 

 31st of October of which year, a request is made by the Goshen Friends to the 

 monthly meeting, " that the meetings kept at Robert Williams, may henceforth be 

 kept at the new meeting house." This new muthui house occupied nearly the site of 

 the present old Gosben meeting-house, but extended a little further west, where its 

 foundation may yet be seen. It was replnccd by a stone building in 1737, of rather 

 larger dimensions than the present meeting-house. The original meeting-house was 

 doubtless built of logs. 



