218 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1710. 



temper he sometimes exhibited, a fair and impartial examination 

 of the questions discussed, will show that he was generally on 

 what would be considered the rigid side at this day. His views 

 were in advance of the age in which he lived, and, as a necessity, 

 in advocating them he not only encountered the prejudices of 

 the times, but every interest that had grown out of them. But 

 this controversy belongs to the history of the State, rather than 

 to that of one of its smallest Counties. 



Settlements were now rapidly extending westward. New 

 meeting-houses and mills were being erected, and new roads laid 

 out. 



Application is made to the Chichester and Concord Monthly 

 Meeting, and by it to the Quarterly Meeting, " that the meeting 

 of worship kept at the house of William Browne in Nottingham, 

 may for the future be kept at the neiv meeting house, there built 

 for that end and purpose, every first, and fifth days." A road 

 is also petitioned for, to the Court, " from Thomas Jarman'smill 

 in the Great Valley to William Davis' mill in Radnor."^ The 

 Friends of Neivtoivn also have intention "to build a meeting 

 house near Friends burial yard," 



So great had been the prosperity of our Quaker settlers, that 

 they were not only able to build their own meeting-houses, but 

 were able and willing to aid distant communities of the same 

 faith to erect similar edifices. Accordingly we find the Treasurer 

 of Chester Monthly Meeting ordered " to pay eight pounds, 

 Boston money, to Samuel Carpenter or Issac Morris, it being 

 this meeting's proportion of one hundred pounds, that the Yearly 

 Meeting appointed to be raised for Friends of Boston in order 

 for their assistance in paying for their meeting house." 



The Indians manifested some uneasiness about this time, which 

 was communicated to the Governor by William Dalbo, of Glou- 

 cester County, N. J., " who acquainted him that there is a Belt 

 of Wampum come to Conestogo, from Mahquahotonoi ; y* there 

 was a Tomahock in Red in the belt, & y' the French with five 

 nations of Indians were designed for war, and to fall on some of 

 these plantations." This information was duly laid before the 

 Council, by the Governor, on the 14th of April, and also a letter 

 he had received from Mr. Yeates, Caleb Pusey and Thomas 

 Powell, dated the same day, " purporting that to-morrow there 

 was to be a great concourse of Indians, those of Conestogo & 

 those of the Jersey ; that they were of opinion that it might be 

 a seasonable opportunity for the Govr. to visit them altogether ; 

 the meeting being the greatest that has been known these Twenty 



1 This latter mill was at or near the site of the old mill on Darby Creek, now 

 owned by Tryon Lewis. 



