266 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1757. 



impossible for the Assembly to shape a Militia or Money bill to 

 suit the views of his Excellency. At length that body resolved 

 that it appeared to them " that the Governor is determined to 

 withhold that protection from the people of this province, which 

 a proper Militia bill might afford them, unless we will present 

 him with such a bill as will enable certain designing men to 

 subvert the Constitution and deprive the inhabitants of every 

 liberty they think worth enjoying.'' 



In the matter of an application for the removal from office of 

 one William Moore, a Justice of the Peace, and Judge of the 

 Court of Chester County, questions affecting the respective 

 prerogatives of the Assembly and the Governor were discussed 

 at great length and with considerable ability.^ 



The following is a list of persons recommended to the 

 Governor by the Court for license as tavern keepers for 1757, 

 within the townships now composing the County of Delaware : 



Chester, Aubrey Bevan, Middletown, Joseph Talbot, 



" James Mather, Newtown, John West, 



" David Cowpland, Concord, John Haunum, 



" John Hanly, Birmingham, Wm. Jones, 

 Chester, tp., Wm. Miller, " Henry Hayes, 



Chichester town, Hannah Clayton, Kidley, IMordecai Thompson, 

 " Mary Kain, " Edwd. fits Rudolph, 



" John Kerlin, Radnor, Aubrey Harry, 



Chichester tp., James Stroud, " Thomas Tucker, 



Darby town, Hannah Wood, " Richard Barry, 



" William Donaldson, Springfield, Mordecai Taylor. 

 " John Rudolph, 

 Darl)y tp., Barbara McCuUough, 

 Haverford, Anna Miller. 



The foregoing appears to be a full list of the retailers of 

 ardent spirits for the townships now embraced in Delaware 

 County, though several of the townships appear to have been 

 without a licensed house. 



By the Treaty of Utrecht, the French inhabitants of Nova 

 Scotia were to remove with their effects in one year ; but choos- 

 ing to become British subjects, (except in the matter of taking 

 up arms against their own countrymen,) rather than to part with 

 their property, they had determined to remain. Their presence 

 being now regarded as dangerous to the people of Nova Scotia, 

 the Government determined to disperse them among the other 

 Colonies, where their presence would be less objectionable. A 

 large body of these Frenchmen (known as Freneh neutrals), 

 with their families, were sent to Philadelphia, where for a time 



' In the excitement produced by this angry discussion, both parties were led into 

 the adoption of arl)itrary and unjustifiable measures — the Assembly into the im- 

 prisonment of Moore for contempt in disregarding the summons and for abuse of a 

 former Assembly, and the Governor into a farcical trial and flattering acquittal of 

 him, after he had been fairly condemned by the Assembly. See Col. llec. vol. vii. 



