HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 



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" Tliat travellers havin<^ nothirif^ to defray their charf^es at the 

 public Inn, shall he allowed ten pence a night (if they are first 

 allowed hy the overseers of the poor.)" 



In 1747, the township was divided hy the authority of a town- 

 ship meeting for every purpose except the support of the poor. 

 The dividing line of this temporary division was farther south, 

 (at least in part,) than that which now separates the two town- 

 ships. A pei-manent division of the toAvnship was agreed upon 

 at a township meeting in 178G, and the line recommended by 

 the meeting was confirmed by the court as the dividing line be- 

 tween the two townships ; the part north of the line taking the 

 name of Upper Darhij. 



There are now in the possession of John Andrews, of Darby, 

 the grave-stones of Edmund Cartlidge, the early Quaker im- 

 migrant. That portion of the head-stone intended to stand 

 above ground is represented in the annexed cut. It will be re- 

 membered how pertinaciously 

 Friends, for many years, in- 

 sisted upon the removal of all 

 grave-stones. Many were put 

 out of sight by being buried, 

 and those under notice were 

 only recently disinterred in 

 digging a grave in Friends' 

 burial-ground at Darby. The 

 elaborate carving on this me- 

 mento shows that Friends had 

 run into a little extravagance 

 in the erection of monuments 

 to their dead, to restrain 

 which there was a real neces- 

 sity of some action on the 

 part of the Society. If, however, the only object of Friends 

 was to restrain extravagance in this matter, it is really diflBcult 

 to see the propriety of the action of the meetings that resulted 

 in the exclusion of every mark set up to indicate the graves of 

 their departed members. 



The mills at Darb}^ were erected about the year 1695 or 1696. 

 In a deed executed in 1697, they are mentioned as " three 

 water grist mills and fulling mill.'' It is not known that a full- 

 ing mill of an earlier date had been established in Pennsylvania. 

 For some time after the flour mill at Darby was first estab- 

 lished, the boulting was not done in the mill, but some distance 

 from it, and probably on the opposite side of the creek. It ap- 

 pears to have been a separate business, and was carried on by 

 parties not concerned in the mill. 

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