APPENDIX. — NOTE C. 523 



Same Book, p. 32. 



" September 2, 1675. 

 "Laid out for Henrick Thailens, one piece or parcel of land situate lying and 

 being on the West side of Delaware River & in a Creek commonly called Ams- 

 land or Mil! creek, it being the land whereon he dwelleth. and between two 

 pieces of land belonging to Henrick Johnson and Bartoll Esscolls, beginning at a 

 corner of a Fench wliich divides this land from tiie land of Amsland. running 

 into the woods North W. and bv W. 320 perches to a corner marked white 

 oak, then S. W. and by W. 140 p. to a Black oak, then S. E. and by E. 320 p. 

 to a Spanish oak standing by the mouth of a Run called Stony run, then N. E. 

 & by E. 140 p. to the place of beginning. Laid out for 280 Acres more or less." 



Same Book, p. 20. 



" Surveyed the 20th day of September 1675 for Captain Hans Monson the 

 tract of land where he now dwells, Oronomink, situate on the westward side 

 of the Delaware River and on the west side of the Schuylekill, Being bounded as 

 followeth (vizt.) Beginning at a corner marked white oak st^inding at y" side of 

 y^ s"! Kill above y*^ mouth of a creek called the great Queen fall ; and from the s* 

 oak running N. W. by a line of marked trees 17.'i perches to a corner marked 

 white oak standing at the side of a small branch of the s'^ creek ; and from that 

 oak west by a line of marked trees 222 perches to a corner marked white oak 

 standing at the head of a branch of Karraconks Mill creek which branch is by 

 the Indians called Amisseecanminks and from y« said oak running down along 

 y« s*" branch and maine run to another corner marked black oak standing at y« 

 south side of the s'' run or Creek y^ distance south westerly 4 degrees by aline of 

 marked trees 110 perches to a corner marked Black oak standing by a small 

 swamp and from thence E. S. E. by a line of Marked trees 346 perches to a 

 corner marked white oak standing on a small point nigh unto y" head of Ink- 

 horn's creek and from thence along Inkhorn's creek to y« Schuylekill and from 

 y*^ mouth of Inkhorn's creek along by y'' side of the Schuylekill to y*^ first men- 

 tioned corner oak. Conteyning Eleven hundred acres of land — which was for- 

 merly granted unto the said Capt° Monson for 100 A. more or less, by patent 

 bearing date y<= 10"> day of March," [year blank.] 



[It was on "this land the Upland Court directed a mill to be built. It embraces 

 Maylandville, Gray's Ferry, &c.] 



Survey or- GeneraVs Office, Patent Book A. 1, p. 329. 



Patent from Rich"! Nichols, "Principal Commissioner from his Mag''"^, in 

 New England * * * Governor-General under his Royall highness James 

 Duke of York and Albany and all his territories in America and Commander-in- 

 Chief of all the forces employed by his ma''*^^' to Reduce the Dutch Nation and all 

 their usurped lands and Plantations under his Ma''*^' obedience," for the " piece 

 of land commonly called or known by the name of Passayiink, situated lieing 

 and being at Delaware by the side of the Schuylkill containing by estimacon one 

 thousand acres be it more or less, Bounded on the South by the main river, on 

 the west with the Sculkil on the North with the plantacon belonging to Peter 

 Rambo and upon the East by a parcel of land called Mobbeer Land, do give and 

 grant unto Robert Ashman, John Ashman, Thomas Jacob, Dunkin Williams, 

 ffrancis Walker, Thomas Hewelin, ffrederick Anderson, Joshua Jacob, and Thomas 

 Jacob, their heirs and assigns." (Quit-rent was fixed at 10 bushell of wheat 

 every year.) 



•• Given under my hand and seal at fiFort James in New York on the Island of 

 Manhattans the ffirst day of January in the nineteenth year of his Maj''*^" Reign 

 Annoq 3 Diui 1667. 



" RlCH.\RD NlCOLLS." 



" Memorandum before the signing and sealing of this patent, it is resolved 

 that the fifrst planters viz M'' Robert Ashman and his then Associates shall have 



