APPENDIX. — NOTE H. 



541 



John Clmlfant, 

 John Day, . 

 James Houston, . 

 Abraham Wiildows, 

 Sam: Painter, 

 Providence Scot, . 

 Wm. Turner, 

 Thomas Gilpin, . 

 Robt. Green, 

 John House, 

 Timothy Warde, . 

 Daniel Moore, 

 Zabulon Cantral, . 

 Francis Pulin, 

 Grace Stephenson for 400 

 in Marlboro, 



Andrew Hiden. 

 Wm. Deny. 

 Walter Deny. 

 Charles Turner. 



Thomas Thornbury. 

 Joseph Willis. 



Tux £19 9«. 3c?. 



BETHEL RATE. 

 Robert Pyle and land in Marlbo- 

 rough £100 



Joseph Pyle, . .36 



Edward Pinock, . . .21 



Benjamin Moulder, . . .15 

 Robert Booth, .... 40 

 John Hopman, . . . .30 



John Pugh, 25 



John Canaday, . . . .24 



John Grist, 20 



Wm. Ayres [Eyre], . . .50 

 Edward Dutton, . . .49 



Wm. Griffith, . . . .30 

 Jacob Norbury, . . . .20 

 Edward Bezar, . . . .GO 

 Francis Farris, . . . .25 



Daniel Pyle 50 



Tax £7 0«. Od. 



Note. Darby included Upper Darby, and Ridley included Tinicum in the 

 assessment. 



£20 

 12 

 16 

 24 

 55 

 20 

 16 

 24 



15 

 10 

 10 

 5 

 10 



NOTE H.— Page 204. 

 LOCATION OF THE EARLY COURT HOUSES. 



The first Court of Upland County of which any record has been preserved, sat 

 at the house of Xeeles Laerson, which no doubt was a tavern. Its precise loca- 

 tion is not known, but it doubtless occupied a position on the northern part of 

 the lot marked -2." on the old draft of Chester in the possession of Thomas Darling- 

 ton, a fac simile of which is given at page 138. The southern part of that 

 lot had been recently purchased by Laerson from Eusta Anderson. (See will of 

 •' Neels Laarson," Register's office, Philadelphia, Book A. No. 62.) From the uni- 

 versal custom of the Swedes in building, it may also be concluded that the resi- 

 dence of Laerson was very near the creek, and consequently in the immediate 

 vicinity of the House of Defence. 



The location of the House of Defence, marked A. on the annexed draft is 

 arrived at Avith great precision from the description contained in a deed for the 

 adjacent lot, from Lydia, the widow of Robert Wade, to Edward Danger, October 

 10th, 1690, (Deed Book, A. 270, West Chester.) The credit of having first ascer- 

 tained the location of this ancient Court House is due to Edward Armstrong, Esq., 

 of Philadelphia. (See his note to the " Record of Upland Court" p. 2o2.) From 

 the description contained in the same deed, Mr. Armstrong ingeniously and with 

 some show of plausibility fixes the exact position occupied by the House of De- 

 fence, which he says, " stood on the east side of, and at an angle to, the present 

 Front Street, which was laid out after its erection, and the eastern line of which 

 street ran through the centre of the building, from its S. E. to its N. W. corner." 

 In my judgment, the evidence relied on by Mr. Armstrong does not warrant any 

 very positive conclusion, as to the position of the building. 



A doubt has been suggested to me by a gentleman who has given some atten- 

 tion to this subject, whether the House of Defence was ever occupied as a Court 

 House. The records do not say positively that it was ; but in the absence of 

 evidence of the erection of any other building for that purpose, the following 

 facts will be sufficient to remove any reasonable doubt on the subject : 



1st. At the session of the Upland Court for November, 1677, an order was 



