APPENDIX. — NOTE I. 543 



1703, he devised this property to his son-in-law, Ralph Fishborn, but it required 

 a second Act of Assembly to assure a perfect title to him. 



FURTHER EXPLANATION OF THE ANNEXED DRAFT. 



b. A passage six and a half feet wide mentioned in all the conveyances of lots 



adjoining it. 



D. The site of the first Friends' Meeting-house at Chester, that passed under the 



name of " the old Assembly House." The lot purchased by the Friends in 

 1G88 from Urin Keen, the father-in-law of James Sandelandes, was built on 

 by the Friends about the year 1693, and was sold by the Friends in 1736 

 to Russell. 



c. A strip of ground bought of Jonas Sandelands by Friends in 1712 to enlarge 



their lot. Sold to Russell in 1736. 

 e. Urin Keen's " lot or garden" mentioned in his conveyance to the Friends. It 



extended to the dotted line. 

 /. The lot conveyed by Robert Wade and wife to Henry Hollingsworth in 1694. 



Wade's title was from Neels Laerson in 1687. 

 g. This lot was also conveyed by Laerson to Robert Wade in 1G87, and by his 



widow, Lydia to, Joseph Cobouru in 1700. 

 h. This lot was conveyed by the widow and sons of Xeels Laerson to David 



Lloyd in 1691, and by him to Jasper Yeates in 1G98. It was the site of the 



noted Granaries and Bakery erected by Yeates. It is now occupied by the 



Chester Mills. 

 /. This lot was conveyed by Neels Laerson to Robert Wade in 1687, and by 



Lydia the widow of Robert Wade, to Danger as has been mentioned. 



E. The dwelling of John Hoskius, subsequently of Henry Hale Graham. It is 



now owned by John G. Dyer. 



NOTE I.— Page 226. 



FROM AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT BOOK IN THE POSSESSION OF 

 ROBT. FRAME, ESQ., OF BIRMINGHAM, PAGE 2. 



" Whereas, that formerly a congregation of believers, baptized upon profession 

 of their faith in the county of Chester in the Province of Pennsylvania about 

 the year 1692, among whom Thos. Martin administered Baptism, likewise W™ 

 Beekingham administered both Baptism and the Lord's Supper, until about the 

 year 1701, when several occasions occurred, that our congregational estate was 

 dissolved — that we could no longer bear up our Church polity: Being dispers"*, 

 without the face of a church for many years. In the year i715 upon the fre- 

 quent coming of our beloved brother, Abel Morgan among us, to preach upon 

 week days — Upon proposal for our associating together in church relation and 

 Estate, it was concluded to have consultation about it. and finding such as were 

 baptiz** persons dispersed in the parts adjacent, very inclinable thereunto — 

 notice being given to all such as were concern"! to meet at the house of John 

 Powell of Providence in the above said county, having got to our assistance, 

 Brother Morgan of Philad", Bro. James James, and bro : Jos Eaton, from the 

 Welsh-tract (New Castle, Del), we proceeded in the manner following:— It being 

 the H"" day of the month vulgarly called June 1715, the first part of the day 

 was spent in fasting and prayer, to implore the blessing and aid of God upon 

 our proceedings : Having our satisfaction in each other's grace, we further sig- 

 nified our resolution to join together, to carry on the worship of God and the 

 ordinances of the gospel, according to the holy scriptures ; — and to further the 

 edification of one another ; and to walk in the order of the gospel : Then we did 

 unanymously resign up our Souls to God, by a token of lifting up our hand to 

 be his people and servants ; in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, and then to 

 one another by the will of God: declaring our uniting together in a church re- 

 lation to each other to be governed by the word of God, taking upon us the title 



