ADDENDA. 



[On page 147, a promise was made to give a further account of the Chester 

 Mills, and the disasters which befel that early improvement. At the proper place 

 ill tlie narrative, the fulfillment of this promise was inadvertently omitted. To 

 supply this omission, some extracts will be here inserted, from a conveyance 

 executed in 1705 by Samuel Carpenter to Caleb Pusey of his interest in the 

 property. This document contains the only correct account of these early erected 

 mills, that has come under the notice of the author.] 



After reciting the verbal partnership and the number of shares held by each 

 partner as given on page 147, the record proceeds: "And it was further agreed 

 that the said Caleb Pusey should be agent and Manager of said joynt concern. 

 And the said Caleb Pusey, soon after the proprietary's first arrival in this Pro- 

 Tince obtained two warrants from him for taiiing up land to set the said mills 

 upon. The one dated ********************* containing in 

 all Twenty acres, Upon or near which he the said Caleb, with the advice of the 

 said Proprietary and such otlier of the said partners as then were in this Pro- 

 vince in the year of our Lord 1683, did at the joynt charge of all the said Part- 

 ners Erect a corn mill upon the said creek near his new dwelling house, which 

 mill with the dam belonging to it were soon carried away by the flood. And 

 the said Caleb Pusey afterwards, by the advice of the said Proprietary and other 

 partners that were here, did ujion the said joynt account, build another cOrn 

 mill and sawmill upon part of the said twenty acres of land and made a dam 

 over said creek a little above where the first mill stood. But the flood carried 

 away that dam. Wkercitpon, the said partners consideiing the violence of the 

 said creek in times of land floods, found it most advisable to take the water out 

 of the creek about a mile above the said mills. And for that purpose the said 

 Caleb Pusey of one Thomas Brassey. a slip of land about four perches in breadth 

 adjoining upon the said creek did purchase containing about two acres, when 

 he digged and made a mill race or water course down to the said mills ; and 

 whereas the said Richard Townsend [one of the partners,] assigned or relin- 

 quished all his said four parts or shares of and in the said mills and premises, 

 unto the said Caleb Pusey. And whpreas the charges of making said water 

 course and necessary repairs of said mills did far surmount the earnings and 

 profits thereof, so that the said partners became indebted to one Robert Turner 

 in sundry sums of money w'^^ their said agent from time to time borrowed and 

 received of him upon their joynt account, but all the said Partners except the 

 said Proprietary and Caleb Pusey refusing or neglecting to pay their parts thereof, 

 he the said Robert sued them for the sume of £319 ISs. l^d. current money of 

 Pennsylvania in the County Court held for the said County of Chester the 14"' 

 day of June, A. I). 1692, whereupon he recovered the said debt with costs of 

 suit and afterwards took out a writ of execution directed to the then Coroner* 

 of the said County, commanding ********************* And 

 the said Coroner having exposed the premises to sale and finding no buyers, 

 afterwards to witt, the 13"' day of ^September in the said year ]>">92. pursuant to 

 the laws of this Province, in such case made and provided, did Bargain Sell and 



* Caleb Pusey was at this time Sheriff of Chester County. 



