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INDEX. 



129 , messengers sent to Upland 

 by, 136 ; principles adopted for set- 

 tlemeni of boundary agreed upon 

 ^vitb, 244. 



Bask, of Delaware County established, 

 352. 



Baptists, organization of seventh-day, 

 221 ; first regular organization of, 

 225, 543. 



Barley, to be received for taxes, 113. 



Barony, order of William Penn to lay 

 out the Welsh Tract as a, 164 ; the 

 validity of the grant of a, advocated 

 bv Thomas Lloyd, 172 : the idea of 

 a^ yielded by the Welsh, 173. 



Beavers, number of skins exported, 10; 

 decline of the Dutch trade in, 25 ; 

 used as currency, 89 ; standard 

 value of and export duty on, 89. 



Beekma.v, William, appointed Vice- 

 Director on the Delaware, 74. 



Besh, John Amdndsox, grant of land 

 to, 58, 519; commission of and 

 object of his appointment, 59, 61 ; 

 probable revocation of grant to, 83. 



Bethel, road laid out to Chichester 

 from, 159 ; hamlet of, presented by 

 the Grand Jury, 179 ; derivation of 

 the name of, 382; notice of the 

 township of, 382. 



Bevers Rheede, Fort, erected, 49: lo- 

 cation of, 50 ; tSwedes build in 

 front of, 51. 



Billixgsport. fort erected at, 291 ; fort 

 at captured and abandoned, 317; 

 British ships at, 319. 



Biography, of the early settlers and 

 eminent men of Delaware County, 



Birds, of Delaware County, catalogue 

 of, by John Cassi-n, 435. 



Birmingham, settlements extended to, 

 158; Friends' Meeting established 

 at, 227 ; fair held at, 225 ; battle 

 at meeting-house, 311 ; notice of, 

 401. 



Blackwell, John, appointed Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, 169 ; reprimands his 

 council, 171; removal from office, 

 179. 



Blanke, Jdriaen, vessel of, ordered off 

 by the Swedes, 41. 



Blankets, how to be procured for the 

 soldiers, 297, 298, 319. 



Block, Adrian, his ship burned. 3 ; con- 

 structs a new vessel, 3. 



Block House, nt Upland, 117; at Wi- 

 cacco, occupied as a church, 1)5 ; 

 to be built at Amesiand for a lunatic, 

 116; on Tinicura mentioned, 146. 



Blue Bell, capture of Americans at 

 the, 324. 



BoGART, JosT De, position of, on the 

 Delaware, 26. 



BoNSALL, William, inhuman murder of, 

 355. 



Books, pernicious, presented by the 

 Grand Jury, 193. 



Boon's Dam, breastwork erected on, 

 322. 



Boston, contribution for building a 

 Friends' meeting-house at, 218; 

 subscription for relief of suffering 

 people at 282. 



Botany, catalogue of plants growing in 

 Delaware County, 417. 



Boundary, the King's letter respecting 

 Maryland, 129; between Philadel- 

 phia and Chester Counties esta- 

 blished by the Council, 154; the 

 last named confirmed, 171 ; of the 

 Welsh ti-act, 165; temporary, be- 

 tween Chester and New Castle 

 Counties established, 187 ; the cir- 

 cular, run, 206 ; the circular con- 

 firmed, 222; disputes about the 

 circular, 236 ; order of the King 

 for the settlement of the Maryland, 

 247 ; agreement about the Mary- 

 land, 247. 



Bowater, John, a meeting-house to be 

 erected for the meeting held at his 

 house, 202. 



Bradford, organized as a township, 

 213 ; Friends' Monthly Meeting for, 

 established, 246. 



Brandywine, road laid out to upper 

 settlements on the, 210; Baptist 

 Church of, established, 226, 543 ; 

 Indian claim to land on the, 237 ; 

 rates of fare established at Chadd's 

 Ford on the, 246 ; ferry on the, 254 ; 

 fishery regulated in the, 274 ; posi- 

 tion taken by Washington on the, 

 305 ; battle of, 306-313 ; retreat of 

 the American Army from the, 308 ; 

 incidents of the battle of, 311 ; Act 

 of Assembly for making a canal 

 along the, 346. 

 Brannan, Benjamin, instructs persons 

 in the art of making saltpetre, 288. 

 Breakwater, stone sent from Delaware 

 County to the, rejected, 359 ; report 

 on the quality of the stone sent to 

 the, 359. 

 Breastworks, thrown up on the Dela- 

 ware, 285. 

 Bridges, order of the court for the erec- 

 tion of a horse bridge, 159 ; Chester 

 presented for not erecting a foot 



