INDEX. 



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CoMMissioNEiis, to lay out ft city, arri- 

 val of, 132 ; to examine Upland as 

 a site for a city, 133. 



Concord, township of, organized, 144; 

 complaint of Friends against the 

 Indians, 155; first Friends' meet- 

 ing held at, 158; Friends' meeting 

 house erected at, 195; meeting 

 house of, used as a military hospi- 

 tal, 313; notice of, 382; St. John's 

 Church in, 383. 



COSCOKDVILLK, 384. 



CoxESTOcio, road to, partly confirmed, 

 231 ; survey of road, 233. 



CoxGUESs, representatives from Chester 

 County in 280, 292 ; first meeting 

 of, 280; second meeting of, 285; 

 appropriation by, for the defence 

 of the Delaware, 291. 



Constables, early appointments of, 110, 

 144; reports of, 15G; first to at- 

 tend court, 217 ; the Welsh, refuse 

 to appear at the Chester Court, 173. 



CoxsTiTCTioN, new, adopted, 200. 



Continental money, great depreciation 

 of 332, 333, 336, 339. 



Correspondence, revolutionary com- 

 mittee of, 280, 281. 



CoRSEX, Arext, his alleged purchase 

 at the Schuylkill, 17. 



Council, members and acts of Gov. 

 Markham's, 129, 133; sittings of 

 Markham's, where held, 50 ; newly 

 elected members of, 200; of state 

 established, 206. 



Counties, three established by William 

 Penn, 139 : an act of union with 

 the three lower, 141 ; separation 

 from the province of the three 

 lower, 182; relative progress made 

 in the several, in improvement, 

 189; legislative separation with 

 the three lower, 209. 



Country, custom of the, 186. 



Court, messenger asked for, 72 ; of assi- 

 zes, how composed, 90 ; established 

 by Gov. Lovelace, 90 ; special, held 

 at New Castle, 102; of Upland, levies 

 a tax, 112, 119; Justices of Upland, 

 commissioned, 105; earlier than 

 Upland, held, 107; character and 

 jurisdiction of Upland, 105, 125, 

 128 ; names and residences of the 

 Justices of Upland, 123; mutila- 

 tion of the record of Upland, 127 ; 

 first under the administration of 

 Gov. Markham, 131 ; larceny trial 

 in, 135; first held for Chester 

 County, 143 ; Gov. Penn presides 

 at, 143; the monthly, 157; pun- 



ishment inflicted by the, 157 ; sen- 

 tence for abuse of the, 157; of 

 equity, held at Chester, 160; leg- 

 islation by the, 183; singular 

 reports made to the, 184; levy 

 ordered by the, 184; Provincial, 

 held at Chester, 197, 199, 214 ; 

 sentences of the, 212. 



Cocrt-house, House of defence fitted 

 up for a, 114; Friends' meetings 

 appointed to be held in the, 137 ; 

 order of the court in respect to the, 

 156; apparent sale of the, 156; 

 sale of the old, to John Sim- 

 cock, 194; deed acknowledged for 

 the, 196; to be repaired, 200; an- 

 other sale of, authorized, 204; old 

 one to be pulled down, 212; ne- 

 cessity of a new one presented, 

 206; old one repaired, 207; title 

 of the, confirmed to Ralph Fish- 

 bourn, 214; the last erected at 

 Chester, 234 ; public records to be 

 removed to the, 234 ; act for the 

 removal of the, 336; a second re- 

 moval act, 340 ; w^alls of a new 

 one erected at the Turks Head, 

 341 ; threatened demolition of the 

 new, by the anti-removalists, 341 ; 

 another removal act passed, 342 ; 

 remarks on early erected court- 

 houses, 541. 



Craxe Hook, church erected at, 90. 



Creeks, Minquas, early named, 40 ; 

 Christina, named by Minuit, 21. 



Crime, higher oti'ences, where tried, 152 ; 

 new modes of punishment for, in- 

 troduced, 173; increase in the 

 higher grades of, 179, improper 

 punishment of, 186. 



Crimixals, sent to New Sweden, 37, 58. 



Cruise, John, an impostor who came 

 among Friends, 243. 



Currexcy, sewant (wampum) used as 

 a, 53 ; beavers continued to be 

 used as a, 89 ; remarks on the, 

 108 ; see " Paper money." 



Darby, early settlement of, 147; ear- 

 liest Friends' meeting at, 148; first 

 meeting-house built at, 166 ; Cal- 

 con Hook united with the town- 

 ship of, 161 ; mill erected at, 191 ; 

 town of, secured against damage 

 by fire, 203 ; stocks built at, 242 ; 

 militia rendezvous at, 304 ; Ame- 

 rican army march through, 310, 

 324 ; notice of, 384 ; spelling of 



