570 



the name justified, 384 ; early 

 town meetings of, 188,38-1; town- 

 ship of, divided, 385 ; library, 561. 



Darby Creek, guard boats to laj' in, 

 293 ; fort near the mouth of, 299 ; 

 fort at, to be garrisoned, 304. 



Debtor, an insolvent, asks that his 

 creditors may accept his servitude, 

 237. 



Deeds, acknowledgment of, in open 

 court, 146. 



Delaware, bay discovered by Hudson, 

 2 ; never seen bj' Lord Delaware, 

 2 ; visited by Capt. Argall, 3 ; 

 names applied to the, 3 ; Capt. 

 Mey visits and names the capes of 

 the, 4; reported exploration of the, 

 by Capt. Hendrickson, in the 

 yacht Restless, 4 ; first appear- 

 ance of European females on the, 

 9 ; patroonships to be established 

 on the, 11 ; first colony planted on 

 the, 12 ; disaster to the first colo- 

 nists, 14; whales in the, 15, 16; 

 Swedish expedition to the, 20 ; 

 first permanent settlement on the, 

 21 ; military survey of the lands 

 bordering the, 299 ; Roggeveen's 

 description of the, 564. 



Delaware County, act for the estab- 

 lishment of, 344; old public build- 

 ings purchased for the use of, 344; 

 first election in, 346 ; courts of, 

 organized, 346; poor-house of, es- 

 tablished, 350 ; preparation to re- 

 move the records of, 351 ; Bank of, 

 incorporated, 352 ; Institute of 

 Science, established, 357 ; statis- 

 tics of, 441, 458, 461. 



De Vries, sends the first colony to the 

 Delaware, 12 ; goes on a whaling 

 voyage and meets with whales, 13 ; 

 the fate of the colony at Swanen- 

 dael fully revealed to him, 13, 14 ; 

 his visit to Fort Nassau, 15; voy- 

 age of, to Virginia, 16; visit of, 

 to Gov. Printz, 36. 



Dial, public, at Chester, 192. 



Divorce, early, asked for on the ground 

 of constant strife between the par- 

 ties, 79. 



Domestic animals, early introduction 

 of, on the Delaware, 33, 34, 80; 

 cattle and horses to be marked, 151. 



Drought, very severe, 359. 



Drunkenness, becomes a growing evil, 

 162. 



Di ke of York, grant to the, by his 

 brother, 87 ; his grant to William 

 Penn, 130; proclaimed king, 154. 



Dcke's Law.s, promulgation of the, 90 ; 

 re-established by proclamation, 

 100 ; to be in force on the Delaware, 

 100. 



Ddckett, Thomas, Friends' meetings 

 held at his house, 149. 



DuNOP, Count, repulse and death of, 

 at Red Bank, 320. 



Dutch, claim of early discovery by the, 

 3 ; protest against the Swedish 

 settlement on the Delaware, 22 ; 

 jealousy of the, 38 ; land purchased 

 from the Indians by the, 42 ; set 

 up their national emblem on the 

 west side of the river, 42 ; nego- 

 tiate with the Indians on the Dela- 

 ware, 50; interview of the, with 

 Gov Printz, 51 ; limits proposed 

 between the Swedes and the, 55 ; 

 conquest of the Swedes by the, 67 ; 

 cruelty of the, to the Swedes, 67 ; 

 government established on the De- 

 laware, 69 ; they surrender to the 

 English, 88 ; reconquest by the, 

 99 ; establishment of courts on the 

 Delaware by the, 99. 



E. 



Earthquakes, early notices of, 248, 263, 

 270. 



East Town, organized as a township, 

 204. 



Edgmont, notice of, 400. 



Edmundson, William, early religious 

 visit to Upland by, 104. 



Education, first notice of, in Pennsyl- 

 vania, 121. 



Election, early return for Chester 

 County of an, J 53; by means of 

 white and black beans, 172 ; vote 

 to be by ballot at the, 180; liberal 

 party defeated at the, 219; places 

 of holding the, 347. 



Elsinborg, Fort, erected by the Swedes, . 

 31 ; abandoned, 58. 



English, early settlement on the Dela- 

 ware attempted by the, 19 ; colony 

 at Salem, 27 ; begin a settlement 

 on the Schuylkill, 28 ; removal of 

 the Salem colony effected. 29 ; 

 complaints against the Dutch by 

 the, 44 ; conquest of the Dutch by 

 the, 99 ; government restored to 

 the, 100. 



Episcopalians, early organization of 

 the, 202 ; church erected at Mar- 

 cus Hook and Chester by the, 207, 

 208 ; earliest notice of a burial 

 ground owned by the, 211. 



Equity, court of, held, 161. 



