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INDEX. 



Gilder, value of the, 108 ; long retain- 

 ed as ciirrenc}', 136. 



GiLEAD, officers appointed for, 161. 



Goats, introduction of, on the Dela- 

 ware, 33. 



GooKiN, Charles, appointed Governor, 

 217 ; meets the Indians at Cones- 

 togo, 219. 



Gordon, Patrick, appointed Governor, 

 237 ; death of, 245. 



Goshen, settlement of, 205; Friends' 

 meeting established at, 205, 208, 

 210; early settlers of, relieved by 

 the Welsh Friends of Haverford 

 monthly meeting, 205; road to be 

 laid out to, 210; organized as a 

 township, 213 ; Friends of, to erect 

 a meeting-house, 216; road laid 

 out, 230 ; monthly meeting of 

 Friends established, 232. 



Gospel, extracts from the history of 

 the Society for Propagating the, 

 532. 



GoTTENBURG, New, fort at Tinicum, 

 built, 31 ; destroyed by the Dutch, 

 68. 



Grand Jury, first in Pennsylvania, 136 ; 

 early roads laid out by the, 146, 

 159, 163; official term of the, 161 ; 

 puritanical vigilance and imparti- 

 ality of the, 161 ; character of the, 

 168, 185, 186; watchfulness of 

 the, over the interests of the coun- 

 ty, 173 ; the foreman of the, pre- 

 sented, 181 ; manner of present- 

 ments made by the, 185; three 

 members of the, refuse to serve, 

 201 ; term of office abridged, 214; 

 presents the practice of Geomancy, 

 &c., 193 ; certain books presented 

 by the, 193 ; presents the neces- 

 sity of stocks and whipping-post, 

 211 ; presents the old court-house 

 as a nuisance, 212. 



Grange, notice of the, 393 ; poem on 

 the, 557. 



Grants, abstracts from the most an- 

 cient, 520. 



Grave-stones, removal of, ordered by 

 Friends, 215. 



Grave-yard. See Burying-ground. 



Gray's Ferry, bridge at, destroyed, 

 321. 



Great Battery, erection of the, 257. 



Green, purpose and location of the, 

 178; boundary and location of the, 

 178; street laid out along the, 178 ; 

 purchased by David Lloyd, 555 ; 

 confirmation of title of, 199; no 

 burial ground on the, 211. 



Guardian, first appointment of a, 108. 



GuN-BOATS, construction of, 285. 



GwYNEDD, Friends' meeting of, estab- 

 lished, 208 ; monthly meeting of, 

 organized, 222. 



Gypsum, introduction of, as a manure. 

 350. 



Half-Moon, Hudson sails on a voyage 

 of discovery in the yacht, 1. 



Hamlet of Bethel, road laid out to, 

 163. 



Harold, Friends' meeting to be held at, 

 137. 



Hanson, Mattheys, as a magistrate, 

 meets Governor Stuyvesant ai Tin- 

 icum, 73. 



Haverford, earliest settlements in, 

 148 ; first religious meeting held 

 at, 148 ; monthly meeting of, 149 ; 

 Friends' graveyard established at, 

 149 ; complaint of Friends of, 

 against the Indians, 155; Friends 

 of, contribute toward building Cen- 

 tre Square meeting-house, 158; 

 first meeting-house erected at, 

 167 ; people of, refuse to be in- 

 cluded in Chester County, 171 ; 

 freemen of, vote with those of 

 Philadelphia, 172 ; jurisdiction of 

 Chester County acknowledged by, 

 180; mill erected, 201; anecdote 

 of William Penn going to the 

 meeting of, 201 ; road laid out, 

 194; College established, 358; no- 

 tice of, 393. 



Hayes, Jonathan, acts as a justice of 

 the court, 196; supposed murder 

 of, 223. 



Hazelwood, Commodore, galleys com- 

 manded by, silence a battery, 318 ; 

 battle of, on the Delaware, 321. 



Health of early colonists, 34. 



Helm, Israel, testimony of, in favor of 

 a Swedish purchase of lands from 

 the Indians, 24; is a trader at Pas- 

 sayunk, 79 ; appointed superinten- 

 dent of the fur trade, 85 ; visits 

 Sweden, 85 ; is appointed Coun- 

 sellor, 90 ; asks compensation as 

 Indian interpreter, 108. 



Hendrickson, Capt. Cornelis, left in 

 command of the yacht Restless, 4 ; 

 report of his discoveries on the 

 Delaware, 5. 



Hessians, two executed, 314. 



History, Sewell's, subscribed for, 236. 



