INDEX. 



575 



from the Indians, 8 ; population 

 of, 10. 



Manukactokiks, origin of in Delaware 

 County, 353 ; number and condi- 

 tion ofin the year 1833, 356 ; best 

 sites for, 404 ; statistics of, 560. 



Marcus Hook, grant of land to the six 

 original inhabitants of, 118, it'll; 

 name changed to Chichester, 136; 

 petition for a market and fairs at, 

 199; incorporation of, 205, 530; 

 troops quartered at, 289 ; soldiers 

 at, ianoculated for the small-po.x, 

 294'; rifle battalion marches from, 

 308; notice of, 381. 



MaukhaM; William, arrival of, 125; as- 

 sumes his office of Lieut. -Governor, 

 128; commission of, 129; council 

 of, 129; interview with Lord Bal- 

 timore, 129; appointment of Jus- 

 tices by, 131; presiiles at the 

 Upland Court, 132 ; appointed Go- 

 vernor of the three lower counties, 

 182 ; appointed Deputy Governor 

 of the Province, 192 ; held an In- 

 dian slave, 219. 



Marlborodgh, organized as a town- 

 ship, 213. 



Marple, notice of, 392. 



Marriage, illegal, 81, 121, 143, 151; 

 Quaker plan of, adopted by others, 

 175; strictness of the court in re- 

 spect to, 197 ; by Friends, before 

 a Justice, 198; young Friends 

 greatly restricted in courtship and, 

 198. 



Marriages, vain practices at, 248. 



Martial Law, declared by Congress, 

 318. 



Marsh Lands, how held, 121. 



Martin, Walter, singular grant of land 

 by, 209. 



Maryland, commissioners of, order the 

 Dutch to leave, 76; ambassadors 

 sent to the authorities of, 76; bor- 

 der troubles with, 232, 248 ; com- 

 missioners of meet to run the cir- 

 cular line, 243 ; order of King and 

 Council for settling the boundary 

 of, 247, 248 ; preliminar_y line run, 

 247, 248 ; difficulties made by the 

 commissioner of 250. 



Mason and Dixon's Line, final settle- 

 ment of, 2 73, 274. 



Maxwell General, command of, at- 

 tacked, 303 ; his position at the 

 Battle of Brandywine. 307. 



Meadows, companies of owners of, first 

 incorporated, 269 ; military works 

 erected on the, 319. 



Measure, a standard of recommended 

 by the Grand Juiy, 173 ; Winches- 

 ter preferred, 173. 



Media, town of named and laid out, 

 375; notice of, 388. 



Meeting-house, Friends', of Chichester 

 erected, 158; first, of Haverford, 

 167; of Darby, 166; of Chester 

 and Radnor, 188; of Radnor, oc- 

 cupied with the military, 328 ; old, 

 of Chester, sold, 245. 



Meetings, hour of commencement of 

 religious, in early times, 267. 



Menonists, a peculiar colony of, 82. 



Mercer, Fort, a garrison placed in, 

 317 ; battle at, 320; evacuation of, 

 324. 



Mercury, arrival of the ship, in the 

 Delaware, 70. 



Merlin Frigate, blown up, 321. 



Mey, Capt. Cornelis Jacobson, visits 

 the Delaware Bay, 4 ; erects Fort 

 Nassau, 8, 



Middletown, when organized as a town- 

 ship, 398 ; notice of, 398 ; present 

 by Dr. Watts to the Presbyterian 

 meeting of, 398. 



Miles.'Col. Samuel, commands on the 

 Delaware, 289 ; humane letter of, 

 294. 



Militia, call for, 297, 298 ; to encamp 

 near Chester, 297 ; eighteen hun- 

 dred forwarded, 303 ; call for five 

 thousand, to rendezvous at Darby, 

 304; in 1814, the draft of, and 

 volunteers from Delaware County 

 in service, 351, 352. 



Mill Creek, names by which it was 

 formerly known. 120. 



Mills, Swede's, 38, 55, 94, 120, 203 ; 

 HansMoenson's, 120; Chester, 147, 

 563 ; Thos. Cobourn's, 162 ; Haver- 

 ford', 167, 191 ; Crosby's, 221 ; Wil- 

 liam Davis', 218 ; Darby, 191 ; Con- 

 cord, 191 ; early rolling and slit- 

 ting mill, 259; order in respect to, 

 103; Capt. Hans Moenson's to be 

 built, 120. 



Minerals, to be inquired for, 42 ; cata- 

 logue of the localities of, in Dela- 

 ware County. 414. 



MiNSHALL. Thomas, meeting-house to 

 be built on land donated by him, 

 202. 



Minuit, Peter, appointed Director of 

 New Netherlaud, 8 ; arrival of, with 

 the first Swedish Colony, 20 ; pur- 

 chase of land from the Indians, 

 23 ; death of 23. 



MoENSON, Hans, resists the Dutch order 



