i77 



Patents, Surveys and Grants, ab- 

 stracts from the more ancient, 520. i 

 Paxtox and Donkgal, alarm caused by 1 



insurgents from, 270. 

 Peace-Makers, appointment of, 144 ; , 

 report of, l.')l ; office held by, 157. 



Pearson, Thomas, sugj^ests a new name 

 for Upland, 130; his place of resi- 

 dence, 170. i 



Pbnn, Hannah, death of, 24:^. 



Penn, John, Thomas, and Richard, be- 

 come joint proprietors, 243 ; arri- 

 . val of Thomas, 243 ; arrival of 

 John, 244 ; return of Thomas, 252 ; 

 charge against the Chester Court 

 by John, 256. 



Penn, William, his grant from Charles | 

 II., 125; his letter to the inhabi- ' 

 tants of Penn.sylvania, 129; first 

 arrival of, 139 ; his visit to Xe\v 

 York, 139 ; purchase of land from 

 the Indians, 144; presides at Ches- , 

 ter Court, 143 ; resides for a time ; 

 at Chester, 146; presides at the 

 trial for witchcraft, 152 ; returns 

 to England, 154; deprived of his 

 government, 185 ; warrant of sur- 

 vey from, for the Welsh Tract, 164 ; 

 government restored to, 192 ; abuse 

 of, 199 ; second visit of, to Penn- 

 sylvania, 200; anecdote of, 201; 

 final return to England, 206 ; ne- 

 gotiates a sale of the Province, 

 221 ; illness of, 221 ; death of. 228. 



Philadelphia, commission to lay out, 

 133 ; yellow fever at, 200 ; Chester 

 Count)' contributes to the defence 

 of, 295 ; occupation and evacuation 

 of, by the British, 316, 331. 



Pieterson Evkrt, observations of, 73. 



Pillory, standing in, introduced as a 

 punishment, 174. 



PiR.VTES, alarm, caused by, 229 



Plants, catalogue of the Delaware 

 County, 417. 



Plowden or Ployden, ridiculous claim 

 of, 60. 



Population, 77, 114, 128; rapid in- 

 crease of, 164; large proportion of 

 the, composed of Friends, 175 ; an 

 estimate of the, 233 ; large in- 

 crease of the, 242, 245, 286 ; pre- 

 sent, of Delaware County, 441. 



Poor, Friends provide for the support 

 of their own, 148. 



PooR-HocsE, establishment of the De- 

 laware County, 350 ; removal of 

 the, 376. 



Pork, to be received for taxes, 113. 



Post-Boy, new.spaper established, 379. 



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Potter, General, service of, 318 ; great 

 vigilance of, 322 ; letter from, 325. 



Pound, public, at Chester, 232 ; at As- 

 ton, 232 ; at Birmingham, 402. 



Powder, first mill erected, 290 ; other 

 mills to be built, 291 ; orders 

 drawn for, 290. 



Preachers, very numerous amongst 

 Friends, 220. 



Preparative Meetings, of Friends es- 

 tablished, 198; to some extent, to 

 be meetings of record, 264, 265. 



Printzdorp. when the grant of was 

 probably made, 47 ; location of, 

 83 ; confirmation of, to Mrs. Pape- 

 goya, 91. 



Printz Hall, site of, 31. 



Pkixtz John, instructions to, as Go- 

 vernor of New Sweden, 29 ; cha- 

 racter and qualifications of, 29, 30, 

 30; arrival of, 30: selects Tini- 

 cum as the seat of his government, 

 31 ; character of colonists brought 

 by, 32 ; salary, 36 ; Tinicum grant- 

 ed to, 36, 519; military force of, 

 40 ; controversies with the Dutch, 

 41, 43, 47; protest of, against 

 Hudde, 43 ; return of, to Sweden, 

 58. 



Prison, to be erected, 150; order of 

 court in respect to the, 156; why 

 little used, 157 ; new one ordered 

 to be built, 181, 184, 204; new one 

 erected, 207 ; grated door for the, 

 216. 



Prisoner, sold into servitude for jail 

 fees, 234; petition of a, to be sold 

 into servitude, 234. 



Privateer, alarm caused by one in the 

 Delaware, 256 ; one exchanged 

 shots with New Castle, 257. 



Provincial Convention, assembling of 

 the, 282 ; delegates from Chester 

 County to the, 282 ; to form a State 

 Constftution, 292. 



Providionce, name of, first appears, 146 ; 

 application for a road to Chester 

 from, 146; first religious meeting 

 held in. 148; particular notice of, 

 387. 



Province, proposed sale of the, 221. 

 Province Island, Indians removed to, 

 for safety, 270 ; battle near, 318 ; 

 sold to redeem paper money, 338. 



Public Improvements, in Delaware 



County, 376. 



Pugh Ellis, writes a Welsh book, 231. 



Punishment, corporal, introduced, 157; 



first sentence of imprisonment, 157; 



new modes of, introduced, 173 ; 



