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INDEX. 



increased severity of. 179; cruelty 

 of, in some cases, 186; corporal, 

 becomes more common, 197. 

 PusEY Caleb, appointment of, as ma- 

 nager of Chester mills, 147 ; peti- 

 tions against the erection of Co- 

 bourn's mill, 161 : supposed to 

 have volunteered to meet the In- 

 dians, 168. 



Q. 



Quadrupeds of Delaware County, ca- 

 talogue of, 434. 



Quakers, military supplies taken from 

 the, 319 ; position and conduct of 

 the, during the revolutionary war, 

 339 ; unjust suspicions against the, 

 340 ; schools established by the, 

 349 ; action of, against the use of 

 intoxicating driuiis, 349; excep- 

 tion to the sitting of, as jurors in 

 a murder trial, 238 ; disabilities of 

 the, removed, 229. See Friends, 

 Meetings, and Burying Grounds. 



Quarterly Meeting, of Friends, first 

 held in Chester County, 148 ; pro- 

 test of the, against the Welsh 

 Friends being united with the Phi- 

 adelphia, 197. 



Queen Anne, proclaimed, 209; death 

 of, 222. 



Quit Rents, order of Gov. Andros in 

 respect to, 119; payment of, to be 

 rigorously exacted, 146 ; appeal of 

 Griffith Owen against the exaction 

 of, on the whole Welsh Tract, 177. 



R. 



Radnor, Friends' Meetings established 

 at, 1.^)8 ; people of, refuse to be an- 

 nexed to Chester County, 171; 

 people of, vote with the freemen 

 of Pliiladelphia, 172; first meeting 

 house erected in, 188; present 

 meeting-house of Friends erected 

 in, 227 ; constable of. refuses to 

 serve, 173; jurisdiction of Ches- 

 ter County extended over, 17.'!; 

 Friends' meeting-house occupied 

 by the military, 328 ; proposition 

 to annex the township of, to Mont- 

 gomery County, 354 ; notice of, 

 395, 



Railroad, first in the United States, 

 389, 



Rain, great storm of, 213. 



Rambo, Peter, meets Gov, Stuyvesant 

 at Tinicum, 73 ; is appointed Coun- 

 sellor, 90. 



Records, of the county removed to a 

 place of safety, 300, 3;!6 : of the 

 county prepared for removal, 351, 



Red Bank, battle of, 320. 



Redemptioners, 348. 



Removal, question of, in Delaware 

 County, first agitated, 354 ; ques- 

 tion of again agitated, 368. 



Restless, yacht, built, 3. 



Revel, Tbomas, acts as clerk of the 

 court, 131. 



Revolution, measures adopted prepara- 

 tory to the, 278 ; meetings in Ches- 

 ter County prior to the, 278, 2'i'9, 

 281 ; committee of correspondence 

 appointed, 280 ; manumission of 

 slaves recommended, 283 ; military 

 associations formed, 283. 



Ridley, Friends' Meeting established at, 

 137 ; notice of, 388, 



Roads, earliest provision in respect to, 

 102; to be made from neighbor 

 to neighbor, 120; appointment of 

 overseers of the, 124; supervisors 

 of the, 135, 157, 183; several of 

 the earliest, laid out, 146, 159, 167, 

 190 ; a bridle road from Marcus 

 Hook to Chester, 190 ; first appoint- 

 ment of six men to lay out, 199 ; 

 first assessment of damages on ac- 

 count of laying out, 217 ; width of, 

 fixed by the court, 207 ; toll-gates 

 authorized on the southern post 

 road, 349. 



Roman Catholics, first misson of the, 

 241 ; enumeration of tlie, 267. 



Rye, to be received for taxes, 113, 156. 



Rysingh, John, appointed Governor of 

 New Sweden, 60 ; grant of land to, 

 61; arrives in New Sweden, 61; 

 captures Fort Casimir, 62 ; con- 

 ference of, with the Indians at 

 Tinicum, 63 ; writes home for a 

 wife, 65 ; refuses the restoration of 

 Fort Christina, 67. 



S. 



Safety, Committee of, appointed, 28.") ; 

 reorganized, 286 ; frequent meet- 

 ings of the 287 ; application of the, 

 for powder, 289 ; duties of the, 

 closed, 293, 



Safety, Council of, pay for firelocks, 

 289 ; duties of the, 293 ; resolves 

 of the, 295 ; eflbrts of, relaxed, 302 ; 

 order of the, to procure blankets 

 for the Army, 319, 



Salt, great scarcity and careful distri- 

 bution of, 205; price of, 295. 



