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cause a plat from it will be shewn you by my agent, in which those who are purchasers of me will find their names and interests, &c.

"For your particular concern, I might entirely refer you to the letters of the president of the society, but this I will venture to say, your provincial settlement, both within and without the town, for situation and soil, are without exception:-Your city lot is a whole street, and one side of a street from river to river, con'taining near one hundred acres, not easily valued; which is besides your four hundred acres in the city Lib erties, part of your twenty thousand acres in the country, &c."

When the city plan was made out, two large lots were laid down for two purchasers of twenty thousand acres, others to suit the purchasers of ten thousand, five thousand, one thousand, five hundred and less, and numbered on the draft, and some mode was devised for drawing the names of the purchasers, with the number, of the size belonging to each. Thus, William Penn, junr. drew No. 1, and the Society of Free Traders drew No. 5.

There were but three purchasers of twenty thousand acres, viz. The Society of Free Traders, William Penn, junr, and Letitia Penn. The lots of the two latter were disputed, and after several trials by Jury, it is said they have obtained but 244 feet in breadth from Delaware front street to Schuylkill. The lots of the purchasers of ten thousand acres, bore no manner of proportion to the foregoing-They had six lots of 102 feet in breadth from Second to Third, and from Third to Fourth street, on each front, that is Delaware front, Second and Third streets, and Schuylkill front, Second and Third streets, not amounting to more than six acres-Nicholas Moore and John Marsh, two of these great purchasers, drew on Delaware front, No. 6 and 7.

acres, and placed in the back streets of the front of Delaware, and begin with No. 5, on the southern side, and proceed by numbers, as in the draft."

Then follow the names of the persons who drew the lots, the number of lots, 192.

"Here follow the lots of Schuylkill front to the centre of the city, the purchasers from one thousand acres, and upwards, are placed in the fronts and high streets, and begin on Schuylkill front at the south end with No. 1, and so proceed with the front to No. 43."

Here follow the names of the persons who drew the 43 lots, and it is to be remarked, that the first seven names on both lists are the same, viz. William Penn, junr. No. 1. William Lowther, No. 2. Lawrence Growden, No. 3. Philip Ford, No. 4. The society, No. 5. Nicholas Moore, No. 6. and John Marsh, No. 7. And it is presumed these were the large lots appropriated to the purchasers of twenty and ten thousand acres. "The high street lots begin at No. 44, and so proceed on both sides of that street to the centre square. Then follow the names to the lots, in number 43, but some are blank, and have no names annexed.

"Here follow the purchasers under 1000 acres, placed in the back of the front on Schuylkill, and begin on the southern side with No. 1, and so proceed by the numbers as in the draught.'

Then follow the names annexed to the lots, the lots being 149 in number, but several are blank, without names annexed, and several names in manuscript, where the printed list has been worn. The whole is thus headed, "Directions of reference in the city draught of Philadelphia, to the lots of the purchasers, &c. by way of numbers, be.ng too small to insert their names, so that by the number, the lots may be known." It is to be assumed as a principle, of which the evidence is abundant and conclusive, that liberty lands were Purchasers of five thousand acres had two lots, one always considered as part of the quantity purchased, on Front street 102 feet in breadth, extending from and were taken out of it when the warrant issued for the Front to Second street, and one on High street, 132 country land; but the city lots were considered as feet in breadth, and extending half the depth, north-appurtenant to the purchase, but no part of it; and in ward towards Mulberry street, or southward towards Chesnut street, or about 300 feet, being less than two

acres.

the lessee of Hill, v. West, and lessee of Moore v. West, in the supreme court, December term, 1804, it was held, that the right to city lots was so connected Purchasers of 1000 acres, had two lots, one of twen- with the first purchases, that by a general deed, made ty, or twenty one feet in breadth on Front street, ex-in 1704, by first purchasers of 5000 acres, with the tending to Second street, and the other on High street, believed to be 32 feet, by half the depth to the next

street.

appurtenances, city lots, incident thereto, though previously surveyed, will pass together with the libertylands, unless a contrary intention can be shewn. MSS. Reports.

Purchasers of 500 acres had lots on the back streets, as all the streets were called, except Front, or High That this was the course of the Land-Office, is evistreets, 49 feet in breadth, by half the depth to the dent, from innumerable records; but it is ascertained next street, or thereabouts. This is a general outline, only from such evidence, and from tradition; as it has as far as it can now be ascertained, of the regulations been already stated, that no trace can now be found, of the city lots. Holmes' printed map, in a very mu- of any written documents, to show when, and in what tilated state, from long use, is yet remaining in the manner, these important transactions were settled beSurveyor General's office, but there is also there a cor-tween the proprietor and the purchasers. rect copy on parchment. The names of the first pur. chasers, annexed to the map, which is the original used, and referred to by the commissioners of property, must soon disappear, if not copied. The editor has taken a correct copy, which may be given in the appendix, if it shall be deemed necessary or useful. In this place it is necessary to refer only to the following parts of the printed list, viz.

"The purchasers from one thousand acres and up wards, are placed in the fronts and high streets, and begin on Delaware front, at the south end, with No. 1, and so proceed with the front to the north end, to No.

43."

Then follows the list of names who drew the 43 lots or numbers.

"The High street lots begin at No. 44, and so proceed on both sides of the High street, upwards to the centre-square."

Then follow the names of the persons who drew the lots, amounting to 39 lots.

"Here follow the purchasers under one thousand

In the minutes of the commissioners of property, Book H. page 22, upon application to them for a city lot, the following entry is to be found. The concessions only relate to the liberty-lands, and the first purchasers had no right to city lots, from the first location thereof, but only from the proprietor's grant, after his arrival here.

Upon the second coming of William Penn, after governor Fletcher's time, viz. in the year 1701; the assembly, in an address to the proprietor, claimed certain privileges in the city, which they alleged, had been violated. The seventh and eighth articles are as

follow.

"8th. That whereas the proprietary formerly gave the purchasers an expectation of a certain tract of land, which is since laid out, about two miles long, and one mile broad, whereon to build the town of Philadel phia, and that the same should be a free gift, which since has been clogged with divers rents, and reservations, contrary to the first design and grant, and to the great dissatisfaction of the inhabitants. We desire the

governor to take it into consideration, and make them easy therein."

stances occur in the minute books, in which the com missioners of property confirmed by patent lands deriv. ed from grants and promises from Sir Edmund Andross, the governor of New York.

One of the first acts of William Penn, was to natural

9th. That the land lying back of that part of the town already built, remain for common, and that no leases be granted for the future to make inclosures to the damage of the public, until such time as the respec-ize all the settlers who had seated themselves previous tive owners shall be ready to build or improve thereon." Votes of Assembly, vol. 1, part 1, page 145.

The proprietor, in his answer, ten days afterwards, says "you are under a mistake in fact; I have tied you to nothing in the allotment of the city, which the first purchaser, then present, did not readily seem to comply with, and I am sorry to find their names to such an address as that presented to you, who have got double lots by my re-applotment of the city, from fifty to one hundred and two feet front lots; and if they are willing to refund the fifty-two feet, I shall as you desire, be easy in the quit rents; although this matter solely refers to the first purchasers, and to me as proprietary.

to, and had remained after his arrival, and it appears to have been his earnest desire to extinguish every kind of title, or claim to the lands necessary for the accommoda tion of his colony, and to live on terms of friendship with the Indian natives

The early Indian deeds are vague, and undefined as to their boundaries, and the stations cannot be precisely ascertained at this day; but these circumstances have long ceased to be of any importance; and the deed of September 17th, 1718, seems to define pretty clearly, the extent and limits of the land acquired by the seve ral purchases, to that period.

We shall begin with the deed of July 15th, 1682, procured at a treaty held with the Indians, by William Markham, the deputy governor, a short time previous to the first arrival of William Penn, from Idqnahon, Iannottowe, Idquoqueywon, Sahoppe, for himself, and Okonichon, Merkekowon, Oreckton, for Nannamsey, Shaur wacighon, Swanpisse, Nahoosey, Tomackhickon, Weskekitt,and Talawsis, Indian Shackamakers, for the following lands, for themselves and their people. "Beginning of John Wood, and by him called the Graystones, over against the fall of Delaware river, and so from thence up the said river side to a corner marked Spruce tree, with the letter P, standing by the Indian path that leads to an Indian town called Playwisky, and near the head The assembly in their reply, tell the proprietor, that of a creek called Towissinon, and from thence westthey had tenderly weighed and debated those two ward to the creek called Neshammonys creek, and heads, and voted that they be still insisted upon; and along by the said Nashammonys creek, unto the further application to be made to the proprietary, hum-river Delaware, alias, Makerisk-kitton; and so bounded bly requesting him to ease the party concerned therein, ibid. 153. But nothing further appears respecting this controversy.

"You are under a misapprehension, to think, that a fourth part of the land laid out for a city, belongs to any body but myself, it being reserved for such as were not first purchasers, who might want to build in future time; and when I reflect on the great abuse done me in my absence, by destroying of my timber and wood, and how the land is overrun with brush, to the injury and discredit of the town,it is small encouragement to grant your request; however, I am content that some land beat a certain White Oak, in the land now in the tenure laid out for the accommodation of the town, till inhabitants present to settle it, under regulations that shall be thought most conducing to the end desired; about which I shall consult with those persons chiefly concerned therein." Ibid. 148.

That the original concessions and conditions, made in England, related merely to the first purchasers, is evident from a variety of entries in the books of the commissioners of property, corroborated by general opinion, and uniform construction. See book G, page 73. "I. F. being none of the first 100 purchasers, had no right to liberty lands, according to the concessions," so in Book H, page 38.

by the said river to the said first mentioned White Oak, in John Wood's land, and all those islands called or known by the several names of Matiniounsk island, Sapassineks island, and Oreskons island, lying or being in the said river Delaware, &c.

By an indorsement on this deed, dated August 1st, 1682, sundry Indian chiefs, not present at the execution of the deed in July, and who style themselves the right owners of the land called Sapassineks, and the island of the same name, ratify and approve it; signed, Idquo queywon, Swanpisse, Filerappomond, Essexamarthaks, Nanneshessham, Pyserhay. (Note. In a duplicate of this deed, the river Delaware is called Makerisk-kiskon.) These deeds are not recorded. This purchase was of inconsiderable extent.

The point has however undergone judicial investiga. tion and decision, that the concessions are confined to the first purchasers, 2 Binney, 476, and in the case of Springetsbury Manor, in York county; judge Washington decided that the ninth section, which runs thus, "In every 100,000 acres, the governor and proprietary by lot reserveth ten to himself, which shall lie but in one place," was confined to the cases of the first pur-lying betwixt Pemmapecka and Neshemineh creeks, chasers. Cited, ib. 486,

This subject has become more matter of curiosity than utility. Yet it is necessary to observe, that under the commonwealth, the state paid great regard to those ancient claims of original purchasers to city lots; and provided a mode to ascertain those claims, and to grant patents for the lots, or an indemnification for them, in case they had been sold or appropriated; but limited the time in which such claims should be made, which is now expired, and the remaining lots appropriated by the state, for which see vol. 1, (chap. 931,) page 533, and the note thereto subjoined

Before we proceed to the mode of granting and settling lands in Pennsylvania, it will be useful to ascertain the Indian purchases, and to give a comprehensive and connected view of the deeds, and boundaries, as far as they can be ascertained. The Dutch and Swedes, as has been already observed, were peaceably settled on the Delaware, and after their subjection by the English, were under the government of New York, and had acquired rights under that government. And several in

The deed of June 23d, 1683, is in these words, "We Essepenaike, Swanpees, Oketlarickon, and Wessapoak, for us, our heirs and assigns, do dispose of all our lands

and all along upon Neshemineh creek, and backward of the same, and to run two days' journey with an horse up into the country, as the said river doth go, to William Penn, proprietor and governor of the province of Pennsylvania, &c. his heirs and assigns forever, for the consideration of so much wampum, and so many guns, shoes, stockings, looking-glasses, blankets, and other goods,as he the said William Penn, hath pleased to give unto us, hereby for us, our heirs and assigns, renounc ing all claims or demands of any thing in or for the premises for the future, from him, his heirs or assigns"

By another deed of the same date, Tamanen and Metemequan, release to William Penn, the same territo ry, omitting the two days* journey.

The extent of this purchase would be considerable, and greatly beyond the limits of the subsequent deed of September, 1718. Neither of these deeds is recorded.

June 25th, 1663. An Indian called Wingebone, conveys in the following terms, viz. "For me, my heirs and assigns, do freely grant and dispose of all my lands lying on the west side of the Schuylkill river, beginning

from the first falls of the same all along upon the said October 2d, 1685. Deed from Pare, Packenah, Tariver, and backwark of the same, so far as my right|reekhan, Sichais, Pitquassit, Tours, Essepenaick, Peskoy, goeth, to William Penn, &c. for so much wampum and Kekelappan, Eomus, Machaloha, Mesheconga, Wissapoother things, as he shall please to give us, &c wey, Indian kings, shackamakers, right owners of all July 14th, 1683. Seeane and Icquoqusham, Indian the lands from Quing Quingus, called Duck creek, unShackamakers and right owners of the lands lying be- to Upland, called Chester creek, all along by the west tween Manaiunk, alias, Schuylkill, and Macopanackhan, side of Delaware river, and so between the said creeks, alias, Chester river, grant and sell all their right and backwards as far as a man could ride in two days with title in the said lands, lying between the said rivers, be- a horse, which they convey to William Penn. Recordginning on the west side of Manaiunk, [] called Coned at Philadelphia, in book F. vol. 8, page 121. sohockan, [here an obliteration,] and from thence by a westerly line to the said river Macopanackhan.

And, on the same day, Neneshickan, Malebore, alias, Pendanoughhah, Neshanocke, [and Oserereon, but not signed by him,] Shackamakers and right owners of all the lands lying between Manaiunk, alias Schuylkill, and Pemmapecka creeks, grant all their right, title and interest in their lands betwixt Manaiunk and Pemmapecka, so far as the hill called Consohockan on the said river Manaiunk, and from thence by a northwest line to the river of Pemmapecka. None of these deeds are recorded.

In this place should follow a deed alleged to have existed, dated August 20th, 1686, for the walking purchase, and which occasioned much controversy and dissatisfaction among the Indians; it is, however, referred to, included in, and confirmed by the deed of August, 1737. It is certain no such original deed was in existence at the treaty of Easton, in 1757. It will be further noticed in the proper place.

Jane 15th, 1692. King Taminent, king Tangorus, king Swampes, and king Hickoqueon, by deed, acknowledged satisfaction for all that tract of land belonging to Taminent and others, "which they parted with unto William Penn, &c. the said tract lying between Neshamina and Poquessing, upon the river Delaware, and extending backwards to the utmost bounds of the province," This deed'is not recorded.

What was the true situation of the Conshohockan. hill, cannot perhaps, be now ascertained. That it could not be very high up the Schuylkill is apparent; other wise a northwest line from it, as mentioned in the deed last recited, would never strike Pennepack creek; nor would the line mentioned in the deed of July, 1685, The Poquessing, a name still retained, (as is NeshamiThese limits on the Delaware are precisely defined. hereafter cited, touch the Chester and Pennepackney,) is the original boundary between the counties of

creeks.

Though the name is now lost, it is most probable that it referred to some of the highlands between Wissahick

on and Norristown.

September 10th, 1683. Grant from Keketappan of Opasiskunk, for his half of all his land betwixt Susquehanna and Delaware, which lieth on the Susquehanna side, with a promise to sell at the next spring, on his return from hunting, his right to the other half of said lands. (This deed is not recorded.)

October 18th, 1683. Machaloha, called himself own. er of the lands from Delaware river to Chesapeake bay, and up to the falls of the Susquehanna, conveys his right to William Penn, to said lands, to enjoy them, live upon and quietly. (This deed is signed in the presence of many Indians, whose names are partly eaten off by mice, as is also a small part of the deed, where the blank is.-It is not recorded.)

June 3d, 1684. Deed from Manghougsin, for all his land upon Pahkehoma, (Perkeomink, now Perkioming. This deed is not recorded.)

June 7th, 1684. Richard Mettamicont, calling himself owner of the land on both sides of Pemmapecka creek, on the river Delaware, releases to William Penn. -Not recorded.

July 30th, 1685. Deed from Shakhoppoh, Secane, Malibore, Tangoras, Indian shackamakers, and right owners of the lands lying between Macopanackan, alias Upland, now called Chester creek, and the river or creek called Pemmapecka, now called Dublin creek, (Pennypack,) for all the land beginning at the hill call ed Conshohockin on the river Manaiunk, alias Schuylkill, from thence extending a parallel line to the said Mackopanackan, by a southwesterly course, and from the said Conshohockin bill to the aforesaid Pemmapecka, by the said parallel line northeasterly, and so up along the said Pemmapecka creek, as far as the creek extends, and so from thence northwesterly, back into the woods, to make up two full days journey, as far as a man can go in two days from the said station of the parallel line, at Pemmapeeka; as also beginning at the said parallel at Macopanackan, and so from thence said creek as far as it extends, and from thence northwesterly back into the woods to make up two full days journey as far as a man can go in two days from the said station of the said parallel line at the said Macopanackan. (This deed is not recorded.)

up

And tradition informs us, that near the lower side of the
Philadelphia and Bucks, as ascertained in April, 1685.
Poquessing, on the Delaware, on an elevated piece of
he built.
ground, the city of Philadelphia was first intended to

January 13th, 1796. Thomas Dongan, afterwards earl of Limerick, in the kingdom of Ireland, late governor of New York, by deed, conveys to William Penn, all that tract of land lying on both sides of the river Susquehanna, and the lakes adjacent, in or near the dred pounds sterling.-Beginning at the mountains or province of Pennsylvania, in consideration of one hunhead of said river, and running as far as, and into the bay of Chesapeak, which the said Thomas lately pur chased of, or had given him by the Susquehanna Indians, with warranty from the Susquehanna Indians.

The Indian deed to Col. Dongan is not known now to exist, nor is there any trace of it in the public offices. It is known, however, that he was the agent of William Penn to make the purchase. This deed was confirmed in 1700. Yet we find the Conestogoe Indians complaining of it, at the treaty with Sir William Keith, in 1722, and alleging that William Penn, forty years before, got some person at New York, to purchase the lands on Susquehanna from the Five Nations who pretended a right to them, having conquered the people formerly settled there; and when the Conestogoes understood it, they were sorry; and that William Penn took the parchment, and laid it upon the ground, saying to them it should be common amongst them, viz. The English and the Indians, &c. The governor answered, "I am very glad to find that you remember so perfectly the wise and kind expressions of the great and good William Penn towards you; and I know that the purchase which he made of the lands on both sides of Sus quehanna, is exactly true as you tell it, only I have heard further, that when he was so good to tell your people, that notwithstanding that purchase, the lands should still be in common between his people and them, you answered, that a very little land would serve you, and thereupon you fully confirmed his right, by your own consent and good will, &c."

The curious inquirer who wishes to be further informed of these transactions, now very unimportant, may consult the treaties of 1722 and 1727, in the coun cil books.

July 5th, 1697. The deed from the great Sachem and made an offer to sell lands; the governor tells them, Taminy, his brother and sons, is in these words,-"We "that he is glad to see them, that he takes their visit Taminy, Sathimack and Weheeland, my brother, and very kindly at this time, but that they were misinformed Wehequeekhon, alias Andrew, who is to be king after when they supposed the governor had sent for them; my death, Yaqueekhon, alias Nicholas, and Quenamock-that governor Penn had, by means of Col. Dongan, quid, alias Charles, my sons, for us, our heirs and suc- already bought of the Five Nations, the lands on Sus cessors, grant, &c. all the lands, woods, meadows, ri- quehanna; that the chiefs of the Five Nations, when vers, rivulets, mines, minerals, and royalties whatsoever, Sir William Keith was at Albany, had of themselves situate, lying and being between the creek called Pem- confirmed the former grant, and absolutely released all mopeck, and the creek called Neshaminy, extending pretensions to these lands." The release here stated in length from the river Delaware, so far as a horse can to have been made at Albany, in 1722, is however, not travel in two summer days, and to carry its breadth ac- to be now found. cording as the several courses of the said two creeks About this period the Indian purchases become more will admit, and when the said creeks do so branch, that important, and the boundaries more certain and definthe main branches, or bodies thereof cannot be discovered, and principles were established, and acquired the ed, then the tract of land hereby granted, shall stretch force of settled law, of deep interest to landholders; forth upon a direct course, on each side, and so carry and which have been since uniformly recognized, and on the full breadth, to the extent of the length thereof. at this moment govern and control our judicial tribuAcknowledged in open court, at Philadelphia, 6th nals.-To live in peace and friendship with the natives, July, 1697. Recorded in the Rolls Office, 7th of the was a part of the benevolent system of the venerable 12th month, 1698. in book E 3, vol. 5, page 57, &c. and virtuous founder of Pennsylvania. To a people September 13th, 1700. Widagh and Andaggy junc-averse from warfare, from consciencious motives, every quagh, kings or sachemas of the Susquehanna Indians, thing which would tend to provoke their warlike neigh and of the river under that name, and lands lying on bours, and irritate them to lift the tomahawk, was most both sides thereof. Deed to W. Penn for all the said carefully to be avoided; and we find no common attenriver Susquehanna, and all the islands therein, and all tion bestowed upon this momentous subject by the gothe lands situate, lying and being upon both sides of the vernment. When the natives sold their lands, it was said river, and next adjoining to the same, to the utmost understood distinctly, that the white people should not confines of the lands which are, or formerly were, the settle or encroach upon their hunting grounds, and right of the people or nation called the Susquehannagh lands reserved by them; nor was a single attempt thus Indians, or by what name soever they were called, as ful- to settle, unattended by complaints and uneasiness. The ly and amply as we or any of our ancestors, have, could, Indians observed their treaties with fidelity, and the might, or ought to have had, held or enjoyed, and also boundaries appear to have been always accurately unconfirm the bargain and sale of the said lands, made understood by them. to Col. Thomas Dongan, now earl of Limerick, and formerly governor of New York, whose deed of sale to said governor Penn we have seen. Recorded in Book F. vol. 8, page 242.

On the 17th of September, 1718, there is a deed of release from sundry Delaware Indian chiefs, viz. Sassoo nah, Meetashechay, Ghettypeneeman, Pokehais, Aadmac kan, Opekasset, and Pepawmamam, for all the lands situate between the two rivers, Delaware and Susquehan. na, from Duck creek, to the mountains on this side Lechay, with an acknowledgment, that they had seen and heard divers deeds of sale read unto them, under the hands and seals of former kings and chiefs of the Delaware Indians, their ancestors and predecessors, who were owners of said lands, by which they had granted the said lands to William Penn, for which they were satisfied and content, which, for a further consideration of goods delivered them, they then confirmed-This deed is recorded, May 13th, 1728, in Book A. vol. 6, page 59.

The above is the deed referred to by Sir William Keith, at the treaty with the Conestagoes, in 1722. It is remarkable, that the Indian deed to Col. Dongan, was not produced, and it seemed to have been conceded, that his purchase was from the Five Nations, who pretended right to the lands by conquest; and the words in italics appear to have been intended to embrace and confirm the title however derived. Nor did the purchase include any extent of land. It is true it is left indefinite; being for land on both sides of the river, and next adjoining to the same; but the great object of William Penn was to secure the river through the whole extent of the province; and although it was not designed for immediate settlement, the great foresight of the proprietor would not permit him to relinquish this important grant, which was to secure the whole of the Susquehanna, from the pretensions of the adjoining colonies, and at this time the charter bounds were not distinctly known, but, for a long time afterwards they were considered as extending at least to the Owegy, and including a considerable part of the river, now, unques- The settlers, notwithstanding, encroached on the tionably, known to be within the limits of New-York. Indian lands beyond this boundary, which occasioned No opportunity was therefore lost to bring this title to great anxiety and uneasiness among the Delawares. the view of the Indians. Accordingly, in articles of The complaints of the aged Sassooman, were eloquent agreement between William Penn, and the Susquehan- and pathetic. Violence had ensued, and blood had na, Shawona, Potowmack and Conestogoe Indians, flowed. Preparations had been made, and alliances dated April 23d, 1701. (Recorded in Book F. vol. 8, were forming for war, but by prudence and skill, the page 43.) Among other things they ratify and confirm danger was turned aside. governor Dongan's deed of January 1796, and the above deed of the Susquehanna Indians, of September, 1700.

And notwithstanding the limits defined in the deed of September 1718, which will shortly follow, we find Dongan's deed insisted on, and acquiesced in, at Susquehanna, in 1722; and again, at a treaty held at Philadelphia, in July 1727, between governer Gordon, and the deputies of the Five Nations; in answer to the deputies, who said the governor had divers times sent for them and they had therefore come to know his pleasure,

mits of all the preceding deeds, westward, two days It is therefore to be observed, that the undefined lifar beyond the Lehigh hills, are here restricted to those journey with a horse, &c. which would have extended hills, which so far as related to the purchasers from the Delawares, were the boundaries of the purchased lands.

(To be continued.)

which the signing of the Constitution has been celePottsville is the only place in the United States in brated. It is a good thing to remind the people occasionally that there is such an instrument in existence.

Miners' Journal,

Again, on the 25th of November, 1758, under the command of General Forbes, he approached this point in glorious triumph, and in taking possession of Fort We understand that a car has been placed on that du Quesne, which had just been abandoned by the fly- part of the road near Lancaster which is completed, for ing Frenchmen. the accommodation of those who wish to enjoy the novelAnd yet again, in October, 1794, as commander inty of travelling on a railway,-Columbia Spy.