Identifier: historyofdelawar00smit (find matches)
Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.)
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ing the passage, in conse-quence of the breaking out of the small-pox, of which loathsomedisease 30 of the emigrants died. Otherwise the voyage wasprosperous, the vessel arriving at New Castle on the 27th ofOctober, 1682. On the next day, Penn having produced hisdeeds of feoffment from the Duke of York for the tAvelve milessurrounding New Castle, and also for the country below, thepossession and seisin of the New Castle grant were formally givento him by John Moll and Ephraim Herman, who had been con-stituted attorneys for that purpose by his Royal Highness.^ Atthe same time, a number of the inhabitants signed a pledge oftheir obedience to the Proprietary. On the same day he com-missioned Justices for New Castle, and constituted Markham hisattorney to receive the possession of the territory below from theattorneys of the Duke. 1 Haz. Ann. 522. 2 Proud. i. 204; Janney, 194. » New Castle Rec.; Haz. Ann. 597-606. ♦ New Castle Rec.; Patent Buok, Harrisburg, A. 2, p. 121; Haz. Ann. 598.
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1682.) HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 139 A letter addressed to Epliruim Herman in respect to summon-ing a Court to be held at New Castle on the 2d of November,and dated at Upland on the 20th of October, shows that he hadthen arrived at his scat of Government. He may have arrivedthe day before. The fancy of the artist has portrayed thelanding of Penn at Uj)land; but neither the hour, the day, northe manner of his landing, is certainly known. He landed at Upland, but the place was to bear that familiarname no more for ever. Without reflection, Penn determined thattlie name of this place should be changed. Turning round tohis friend Pearson, one of his own society, who had accompaniedhim in the ship Welcome, he said, ■Providence has brought ushere safe. Thou hast been the companion of my perils. Whatwilt thou that I should call this place ? Pearson said Chester, in remembrance of the city from whence he came.William Penn replied that it should be called Chester, and thatwlien he divided

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