Herefordshire and Staffordshire, in a ship whereof Dicks, was master, from Bristol; they were chiefly farmers and industrious mechanics: among them were William Shipley, Thomas Tatnal, William Taylor, and others, who settled at Derby, Chester, and in the neighbourhood of Brandywine creek. In the former of these places Taylor commenced business; and made the first pair of Smith's bellows, that was manufactured in Pennsylvania. At the time of their arrival, the small pox raged on board the ship, which alarmed the town, as it was then called, so much that the people assembled and ordered her off, upon which she proceeded as low as the Swedes church, where they landed, and were received by one Barnes, who treated them with a little of the first rum George Warner had ever heard of or seen, and which on sipping it only, he thought was a dangerous thing, that would burn up his entrails. The Inspectors of the Prison of the city and county of Philadelphia, present the following tables for the information of the public. The number of persons committed to the county prison, in Arch street, for the year 1823, was 3582-two thirds of whom were as vagrants, disorderly persons and disturbers of the peace. To this cause is to be attributed the quantum of disease which prevailed in that institution during the last year. The diseases and Deaths which occurred in each month of the year 1823, in the Penitentiary, or Walnut street Prison, were as follows: Months. From this landing they were conducted by Barnes, to Jauary the Blue house tavern, in South street, through swamps February and high forest trees, in which he observed no houses, March but plenty of game. When they recovered of the small April pox, they were in like manner conducted, without see- May ing a house, to the Boatswain and Call tavern, near the June Drawbridge, lately kept by Peter Evans, now the to- July bacco manufactory of Levi Garrett; from this house southward to the Swedes church, he found but 3 or 4 dwellings, with small lots, without fences and the trees cleared round them-his first walk to the northward was near the river side up to Market street, in which distance, were the only two wharves within the limits of Philadelphia, one belonging to Anthony Morris, and one to the estate of the late William Allen. In proceeding westward through the market, he found the street paved about the court house, which were the only street pavements in town, the market house then extended but half a square westward of Second street. Between Third and Fourth streets, he met a drunken woman; as he had never before seen such an object, she surprised him so much with her wild capers, that he was induced to cross from the south to the north side of the street to give her elbow-room; this walk he continued to the middle ferry, on Schuylkill, and as far up the river, as the burial ground, which on enquiry, he found belonged to Friends, in which the first settlers amongst them, who lived about Merion, &c. buried their dead. From this walk he returned to his lodging, admiring all round him, the high forest trees, in Market st eet, which extended from the banks of the Schuylkill to Delaware Ninth street. To repeat more of his knowledge of the city would fill too much of thy paper-it will, therefore, suffice simply to mention, that his memory, which remained perfect, qualified him to give clear evidence, on his affirmation, within the last year of his life, on trials for land before the Court and Legislature of Pennsylvania. His sight, for several years before his departure, be'came dim, and he was somewhat hard of hearing. Under all these disadvantages, this venerable old gentleman was cheerful, and happy in detailing to the children of his relations and friends, anecdotes of their fathers and mothers, after he had out-lived every man, woman and child that he knew in the days of his youth. ERRATA. [Poulson. Our readers are desired to correct the following typographical errors in the letter from Chester county, in our last number. Page 364, for " you may stand on the top of Osborne's hill, or the place," &c. read at the place. Page 365, for "West Chester is situated about ten miles," &c. read two miles; for "Darlington's Florida Cestrica," read Florula Cestrica; for "bury under the plough," read bring under, &c.; for "wherein requir ed," read wherever; 366, for "Sterdes," read 'Strodes;' for "Pocopsan," read Pacopson.' August Total....... Males,.. ..382 DEATHS. 18 The diseases and deaths which occurred in each month of the year 1823, in the County Prison of city and county of Philadelphia, in Arch street, were as follows: Months. January April May June July Totals... Males,.. Total....... THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. I. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD, NO. 51, FILBERT STREET. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 21, 1828. EBELING'S HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 373.) CHAPTER VII. NO. 25. vor of the English government. Markham's son-in-law was accused of being one of the principal parties concerned in these offences; on that account he was expelled the house, prosecuted and imprisoned, and was only liberated on his father-in-law becoming bail for his William Penn's Second Voyage to Pennsylvania-Yellow appearance. Of the offence of carrying on a contraFever-State of the Colony-Disagreement between band trade, the legislature declared the province enthe Provinces-Indian Affairs-New Constitution--tirely clear, and Penn himself appeared convinced of Penn returns to England--Hamilton Governor--The the innocence of the inhabitants, and willingly sent their lower counties again separate-Dissentions----Governor justification to England, which, however, could not be Hamilton dies--Edward Shippen, President, and the complete, as the inquiry which had been set on foot had been broken off before it was ended. (1) Council. The proprietor now believed that every thing was These were the first objects that engaged the atten- prepared for introducing a new form of government, tion of the legislature which William Penn convened which should be free from the defects of the former immediately upon his arrival. He had sailed from Eng- ones, and impart strength as well as unity to the admiland in September 1699, with his second wife and his nistration. He, therefore, in May 1700, called an exchildren; but he did not land until after a tedious voy-traordinary meeting of the assembly, which was also age of nearly three months. Fortunate, indeed, it was for him, for had he arrived sooner, he might have fallen a victim of the yellow fever. It had been imported from the West Indies, and had occasioned a considerable mmortality. In later times, that city was visited by the same plague in the most dreadful manner, and it then carried off, as it did at the time we are speaking of, a great number of the inhabitants, but then, as afterwards, the cold weather put a stop to its destructive progress. (1) extraordinary in these respects, that it consisted of a larger number of members than those which preceded it, and held a session of unusual length. (2) Before this assembly he laid his new charter, on which there were long deliberations and joint as well as separate discussions between the two houses. Although they were agreed as to the main object, yet this weighty matter was not carried through in this session, the legis lature was dissolved, and even the ensuing general assembly, which met in October of the same year, did not accomplish the work; but brought it nearer to a conclusion. Penn was received in his province with so much the greater pleasure as it was firmly believed, that he came with the determination of spending there the remainThis assembly was held at New Castle, probably with der of his life. Nevertheless, he did not find among a view to gain over the lower counties, and consisted his planters that warm feeling of affection, and that un- of twenty-four members. To the principal object of bounded confidence by which he had been enabled, this meeting, were added those of completing a code when among them the first time, to lead them entirely of laws, securing the titles to landed property, and according to his will. Many strangers and foreigners granting an aid for the support of government. The had come into the country, the bond of union between formation of the code was carried on with great zeal the two colonies was rather loosened than strengthened and with the best effect; but less so the new form of by the government of the Quakers, and they themselves, government which was drawn up by a joint committee by Penn's fifteen years absence, and by the conduct of of the two houses and submitted to discussion. There his and the king's lieutenants, had been in a degree was found at the very threshhold, a dangerous impedialienated from him; many things were wanting in the ment in the question which was now generally discusslaws of the province, and the property of the land owned, whether the act of the union of the two colonies ers was not yet fully secured. Penn had first to become was yet in force? The lower counties were willing to better acquainted with the situation of his colonies, and acknowledge it, provided an equal freedom was secured the views and feelings of the inhabitants, and therefore to them; by which they understood that they should not much was done by the legislature at their first meet- always have in the legislature an equal number of reings. At last, he found it necessary to conform to their presentatives with Pennsylvania, a pretension which the ideas and wishes; after all he showed the same zeal and evident prospect of an increase of population rendered disposition as formerly to promote the happiness of the even then inadmissible. In vain did the proprietor procolonists. His speeches to the legislature were friendly, pose a middle course. To prevent an immediate sepa mild and conciliating. They produced a good under-ration, it became necessary to postpone the decision of standing between the different branches of the govern- the question, and remain satisfied that the lower counties by taking part in the legislation, still held in some manner to the union. ment. The first assembly, which met in January, 1700, (2) had principally in view to increase the severity of the The majority of the house of assembly was now willlaws against piracy, and the violation of the British sta-ing to adopt a newly draughted frame of government, tutes concerning navigation. This had been particular- but as it was laid before the proprietary, he thought ly enjoined by the king on the proprietors, and he felt proper to dissolve the legislature. Yet they, besides it the more incumbent upon him to exert himself on this subject, in order to preserve the newly acquired fa 1 1 Proud, 421. Rush. 2 1 Votes. 117. 1 1 Votes. 117. 2 This assembly met on the 10th 3d month, and separated on the 8th, 4th month. [That would not be called a long session at the present time.] 386 a great many other laws, (1) had passed an important act to confirm the titles of the land owners, and had voted some taxes for the support of the government. In the discussions on this last subject, the disunion which prevailed between the two colonies, manifested itself, as they voted on every question in opposition to each other, at last it was agreed to lay a tax of one penny in the pound for the expenses of the government with a poll tax of six shillings per head, (2) to raise £2000 for the governor by another poll tax, of which the city of Phila- | delphia paid more than one half, and Pennsylvania more than three fourths. (3) hannah and of the Minquay or Conestogo Indians, to whom were joined the Shawanese, the Kanhawas, inhabiting the head of Potomack, and the Five Nations, by which treaty he certainly promoted not a little the safety of his colony, and probably rendered an essential service to the neighbouring provinces. William Penn's situation now became uncomfortable, in consequence of the news that he received from his friends in England. The enemies of the Quakers, and perhaps, his own personal enemies, had improved the time of his absence, in order to prejudice the king against the proprietary government in the colonies. The These laws, which laid the foundation of the provin-king, as well as his ministers, did not see without apprecial code, were chiefly penal laws; the remainder con-hension their rapid increase, and began to fear lest they cerned the police. (4) A good law was also made for should become too powerful for the crown; therefore the protection of bound servants, (5) and others for the it was thought advisable to convert them into royal gosecurity of the Indians, and the regulation for the trade vernments, and to purchase off the proprietary interests. with them. (6) A proposition which was made for bet- A bill to that effect was, in fact, brought into the house tering the condition of the negroes was not carried into of lords. When the owners of lands in Pennsylvania, of effect until a later period, although William Penn had which there were many in England, particularly among warmly exerted himself at the meeting of the Quakers, the Quakers, came to be informed of this, they petitionas well in favour of the Indians as the negro slaves.-ed the parliament against the measure, and begged at He succeeded, however, in obtaining that a meeting of least that time should be allowed for Penn to come over worship should be held every month for the latter, and and defend his right. They therefore urged his speedy he undertook himself to establish more frequent meet- return, the necessity of which he himself perceived, although this request came upon him at a most inconveings with the Indians. (7) nient time. He immediately convened the legislature to meet on the 16th September, 1701; having a great deal of business to transact with them, and much that required to be completed. The number of representatives in the assembly consisted of twenty-four, according to the last resolution taken at New Castle. In his opening speech he declared to them the melancholy necessity he was under of leaving the province; that their own welfare, indeed, required it, but that he was determined to return, and settle his family and posterity in the province. (1) He invited them to find some suitable expedient and provision whereby he might secure their privileges and property, and effect a nearer union of their interests. Then he particularly recommended to them a new royal requisition of £350 sterling, in aid of the frontier province of New York, and praised the treaty which the governor of that colony had made with the Five Nations, and which was advantageous to Pennsylvania. (2) He was induced to this as much by prudence, as by his devotion to the king, whom he hoped thereby to incline more favourably to him. A second session of the same assembly was convened for the sole object of obtaining aid of £350 sterling to the government; but partly because the people were already too much loaded with impositions, and partly because the neighbouring colonies did not contribute their shares, the assembly would not grant this tax, and the subject was postponed to the next meeting of the legislature. (8) Penn did not press farther this requisition in the king's name, which, in fact, was opposed to the pacific principles of the Quakers, and to the main object of the foundation of their colony, and perhaps, had been suggested by their enemies at court. On the other hand, he set on foot friendly negotiations with the Indians, and concluded at Philadelphia, in April, 1701, a formal treaty of amity and commerce (9) with the numerous chiefs and deputies of the Susque 1 The whole number of laws passed during William Penn's second residence in Pennsylvania, exceeded one hundred, of which the greatest number were enacted during the session at New Castle. in pence 2 In the preceding assembly a tax of four the pound, and a capitation of twenty-four shillings had been demanded, which were, however, refused. 1 Votes, 122. 3 1 Votes, 139. 4 One of them according to Quaker principles, declared health-drinking to be a punishable offence; another laid a heavy penalty on the grievous sins of cursing and swearing. He who was convicted of it the fourth time, was liable to a very heavy fine, or was condemned to hard labour, declared a common curser and swearer, and the court might sentence him to receive twenty-one lashes four times a year, during seven years; also against challenging to fight a duel, a severe imprisonment and a fine of £20 were inflicted. Law, c. 44, 45.82. 5 Laws, c. 49. [Galloway's laws of Pennsylvania, page 7. No man could purchase lands of the Indians, without the permission of the proprietary; no foreigner could trade with them; and all the inhabitants were strictly prohibited from selling them spirituous liquors. 7 1 Proud, 423. 8 1 Votes, 141. 9 This treaty is recorded in 1 Proud, 428-433.Every thing that it contains is highly favourable to both parties. In one of the articles the Indians acknowledge the supremacy of the crown of England, not indeed, to hold them in subjection, but to protect them against the French. The assembly's answer to this speech was couched in the most respectful and affectionate language. They immediately prepared an address, in which they set forth in detail their wants and wishes. These related particularly to the appointment of a lieutenant governor in his absence, the security of their land titles, and the allowance connected with them (3) which they claimed by virtue of the governor's promise. They proposed the establishment of a patent office, and that the quitrents should be made redeemable. The lower counties in the twenty-one articles of which this address consisted, had asked much for themselves in direct opposition to the proprietary's interest, (4) nevertheless he granted the most of what was asked, and refused only some unjust demands, and some others with which, the legislature had no right to interfere, as they merely concerned the contracts between the proprietary and the purchasers of lands. On the other hand, the assembly insisted on all their demands being granted, although 1 He took his wife and children with him to Eng. land. 2 1 Votes, 143. 3 [Of ten for every hundred acres.] 4 They asked that William Penn should grant them lands in future, as the Duke of York had done, at the rate of a bushel of wheat for a lot of one hundred acres. This, as well as the redemption of the quit-rents was refused; the latter under the pretext that it had been once offered to them, and was not accepted. 1828.1 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 387 Penn showed so much complaisance to them, as to in- | council, which, though it continued to be a part of the vite them to nominate themselves his lieutenant, which, however, they modestly declined. (1) The laws were several times revised by the assembly, and in many respects altered; it is, however, difficult to decide, whether this revised code did less honour to the present or to the former assembly. While they were debating on a bill to confirm the laws at New Castle, and the majority of the votes appeared to be in favour of it; the misunderstanding between the representations of the two colonies, was again revived, with more violence than ever, so that several of the members for the lower counties left the house. Nothing less than Penn's earnest interference and the weight of his character would have prevented an open rupture. He promised to agree to the separation of the two colonies, if thereafter, they should insist upon it. But the bitter feelings were not extinguished; and now there was an end of the good understanding between Penn and his assembly, and the haste with which it was necessary to carry through every thing, by no means contributed to restore it. The principal difference, at last, was on the subject of the indemnity demanded by those who had received less than their full measure of land. Penn's benevolent propositions were rejected, and the whole of the first pretensions was insisted on. The Pennsylvanians now themselves, wished for a separation from the lower counties, and the representatives of the latter returned to their homes, William Penn, unwilling to see his hopes varish, at the very moment when he was about to sail for another country, called the remainder to his house, where he let them deliberate, after confirming several laws, he presented to them the new charter, in lieu of that which in May 1700, had been delivered up to him by the legal majority, by which charter Pennsylvania continued to be ruled until her separation from Great Britain. legislature, was no longer a representative body, but was entirely dependent on the proprietary, who by that means had a decisive influence in the legislature, and the executive power rested entirely upon him. On the other side, among many privileges, the house of assembly had the right to originate laws secured to them; so that on the whole, the people gained more than they lost. Here Penn shewed as much by his adherence to his fixed and unalterable system of religious toleration as by the elective and other franchises which he granted to the people, that he had remained true to the principles of freedom which he had formerly maintained in his excellent work on the ancient liberties of the people. (1) The lower counties, however, unanimously rejected the new charter. This was only a continuation of their former conduct, and must not be ascribed to their sagacity in foreseeing the endless disputes that might be expected from the union of two provinces so little likely to coalesce; while there was no third power above them, to restrain their passions and maintain peace and harmony between them. Penn himself who foresaw that this separation was at hand, had inserted an article in his charter to provide in such case for the preservation of their rights and liberties. (2) Amidst this division of opinions, William Penn left the province. The short administration of Hamilton was not able to reconcile them, although he made it his principal business; the Pennsylvanians themselves until some time after his death, which happened in Feb. 1703, could not convene an assembly for their province; it met under Edward Shippen, president of the council, but their proceedings were by no means unanimous. Their first resolution was a declaration of their rights, more defined, and at the same time more extensive than the charter allowed, while the president did not think himself authorised to concur with them in that measure. (3) Such was the leave which William Penn on the 28th of October, 1701, took of his province, which had promised itself so much felicity from his presence. At the beginning of the following year, the new goyThere could not have been a more satisfactory compen-ernor, John Evans, arrived from England, and immedisation for the displeasure he had experienced, than that ately called together in April, an assembly consisting of which he received when he, at last, was informed that the members of the two provinces, whom he was disboth houses had declared in writing at the foot of the posed to consider as still united. They all met in the instrument, that they received it with gratitude from council room, where Evans in his speech to them, intheir proprietary. He added to it a charter for Phila-sisted much on their union, with which the territorial delphia, which was now become so considerable as to be erected into a city; and he immediately appointed a council of state for the province and lower counties; on whom, together with the lieutenant governor, he conferred the executive authority. He bestowed the office of lieutenant governor on Andrew Hamilton, one of the proprietors of East New Jersey, who, for several years had been at the head of the province. (2) CHAP. VIII. The lower Counties again separate. Dissentions in the Province. Death of Governor Hamilton. John Evans succeeds him. His character and conduct. False alarm at New Castle. James Logan accused of participation in these proceedings. Strong opposition led by the Speaker, David Lloyd. Remonstrance to William Pern. Imprudence of that measure. representatives now appeared satisfied, but those of Pennsylvania refused. (4) It was no favorable omen that in the very beginning of his administration he found himself entirely deceived in a point of so much impor tance. John Evans was a young man, uncommonly active and zealous in all matters in which the proprietary's interests were concerned; he wanted neither wit nor ta. lents, but he was deficient in experience, in prudence, and in knowledge of mankind; he did not take any pains to study the opinions and inclinations of those whom he was appointed to govern; and his private life, even setting aside his nocturnal parties in which he freely indulged in the pleasures of the table, was too strongly opposed to the principles and habits of the sober and moral Quakers, who could not remain indifferent to such an offensive beginning of his government, and he was led at last int such measures as entirely lost him the The new charter which Pennsylvania received on favor of the people of Pennsylvania. He early attached Penn's departure, was in many respects similar to their himself to the interest of the lower counties, and induformer constitution, and in many others differed from it. ced their assembly to pass laws, which had no other ob. The people were deprived of the right of electing theject but to produce disagreeable effects in the province. England being then at war with France and Spain, he 1 1 Votes, 145-153. 348. and Segg: 2 Proud, appendix, 40. Franklin's Review, 40. [30 American edition.] 21 Votes, 154–164. Ibid, appendix, XIV.-1 Proud, 439, and Segg. Franklin's Review, 42. [32 American edition:] Ebeling's Geog. and History of the U. S. vol. 5, p. 179. 1 The people's ancient and just liberties asserted. Lond. 1670. 2 [See the two last paragraphs of the last article of the charter.] 3 1 Votes, append. xxv. 1. Proud 456. 4 1 Votes, xxix.-2. Votes, 3.-Franklin's Review 47. [Am. ed. 36.] 1 had been ordered by the queen to raise a militia in Pennsylvania, but in his attempt to do it, he met with little success. He affected to treat with contempt the pacific principles of the Quakers. As he could not persuade them to give up those principles, he bethought himself of a trick to lead them into acts of an opposite charac ter. At a moment when such a thing was least expected, a messenger came in great haste from New Castle, spreading terror as he went along, with the news that an enemy's fleet was coming up the river Delaware. The governor with his confidential friends flew to arms, he rode through the streets with a drawn sword in his hand, summoning to his assistance all persons capable of bearing arms. The inhabitants were thrown into confusion, but rather sought their safety in flight by land or water, than in preparing for defence. A great part of the Quakers did not forsake their usual composure, and only four of them were found who had recourse to arms.The stratagem, however, was soon seen through, and recoiled upon its inventors, who had now to seek their safety from the fury of an enraged populace. The secretary of the province, James Logan, a man of great wit and learning, although he belonged to the Society of Quakers, lost on this occasion, as well as the governor, the favor of the people, being believed to have been privy to this affair, and because he endeavored to palliate the governor's conduct. About the same time, governor Evans also gave great offence to the merchants of the province, by a measure as unwise as it was contrary to law. He had authorised the assembly at New Castle, to erect a fort near the town, where it could be but of little use to the safety of the two provinces. For the maintenance of this fort, every ship sailing up the river and not belonging to the inhabitants of the shores, was obliged to deliver there one pound of gunpowder for each ton that she measured; and every vessel sailing by was obliged under a heavy penalty, to lay to and report herself. This illegal ordinance was carried into execution, to the great oppression and displeasure of the citizens of Philadelphia. They tried, during several years, every lawful means to get rid of this grievance, but all was in vain, until three spirited Quakers, among whom was Richard Hill, (1) who from his youth had led a seafaring life, ventured in his ship to pass by the fort without coming to anchor, nay, by a cunning stratagem, enticed its commander on board of their vessel, where they took him prisoner, and delivered him up to Lord Cornbury, Vice Admiral and Governor of New Jersey, who sent him home with a' severe reprimand. Hill, not contented with this satisfaction, went accompanied with a great number of the inhabitants to the house of assembly, and laid before them a solemn complaint, on which they made strong remonstrances to the governor, who evaded giving an answer, which was not, however, insisted upon, as at that time much heavier charges were brought forward against the government's secretary, James Logan. (2) These things took place in the year 1707, under the third general assembly, which was convened during governor Evan's administration. In that assembly the same spirit of opposition to him and his party prevailed as in that of 1704, and that spirit even displayed itself against the proprietor, although it did not break out into so much violence. These assemblies were both held under the presidency of David Lloyd, their speaker. He was a lawyer, who in the early times of the colony was invested with the office of attorney general; he was much esteemed among his fellow religionists, not only for his abilities, but also for his integrity; as a politician, however, he was much better qualified to keep alive the divisions of a party than to reconcile them. (1) The first assembly was already for the reasons before mentioned in a state of unfriendly disposition towards the lieutenant governor, which soon rose into bitterness on both sides. According to the usual course of such passions, it became impossible for them to act in concert for the general good. The assembly, it is true, granted to Evans a salary of £400, (1) but renewed their former demand for the confirmation of the charter. The Governor thought this a good opportunity to obtain for his council a share of the legislative power. But the assembly were resolutely opposed to this diminution of their privileges; they were nevertheless, equitable enough to remedy a defect which had crept into the charter, and offered, of their own accord, to limit the time of their sittings (which it felt ur limited) to twenty days, unless it should be enlarged by the agreement of both branches of the legislature. Instead of giving his consent to this proposition, Evans insisted on the right of proroguing and dissolving the legislative body: although he suffered the matter to lie, until a decision could be obtained from England. In consequence of this misunderstanding and of a number of irritating speeches which were ascribed to the members of the council, the legislature entirely lost their temper: the assembly not only postponed all business to the next session, on pretence of an indisposition of the lieutenant governor, but resolved on making a remonstrance to the proprietary, which, indeed, contained some well founded grievances against the governor and various members or officers of the government; but the remainder was filled with offensive expressions against William Penn, and the most odious complaints, some of which were unfounded, others exaggerated and others had long been obliterated. (1) The language of that instrument was not that of open and intrepid defenders of the public liberties, but the bitter sarcastic language of long subdued anger. Is the cause of it to be sought in the new pretension of the proprietor, (not however, mentioned in the remonstrance) to confirm the laws of the province, before they were laid before the king? Or in the not quite empty threat that he had made to give up the colony to the crown? The assembly only caused the heads of their grievances to be inserted in the journal, and refused to give to the governor and to seven members of the council, who were Quakers, (2) a full copy of their remonstrance; but this was not so much, as they pretended, 1 In the printed articles, even the different char ters which had been granted to Pennsylvania, were ascribed to artifice on the part of the proprietor; he was accused of having received large sums during his last residence in the province, to be applied to the relief of the colony, to the obtaining exemption from oaths, &c. while the queen, on the contrary, had declared all the Quakers who would not take an oath, incapable of any judicial office. There was more reason to complain of the right 1. He was a native of Maryland, but settled after-given to Evans in his instructions, to summon the legis wards at Philadelphia, where he married the daughter of governor Lloyd; he was 25 years a member of the council, and once speaker of the assembly, afterwards he held the office of land commissioner, and at last filled a judge's seat. He was held in great esteem, was strongly attached to the English constitution, to the laws of the province and the principles of his religious society, and contributed much to the preservation of all. died at Philadelphia, in the year 1729. (Proud.) He 2 2 Votes, 168. Franklin's Review 91. (Am. ed. p.) 1 Proud, 469-475, lature by writs, and to prorogue and dissolve them.There might be also a couple more of well founded complaints. In the part of this instrument given us by Frank. lin, which was published with the direct view to give the secret history of the state offences of the proprieta ry from the first settlement of the province, they complain also of the great increase of immorality since he had sent over Evans, and his own eldest son, who was a member of the council. 2 Several of them as Richard Hill and others, were certainly not in league with the governor. |