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Excerpt from My Ancestors: 1675 to 1885
This was conveyed to him March 18th, 1673 by John, Lord Berkeley, who re ceived his title from the Duke of York, the latter possessing it by virtue of letters patent granted by his brother, King Charles II. The English King claimed its ownership on the ground of first discovery. In anticipation of colonizing this land, Fenwick proceeded, before starting to this country, to sell it in tracts ranging from 500 to iooo acres each, to a number of persons, all apparently mem bers of the religious Society of Friends. Samuel Nicholson was one who bought 500 acres, which he afterwards increased to 2000. It was to occupy and improve their possessions that these emigrants came over. Thus they formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans on the fishore of the Delaware River.
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