various counties of the State, for the reason that they knew more about the necessities of the same. Boroughs were incorporated in the same way previous to this Act of Assembly, but since by the Court of Quarter Sessions. These Courts al- ways had the authority to establish and form new townships. Thus it

regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

grantors were the King and the "Great Men" of the Susquehannocks; and a writing was drawn up in the nature of a deed. All this may be found in Vol. 3, of Maryland Archives, p. 66. The next sale, that to the Swedes, is set forth in Campanius, p. 23, and it in- cluded the lands from the Delaware to the