full report in the "Court Minutes kept at Fort Altena" of the trial of the offender on the 7th and 16th of April, following, quite corroborates his judgment.* In conformity with the order of the Court of Assizes at New York, he obtained, August 1, 1665, a renewal, by the English authorities, of his patent for land at Upland, and again, August 4, 1668, a confirmation to him of "three lots of land in his possession," described in the Abstract of Patents still preserved in the Office of the Secretary of State at Albany.† He was one of the seventeen "Tydable Persons" residing at Upland in 1677, and one of "the responsible housekeepers' named in the "Census" of 1680. At a court held at Chester the "3d day in the 1st week of the 10th month, 1686," he of the learned, but unfortunately dim-sighted, and, therefore, frequently inaccurate, Dr. Adriaen van der Kemp. The latter gives both names of Kyn and Snewit, writing the first, by reason of his infirmity, Kuyp (printed by Mr. Hazard Kuys), and the second Sneart. The marginal account of the matter given in the Annals seems to indicate that the excellent author of that work was not aware of Jöran Kyn's having survived the dastardly assault, and having brought the criminal to punishment. Both the trial of the scoundrel, and the letter quoted from, are to be seen at large in Mr. Fernow's invaluable contribution to our early history, on pages 424-6. The letter, at least, though not the trial, has been reprinted from this work in the VIIth Volume of the Second Series of Pennsylvania Archives, at page 699.

* The process is headed "Jurriaen Kijn, plaint., against Evert Hendrickson, the Finn, deft." It appears from Jöran Kyn's "remonstrance" that the man had once before assaulted him, threatening his life, the previous autumn. "This, however, was settled, but it was under the condition that, if he made trouble afterwards, the complaint about it should be repeated. The plaintiff said further, that defendant was an unruly man, who troubled the place at Upland's Kil." Judging from the rest of the testimony elicited, the Finn seems, indeed, to have been a sort of desperado: he was banished from Upland for his ill behaviour, and removed to the vicinity of New Castle. The trial is of special interest to the antiquarian, as indicating the names of several residents of Upland not elsewhere mentioned as living there. Among others occurs that of Dr. Tymon Stidden, the surgeon appointed for the colony by the City of Amsterdam, and the original grantee of a great part of the land upon which the city of Wilmington, Delaware, is situated. Of all the persons who then dwelt there Jöran Kyn was the only one who remained at Upland to connect the history of these very early inhabitants with the times of William Penn.

A copy of this patent is also to be seen in the Surveyor-General's Office at Harrisburg.

reclaimed a fugitive servant. At another, held the "3d day in the 2d week of the 2d month, 1687," he "made over a deed for a parcell of land lying and being in Chester with all the appurtenances and lotts, dated the 18th day of the 11th month, 1686, to James Saunderlaine and his Heirs forever"-the estate referred to, probably, in the action of the Court on the "3d day in the 1st week of the 10th month" following, when "James Saunderlaine was attested constable for the township and Liberty of Chester, or that he see the office duly executed until another be attested in his Roome, which service is upon the account of his father-in-law Urin Keens farme which the said James purchased"-a curious entry, certainly, and one seeming to indicate the recognition in those days of an obligation on the part of large proprietors to maintain the peace of their respective neighbourhoods. Finally, at a court held "the 6th day of the 1st month, 1687,"* he made over a deed dated "the 1st day" of the same month, conveying a lot in Chester, adjoining his "lot or Garding" (and where, probably, his so-called "town-house" was situated), to certain persons, in trust, "to the use and behoof of the said Chester meeting of the people of God called Quakers and their successors forever," upon which ground the First Meeting-house of Friends at Chester was built. This is the latest mention, it is believed, of Jöran Kyn, as living, and since his name does not appear in Charles Springer's list of Swedes who were residing on the Delaware in May, 1693, it seems reasonable to infer that he died during the interval of time. He was, of course, a Swedish Lutheran in religion, and, no doubt, was buried either in the cemetery of his fellow-countrymen at Chester or in the older one at Tinicum.‡ He was married, but his wife's

*This and the immediately preceding statements are obtained from Records preserved in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions at West Chester, Pa. Neither here, nor elsewhere in this genealogy, has any attempt been made to reduce Old Style to New.

For the position of this property (along the creek, just above the present Graham Street) see "Draft of the First Settled Part of Chester," in the Appendix to Dr. Smith's History, before referred to.

The church at Tinicum (where, naturally, religious rites were celebrated on behalf of the early generations of the family of Jöran Kyn) was

name has not come down to us. And he is the ancestor of eleven generations of descendants born on American soil -a number probably not surpassed by other European colonists of the United States. He had at least three children, bearing the following names:

2. HANS, m. Willemka.

3. JONAS, m.

4. ANNA, m. 1st, James Sandelands; and 2dly, Peter Baynton.

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2. HANS KYN or KEEN, son of Jöran Kyn, born, it may be, in America, was brought up by his father at Upland, and endowed, at least as early as 1668, with two hundred acres of land, a part of the original paternal grant. Here he resided for several years, having his estate confirmed to him as "one of ye six* Inhabitants of Upland Towne." In the list of "Tydables" of 1677 he appears among the persons living at "Taokanink," and at a court at Upland, March 12, 1677-8, we find him acknowledging a deed of sale of the Upland property. He seems to have shared the impulse which led so many of the Swedish settlers, about this time, to move higher up the Delaware, to the the first erected on the river Delaware, and was built by Governor Printz, and "adorned after Swedish fashion," and consecrated for divine service, with its burying place. by Dr. John Campanius Holm, on the fourth of September, 1646. "The site of the burying place, and doubtless that of the church also," says Dr. Smith, "was close on the margin of the river, and is now occupied by a part of its bed between the Lazaretto and Tinicum Hotel, but nearer the latter. It is not many years since human bones were seen protruding from the undermined and receding bank of the river." * The others were, probably, his father, Jöran Kyn, his brother-in-law, James Sandelands, the Rev. Lawrence Charles Lock, Capt. Israel Helm (a native of Sweden, formerly Collector of the Customs at "Passayung," member of Capt. Carre's Council, and Justice of Upland Court, frequently interpreter with the Indians), and either Jost Danielsen or Niels Matson (whose wife Margaret is noted as the only person ever tried for witchcraft in Pennsylvania), or else Niels Laerson, at whose house-a kind of hostelry-the early courts of Upland held their sessions. Some of the residents at Upland at this time may have been tenants of, or purchasers from, the six principal proprietors.

In this list his name is given patronymically merely, as Hans Jurian, and his brother's similarly, as Jonas Juriaensen-a primitive practice of Scandinavian and all ancient races, which not seldom renders the identification of persons a difficult task.

neighbourhood of the "Sissowokissinck" (now called Wissinoming) and the Pennipack. On both of these creeks he purchased land, as well as in the intermediate region. With two of the tracts he is accredited on Thomas Holme's and John Harris's Maps of Pennsylvania, and the deed for them, dated April 26, 1679, entered on the back of a grant from Governor Andros, March 25, 1676, has been in the possession of his descendants ever since. In it he is described as "husbandman." He was married and his wife's Christian name was Willemka: her surname we are not acquainted with. Her name occurs, instead of his, among the chief subscribers to the salary of the Lutheran pastor Jacobus Fabritius, August 10, 1684, indicating, apparently, that he had died before that date. In May, 1693, she is mentioned as his relict, living with her four younger sons, with whom she continued to reside at least until the close of 1697. After so long a widowhood she became the second wife of Caspar Fisck, of Gloucester Co., West New Jersey, one of the more prominent of the early colonists upon the Delaware, and trustee, vestryman, and warden of the Lutheran congregation at Wicacoa. She was alive at the time he made his will, January 5, 1707-8, and may have survived him also.§ She had five children by her first husband, all of them sons:

* The third, that situated on the Pennipack, embraced “a Certayne peece of meaddow or marsh Lying and being on the westsyde within Pemibackes Creeke & wthin a halfe a myle of ye mouth thereof, oppositt ouer against ye house & plantation of Pieter Rambo" (to whom Hans Keen sold it, acknowledging the conveyance in a Court held at Upland, October 13, 1680), purchased by him of “Erik Mullica, one of the Intressants of Taokanink." This ground, "bounded wth Pemibackes Creeke, & ye fast Land of Taokanink," now belongs to the City of Philadelphia, and is occupied, at present, by the "House of Correction." "Pimypacka” is spoken of by Campanius as an "Indian settlement, very rich and fruitful."

† Although paper merely, not parchment, it is still in good condition. A copy of the patent is preserved in the Office of the Secretary of State at Albany; and one of both grant and deed, in the Surveyor-General's Office at Harrisburg. The last of the land passed out of the ownership of the family April 10, 1855; a mortgage on a portion of it was alone retained. Margaret Fisck, his former wife, died November 14, 1697.

The Reverend Dr. Nicholas Collin affirms her to be identical with a certain Williamkie Kijhn, who was buried in the Swedish Lutheran Ceme

5. MATTHIAS, b. 1667; m. 1st, Henricka Claassen; 2dly, Sarah.

6. ERICK, m. 1st, Catharine Claassen; 2dly, Brigitta.

7. JONAS, m. Frances Walker.

8. PETER, living with his mother and brother Erick at Tacony in 1697. From the absence of his name from a deed signed by the rest of the family, January 25, 1706-7, it may be presumed that he had d. probably unm. or s. p.

9. GEORGE, living January 25, 1706-7, when he is described as "yeoman, of the Province of Pennsylvania."

3. JONAS KYN or KEEN, son of Jöran Kyn, was born in New Sweden and lived at Upland with his father. After his marriage he occupied for a time his brother's land, on which he built a "new Blocq house," but by 1677 abandoned this home and followed Hans Keen to "Taokanink." We find no trace of him then upon the west bank of the Delaware, but in 1680 his name occurs among those of "yo freeholders & Inhabitants within [the jurisdiction] of the Court at Burlington," entered in a book of "Burlington Records" in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. The same book also records, and gives a drawing of, the "earmark" by which he used to designate his cattle. It likewise mentions, under date of a Court, September 6, 1680, from whom he claimed to hold his land. "Revel's Book of Surveys," preserved in the same Office, contains surveys to him, August 4, 1682, of two "plantations," one of a hundred acres, in the second tenth of Samuel Jenings, "at or near a place called Pempissinck," conveyed to him November 2, of that year, and another, of five hundred acres, adjoining it and to the south, "within ye second Tenn properties," purchased by him (jointly with two neighbours) of Thomas Budd and Thomas Gardner, December 20, 1683. tery on Raccoon Creek (now Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church Yard, Swedesboro), New Jersey, between January and March, 1722; this is not improbably the fact.

* At least he was not born in Sweden, if we may trust the accuracy of Charles Springer's list of the natives of that country who resided on the Delaware in May, 1693.

"Neare ye water syde of ye Creeke"-"higher up the Creek," says Dr. Smith, "than the House of Defence." For the position of the latter see the "Draft of the First Settled Part of Chester," before referred to, as well as the note, by Edward Armstrong, Esq., to the Record of Upland Court, p. 202.