Darby Borough.

1859. - Josepb M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, John Verlenden, Hugh Lloyd, Jacob S. Serrill, James B. Conover, George McHenry.

1860. - Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, John Verlenden, Jacob S. Serrill, Isaac L. Bartram, Daniel S. White.

1861. - Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, Daniel S. White, John Verlenden, George Serrill, Thomas Palmer, Joseph L. Sager.

1862. - Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, Daniel S. White, John Verlenden, George Serrill, Thomas Palmer, George S. Truman.

1863. - Daniel S. White, John Verlenden, George Serrill, Thomas Palmer, Isaac L. Bartram, Joseph Bunting.

1864. - Isaac L. Bartram, J. Charles Andrews, John Verlenden, Joseph Bunting, George Serrill, Isaac T. Jones.

1865. - Daniel S. White, J. Charles Andrews, Isaac T. Jones, Thomas L. Bartram, John Verlenden, Joseph M. Bunting.

1866. - J. Charles Andrews, Daniel S. White, T. Chalkley Bartram, D. Taylor, John Lord, Washington B. Levis.

1867. - Daniel S. White, J. Charles Andrews, Hugh Lloyd, George Serrill, Charles Bonsall, Jr., Charles Tribit.

1868. - Daniel S. White; J. Charles Andrews, Hugh Lloyd, Charles Bonsall, Jr., Hugh Lloyd, Charles W. Lloyd, W. Lane Verlenden.

1869. - Daniel S. White, Charles W. Lloyd, George Serrill, George S. Patchell, Daniel S. White.

1870. - George Serrill, Charles Bonsall, Hugh Lloyd, Charles W. Lloyd, W. L. Verlenden.

1871. - Charles W. Lloyd, Daniel S. White, George Serrill, Hugh P. Lloyd, Charles Bonsall, W. L. Verlenden, George Ash, Jr.

1872. - Hugh P. Lloyd, Charles Lloyd, D. S. White, George Serrill, Charles Bonsall, J. Charles Andrews, W. L. Verlenden.

1873. - J. Charles Andrews, Charles Lloyd, John W. Griswold, Mordecai Sheldrake, Samuel W. Shaw, Oswald Patchell.

1871. - J. C. Andrews, John M. Miller, Charles Bonsell, George Serrill, Harry Peale, John Knowlton.

1875. - J. C. Andrews, James A. Lloyd, Charles Bonsall, Harry Peale, W. L. Verlenden, Enos Verlenden, John Guest.

1876. - T. Chalkley Bartram, Hugh Lloyd, John Guest, 0. C. Armstrong, Peter Clark, W. R. Taylor, Henry W. Nagle.

1877. - Daniel S. White, T. C. Bartram, Joseph Bunting, Jr., William R. Taylor, Peter Clark, A. J. Russell, Charles Lloyd.

1878. - Charles Lloyd, Peter Clark, Samuel Mackey, W. S. Bunting, Thomas Brooks, John Wolfenden, Daniel S. White.

1879. - Charles Lloyd, Peter Clark, James M. Damon, Alonzo Heapes, Hugh Lloyd, Charles Tribit, Richard Lancaster, Jr.

1880. - Charles Lloyd, Peter Clark, George Grayson, John Wolfenden, Alonzo Heapes, George W. Bunting, James E. Combs.

1881. - Joseph Bunting, Jr., Peter Clark, John M. Damon, George Grayson, Robert Green, Charles Lloyd, Edward D. Sipler.

1882. - George Grayson, George N. Griffith, Elwood H. James, Parkhurst McLaughlin, William Maris, George B. Painter, Jacob K. Ulrich.

1883. - Joseph Bunting, Jr., Peter Clark, George Drewes, Alonzo Heapes, Daniel W. Kelly, John Massey.

1884. - Joseph Bunting, Jr., Nathan D. Bartram, George Drewes, Thomas Garvin, Alonzo Heapes, D. W. Kelly, John Massey.

Darby Mills. - The history of the Griswold Mills is particularly interesting, for it connects the present with the early industries of colonial days. In the summer of 1671, Capt. Carr, the English Deputy Governor on the Delaware, in a letter to Governor Lovelace, in New York, made certain suggestions as to affairs on the South River. Under the eleventh point he wrote, -

"That there being a mill or most (if not all) the appurtenances there unto belonging, up Delaware River, at y^e Carcoon's Hooke, w^ch did heretofore appertain to y^e Publique & now is endeavoured to be engrossed by some particular persons for their private use. It may be recommended to be taken into his Royall Highness, or his Deputyes hands, by w^ch some Benefitt will accrew, & being kept in good Repaire will be of a publique and Gen^ll Good to ye Inhabitants."¹

On June 14th the Governor and Council replied,-

"As to y^e 11^th concerning y^e mill, as also one paire of millstones not used but lying in y^e Mud or water. It is ordered that care be taken for y^e Letting out y^e said Mill for y^e best advantage to some persons who will undertake y^e same & that y^e proffitt thereof be reserved for y^e publiqe, & for y^e millstones not used. They are to be taken up and p^rserved till further Ord^r."²

The mill mentioned in Capt. Carr's letter was the old Swede mill at the Blue Bell, on Cobb's Creek, which, after acquisition of the territory by William Penn under his charter from the crown, gradually fell into disfavor with the public. It was, however, in use in 1684, for in an account of the early times, preserved among the descendants of Isaac Marriot, of Bristol, Pa., it is stated that when Friends' Yearly Meeting was held at Burlington, N. J., in that year the family wanting some fine flour, Isaac Marriot took wheat on horseback to this mill, which was twenty-six miles from his residence, to be ground.

The first record of a mill in Darby township occurs in the evidence given in a case tried at the court held March 10, 1687, when Thomas Bowles was arraigned for shooting hogs not his own running in the woods. The animals belonged to Thomas Smith. John Hendrickson testified that in the preceding fall (1686) "he was up at the mill on Darby Creek when he heard two gunnes go off," and when he went to where the firing was, he saw the defendant with his gun presented." John Hay, who was with him, said "Bowles was an old fool for shooting twice and missing."

At that time the old Swedish mill had fallen into disuse or was unable to do the work required of it, and the demand for a mill was pressing, for at the November court, 1678, five years before William Wood settled at Darby, the matter came before the justices, who declared that "Itt being taken into Consideracon that itt was verry necessary that a mill be built on the Schuylkill, and there being no fitter place than the faall Called Capt. hans moensen's faall; The Cort are of opinion that Either Captⁿ hans moens ought to build a mill there (as hee sayes that hee will) or Else suffer an other to Build for the Common Good of ye parts."³ The location of this proposed mill was on "Hans Moensen's Great Mill Fall" or "Run," which was the stream which empties into the Schuylkill south of Woodland Cemetery and north of Gray's Ferry.

William Wood emigrated from Nottingham, England, with his wife and family, in 1683, and settled at Darby, where he acquired three hundred and twenty acres, which plot included all the land on which the original village of Darby stood, the tract reaching northward to Friends' meeting-house lot and southward to the junction of Cobb's and Darby Creeks. On the latter stream William Wood built the mills, or if he did not his son Joseph Wood did, to whom the property descended in 1685, on the death of his father, William. In 1693, John Bethel took charge of these mills, which he subsequently purchased, for June 7,