he treaty, Penn again journeyed through New Jersey to New York
and Long Island, visiting friends and preaching with his usual fervor
and earnestness. Then he returned to the Delaware, and, on the seventh
day of November, he went to Uplands (now Chester), where he met the
first provincial assembly of his province. There he made known his
benevolent designs toward all men, civilized and savage, and excited the
love and reverence of all hearers. The assembly tendered their grateful
acknowledgment to him, and the Swedes authorized one of their number to
say to him in their name that they "would live, serve and obey him with
all they had," declaring that it was "the best day they ever saw." He
informed the assembly of the union of the "territories" (as Delaware was
called) with his province, and received their congratulations. Then and
there was laid the foundation for the great commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.

One matter still remained to be adjusted, and that was some satisfactory
arrangement with the third Lord Baltimore, concerning the boundary
lines. This at last having been amicably adjusted, Penn went up the
Delaware in an open boat to Wicaco, to attend the founding of a city, to
which allusion had been made in his concessions in 1681. Before his
arrival in America, Penn had thought of this city he was to found, and
resolved to give it the name of Philadelphia--a Greek word signifying
brotherly love--as a token of the principles in which he intended to
govern his province.

Near a block-house constructed by the Swedes, but which had since been
converted into a church, he purchased lands extending from the high
banks of the Delaware, fringed with pines, to those of the Schuylkill.
There his surveyor laid out the city of Philadelphia upon a plan which
would embrace about twelve square miles.

The surveyor who aided William Penn in laying out Philadelphia was
Thomas Holme. It was at the close of the year 1682, that the town was
surveyed, and the boundaries of the streets marked on the trunks of the
chestnut, walnut, locust, spruce, pine and other forest trees covering
the land. Many of the streets were named for the forest monarchs on
which these inscriptions were cut, and still bear the names. The growth
of the town was rapid, and, within a year after the surveyor had
finished this work, almost a hundred houses had been erected there, and
the Indians daily came with the fruits of the chase as presents for
"Father Penn,