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the 3d of July, 1686, not quite four years after the arrival of Penn, a bricklayer from the island of Jamaica, named Samuel Richardson, bought five thousand eight hundred and eighty acres of land in Pennsylvania, and two large lots on the north side of High street (now Market) in the city of Philadelphia, for three hundred and forty pounds. He had probably been but a short time a resident of Jamaica, since the certificate he brought with him from the Friends' meeting at Spanish Town, to the effect “yt he and his wife hath walked amongst us as becomes Truth,” was only given “after consideration thereoff and Enquiry made.” Of his previous life we know nothing, unless it be the following incident narrated in Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers: In the year 1670 a squad of soldiers arrested George Whitehead, John Scott and Samuel Richardson at a meeting of Friends at the Peel in London, and after detaining them about three hours in a guard-room, took them before two justices, and charged Richardson with having laid violent hands upon one of their muskets. “This was utterly false, and denied by him, for he was standing, peaceably as he said, with his Hands in his Pockets.” One of the justices asked him, “Will you promise to come no more at meeting?” S. R.: “I can promise no such thing.” Justice: “Will you pay your 5s.?” Richardson: “I do not know that I owe thee 5s.” A fine of that amount was nevertheless imposed.