Chester County and its people .. . nly whilenon-removalists were within hearing and sight of the place. Thenagain on the other hand it is said that the suspension act itselfwas procured by some sort of underhand work, or misrepresenta-tion as to the temper of the people of the county toward removal,and if so, then the removalists were not so much to blame forproceeding with the construction of the buildings. The next step on the part i)f the Legislature of the State wastaken on March 18, 1786, when an act was passed repealing thesusi>ension act, and thus the work was permitted to go on. Byt
Chester County and its people .. . nly whilenon-removalists were within hearing and sight of the place. Thenagain on the other hand it is said that the suspension act itselfwas procured by some sort of underhand work, or misrepresenta-tion as to the temper of the people of the county toward removal,and if so, then the removalists were not so much to blame forproceeding with the construction of the buildings. The next step on the part i)f the Legislature of the State wastaken on March 18, 1786, when an act was passed repealing thesusi>ension act, and thus the work was permitted to go on. Bythis act the vexed question was finally put to rest, though notuntil after a bitter fight had been made on both sides of thequestion. The removalists were naturally jubilant over their hardwon victory, and expressed themselves in sundry songs and dit-ties, couched in language not the most complimentary of theirvanquished foes. One of these, entitled, Lament Over ChestersMother, was originally published in the West Chester Directory. LE\I G. McCAULEY AISD ITS PEOPLE. 879 for 1857, and is reiiroduced in Fntlier and Copes History of Ches-ter County. Its length precludes its insertion in this history. On the other hand the people of Chester were equally com-plimentaiy toward their friends in West Chester, their new townbeing thus described in an address to the Legislature: That ele-gant and notorious place vulgarly called the Turks Head (by somecalled West Chester), a place as unfit for the general convenienceand much more so than any one spot that might be pointed outwithin ten miles square, of the above-described place (except to-ward the New Castle line). The new countj building having been completed and madeready for occupancy, an act was passed by the Assembly Sep-tember 25, 1786, authorizing the sheriff of the county, WilliamGibbons, to remove the prisoners from the old jail in Chester tothe new jail in West Chester, or in Goshen Township, and to in-demnify him for the removal
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