Phineas Roberts

"Perhaps all these were but one; certainly the ferry
"near the Lower Ford" was the one later kept by
Francis Garrigues, and indicated on Scull and Heap's
map of 1750, as somewhat above the Fairmount Park
trolley bridge. Garrigues evidently failed, for sheriff
James Coultas, in January, 1758, advertised for sale
"the Ferry-house near the Falls of Schuylkill," late
the estate of Francis Garrigues. Phineas Roberts, of
Blockley, petitioned the Court, in September, 1759, for
a road "from ford Road on Schuylkill to a Ferry above
the Falls." Further reference to "a Ferry lately
erected by Phineas Roberts above the Falls makes it
appear an established fact. The Court, however, took
a different view, and, on the return of the road, in
1760, ordered both return and petition set aside, "it
appearing to them that the petitioner has not any
settled or establish'd Ferry over the River Schuylkill
as by the said Petition is falsely insinuated.

~• page 362 op.cit.