The ferry patent of Peter Righter mentioned his plantation on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. Peter acquired the 77 acres in this plantation 4 August 1741, for 86 pounds, 12 shillings, 6 pence, from Thomas Bishop Vickris (Vicaris) of Chew Magna, Somerset County, England, through his attorney Richard Hockley, Philadelphia County, merchant. The land was located between the Schuylkill River and the Wissahickon Creek from the line near where Sumac Street now is, to a like 77 perches up the river. The section which reached the Wissahickon Creek was triangular with the broad base on the present Righter Street, then the road to Plymouth, and the narrow, blunted apex, 14 perches, on the Wissahickon Creek. The land rose steeply on the side of both river and the creek to the Ridge. Included in the area today are the shops, formerly Pencoyd Iron Works on the River, Wissahickon Station on the Reading Railroad, Wissahickon Public Sclook, and library, Northern Home for Children, and a considerable portion of the residental section of the Wissahickon area. Ridge Road, both the original, difficult route and the easier one adopted later up "Righter's Hill," crossed his plantation from the southwest to the northeast corner. A high rock cliff on Robeson's Hill, on the river side was set back from its east bank. Peter seemed to feel that his title was not sure, and 4 January 1742 he received a confirmation of the grant from George Thomas, Lieutenant Governor.(Deed Book G-2, 444:Exemplification Book 2, 639) Peter built his stone house ar the ferry on the river. He also acquired a lot of 9 3/4 acres in Lower Merion at the Merion side of his ferry.(Montgomery Couty Deed Book 52, 395) He made further use of his river frontage in his shad fishery, an important business on the Schuylkill before the dam was built at Fairmont.