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Things That Happened in the Time Long A Hostelrie ihat Had a Noted Patriot a Since Passed. a Guest Perhaps a more complete surprise was The march of improvement will soon never given a Chester gentleman than the takeaway onother of Chester’s historical one successfully carried out by Mrs. buildings, making two within a few feet Gray, wife of Dr. William Gray, who ; of each other that are to be demolished lived in the building ac -’Fifth and Market during the coming building season. The streets, new occupied by Lawyers Broom- Lafayette House, which is to be replaced all, Hinkson and others. Dr. Gray pur¬ by a larger and more pretentious building, chased the ground, on which was an .old was built prior to 1700 and as early as house, m 1836, and as he was in poor- 1733 was used as an inn, as mention of health his wife urged him to spend some > tin's fact is made in an old deed. time at the Virginia- Springs, then a The hotel took its name from the fact noted health resort. that the Marquis Lafayette is said to have, The doctor had scarcely got out of had his wounds, which he received at the town before workmen began tearing down Battle of Brandywine, dressed in the innl the house. When he returned to Chester and was nursed in one of the bedrooms. \ he was surprised to find a roomy house, For some years after this marks on the one of the handsomest in the town, built i floor of the room were pointed out as on the site of the old dwelling, and all blood stains from the gallant Frenchman’s furnished for his reception. His wife, wounds. who managed this big undertaking so THE LAST SLAVE. successfully, died a few years ago. A colord woman known as “Aunt Sal- lie” is said to have been the last slave . A MOSS-COVEEED BUILDING. I owned in Delaware County. She The old stone building on the south | died at the old Perkins mansion, which side of Third street below Edgmcnt ave¬ stood on the lawn for many years. She nue, soon to be torn down to make way was the slave of John Flower, of Chester, for Contractor Provost, was the birch- ; but though he gave her freedom papers, place of the Hanley Hose Company. The she declined to leave the house, declaring Kobin Hood restaurant was kept there by that she was one of the family, so she was •‘Jack” Hanley, who discussed the sub¬ permitted to remain as cook, a position in ject and succeeded in getting a number of which* she lorded it over the other men interested in the project. From the colored people on the estate. She claimed result of a meeting held at this restaurant to be a princess and said she was the i the movement received sufficient impetus daughter of an African king a-nd purch¬ to start the company on a prosperous ased by the captain of a slaver from a j career. tribe tflat had captured her in war. The building was afterwards occupied Another claim of the ownership of the 1 by Lewis Cavette, a flour and feed dealer, last slave in Delaware county is also made. who was a well-known politician and ex¬ It is alleged that Judge Crosby owned erted considerable influence upon the the last people to be in bondage and that elections in Chester. they were “Sampson” and “Old Aunt Bose,” his wife. After being freed they AN ANECDOTE OF JEEEV. lived in ajog cabin near Leiperville Jeremiah Stevenson—-“Jerry,” aa he was familiarly called—who died a few months ago, was a well-known resident of Chester for over half a century. He was deputy sheriff under Hou. John Larkin,. Jr., and was present and assisted iu the ! I execution of Thomas Cropper, the last man to be executed for murder in Dela- I ware county. When the trap was sprung, j Cropper’s arms became free by the loos¬ ing of the rope that bound them and the wild clulcfling of the prisoner’s hands was terrible to witness. Jerry quickly step¬ ped forward and bound the murderer’s arms, a merciful act, as it hastened his j end and put a stop to his suffering. CHESTER’S ANCIENT CITY HALL.
There is no colonial relic in the vicinity of Philadelphia which attracts more attention from relic beekers than docs the old City hall of Chester, Pa. The Illustrated American, from which tne above picture is taken, savs: This building was erected in 1724, and was the Court- Louse as long as Chester was the county seat. It is the fifth building used for that purpose, anil it is a massive structure that looks as if it would remain iutact fur centuries longer. It has the pent-roof projection over the windows which was the style in those days, and, rs originally built, had a belfry in which hung a bell bearing date 1729. A new b 11 has re¬ placed it, the old one stili doing "uty at the ancient school-house nn Welsh street The first court in the district was held at Pearson’s inn. The second building was a log house on E !g- mout avenue, built prior to the arrival of Penn. The third court-house was built in 1(583, hut was not used limy as ten years later another was constructed, the foundation of which is yet standing. It was followed by the present structure, as already stated. The old county prison and work-house are contemporaneous with the City hall, hut they have been demol¬ ished and replaced by modern structures. Until three years the interior of the building re¬ mained as originally constiucted, wbeu it was modernized and divided into offices for the city -officials.-_pi_" _’_ " ; Fourth and streets, back a short distance, but fa Market. It was a two-story and attic build iDg, the front being used by the Sheriff and his family as a home. O-i The jail in the last ten years of its use was a poor affair. The window bars were rusty and weak and so insecure were the 5) CAjl rYVvc>u/v ~Xi^\aX cells that no criminal with any ingenuity had much trouble in effecting his escape. It was necessary to keep close guard over BITS OF LOCAL HISTORY. the more important inmates of the jail, for they were certain to get away if this( was not done. The prison system, 'too, ie Old Jail that Stood at Fourth and was lax as compared with that of to-day. ftlarkgtStreets.irk A pump stood in front of the jail and Old residents of Chester remember very as this was used freely by the public it distinctly the old jail that once served! became a nuisance in the winter time, as for the confinement oj^ Delaware county’s) the drippings made a small skating park as very perilous to pedestrians, pump was finally removed and the filled in. Part of the old brickwork the well is under Gerstley’s store, 404 arket street. This well was dug in 41. Dining the days of the Eevolution a double row of Lombardy poplars stood in front of the jail and as they formed a 1 pleasant retreat, the citizens held pub¬ lic meetings there, or sat beneath the shade and discussed the exciting questions of the day. Many a windy orator held forth to listening crowds beneath those old poplars and explained what was ab- ^ Little Reminiscence^of* (he Early Days of lutely necessary to save this country. Marcus Hook. These trees were cut down over a half During the last century and part of the century ago, as they had grown unsightly, j present century Marcus Hook was the and were replaced by lindens. shipbuilding century of Pennsylvania. The old jail was sold in 1850 to James I The lumber was cut in the forest close at Campbell, who was the pioneer textile I hand, while the iron was hauled from the manufacturer in Chester. The site of the j noted Sarem Forge, on Chester Creek near building is now occupied by Masonic Hall. I the present Glen Mills. Marcus Hook’s charter was granted by William Peun in 1701. A meeting was held iu 1760 to give vitality to the old 4u>v.i CW\AJ/\A- ^ClvJ charter, but it was permitted to lie undis¬ turbed for many years after that date. Simon CranstOD, a shipbuilder in the cYV\jlCuL^ (pee, old town, who died in 1856, used to relate an incident of the Eevolution that hap pened when he was lad of eight years. .CU-unjJL/ \ Qy V The British fleet, he said, anchored off Marcus Hook during the occupancy of the English troops of Philadelphia, and one Chester Landmark Going.—The day opened fire on the old town, dam¬ ,_ld Laiayette Hotel at Third and Edg- mont streets, ettestaf, is now beiDg de¬ aging a number of houses. His mother molished and a handsome structure will took him and the other children to the be built in its plane. The old building is cellar to escape the flyingcannon balls. one of Chester’s ancient landmarks. It A ferry was at oue time maintained be¬ was first known as the Barber House, tween Marcus Hook and New Jersey. after its first proprietor, to whom the The most remarkable cabbage story of lot was conveyed by David Lloyd, under America came from Marcus Hook. A date of June 14, 1699. The house was an newspaper published in Chester in 1828 imposing one in its day. The pent-roof stated that John S. Van Neman had grow¬ over the sreond story window has re¬ ing in his garden a cabbage tree that was mained up the present, although the porch, which formerly projected out five feet high, eleven and a half feet in Borne distance on the side walk, has long circumference and had twenty limbs, on since been removed. The interior pre¬ which fifty small heads of cabbage were sents a truly ancient appearance, and in growing. % these days is a sight in architecture rarely At the beginning of [this century Marcus seen. The building bad two doors, the Hook was the residence of one of the most eastern one leading into the parlors, and noted American painters. He was a 1 the western door into the hall-way, a room native ofrSweden and came to this coun¬ ot the same size as the one on the oppo¬ try in 1794. His name was Adolph Ul¬ site side. In this apartment the stair case rich Westmuller and among the men ascended to the rooms above. Back of this was the sitting loom, while in the whose portraits he painted were George rear of the parlor was the dining room. Washington and Alexander Hamilton. The fire places anjl hearths in the ball¬ room and the parlor were laid jn blue tiles, presenting scenes from Scriptural JL lr»T_ “Yu'V history. In the northwest room on the first floor the wound of General Lafayette was dressed after |be battle of Brandy¬ wine. ^ aXL- n OU^JUL i/V
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A Few Notes YbopTan Old Delaware Cou ’'Hostelrie. The Seven__ Jtars Hotel, at \illage Green, is one of the oldest hosteliies in ,
A A. /" * 1 husband was doing battle for his country, interesting history “clustering about it. -pd to this woman a messenger was sent. When the county of Delaware was created he was told of the peril oE^ the ^ gallant in 1790. the hotel was kept by Thomas ^Aenchman.Aenc and that was sufficient to en- Marshall, but the place was opened some ~ list her heartiest cooperation. .years before that and was a regular stop- That night, at midnight, while the peo-: , ping place for the Colonial people to pie in old Chester were wrapped in slum¬ ; moisten their whistles and make redolent ber, and the streets were deserted, ahorse their breaths. carrying a figure in military garb, moved 1 It is said that Lord Cornwallis made the slowly and almost noiselessly up the dusty Seven Stars his ^headquarters while the Edgmont road. A man walked a few feet British army was encamped near Village ahead of the horseman and following him Green after the Battle of Brandywine. the rider guided his horse through the During the agitation of the ten hour gloom. After passing^the Quaker grave- j movement in Delaware county, the hall yard the guide turned to the left and the ! in the Seven Stars was the headquarters horseman entered the thicket after him. for the workingmen, who were actively They halted after going a few hundred interested in the reform, and it became yards at a small stone house and the guide very prominent. John Garrett was the gave a few soft taps on the door. It was ^. proprietor of the hotel at that time and opened by a woman and as the figure in * lent his aid to the movepient, which made the military garb slowly and painfully •him so unpopular with the mill owners alighted from the horse, assisted by his that they organized an effort to prevent guide, and entered the low door of the him from getting a license at the nest dwelling, the woman said: term of court. The wily Boniface outwit¬ “I welcome thee, General Lafayette, ted his opponents, however, and had J. here thou will have a refuge until thy Lewis Garrett to make the application. . wound is healed.” . John continued his labors for the work¬ i The Marquis was secreted until able to ingmen and permitted the use of the hall " join his command and left thanking his' free of charge. _ courageous hostess. The old house has long since succumbed to the ravages of time, but the walls that formed the foun¬ /I dations can still be seen near the old j quarry along Chester creek, north of! Ninth street.
J H. C.—‘ ‘ Ihave good reasons for believing the article in your last number, relating to the 1 headquarters of General Washington, at Valley Forge, somewhat erroneous. In 1767 the property belonged to John Potts, the founder of Poltstown, was described in his will, made in that year, and passed with, his estate to his heirs in the succeeding year. His son, Isaac Potts, took possession bf the ■ property, and ran the mills, forge, &c., arid ac- I When the Marquis Lafayette was cording to the family tradition, resided
James Beery ,11808. ' . B.—laf. The first railroad in the United. Slates was built by Thomas Leiper, in 1809 from his There is also to he seen of more modern quart ies on Crum creek to his landing on Ridley type and of comparatively recent date, tomb¬ creek, Delaware county, Pa., a distance of one stones erected in memory of relatives of the mile. 2d. See Appleton's Railroad Guide and Leipers, Biddles, Beattys, Vanleers, Poor’s Manual of Railroads. 3d. In 1783 bv Lindsays, Craigs, Trimbles, Houstons. John Fitch, at Philadelphia. Millers, Forrests, Snowdons, Patter¬ Ke-union at Middletown—Interest¬ sons, and the YARNALLs;an inscription ing Local History.—Being officially in- from the last named reads as follows :— foimed on Wednesday morning last, that Isaac Newton Varnall died April 6th, 1633,ad¬ there was to be at Middletown, at the Pres¬ mitted to membership Jin P.ose Tree Lodge, No. 276, byterian Church, a re-union, in short, a sort I. O. of O. F. of Pennsylvania, January 13th, 1849' of okl-time meeting, where the reminiscen¬ whoso terrestial tour was worthy of imitation, as an ces of a century and a half would be survey¬ Odd Fellow, and as a man for his life he was no less ed, and that the old sanctuary—the mother honest to himself, than honest to his race ; his con¬ of Delaware County Presbyterianism—was stant effort was to be kind. to be the scene of the meeting, your wan¬ To render by his precepts less dering reporter found himself wending his The sum of human wretchedness wav thitherward, wondering meanwhile, And strengthen man with his own mind. what such an out-of tlie-way place could Half-past ten at length arrived, and the jjj possibly have to do with the rise and progress notes of the church organ gave notice that ia of Presbyterianism. Nine a. m., however, the services of the day had already commen- j found him at the top of one of the highest eed, when your reporter entered the church I elevations Delaware county can boast of, and found the interior presented a neat but with a diversified landscape of hill and dale, J unpretentious anpearance, at the same time™ and studded thickly with trees, whose sturdy showing unmistakable signs of a need of that T trunks indicate having withstood the wintry rejuvenation tor which the Pastor, Kev. Mr. '• blasts of many generations. The spot for Jester, the Elders, and the ladies of the con¬ either a church, or a combination of sanctu¬ gregation had worked so zealously to provide ary and cemetery, is one aptly chosen, not the wherewithal, and for which this festival only for its elevation, hut also from the fact was in part designed. that it is situate at the forks of two roads, Dr. Dale gave out Hymn 11, beginning thus makiDg it accessible to all points of the with compass. Being one hour too soon for the From all that dwell below the skies, meeting, your reporter wandered over the Let the Creator’s praise arise, graveyard midst tangled hush and ranker weed, these demonstrating that, even in con¬ and gave as a special reason, the fact that® secrated spots hallowed with the memories the author, Dr. Watts, whose sacred songs and virtues of the dead, weeds like bad habits will be sung long as Christianity endures, * are sure to grow. Passibg to the westerly was the donor of a copy of Baxter’s Chris- • side of the graveyard, which covers some tiau Directory, the copy being shown to the seven or eight acres, there is presented at congregation by Dr. Dale. The book bore once a series of decayed and battered tomb¬ ample evidence of ago and of use, and also stones, bespeaking a venerable old age. One of the need of a rejuvenation at the hands of these, a small scolloped stone, bore the of the bookbiuder. inscription: The following is the inscription, verbatim, written in a bold clear hand, presumedly by ; Here lyeth the body of Charlf s-who decesed Dr. Watts himself: the 3rd of September. 1746. “This book called Mr. Baxter’s Directory, was giv- I. Another was inscribed on a;hlue granite en by Dr. Isaac Watts, of London, to the Protestant head-stone : Dissenters assembling for worship at Middletown Here lyelh the body of William Glen, who depart¬ Meeting House, iu Pennsylvania, that penple who E ed this life March 26th, )7f6. come from far, and spend ilieir whole day there , may 7 A more pretentions looking headstone have something proper to entertain themselves with, « reads as follows : or to read one to another between the seasons ef In memory of Samuel Clozes, who died August Worship morning aDd afternoon. It is for this end the 3rd, 1747 , aged 27 years. intrusted to the care of the Protestant Dissenting My Glass Is run, qU S'C- CD < ■ Minister who preaches there, and to his successors My work is done, tube used by him or them in their weekly studies, M y body’s under ground ; when they please, and to be secured and devoted te In-tombed in clay the use of the congregation, on ye Lords day, Janu- J Until the Day ary 30th, 1735-6. 1 hear the trumpet sound. Appended at the foot in the same hand- $ A nother ran : writing is the following : In memory of Thomas Van Leer, who died 1764. “This book is committed to the care ot Benjamin Another, speaking volumes in favor of the Hawley, to be carried over to Pennsylvania, and reeime of bygone days, read as follows: after he has kept it iu his own hands and made the Here lielh the body of Bernhabe Vanleer, M. D best use of it for six months, that is till the 3uth of 1 Physician in Physick, who departed this life, Janu¬ July next, he shall deliver it into the hands of the St ary 2Gih, 1790, aged (04 years. present Protestant Dissenting Minister, for the pur- In striking contrast to the above is another, poses before mentioned.” that of John McCloud, son of "Will am and After the singing of the hymn, the Kev. i ; Catron McCloud, died 1788, aged 10 days. Mr. Bobbins, pastor of the Media Presby- j Another yet more venerable than all the terian church, offered a prayer, when Dr. rest, at least all bearing any teadable inscrip¬ Dale addressed the meeting substantially as !Jj tion, is a headstone neat in appearance, and ; follows: prohahly considered in days of yore some- 1 “What I shall say to you to-day of this thing fine, which read thus :— church and its people, will be rather a rude James Cooper, deeescd the fourth c'tiy of Novem¬ and incomplete sketch ot the history, or rath¬ ber, the year of God, 1731. er the reminiscences connected therewith. Another stone, rough and rectangular in The earliest records of Middletown church shape, just above the surface, was carved by were lost during the ministrations of Bev. some inartistic yet loving hand, and bore Thomas Grier, who was installed pastor De¬ the simple words— cember 16th, 1801, leaving here in September 28th, 1808. DuriDg Mr. Grier's ministry the ' ■mm - ■ ■J-. -*■ - ousein whicnwhich he lived took fire, and with ping at the Rose Tree Hotel for refreshments it is believed the early records of the church on their way home. The business of tavern¬ were lost. We have therefore to look else¬ keeping in those days was looked upon as where for material, and the graveyard sup¬ an honorable occupation, and such a custom plies important testimony in this respect.— would then occasion no comment, while To the back of the pulpit in the graveyard is nowadays it would make the community atombstone, bearing the inscription of Jas.l stare.” I do not at all doubt the writer’s re¬ Cooper, who died the fourth of November; mark that an Elder stopping at a tavern the year of God, uot as we arc wont to say would occasion some little staring, but if the now, the year of our Lord, but in the lan¬ tavern-keepers had only been as true and as guage of pure and simple devotion, the year consistent in their lives as were the Lindsays of God 1731. These are those who have there would doubtless be much less cause for gone before us, to their inheritance beyond a change of public sentiment as tothestatws the tomb, enduring through countless ages.i of their occupation. We think we have at yea even to eternity. They worshipped the1 the present day very rough roads within our true and living God, no mere human ideality, borders,but I assure you that within my recol¬ ■- but God in the flesh, made manifest by his lection, the roads were a great deal rougher Holy Spirit. Beyond this date of 1731 our; than now. I have also a letter from Major record does not reach. From the Presbytery General R. Patterson, amoDgst other things of New Castle (of which at that time all1 the General says j of Chester county before Delaware was made “Please inform me at what hour cn the Pth your | a county was included in the New CastleJ proceedings will commence, as I would like very much Presbytery) we have the minutes of proceed- j to see some of the old members or their descendants, ings held on April 1st, 1721), relating to the and will be there if 1 can. I have a distinctrecollec- building of a church at Middletown, and ticn of a very good man named Beatty, a blacksmith which reads as follows : 1 think,—-who was an Eider. Nearly ail the families The PresDytery agrees and cincurs in the Brandy¬ of the Middletown congregation were cf that good wine and Middletown congregation building a house old stock, the Scoich-lrish—the salt of the earth.” at Middletowu agreed on by both provided they We may and should take an honest continue a united congregation, until tbii Presbytery pride in such ancestors as these. Mr. see cause to make a separation, and that they be Beatty was as the General rightly sur¬ equally supplied. Ordered that Mr. Gaston supply mised a blacksmith, a man who hammered ai Middletown ye 1st Sabbath of June.” out an honorable life, in stamina, as strong Further records demonstrate the alliance and as even as the anvil surface, and whose of the Middletown and Brandywine congre¬ descendants are worthy of such a noble sire. gations between the years 1727 to 1731, after 1 have a letter from Mr. Riddle which states which date all record is lost till the year 1759. he attended DivineServ ce at Middletown in In the month of Mav of last named year 1825, and that shortly after Mr. William T. k mention is made of the Forks of Brandy¬ Crook, now of Chester, caused the building wine, Middletown and New London. The to be repaired. An addition of three acres i, first church built here, was in the year 1729, was made to the cemetery. When the pro- .. and was of log. The first Elders of Middle- ject of church exten ion was suggested as a ! town church were, Janies Liudsay, John necessity of the times, it was a matter in! Lindsay, Wm Black, Tlios. Tr ruble, James some quarters of smiles, the wisely incredu-1 Craig, and John Craig. The arrival of Wm. iou» seeming to think it little short of an ; Penn and his followers, was in the year 1682, impossibility. Well, their incredulity has only 48 years before the building of Mid¬ received a good many severe shocks, as the ! dletown church. Forty-seven years before daughter churches of good old Middletown the Declaration of our Independence brings are monumental proof as the following list of us back again to 1729, the year of the erec¬ churches will at once show : Ridley, Marple, tion of this mother of churches; thus as Chester 1st, Chester city, Chester 3d, you will see the year of erection occupies Media, Darby 1st, Darby 2d, Wayne middle ground between the landing of Win. and Bryn Mawr. I often think, nay Penn and the Declaration of Independence. ponder deeply of the changes wrought out This present church has been built about since those old fashioned days when men and one hundred years. I remember wheh I women came sometimes on horseback and came that the pulpit was at the other end sometimes a foot, in some cases traveling a of tb'- /faurch, and underneath it was a tbb-j distance of from five to fifteen miles. Those li! . vision, in which the precentor load were not days of fashionable effeminacy, hut tlj mging. I have quite a number of letters j rather of strict observance to their duty to fi i some of the oldest families, decendabts ! themselves, their neighbors, and to God.— o. te same old Scotch Irish Presbyteriqn They were not days of fine cushioned seats stocit, men and women of stamina, who, I or of indolence and ease, but rather days of whether in time of peace or war, alwaVs [ a firm adherence to the duties and obhga- : came to the front, and who to this day in¬ tions of life. They were days when even a herit the virtues and distinguishing peculiar¬ woman could bear the jolting of a twenly ities of their forefathers. 1 shall take tie mile horseback ride over rough country trouble to read a tew of these, to show tie roads to meeting on Sunday, and then on devotion ot our ancestry (of which we may Monday do a good day’s washing. They take a pardonable pride) to each other and were days when our mothers and daughters to God. I have here a letter from George B. did their own washing and ironing, and the Lindsay, of Chester. The writer says “that whole range of housework generally. They the Lindsay family came to this country long were days when according to the record, before the Revolution, and finishes by say¬ meu came to meeting, some without hats, ing that James Lindsay settled on the farm others without shoes, aud it was the spirit nowowued by Wm. McCracken, in Aston ot their devotion deep and strong to Pres¬ township, and it was to this place the cattle byterianism, that impelled them to it. Let of those living in Haverford were driven us one and all endeavor to imitate the firm when depredations of the British soldiery and sacred devotion of our forefathers, of the were apprehended. My Grandfather Lind¬ good old Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock.” say was an Elder of Middletown, and every After the forenoon services were conclu¬ Sabbath, sickness only preventing, he and ded, a lunch was served for those who had his whole family, men and women on horse come a distance. During the serving of lunch back, rode to Middletown church, starting at your reporter overheard a member of the 8 o’clock in the morning and returning at 4 Lindsay family say she had often rode horse¬ in the afternoon, the whole cavalcade sto|>| back twenty-eight miles to and from church j ofie was in proportion very large, and as genial and good natured as she was corpu¬ tnrb lent, and laughingly added to her statement, Mr. Dutton, when he grew to mai ffiood, “she would not like to attempt such a feat j frequently related this incident to his nowadays,” which could be construed as a Aston friends. merciful consideration not only for herselt, but for the good steed that was wont to carry such a pleasant mistress. After lunch the congregation spent the afternoon in singing, music, games andgreet ings. Much attention was given to the bazaar I of fancy and useful articles usual on such oc¬ casions, which evinced the handicraft of the lady members and friends of the church. A cluster of nax flowers was presented to Rev. Mr. Robbins, Dr. Dale also being the recipi¬ ent of a similar favor. The pastor, I. Darling¬ ton Jester, was also remembered by the j ladies of the church, a very neat and hand- '/ BITS OF LOCAL HISTORY I some writing desk, partly inlaid, and a box of wax leaves being presented to the rev- Building: a Navy to Dispute With Eng¬ j erned gentleman. During the afternoon Rrof. land on the Hlgti Seas. ; Sweeny arrived, and contributed much to I the enjoyment of lovers of good music. The In the early part of war..... of the Revo- selections, “'Whiter than Snow,” “My Ain lution it was decided tft put some vessels Oountrie,” and “Almost Rursuaded," were upon the high se^sjaf dispute the supre¬ rendered finely. . 0 macy of England upon the ocean. Penn¬ We noticed among others, that Mrs. Samu¬ el Riddle took great interest in the proceed¬ sylvania also undertook to defend her ings of the day. Mr. E. H. Patterson, an at¬ own harbors and water ways and in 1778 tache of the Phila. Evening Bulletin added Colonel Jehu Eyre, of Chester, was placed much to the enjoyment of all present by his in charge of the department for furnish¬ rendition of vocal and instrumental music ing the State with a navy. Colonel Eyre with his commission in his pocket rowed up the limpid Chester 1/ r creek in a yawl and after a critical sur¬ vey of the shore, pulled into the mouth of Ship creek and stepped out on the land. His examination lasted some time and seemed to be satisfactory for he step¬ ped into his yawl with a satisfied air, tossed a coin to an Indian who had watched the Colonel’s movoments with BITS OF LOCAL IjlSTORY. some interest and rowed away. The next day a company of woodmen made the air about the banks of Ship A Brave Americas! Boy and His Bold creek resonant with the sturdy blows of Deed iiyOam p. axes and the glittering blades made the Thomas Dutton, who lived to be over a chips fly from the giants of the forest century old, was a boy when the British that lined the stream. Colonel Jehu roops under Lord Cornwallis encamped Eyre was getting ready to build his navy." Village Green after the battle of He wanted a secluded spot, safe from the randywine. The line extended in a range of the guns of His Majesty’s man- scent form, one flank resting near Mt. of-war that might sail up the Delaware, Hope, bringing the camp into the field and also but of the range ef vision of the where his mother’s cows were pastur¬ lynx-eyed British officers who would de¬ ing. strop the infant navy before it left the Young Dutton had heard euough of the stocks. So day after day sturdy work, British soldiers to know that the cattle men sawed the planks aDd felled the trees would not be permitted to live very long, for the State’s first gunboat. so he walked boldly into the field and The hull gradually rose on the stocks started to drive the cows home. An offi¬ and a day was set for launching the new cer noticed the act, but admiring the oruiser. Chester creek was dotted with young American’s pluck be determined to yawls and batteau filled with Chester’s follow him. Ha soon overtook the boy young men and pretty girls, while the and walked towards his home and in a shores were lined with people and the child-like way the lad answered every limbs of trees were fringed with the Chea¬ question. ter small boys,who was a numerous factor A party of soldiers saw the officer de¬ even in that early day. Amid cheers of part and after watching him disappear in the spectators, booming of flint-lock urns- the woods, decided to iollow, believing kets and waring of handkerchiefs the that it was only a scheme to entice him child of Pennsylvania’s navy moved down where the Americans would capture him. The ways and plunged with a majestic Tire party reached the house together sweep of water into Chester creek. and the widow Dutton was greatly Colonel Jehu Eyre was the great man alarmed at their appearance, but the offi- of the oceasien and as he stood beneath •cer assured her that they were not there the rattlesnake flag that flattered from to rob the house and after paying for bis the impromptu mast on tne foredeok, a meal be departed assuring Mrs. Dutton flush of pride mantled his brow as be lhat the English soldiers would not dis- '. r r j listened to the applause of the crowds and iouse ■ t is bf vp,'Jeceiv*d the compliments of the nabobs counsel. lie became very obnoxious ’to of the town. the Tories, who, too cowardly to fight But the path of glory is ever shadowed against the the Colonial troops, sought to by disaster and when the infant gunboat accomplish tlieir ends by secret ly aiding was floated down Chester creek it was the invading British armies; so when he discorerad that her beam was too wide entertained the Marquis de Lafayette at by a foot or more to pass the abutments his home just before the battle of Brandy¬ of Third street bridge. What effect the wine, the indignation of the home trait., or.s was great. new man-of-war might have had in ter-' minating the dispute between England A TOBY BEVENGE. and the colonies had it ever reached the ; They determined upon revenge and had ^Delaware and been permitted to get with¬ it. While the British occupied Philadel¬ in gunshot of a British cruiser can only phia, David was accused of communicat¬ be conjectured. Suffice it is to say the ing with the Colonial authorities and one vessel rotted in Chester creek, but its night a boat's crew put off from the Brit¬ constructor immortalized an unknown ish man-of-war Vulture, which lay iu the stream which hag since born the npe of riv.er off Chester, and proceeding to the Ship creek. Stacey house, adjoining the hotel, which was his home, they took him out of bed and couvpyed him aboard ship. Though I au old gray-haired man he was harshly treated by bis captors, refused all com- i muuication with bis family aud made to ! suffer many privations. A slow fever re¬ sulted and when it was seer that his days! '^3 were numbered, the captain of the Vul¬ ture had him sent, home, b.ut he soon 1 passed away. Patriot hands carried Mmi to Ins last resting place and patriot wo¬ BITS OF LjD(5AL HISTORY. men placed flowers on the grave of one in A Cray Haim) Patriot Who I»arocl to Work lor liberty. The old building that stands on the southwest corner of Fourth and' Market streets adjoining Joseph Ladoruns’ -jewel¬ ry store, has some very interesting stories connected with it. Just wheu it was built is not positively known, but jjtj. was some time prior to 1746—over a century and a half ago—for in that year David Coupland was keeping a hotel there. Coo^pland rendered good service for the cause of the colonies in the. war ot the lievolution and paid the penalty of loy¬ alty with his life. He was a Yorkshire Englishman by birth aud came to Amer¬ A oue-storv brick house stood near ica in 1723. Although a Friend as far as Darby creek in Darby before the days of family ties were concerned, David was a the Devolution aud was one of the first lighting Englishman and shouldered his school houses to be evicted iu Pennsyl¬ musket in the expedition against Fort Du vania. It was in this building that then Quesne, enlisling as a private. first temperance society iu Pennsylvania,-! ami possibly in the United States, was ’ DAVID TAKES A HAND*. formed. A number of men and women When England began her oppression of gathered there on June G, 1818, and after > the colonies, Conpland, with his innate discussing the question, adopted these|- love of fair play,took sides with the Amer¬ resolutions : icans aud was an open advocate of the Kksolved, That we will discourage the use colonies. When the people of Chester of ardent spirits as an article of drink; we will county assembled at the Court House in not procure, use or give it to others as such, in Chester in 1774, for the purpose of taking the time of gathering our hay and harvest, at measures “to carry into execution the as¬ the raising of buildings, or other public and sociation of the late Continental Con¬ social occasions; ami gress,” David Coupland was a leading Kksolved, That we unite to suppress the un¬ spirit and was appointed a member of the lawful sale of spirituous liquors and to counter-]' act the contaminating effect of those nurseries of]' committee. He discharged his part fear¬ vice, commonly called tippling houses, by givingt lessly and well and his hotel was used information to the pro; er officers, and by such! train tiule to time as the meeting place of meaus as are reasonably within our power.” j the committee. In the history of the “Guardian Society! David retired from business about the v fur Preventing Drunkenness” in Chester] beginning of the war, but notwithstand¬ couuty it is stated that the Chester coun¬ ing bis advanced yeats be was tireless in ty society was thelirstof its kind in the ! efforts for the oppressed colonies. He State. That was organized in 1820, two] too old to fight, which was a source of years-after the Darby people bad banded! titiual regret to liitn, but be coutii- together for tempera nee work. buted of bis means aud aided with bis , /^j2 f
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A Tory WJ10 Ootj 1 Trouble Throng li I Some of the Mi^ry Organizations Traiton r Utterances. that Once Flourished Here, A bipped-roof house stands at the north¬ When the Rebellion ended the military east corner of Third and Pehn streets and | spirit was rife and several companies were iu one of the oldest dwelling houses now organized, but as they depended upon the standing iu Chester. It was built some members and citizens for financial support time before the middle of last century and they only had a mushroom existence and belonged to the well-known John Salkeld, their very name has been forgotten. Sr., who willed it to his son Thomas. The The first company to form after the house was then occupied by Anthony war—that is the first company that lived Shaw, the sou-in-Jaw of Salkeld. over a year—was the Chester City Safe- Thomas decided to turn the place into a I guards» an organization of colored men. tavern and in 1737 petitioned the court It was formed in 1870 and was commanded for a license to sell “Beer and Syder.” It by Captain Andrew Johnson, then by was still kept as a public bouse in 174G,as Isaac B. Colwell and afterwards by Isaac Salkeld presented a petition to the Legis¬ Emory, but as interest died the command lature asking to be compensated for the was abandoned. “diet of Captain Shannon’s company of Company A, of the Gartside Rifle Bat- soldiers,” quartered Here in the early I organized on September 12, part of the French war. 1872 with Captain Daniel Brown com-' The tavern was known as the Black manding. When he was appointed Major Bear Inn and at the death of the owner George F. Springer was elected Captain. became the property of his daughter Company B of the same regiment was $ Sarah. She had married George Gill, an organized March 19, 1873, with Captain ' Englishman, who got the family into dis¬ David S. Gwynn, but he resigned and repute in the neighborhood by bis strong William A. Todd was elected captain. sympathies with Great Britian in The organization ran the course of all its the war of the Colonies. He was successors and finally disbanded. an outspoken Tory and was so In July, 1875, the Morton Rifles, named [rapid in his defense of the English in honor of the signer of the Declaration 'army and ministry that he was compelled of Independence, were organized, and to leave the neighborhood. James Barton, Jr., was chosen as captain. His language was particularly offensive IA month later the company was mue- to the patriotic Americans after the bat¬ itered into the Eleventh Regiment of tle of Brandywine. The people were the National Guard. Captain Barton being smarting under the outrages perpetrated promoi^d to General Dobson’s staff, by the British troops in their march Char’es A. Story, Jr., became Captain, through this territory and their blood was and he in turn was succeeded by John M. roused by Hill’s words and actions and Householder. During the riots of 1877 be wtis proclaimed a traitor to the Colon¬ the company was ordered to Pittsburgh, ies. Finding that be was likely to be vio¬ where good service wrs done. The com¬ lently handled or surrendered to the mand was disbanded the following year. American troops, Hill fled and did not re¬ The Hrrfranft Rifles were organized turn until the close of the war. He was January, 1876, by Captain P. M. Washa- promptly arrested aud thrown into prison, baugh, now Lieutenant Colonel of the but was discharged under the general Sixth Regiment, and in in April of the amnesty act, which pardoned traitors, same year were mustered in as Company passed by the Legislature. Hill, though B, of the Eleventh Regiment. This com¬ more guarded iu liis utterances, was al¬ pany p’so participated in the riots and ways an unreconstructed rebel. some time afterward the command was The old Black Bear Inn passed into the disbanded. hands of William Hazelwood iu 1785 and Company A, of the Eleventh Regiment, was given the peculiar name “The Ship in wps the first title of the present efficient Distress.” The building in time became Company B, of the Sixth Regiment. It the property of Hon. Frederick J. Iiink- was mustered into service March 30, 1881, sou, who occupied it as a dwelling. with Captain B. F. Morley, First Lieu¬ tenant Frank G. Sweeney and Second Lieutenant John J. Hare as its commis¬ sioned officers. The title of the company to B, Sixth Regiment, was changed July 8, 1881. Captain Morley was succeeded by Lieut.ent Sweeney, and upon his pro¬ motion Lieutenant Samuel A. Price, the present commanding officer, was made captain. ^ great ’SbBTrast wim tnose m his far f Tit <■/s£ away home in England; but he wrote no words of complaint and shared the hardships with others who had' fled to America for freedom of tkroimkt and the privilege of worshipping God ac¬ cording to the dictates of conscience. A well was dug in the yard attached to S&cUj— ■ /w/-pi_ the premises and it was noted for its pur-1 ity of water, so much so that people fromj other parts of the town went there for re¬ SKETCHES (pLOgJI^ mSTORY. freshing draughts. When Penn street was laid out in 1850 this well was almost i An Instance Where Workmen ol'Oltlcn m the middle of the street. It was wal-j Tii'nes Experience*! Trouble. led over and the covering hidden. The old building at the northeast corner The property is now part of the Ulrich of Second and Market streets, now known estate. The old house in its palmy days ' as the Lincoln House, kept by Smith was surrounded by fruit and shade trees I Ly lie, Was at onetime a noted iiostelrie! and was a delightful retreat on a warm day. and core the name or the Blue Ball Inn. The building is very old and was built by Francis .Richardson between the years 11705 and 1770, thus being about a cen- 'tury and a quarter old. During the ejection of tne building Richardson! Deeame financially embarssed and had' I I some difficulty with the workmen. Up to* as late as 1883 there were holes still in the wall, left there by the mechanics,who decided to not fill up the places where the timbers had been inserted in order to in¬ dicate that they had not been paid for SKETCHES OF LO HISTORY. their work. As this occurred before the days of the Mechanics’ Lien law, the ar- A Chester Boy Wit# Won Distinction tisiaus took that method of showing their in the Niivy. displeasure. Among the Chester boys who have won honor and destinction stands the name of ’ Commodore Pierce Crosby. He was born i ofy? /;/’ 7 Z- , n Chester January 16, 1821,, and entered ,ke navy in 1838 as a midshipman. In 1814 he was promoted to Past Midship-1 | , I man and won praise from the ship’s com-1 mander for his gallantly and bravery. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1853 "ind held that rank in 1861, when he was[ employed in Chesapeake Bay and waters of North Carolina, where he was again* / SKETCHES DF LjtfAL HISTORY. complimented for bravery at the capture! of Ports Hatteras and Clark. He was in I More Pacts A|i/l the Place Where command of the Pinola and led the fleet! . Penn hived. in 1862 when Admiral Fairagut made his Mention was made a few days ago of noted run by Forts Jackson and St. Philip. | the old Boar’s Head Inn, which stood on He also shared in the fight at Vicksburg the line of Penn street with its gabel end and was promoted to captain for his effec¬ toward Third. The building was not, only tive service. noted for its oecupanev by William Penn, Captain Crosby was in command of the! but for its peculiar architecture. It was Florida and Keystone Stat > in the North well built and the workmen who construct¬ Atlantic Squadron and was promoted tot ed it had just cause for felling proud. Commodore in October, 1861 He did The cellar is said to have been someth- active service at Mobile cn the Metaeomet! ing of a marvel in its way. It was in the and was mentioned by Rear Admiral! front part of the building, made of dress-j Thatcher in his despatches. ed stone, with joints carefully made and In 1877 Commodore Crosby was ordered I in every item there was evidence of care to the command of League Island and I and skill. As the front room and the sit¬ remained there until 1881. ting room just back of it were without means of' warmth, *tke time indoors in winter was spent in the kitchen, which had an enormous fireplace. It was here that Penn passed the winter of 1G82-83 and his surroundings were evidently in 11
creek at Third street, built in 1700. The
In Sheriff 'Weaver'sTime■'sTinic When Pris¬ oners Made Their Escape. In 1824, when Joseph Weaver was Sheriff, a convict named Tom Low suc¬ ceeded in making his escape from the old jail in this city. He had been in the jail- yard, as was usual, at a certain time of the day, and, being forgotten, he managed to SKETCHES OFiLJXTAL HISTORY. get possession of a spade, with which he burrowed under the yard wall, coming Something About the Oltl Bridge That out about fifteen feet from the Court Crossed Chester Creek. House. He was never recaptured. In The bridges built in Chester now-a-days !the latter part of May, 1844, Henry John¬ are far superior in every way to those son escaped from the jail by scaling the ierected in the days gone by. In 1778, for wall. His sentence wjuld have expired I instance, a drawbridge spanned Chester the next day, but, learning that a com- 12
but the cemetery is no longer used'tor m-'j. foment had been lodged against him in terments. Fraknlin Parsons, of Ridley, { "Philadelphia, and that he would be taken and Mr. Carr, of Springfield, are the sur- [ ;here for trial for another offense as soon viving trustees. discharged, he declined to serve out The first mention of re igious seivices j the full term of his imprisonment. In- being held in Ridley occurs at a Monthly j deed, the old jail had no terrors for the Meeting held at Chester on the eleventh ' professional cracksman, for on the night of the seventh month, 1G82, when it was of Jan. 20, 1844, the dwelling in the front, agreed among other places to hold meet¬ then occupied by Sheriff Hibberd, was en¬ ings,” the Eastern Meeting at Ridley, at tered by burglars, who decamped with John Simeoek’s the fifth day of the week, j the wearing apparel of the family and until otherwise ordered. The meeting1 other articles of value. was subsequently changed to Walter Fau- j On September G, 1847, two prisoners at¬ cet’s house on Ridley creek, near Irving¬ tempted to escape by making ropes of ton, where the road to Philadelphia cross- j their blankets, but a"pabser-by, noticing cs the stream. Faucet kept a tavern at; the head of one of the men, just above the this location, but after the erection of wall, gave the alarm, aud they were pre¬ Chester meeting bouse the meetings at his vented from making a general jail deliv¬ house were abandoned. Friends never ery. George Harris, a colored man, by ' erected a building for public worship in the same means escaped on July 9, 1847, ' and was not recaptured, while Brown, Ridley. another of his race, who had four times before left the jail without the consent of the county authorities, on July 4, 1848, j took the privileges of the day and regain¬ ed his freedom, shaking off the dust of i the old prison for the fifth time. After' the county buildings at Media were being constructed Arthur Goodwin, a prisoner in the jail at Chester, on Sunday, Dec., 1, ’sbaJjL-- § u£p 2-l/-92- 1850, dug through the walls. But as the convict returned to his own house (he SKETCHES OF HISTORY. Sheriff had little difficulty in recapturing him. This is the last prisoner who defied The Quaint Ifoomnent Presesiteil hy a the bolts and bars of the old jail, for on, Citizen to the Court of 17(il. Dec., 9, 1850, the property was offered at) public sale by the County Commissioners. Iu the year 1764, Samuel Shaw was re¬ turned as Constable of Chester township, an office which in colonnial days was se¬ lected only from owners of real estate., - • 2 l-JL i Shaw was not anxious to serve the public, in that capacity, and to avoid the honor| thus thrust upon him presented the fob, & lowing petition to the Court: “To the honorable Justices of the Court of Private Sessions, held at Chester on the yJju 2Gth day of March, 1764: “The petiton of Samuel Shaw of Ches¬ ter township, miller, humbly showeth : SKETCHES OF LOC/y. HISTORY. “That your petitioner understands that! he is on the return for the office of consta¬ The Rtiins of an l^whurcti Unit Other ble of the said township for the ensuing stdis ns Facts. year; that your petitioner has formerly! On the south side of the Philadelphia served that office, and there are several; pike, a short distance below the Crum I other places that have never been served, and it being a custom that all places in Lynne Station,stand the walls of an ancient j stone structure that was formerly' known the said township should serve in their as the “Plummer Meeting House.” Early turns before any should be obliged to in the present century a few people re- i serve again, your petitioner apprehends siding in the neighborhood organized a it will not fall to his turn to serve for sev¬ Free Christian Church, and on Dec. 29,-1 eral years to come; and your petitioner! 1818, Isaac Culin conveyed to John L. has annexed a list of some persons’ names Morton, John Price, Abraham Wood, who are inhabitants of the said township Jonathan Bond and Samuel Tibbetts, asi and have never yet served, as your peti¬ trustees, one acre of land lying on the tioner stands instructed. Post road from Philadelphia to" Chester. “That your petitioner has lived but a On thi3 lot a stone house thirty by forty few years in the said township and now erected, and Rev. Frederick hath a very large family, and is also in¬ Plummer, the elder pastor of a like volved in such a multiplicity of business, church in Philadelphia,’ became its min¬ at present, that he cannot serve the said! ister. After his death the organization office at this time without greatly pre¬ gradually dissolved, the last meeting be¬ judicing his own private affairs. That ing held in the church about 1865." In; when your petitioner dwelt in the county! the graveyard around the building in of Philadelphia he was commissioned by, former times many bodies were buried, the Governor as a major and captain of a company, and being an old regular sol-' 13
dier did discipline several other com¬ Uncle Neddy laughed heartily but sileu. panies as well as his own without any re¬ when he learned that his name was to an- J ward from the government, which proved pear in print “Zo want to put me In the j a considerable expense to him, a3 well as papers?” he -said gleefully. “Well, I’se the oldest man about these parts. Was one ; ;a hindrance to his own private concerns. hundr’d an’ nine years.ole las’ month.” “Your petitioner therefore, most hum- “Where were you born, UQole?” I bly prays that yonr Honor will be pleased “Yo know whar Port is?” he inquired. 1 to take the premises into consideration “Port Deposit? Yes,” answered the re¬ ! a id excuse him at present from the said porter. j office of Constable, and appoint some “Well, I was bo’n on the. old road between other person to that office in his stead. Port an’ Battle Swamp.” “And your petitioner shall ever pray, “Two men yotcolor,” he explained, “had etc. Samuel Shaw. a fight about a coon . dog. They fou’t an’ History does not say whether Shaw was fou't tell the sun went down, an’ then they both rolled into the swamp, an’ then they relieved or not, but the presumption is called it Battle Swamp. I was bo’n a slave that his letter got him off. on Ole Henry Broughton’s farm, au’ waited on the missus.” Old Neddy swung his.scythe once or t ^ , /2s c ts-d—" mechanically while he collected his thoug “W’en I was sixteen years ole,” he con¬ tinued, “missus bo’ht me for two t’ousam" (peer, dollars.an* set me free, glory to God! was a good woman, was missus,”, he gravely. “What did .you.do when you were free, \ uncle?” “Follered the Susquehanna io’ "sixteen years, rafting,” he said. “Saw,,the -British soldiers 'burn Havre de Grace jn eighteen fo’teen. Burnt it clean np. We was a- bringin* ’lumber rafts o’ pine an’ hemlock down to Baltimore and Philadelphia.” “There’s been a big change since those The Oldest Inhabitant of Chester days, Uncle,” said the visitor suggestively. “Indeed thar is,” he assented. “There Valler-liyes at Avondale. was no railroads in them days. I helped build the ole wooden, bridge across the Sus¬ quehanna above Port, and w’en it was done I used to drive cattle across to Ball o’ Fire, i and then through a big woods that reached j ONE-HUNDRED:flND NINE YEARS OLD. all the way to Baltimore. Folks used to j say I druveattle to feed the British in them 7 days,” he said with a chuckle, “becaus’ the , Uncle -Neddy Dunmore Stops Work to soldiers used to get the most o’ them.” In reply to numerous questions old Neddy* Talk About Old Times. confessed that he had been quite a sport in his young days, frequenting the fairs at Charleston and other towns that were ac¬ There was an old.darkey, and -his name was counted large and desperately wicked earl- Uncle Ned, in the century. The chief attractions wei j And he lived long-ago, long ago.” whisky and “wheel o’ fortune, ”*and goods o We are told in the words of the old song every description were brought from Phila¬ that its dark-skinned hero was afflicted with delphia and Baltimore and sold to the as¬ a lack of wool “on the place where the wool sembled country folks. ought to grow,” and that after a blameless In his old age Uncle Neddy has chosen life, he laid,down the shovel and the hoe the hospitable farmers of the Chester Valley and was gathered unto his fathers. as neighbors, and has settled down to end Down in the lower end of the Chester his days in a little log cabin near Avond"' Valley, near the sleepy little village of He supports himself comfortably by h Avondale, lives “Uncle Neddy” Dunmore, daily labor on the neighboring farms, : whose history has never been told in song while denying himself the luxury of whi; oi story, and who is, nevertheless, one of the is a devoted user of the clay pipe. Win most remarkable and interesting characters and summer alike his costume consists si XLJ?any miles about his home. Uncle ply of a pair of heavy shoes, trousers a Neddy says that he is one hundred and nine checked shirt. The luxury of socks and u. years old, and the truth of his statement has derclothing he has never kndwn, and hv : been established by careful investigation faces with indifference the extreme heat and He was born near Port Deposit, Maryland, a extreme cold of the seasons. little hamlet on the east bank of the Sus¬ Ten years ago Neddy had an experience quehanna Itiver, in the year 1783, and ha with burglars that he will never forget. has lived his long life in the three States of While he was sleeping alone in his cabin at Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, night thieves broke in, and alter binding whioh touch corners just west of Wil¬ and gagging the old man, took all of his mington. scanty savings, accumulated by years of One hot dav not long,,sinee old-Uncle: hard work. Neddy was released in the Neddy was interviewed by the writer, morning by neighbors, who discovered li standing knee-deep among the wild flowers plight, but since that night the old man hai ,in a meadow just outside the village of Av- never slept in a bed. His fears of robber °n.?£le\ • ^ ol,d F!an kaned on the soythe almost robs him of sleep, and his broken with which he had been mowing and politely rest is taken on a -rude couch in his oabin bacco ^ k18 Tls*tor fora modest gitt of to- home, upon which he lies without removip his clothing. .j ncle Neddy was a tirm triend and ad- ble intelligence to a single person and ; mirer oftbe lawless Abe Buzzard, who for went to bed with the awful news locked i years held his stronghold in the Welsh up in his breast. In the meantime the mountains against all comers, and there is rejoicing continued and Chester people, little doubt but that the noted horse thief went to bed happy over the events of the • j and robber relied at times for shelter upon day. [,jbis honest and humble frienda . i Near by the cabin of the ojjgtiarky is the The news of the dark deed of Booth I home of his son “Moses,” a JK?$jfghld man was not received in Chester until six I who is proud of haring ‘Father o’clock the following morning. The Lincoln’s” army in the war orffite*hellion. death of the President was known by i Excepting an occas&nal touch orrheuma- eight o’clock and all business except that! ,tism, which he removes by the application of the news agent was at once suspended.! of polecat grease, the old man is hale and Stores and houses were huDg with em¬ . hearty, and has a prospect of, living several blems of mourning and the day wis [I years longer. passed in a discussion of the news and the| Perhaps the bjpst .remarkable feature of s Uncle Neddy’s history is that he lays no probable portents of such a disaster to! ! claim to acquaintance with General George the nation. Washington. On the contrary, Neddy de- 1 dares that he never laid eyes on the Eather , of his Country. . _ —-ryps
I . (Pa/, (Poo, ft ob°u I '-/ . •"/ /' A MODEL TOWN. efiH-jd* •* 'ft * — . -.—. SKETCHES OF*OCAL HISTORY. THE CROWNING GLORIES OF WAYNE!
How tlie Jfcws of Lincoln’s Assasina- AND ITS TWIN, ST. DAVID’S.,.
tiou Was Received Here. — —— f The hour of noon, April 14, 1865, was Description of Its Wonderful Sewage the time fixed when Major General An¬ System and Other Permanent Conveni¬ derson, in the presence of survivors of his ences—A Delightful Garden Spot, Where ' i garrison, should unfurl the United States the Enjoyment of Life is at Its Maxi¬ (flag over the battered remains of Fort mum—Its Rapid Growth and Substantial , Sumpter in Charleston Harbor. Improvements. A PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION. --- The event was celebrated in a very One might, travel ten thousand miles over j patriotic manner in Chester. In the af¬ this broad land, viewing with admiration ternoon the Inva’ids Corps and the sol¬ Its great cities, its attractive suburbs, its diers in the United States Hospital, now natural beauties and changing wonders, I and yet return to Wayne, as a noted travel-1 the Crozer Seminary building, paraded ler recently did, to find it the loveliest, and the streets. The line, was in command of withal the most seductive place to “bide a Lieutenant Campion and was headed by wee” he had seen. Five years of intelligent i the Union Cornet Band. Crowds throng- and well-directed purpose have transformed1 | ed the sidewalks and cheer after cheer the rolling hills and fields of Wayne into a i greeted the soldiers and told of the feel- town the sum of whose qualities is tersely i ing of exultation of the people over the described by a popular divine as “the pret-i tlest In the whole country. ” It has natural! successful close of the war. advantages which have been utilized and A meeting was held in Market Square adorned; it has facilities for comfortable ltin the evening, when r ddresses were made and happy living which no other sub- . to enthusiastic crowds by Hon. John M. urb enjoys, and It has a series o | Broomall and others. At the conclusion improvements, developed mainly by private! (of the orations a pyrotechnic displiy was capital, the like of which will not be found i made by Professor Jackson, and while in any other place. A remarkable thing about Wayne is the fearlessness with which sky rockets were lighting the upper air the problems of cosy and healthful country with their brilliancy, the whole town was life have been taken up and solved. Cost illuminated with torches, gas and oil has never been spared where effect was de¬ lamps. sired, and the result is that little or nothing remains to be done in the way of improve¬ ‘ KEEPING A TERRIBLE SECRET. ment. Modern knowledge of the require-5 I There was one man, however, who did ments of a model country home plaoe has tnot share in the general rejoicing. He been applied without stint, and a healthier, | was the telegraph operator. While he was happier set of people than the enthusiastic; sitting in his office a startling message dwellers in its charming villas It would be hard to find. was ticked over the wires to the Philadel . phia papers. It reported the assassination An Inspiring Picture. of President Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, On high and wavy land, beset by hills, now shaded by shapely trees and verdure-clad, Washington, by J. Wilkes Booth. Wayne presents a picture which may well Sworn to official secrecy the operator delight and soothe the senses by day or by dare not open his lips to convey the terri¬ night. The church spires, peaked roofs, him a new existence. And as" ne takes gables and turrets glinting In the sunlight his leave
j houses of any kind. This surprising tained to the letter and is every day prac- achievement will have flashed upon him ticed by assistance given to home builders— 4 j cuiiously, as it has upon many another, but men who not only enjoy riches but are ij therein he will discover the secret of one of prominent in tbo worlds of business, lltera- / Wayne’s crowning glories—a sewage sys¬ ture, politics and finance have cast their lot tem ot almost unexampled efficiency. In in its midst and become what might be the absence of pumps and of cumbrous termed worshipers at its shrine. This is evi¬ tanks on house tops the visitor denced in more ways than one, but notably will learn of another source of Justi¬ in the development in the styles of homes / fiable pride in this suburban town—a erected, and In the Increase In the value off water works of great capacity supplying the land. Where five years ago houses were} purest product ot the springs. "And if he built to be sold, with spacious lots, for $3000 should chance before the final flight of and $5001) to $8000 and $10,000, they are beinl , irosty mornings to note the utilization of erected to-day at a cost running into tm modern radiators in some ot the larger tens of thousands, the average range being} houses, with neither stoves to maintain nor Irom $7500 to S25,0U0. At the same time land J ashes to vex the tidy housekeepers, he would which might have been bad five years ago 31 be apprised ot an innovation in Wayne of for a few hundred dollars an acre now com- whtcfi many a bustling city might well be rnands from round about $1000 to $3000 or ’ glad to boast—a successful system of supply¬ more, according to location. These are ing heat from a central plant. among other reasons why people who have ji “ ’Tween the Gloaming and the Mirk.” enjoyed life at Wayne are enthusiastic about j It. There is a little business combined with j An observant visitor would see all these things and more. From the heart of the their comiort. town and its twin St.David’s be would see A Scrap of History. them, or from the splendid roads that curl The story of Wayne’s progress can be around the hills and cut through the wood¬ briefly told. It was founded by Mr. George! lands of this historic country, and he would W. Cbilds, who, in conjunction with Mr. come back “twixt the gloaming and the Anthony J. Drexel, have been the untiring mirk,” tired mayhap, and wrestling men¬ promoters of every permanent development tally with a panorama of fleeting views, of the place, and who have so guided and endeavoring to associate them with his directed every step towards making Wayne owir life and that of his own loved ones. the model town it is as to have stamped For now, as the electric force is turned their names indelibly upon its future. Some1 on—Wayne has her own electric plant— one has spoken eloquently of the giory that j the arc lights flash through the tall comes to human kind from the building of a trees, and cast a myriad of dancing shadows town. As that may depend upon the success over lawn and thoroughfare, and hundreds or Jailure of the town, the measure of sat- / ; of windows emit the flashing rays through isfaction that comes from the founding 1 | plate and colored glass, discovering scenes of Wayne must indeed be great. Be i of gaiety and sweet repose within. ’Tis that as it may, the interest of nowq when lawns are cleared and porches Messrs. Childs and Drexel in this beautiful ’ peopled ; when the air is stirred by aromatic . settlement, only a half hour’s ride from thu zephyrs, and the merry laughter of Wayne’s Broad Street Station, has never faltered. ; bright men and women drive dull care Immediately upon the purchase of the away, that the visitor takes upon himself Askin property ot 600 acres the Wayne Es- J jtbat wistful ambition to enter this, to tate set to work, under their direction, and V % fc-t ..__ so active nas it oeen, latterly under the corner of Chester county, over the Delaware management of Mr. Frank Smith, that the) county line, was selected as the site. This unimproved fields of five years ago are now1 was, by all odds, the highest of the Wayne cut up by smooth and shaded roads, dotted estate’s possessions, overlooking the town with hundreds ol houses, and kept active' and country for miles around, and being - by a population of nearly 2000. The Wayno about as far from the Opera House as the terminus of the sewage pipes was in an op¬ r alone has laIly three-quarters of a! j million dollars invested in houses, lands and; posite direction. Here, under the direction of H. Blrkinbine, an experienced water-works in improvements, while the real estate invest¬ ments of its cUi-ens would probably swell engineer, the new reservoir was constructed - tlle total capital represented la houses and with an area of 77 by 165 feet at the bottom, lands to $2.000. COO. houses and 125 by 213 feet at the top, a depth of 16 feet, ■ h| On the farm lands of five years ago the and capacity of 1,627,000 gallons at a depth J visitor sees at Wayne to-dayVery *onve of 14 feet. Two weeks ago Manager Smith, : , jnlence ol city houses with many they do. not of the Wayne estate, turned the water on enjoy, and with common advantages m the for the first time—it being pumped to the I ! way ot religious and secular education reservoir by artesian wells driven to j ‘ water, air, light, highways, heat. sanital springs. From its present great altitude it j tion and entertainment not found else- comes with a strong pressure to the bed ,■ w nere. rooms, baths and kitchens of Wayne’s A Great Sewage System. houses on the hills and to the many plugs As old town builders know. It Is not1 and hydrants of the town. How it is Carried Off. henVtmCIW0. starta towh on a nretty and healthlul basis as it is to keep it so Now for the next 6tep in the important Sooner or later the vital question of drain¬ system of drainage. The water is delivered age must be met, for it will grow as the and in use for drinking, cooking, washing ,town grows, and may prove detrimental or and flushing purposes. How is it carried (positively dangerous to the comfort and off with the filth accumulations that it health of the Inhabitants. How was it at washes into the main ? In the first place Wayne ? The natural advantages for ob¬ the pipes are carefully joined and so laid, taining water were great, and the land thanks to the natural advantages of the ■ fkflorded a splendid natural drainage land before spoken of, that they fall gradu¬ But the question was, might not the ally from the starting point, and permit the [r- drainage eventually annoy the people contents to flow easily to a distant valley, ; and might It not pollute the water? where the remarkable process of disposing of £ Whether It might, or might not lu five years them Is In operation. No one can witness this Lin ten ora hundred years, the Wayne estate system without thinking of the apparent: I; determined to not take chances, and, in- ease with which a mooted and troublesome { j stead of leaving the future of the place to question is settled. In this distant vale, \ i! these natural advantages on these Import-! within an area of less than 12 acres, lnclud-1 ant Questions, it built a waier works to sup¬ lng the side of a steep hill, all the sewage of ply the people and provided a sewage sys- Wayne and St. David’s, all the waste water ; Hem for carrying oil the waste or other im- and filth accretions are disposed of without: , fpui itles that collect about a house. This affecting in the slightest the pellucid waters j | isystem is now not. only a pride to Us pro-1 ot Ithan creek that course through (Jectors, but a wonder in ihe scientific world it, and with ODly an occasional odor, no , To the utility ot this system, designed worse than the breeze from a city gutter, j by Colonei Waring, is due the fact that As in the case of the new reservoir the! .here Is not a single cesspool In plantat the end of the sewage pip^s is an [ jWayne to-day and that every house isi enlarged and improved one, oons;rucfc,d at underdrained. * Certainly, for a country a cost of, say, 625,000, to meet the grotWjM'l place, this is no small matter for wonder and1' needs of the town. By it about 250, OOOgallo^^ I yet the whole system is so simple that thol of watery offal from the town are received] novice in sanitary information can easily every 24 hours and distributed or destro. ad I understand It. As the pure spring water: without offence further than indicated, and I flows through a common main and by amidst surroundings more resembling a fer- i smaller pipes Into every house In Wayne, sol tile field and v, ell-kept grove than a sewage does the was ,e house and kitchen water anti station. .■very parjicle of fecal matter pass from A Park-like Pumping Ground. ! every house in Wayne through-sewage A twenty minutes’ drive from the heart I pipes into a common main, and thence to a of Wayne, over an undulating country with j ipolnt probably a mile and a half from the fine roads, brings the visitor to the edge of1 Upera House, where, by a most interesting a bit of woods through which a wagon-w.;y, I process, it is part purified, part neutralized like unto the “lovers’ lanes” of many a and part destroyed. bowery hamlet, leads to the quiet vale A Kemarlcable Process. where Colonel Waring’s plan Is ever reliev¬ ing Wayne of its sewage. Emerging from ^.,Siran£e !Lrocess really! the uninformed would say. les, a strange process, but yet the shade of the smooth-bark beeches one more straugely simple, requiring only the comes suddenly into an open space that, intelligent use of capital and energy to put but for signs of agricultural and Practlce> Take flrst tlle „,ateri lnas mechanical activity, would delight the heart nucli as l. forms the larger part of the sew- of a brook trout fisherman. First, an open i " hence and how does it come? Up space, with a winding stream; then a steep hillside, with clean trimmed trees, and jTLn8lCS ago 11 came from a carefully uarded 260,000-gallon brick-lined reservoir then all about a fringe of trees and shrub¬ almost in the heart of the town, and was bery, with glimpses here and there of old distributed by gravity to the houses. The rail feuces and patches ot farm land under growth of Wayne and St. David’s Increased cultivation. But the open space in the valley is broken by piers of stone, carrying tot»^t“andan
SKETCHES t0£/LQCAL HISTORY.
A SM'oodly Massacre ©tt the Delaware’s aYe* 35:iuR Wany Tears Ago. t-rL I While ihe English settlers in and around O ptL / ! Chester, owing to the pacific Quaker pol- l 92 j icy, had no serious difficulties with the f udians, sucih was not the experience of ")5 SKETCHES OFjLQCAL HISTORY. the men of’Other nationalities who first f tried to put the outposts of civilization An Associate Judge(Wives One OpiaSon ♦ I along the Delaware. The great Holland in Thirty-Three Years. i corporatich, the West India Company, succeeded in putting a small colony on In 1792 Colonel Hugh Lloyd, a soldier, Lewes c’;eek, designing t.o establish a who had served his country faithfully, was appointed one of the associate judges whaling station there, but the men were i massacred by the Indians. of Delaware county. He resigned his place ou the last day of December, 1825, I Captain Peter Heyes in 1530 brought; ... after thirty-three years of continuous ser¬ I the colonists over in the ship Walrus and the settlement was called "Swanendale, or vice, in which time he missed but one session, that of the Orphans’ Court. He “Valley of Swans,” because .of the grert number of those birds 'found there. A was nearly 84 years old and his years in¬ fort was erected aud after due provision capacitated him for further service. The duties of an associate judge were against possible famine had been made, - not very arduous, however, in those days tfie Walrus set sail, leaving Gillis Hossett, commissary of the vessel, in command of and their presence was more of an orna¬ the garrison. ment than a necessity. On one occasion Judge Lloyd was asked if the work was The following year it was decided to, not very wearisome. | increase the number of colonists by tak¬ “It is indeed, very,” replied the Judge. ing a, number of emigrants to the new Why I sat five years on th« same bench in world, but before'the’expedition sailed n , rumor reached the company that the lit¬ the old Court House at Chester without tle colony had been wiped out. Captain once opening my mouth except to yawn. David P. DeVries, an experienced navi¬ One day, however, towards night after gator, started out to verity the report. He listening to the details of a long and tedi¬ reached the mouth of Delaware bay on ous trial, the president, leaning over to¬ wards me and putting his arms across my ' December 5 «ud the following day a care¬ ful exploration was made along the shore shoulders, asked: “Judge, don’t you think this bench is infernally hard ?’ I replied in one of the-ships’ boats. The fort was ’ >■’ that I thought it was. And that is the a charred rain, while the bones of the'; men and horses lay on the ground inside only judicial opinion I ever gave during what had been the stockade. my long career.” Sickened by the sight the sailois re¬ turned to the ship and the following day the wily DeVries induced one of the Indians to come, aboard and look at his big canoe. He kept him all night and after treating him hospitably and giving; aim some coveted presents, got the native i to tell how Hossett and his men lost their
'1 he Indian said that one of their chiefs;. ' had torn down tbe tin plate containing 1 | personsfromtakingpart instageplays, ; threetofourfold. I •jw Theseverestpunishmentwasmetedout I'lmislinioaits ?£$Outinthel>ajs .the severepenaltiesoftheDukeYork’s Pennsylvania. to jail,orhavecostspayatMediathis revels, masques,andkindred worldlypur¬ not liveintheearlydaysofcolony week, canthanktheirstars'thattheydid live notothemarkandwhilemanyof December 4,1682,enactedacodeoflaws suits, sothatanytroupe hadchanced ra boomde-aye wouldhavebeensent to dropintoPennsylvania with thetara- that madethepeopleofnowcolony higher thanGilderoy’s kite. while restitutionhadto be madefrom ping andvarioustermsofimprisonment, iii±h..Aao.inuch emphasis. deemed themharshenough.Themanor code weresoftened,yettheunfortunates punished byfineorimprisonmentand woman whonsedprofanelanguagewas
felon. the forfeitureofhalfestate Wrmm party, thecourtsenthimupfjrseven ping andoneyear’simprisonmentwasthe\ gret forexpressingtheirfeelingsinpublic more thanonepersonhadreasonforre¬ ^)ah^, d$tZrr.,£JL/-f2/- years togivehimtimeforreflection. and unlessherestoredfourfoldto*the the inflictionoftwenty-onelashesandirn-; 1705, thefirstoffensebeingpunishedby life. Thislawwasamendedin crime, whileasecondoffensewasj He hadtoworklikeabeaver,however, and stolewassenttojailforfourmonths. tion, wasliabletobesentjailforlife, prisonmeut foroneyear,orafineoffiftyj punishable byimpriesnmentfor for licentiousconduct.Apublicwhip¬ : Theminorregulations prohibited al! while themanwhobrokeintoahouse instead ofbeinganobjectcommisera¬ and theconvictwaspubliclywhipped pounds; asecondconvictionsubjectedthe penalty forthegraverdegreeofthis ond offensehewasimprisonedforlife. had togojailforayear.Forthesec¬ received halftheestateofaggressor,[ head. the letter“A”wasbrandedonhisfore-1 culprit tosevenyears’imprisonmentand SKETCHES OFLOCALHISTORY. The unluckypeoplewhoarebeingsent The AssemblythatconvenedatChester, Drinking ofhealth waspunishablebya Theft waspunishedwithpublicwhip¬ Murder waspunishedwithdeathand The manthathadmorethanonewife, In feloniousassaulttheaggrievedparty V. (pa/\ ol WilliamPenn. 11— ,C.—$ I . I 7lyyid/,f/c,cv*L^- river. pute thepassageandsaileddownthe| good serviceunderWashington andj would havefallenintothe Americans’ shore withgreatinterestbyColonel The Chesterbattallionafterwards did possession hadtheybeenmore aggressive. Miles, whowasconfident,thattheRoebuck counter, buttheBritishshipsdidnotdis-' very wellsuppliedwithammunitionand! therefore foughtshyoftoocloseanen¬ damage. TheAmericanfleetwasnotI ships andland.Anumberofshotswere Wayne. exchanged, butneithersidesufferedmuch!' sary forauyofthesailorstoleavetheir aid theAmericanfleetifitbecameneces-tjg Liverpool offNewcastle. marched toapointnearWilmingtonla the enemy,butinMayhisfleetsailed sped ontoPhiladelphia.Fourgalleysin down againandsightedthe.Roebuck ceeded downtheriver.HedidnotfindI command ofCommodoreCaldwellpro-) reached ChesteronTuesdayafternoon. probably comingupthebay. He stoppedfortyminutesinChesterandi he didnotleaveLewesuntilMondayand of-war hadcomeintoLewesandwas and informedColonelMilesthatasloop- ger camedashingintotownonhorseback! wait long,foronedayanexpressmessen¬ they waitedfororders.Theydidnotj of flintlockmusketsaudamunitionand! mittee ofSafetyputtheminpossession in commandofColonelMiles,theCom¬ zation. men weremeetingatChesterfororgani¬ Two battallionshadbeenformedandthe yeomen forthedefenceoftheircountry. all thisactivitywasthegatheringof a hundredyearsbefore.Thereasonfor done atanytimesincePennlandednearly! a livelierappearancethanitprobablyhad ASaval EngagementinWhichChesterj instead offined. slaves theywerewhippedandimprisone^ fiue'df^v'ellnllings orfivedaysTmprisou- ted. Ittheoffendershappenedtobej and sportsoflikecharacterwereinterdic¬ ment, andhorseracing,shootingmatches The engagementwaswatehedfromthe Colonel MileswithaspecialdetachmentV The messengerhadmadegoodtime,for:- The newly-enlistedsoldierswereplaced In thespringof1776Chesterpresented' SKETCHES OF^fCALHISTORY. Men TookPart. 21
Bevan 'sprang from the bed, has dressed and went out of the back doc 2 just as the British officers aud soldiers eu tered the house by the frontdoor. Beva
' i-Cj/el ■ ( rtf/l hastily reached the stable, where he rout his horse already saddled, and beit familiar with the country he easily evade the enemy.
i i i ’ ' '' sketches of local history. ■n a , /ll A Plucky American Fho Fongbt With General ieorse. (fibs. The trying dafe^>f- the Revolutionary War developed tab traits of many a colo¬ nist of Chester and brought many a man to the front. Among the patriots who espoused the cause of his country with vigor and became a most conspicuous SKETCHES OF LOCAL HSITORY. character in Chester was Davis Bevan. He was of Welsh decent and his heart Tine Treaty on Tinicum Between was fired with a love of freedom and when Swedes anti Indians. war came he promptly offered his services Probably one of the most impressive to his country. Bevan was a brave man sights to the Europeans who first settled and he quickly won recognition in the in Pennsylvania was the treaty made be¬ army. tween the Swedes and Indians. On June He was with Washington at the battle 17, 1654, a council was held in Printz of Brandywine in 1777 and after the Hall on the island of Tinicum. John American forces had begun their retreat Rysinger was Governor of the province at to Chester he received a dispatch from the time, John Printz being in Sweden, Washington, which he delivered to the and with him at the council were his offi¬ President, of the Continental Congress, cers and men, while a goodly number of then sitting in Philadelphia. Captain Indians were present to represent the own¬ Bevan was accompanied by a man named ers of the soil. Sharp and after they had proceeded a Some of the Indians in addressing short distance they noticed a party of Governor Rysinger complained that his British light horse pursuing them. pale faces had brought evil upon them, as ■Bevan was mounted on a thoroughbred much sickness had prevailed since the ar¬ mare of great endurance and had no fear of rival of the white men upon their shores. the result of any race with the English¬ Chief Naaman, who had listened to these men, but Sharp was not only not so well speeches in silence, then arose and ad¬ £ mounted, but used such bad judgment in dressed the council. riding that Bevan finally said: “The people who came from the land “Sharp, if we keep togethei those beyond the sunrise are good,” began this bloody Britishers will bag us, sure, so we leader. “Look and see what they have had better separate. At the cross roads brought us,” and he pointed to the ahead I will go one way and you can take presents, “for they desire our the other. They will follow me, I know, friendship.” He then stroked himself upon but there isn’t a horse in that crowd that the arm three times, an Indian method of can catch me. ” swearing fidelity, and continuing his This proposition was agreed to and speech thanked the Swedes for their gen¬ Bevan, who knew the country perfectly, erous treatment. He said that in Gover¬ soon left his pursuers behind. When he nor Printz’s time the Swedes and Indians reached the Schuylkill he found the river had been as one body, and he struck his so swollen that the ferryman was afraid to hand over his heart as he said so, and as cross. The intrepid Bevan jumped into a one head. Here the speaker placed both small boat and rowed across, leading his hands on his head and ended with a motion horse, which swam behind, aud in a short as though tying a knot, to signify perpet¬ time he galloped to the State House and ual friendship. delivered the message. In concluding his address he made one Captain Bevan had many adventures. of those allegorical speeches that J. Fen- On one occasion while the Continental nimore Cooper delighted to put army was at Valley Forge he visited a into the mouth of the Indian friend named Vernon, who lived near the orator. “As the calabash is round British lines. He resolved to stay all without any end or crack, so night and Vernon’s sons acted a3 sentries may we be like brothers and one to warn the bold American against sur¬ family.” He pledged himself to inform prise. About midnight one of the boys j | the Governor of any plot against him, ! hastened to Bevan’s room and told him “even though it was in the middle of the i that a mounted party was approaching; night” and asked a similar pledge from ; the house. He was about going to sleep the Swedes. !again, apparently not believing the re¬ This was very satisfactory to everybody port, when the other son came hurrying; and was replied to by the Governor with I in aud confirmed the brother’s statement. the warmest expressions of ;Ood will and l riendsbip. The gifts were distributed to recognize the writ, but Townsend Sharp¬ the visitors and the Indians in return con¬ less, who was conspicious by his height firmed the title to the land, after which a and general bearing of authority, shook big feast ensued. The treaty was very the writ in their faces and defied the faithfully observed by both parties to the Marylanders to disregard it. compact. THE PRISONER SURRENDERED. Had the officers resisted there would have been a desperate fight, but they saw j TO 1 *- , //■* 1 ^ - the peril of such action and surrendered i Neal to the local authorities, who placed him in tl^e lockup, where he remained T^~ t A ,_ @ast all night. The following morning several hundred a/s , ,\J.f yu- persons assembled at the railroad station j 12) An Incident off the ©ays of tl»e Slave 'MJ t <- * <2_- Trade. The old borough of Chester was moved from its lethargy on the evening of Janu¬ ary 25, 1853, by the sudden appearance on Market street of a colored man shackled Is and riding with two white men. The prisoner was Eichard Neal, a freeman, and m the intelligence that he was in custody, THE OLD OOL HOUSE. shackled like a slave, spread quickly over ISl the town and soon the carriage was sur¬ Where Some Noted Men Received! rounded by a crowd that every minute Their Early Education. grew more excited. Some time prior to 1780—the exact date AN EXCITED CROWD. is not known—a stone school house was Men in the crowd demanded to knou builr. on the Kirk road in Bethel township,1 why Neal was arrested and his custodians, where Booth’s shops now stand. The' seeing the ugly temper of some of the floor of the building was of bricks and on', people about them, explained that they winter days it was a fold and cheerless) were officeis and that Neal was under ar¬ place, as only those scholars who sat close! rest for trying to entice some slaves of to the roaring wood fire could keep warm.! Captain Mayo, of Anne Arundle county, The lot and building were subsequently) Md., to run away. He had been arrested sold to Isaac Booth, who tore down the) on a requisition of the Governor of Mary¬ school house in 1823, as no sessions had land and the officers proposed to take him been held there for some years. away on the midnight train. In 1821 a school was opened in a stone: Some of the men proposed to take the building erected on a lot purchased from; colored man away by force, but the cool¬ John Martin, on the Bethel road east of) er heads restrained them and securing a Booth's Corner. This, like the old brick- lawyer’s services secured a writ of habeas floor house, was a subscription school, but corpus, which was served ou the officers afterwards became a public school. Chas. i while they were waiting for the train. Willis was the first masterthere and man^ They drew their pistols and refused to incidents of his rule are told. Stibe^/ \ 23 quetitly George Walters aud Adnm ilen- I■ [written foe the times.! ileuball applied tlie birch and filled the Of the seven delegates alloted to the ’heads of che students wiih knowledge. Province of Pennsylvania in the Conti¬ The wonderful possibilities of American nental Congress that adopted the Declar¬ life are well illustrated by this school, for I from that old building came a United ation of Independence, two of the num¬ (States Senator and Governor and two ber were selected from that section which Judges, as well as a number of men who now constitutes the present county of ! have carved for themselves honorable dis¬ Delaware, John Morton, of Ridley, and tinction in law, in the marts of trade and Charles Humphreys, of Haverford. A various business pursuits. man of abilty, undoubted integrity and Powell Clayton, a noble soldier, an able high social station, Charles Humphrey Senator and a Governor of Arkansas, was had within his grasp undying fame, but j'atonetimea frolicsome boy in the old in error of judgment^not personal fear, . iBethel School William Clayton, judge he cast the laurel wreath aside. From I of the Ninth District C.-urt of Arkansas, 1703 to 1776 he was a member of the As¬ and Thomas J. Clayton, the Piesident sembly of the Province and in 1774 was Judge of Delaware county, also attended S appointed one of the seven delegates rep¬ school there and are graduates of the resenting Pennsylvania in the Congress Bethel temple of learning. of the Colonies, and was continued as The old building was turn down in 1868 such in the succeeding Congress. iand a new school house built in its place On Friday, the seventn of July, 1776, "I have passed many hippy days in that Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, pre¬ I old building,” said Judge Clayton speak¬ sented his famous resolution, “That these ing in a reminiscent vein, “and I’ll never United Colonies are, and of right ought forget the boyhood hours in old Bethel”. to be free and independent States,” and ^C. DELAWARE 'COO'NTY. The Last Centurw Mansion at Lansdowne Nearly Reaay for a "Club House, the old mansion on the Baltimore pike at ^ansdowne, now being transformed Into a club house for the use of the Runnymede The home of John Morton, of Ridley, from Club. Is nearly.ready, and the club mem¬ a drawing made for the Times by E. bers expect to enjoy their Christmas dinner Donald Robb, aged twelve years. under Its roof. The Improvements Include the fitting up of a Kitchen,dining-room and on that measure, when it assumed the parlor on the first floor, and a billiard final form of the Declaration of Indepen¬ room, card room and reading room on the dence, as did his distinguished kinsman, second floor. The third story will be fitted John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys upas a gymnasium. The surroundings will voted in the negative. Wben the great be graded anti made Into a beautiful lawn. The date mark on the front of the old bou^e Charter of American liberty was adopted, Is 1732. and it Is said the bricks of which |he withdrew from public life, resigning the walls are built were shipped from Eng¬ Ibis place in Congress and the Assembly land. alike. At no time prior to or since his death, at the conclusion of the revolu- i tionary war, was the honesty of his opin¬ l l— i ion or the integrity of his purpose ques¬ tioned. He had only faltered, when the CPas, crisis of his life came and comparative obscurity, where he might have secured 6&cUjl, ,3\ l'- immortality, became his fate. OF SWEDISH ANCESTRY. His colleague, John Morton, of Ridley, takes high rank among the fifty-three MORTON, THE SIGNER men who gave to the world that Declar¬ ation of Independence, which made this nation the foremost of the earth. He was A SKETCH OF CHESTER’S ILLUSTRIOUS i of Swedish descent, the grand-son of CITIZEN. Morton Mortonson, of “Calking Hook,” the surname in time assuming the En¬ Mr. Ashmead Tells of the Life of the Signer glish form, as we now know It. John Morton was a posthumous child, of the Declaration of Independence his father, John Morton, having died and His Important Place in prior to his birth, which occurred early American History. ' x . // u .25, the exact clay of \ the week ori “In voting by States upon the question month not being recorded,at least to this of Independence of the American Colo¬ time the diligent research of historians) nies, there was a tie until- the vote of has failed to ascertaip the precise dateJ Pennsylvania was given, two members His mother, after a brief widowhood,; of which voted in the affirmative and married John Sketcbley, an Englishman, two in the negative. The tie continued whose kindness to the orphan boy was until the vote of the last member, John .recognized by the latter in giving his! Morton, decided the promulgation of the iame to his son, Sketcbley Morton, sub-) great diploma of American freedom.” j sequently a Major in the Revolutionary A strict regard for the truth of his-, \rmy and a man of sterling worth. Mr. | tory constrains me to declare that there ketchley, who appears to have received is no contemporary evidence supporting! an educational training beyond that gen ¬ the forgoing statement. Shortly after, eral among the early settlers, personally the bi centennial historical sketches of j instructed his step-son in the common Chester, Col. Frank M. Etting, the au¬ English branches, devoting particular at¬ thor of the most elaborate and authentic' tention to mathematics, as young Morton history of Independence Hall yet pub-; developed a peculiar aptness in that! lished, and the founder of the National i study which subsequently, in his avoca¬ Musuem in that building, in a letter to) tion as a surveyor, as well as a husband¬ the author, objected to the printing of; man, had much to do with his success in, the inscription just quoted, in the his¬ life. torical sketches. Col. Etting, among In 1756, at the age of thirty-one, he) other matters, wrote as follows; became a member of the Provincial As- : “Yet I cannot pass over one very gre- sembly, and continued to represent Ohes-j vious error or perversion of the facts in ter county in that body until 1766, an) connection with John Morton and the Huninterrupted period of eleven years. ‘vote of the State.’ Not only is there While still a membef of the Assembly, in absent a scintilla of evidence to support 1765, he was designated one of the dele¬ the whole statement,but the unquestioned gates from Pennsylvania to the “Stamp evidence of the action of the colonies! Act Congress” which convened in New on June 7th and July 2d, when every York City in October of that year. colony concurred in the vote, but New! York shows the utter falsity of such de AN IMPORTANT COljDNIAL OFFICIAL. ! tails. * * * I do believe Morton’s! In 1767 he was chosen Sheriff of Ches¬ friends generally were averse to inde- ter county and fqr three years dis-, pendence and doubtless upbraided him. charged the duties of that office accept- j As he was Speaker of the House. He ably to the people, although the mutter-1 may have presided over the separate de¬ ings of the approaching conflict had al-) liberations of Pennsylvania’s represen-1 ready depressed trade and brought about tatives as a colony, and may have given much business disturbance. At the ex¬ his own vote, last, but there is no evi¬ piration of his term of service, he was dence whatever to this effect, while every again returned to the Assembly, sitting) item built upon this in its various shapes as a member of that body until 1776, for is shown to be entirely baseless.” which he wa3 not sleeted in the latter It seems to me that John Morten’s year, the new representative bad not yet claim to greatness is built upon higher been chosen. During the last year of his ground than the old tradition accords! service he was Speaker of the Assembly, him, in as much that although he was and, was such when the Declaration of Speaker of the Assembly that by resolu¬ Independence was adopted and proclaim¬ tion had instructed its delegates to vote ed. Twelve years before he had been against independence, yet be dared to i appointed, in 1764, a Justice of the disregard that mandate when the supreme Peace—an office of great dignity in Col¬ moment of action came, placing himself! onial times—and was the Presiding Jus¬ in so doing on a plane with the best) tice of the several Courts of the County minds of the colonies and acting in of Chester. In 1774 he was commissioned unison with that class who recognized by Governor John Penn an Associate that the hour for extra measures had Justice of the Colonial Supreme Court. | presented itself and to falter was to fall; While discharging the duties of the two He saw the. right, unhesitatingly dared) offices—member of the House and Judge to support it, and in so doing he justly' —he was appointed by the Assembly in earned the lasting gratitude of the Amer-j ,1774 a delegate to the First Continental j ican people. Congress and was reappointed to the sec-1 John Morton was the first of the sign-1 ■ ond—the memorablh Congress which ers to. die. His death occurred in the adopted the Declaration of Indepen- following April, at the comparatively! i dence. By his vote in favor of that early age of fifty-three. It is a strange measure he achieved immortality. circumstance that the exact date of his WAS HIS THE DECIDING VOTE ? death, as with his birth, has not been On his monument in St.Paul’s Church¬ recorded. A good man an^ true, his life yard, in this city, on its east face—for the had been without stain of blemish, and shaft is erected so that its four sides he filled the measure of success that the I face precisely the four cardinal points world was better in that he had lived. J of the compass—is the inscription; .- HIS MOST GLORIOUS SERVICE. 1 dispatched a courier to Rodney to apprise him of that fact. The messenger reached No wonder that Morton felt keenly the him at St James’ Neck, below Dover, responsibility of his act. .It must be re¬ eighty miles away, about noon on the membered that his immediate friends and 3rd. The urgency of the summons could the leaders of opinion in -this section, brook no delay, and with expedition particularly that part which was con¬ Rodney set out on horseback for Phila- / stitutionally the county of Delaware, delphia, notwithstanding a heavy down¬ were not in accord with his views. Less pour of rain, which, for a few hours, les- ' than a year before, General Wayne,dash¬ sened the intense heat then prevailing. ing “Mad Anthony,” in the old Court The inhabitants of the little hamlet of House, in Chester, offered a resolution Chester had dispatched their evening declaring that its idea of separation from meal, when a mud splashed horse and J the mother county was abhorrent and rider clattered over the rickety bridge at i r “oernicious in its nature.” Nathaniel the creek, galloped to the Washington Vernon, of Nether Providence, the then House, where the rider requested Wil- ' Sheriff, was an avowed Tory, afterward j liam Kerlin—a fervent Whig,well-known proclaimed a traitor, and his son Gideon to Rodney—to bait his horse,and he him- had a price on his head and immunity i self would sup while the animal was ; from punishment promised to any one j feeding. The rider was a tall man rig| who might slay him. Charles Humph¬ reys, of Haverford, his associate in Con¬ massive frame, attenuated by disease,fa gress, had declined to vote for the Dec¬ green silk patch shading the right eye to laration. Nathaniel Newlin, of Darby, conceal the ravages of the cancer, which, the wealthiest land owner and an afflu¬ within seven years thereafter, terminated ent citizen, had declared that “King his life. Only a brief period did Rodney George's gov iement was good enough tarry, when, remounting his steed, he j for him.” Henry Hale Graham, the dep¬ started under whip and spur, reaching uty Register General, and afterward the Philadelphia at a late hour that night. | first President Judge of the Courts of Next morning when his colleague, Mc¬ (Delaware county, by reason of his relig¬ Kean, approached the State House, he ious convictions, was opposed to war, met on the door-step Rodney, booted and and that was the prevailing sentiment of spurred, just as he had ridden from his the neighborhood. Apart from this, the country home to declare in favor of in¬ continued reverses that had overtaken dependence, when a final vote was taken ' the American forces, bringing as their late in the evening of July the fourth. 1 results that period known as “the dark To me history furnishes hardly a par¬ days of ’76” doubtless weighed heavily allel to this scene. “Tottenham in his on his sensitive mind and increased the boats,” the member from county Wex¬ | burden of his accountability for the dis¬ ford, who rode in the night time sixty asters that seemed to flaw upon his asso- miles from Ballycarug and entered the jciates and friends as the immediate con- * old Parliament House in Dublin, in his j sequences of his act- No wonder then is big jack boots to cast his vote—the May¬ i it that when he felt approaching death, oralty vote—in favor of home rule, and [his mind, filled with these thoughts, for two decades before the Union de¬ J should give utterance to the memorable stroyed Ireland’s government, became words: “Tell them they shall live to sea the standing toast at the table of all the Irish patriots. The famous midnight i the hour when they shall acknowledge it I to have been the most glorious service I ride of Paul Revere, to arouse the i ever rendered to my country.” To-day yeomanry of,Middlesex, and Sheridan’s the world, not the circumscribed commu¬ ride to Winchester to turn disaster into nity he then addressed, acknowledges triumph,were not so great in their results jwith praise the grandeur of his deed. as that of Caesar Rodneys, which was largely instrumental in founding a nation Rodney’s ride. with possibilities the greatest ever known to man. Although it may not be directly ger- imane to this theme, yet I cannot refrain Henry Graham Ashmead. from alluding to an incident connected with the story of American independence, which has not received that attention from poets and historians that is justly its due. The most picturesque figure in the Continental Congress on Thursday, July 4, 1776, it seems to me, was Ctesar 1.2^ I I Rodney. An ardent Whig, in the dis¬ charge of his duties as Brigadier-General of Delaware, he was necessarily absent from Congress much of the time while the question of independency was pend¬ EARLY JittESTER. ing When it became apparent that a final vote on the measure would be AS A BOROUGH IT DID WOT AMOUNT reached in the near future, Thomas Mc- TO A GREAT DEAD. jKean, then a delegate from Delaware,— afterwards Chief Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania—on the evening of the 2nd, j ' People Tliouglit it was a Big Town Court-yard in Chester, for the murder of Mary Hollis, in Birmingham. I was When it Had Six Hundred Popula¬ living then in the end of the jail, as the tion, But John PArkin, Jr,, sheriffs in those days had charge of the Says it Was a Poor Place. prisoners., HOW THEY TRAVELED. A reporter of the Times', found John “We had no railroads then, and if we Larkin, Jr., Chester’s first Mayor, seated wanted to go to Philadelphia we had to go by stage. There were two up and two in his comfortable library, on a recent down, and they stopped at the City Sunday, reading the Christian Herald. Hotel on Third street. The fare to the j “Tell me something about Chester in city was five shillings. If we had goodl the days when it did not amount to as luck, we could get a seat, but those who1 .much as it does now,” he was asked. had horses of their own frequently drove The old gentleman’s eyes twinkled, in, and it was more of a journey than it, and laying down the Herald, he said: “It is now with the telford road. John J. was a mighty small place when I first Thurlow kept the City Hotel at the time came to Chester. The population was I refer.” 600 or 700, and the town was all between Mr. Larkin figured quite prominent in in what is now the I’., W.& B.R. R. and 1 the early history of Chester. He early the river, and Welsh street and Chester saw the rich possibilities in store for the creek. But the people living there borough and bought a large tract of land’ thought it was north of Welsh street, which marked the a great place. their boundary of the borough, and| I used to hear was laughed at as the ground was / about Chester meadow land. This is part of our pres-1 / V % %. us if it was a ent Fourth ward, where Mr. Larkin now l 1 big city, but lives, at Broad and Madison streets. He ! was placed on all important committees. i / \vtsn when I came j here to live I In 1833 he was one of a committee which! > could not find received Henry Clay, who was invited to; k a decent house visit Chester during his stay in Philadel-i to occupy, so I phia. Mr. Clay arrived in the borough , had one built. on the steamer Emerald, and was met by I gave the con¬ the committee and a large concourse of trast to Ed¬ citizens and entertained at the house of ward Hinkson, Henry Reese. and I told him THE OLD FASHIONED INN- EX-MAYOR LARKIN, he could have the cash for it Mr. Larkin is quite prolific of recollec¬ tions centering around the old hotels of I Pas soon as it was built, and it was pushed Chester. The City Hotel was an important through in six weeks, which was quick place in the days of the stage coach, and j work. Y. S. Walters afterwards lived in when one of those huge wagons drew up, | it. there was always a crowd of citizens, as ; THE LOCAL STATESMEN. well as the irrepressible school boy, on I “Squire Samuel Ulrich, the father of hand to see the passengers alight. The! Dr. William B. Ulrich, used to keep a stage driver was as big a man then as thej tobacco and cigar store on Market street, well-fed conductor of a railway train is about where Genther’s Hotel is now, and now. He wore a great coat with capesr all the old citizens met there and talked and carried a long whip. He sauntered! politics and other gossip. I used to drop into a small, clean bar-room, which in there while I was Sheriff, but I soon was warmed in winter by a big coal! got tired of it, as they were a lot of stove which stood in the center of a sand fogies. At that time they were raising box, utilized as a huge spittoon. The! about $600 a year for school purposes, bar was semi-circular with red railings K and after I was elected to the School reaching up to the ceiling. At Thurlow’s E Board, I made a motion to increase the the walls were hung with old coaching j ' amount to $900 a year, and Bill Eyre and hunting prints imported from the! said I had better move back to Lower other side of the pond, and there were f Chichester, where I came from ” also “Boots,” and the “Hostler,” and a Mr. Larkin chuckled as he pictured the rosy cheeked waiting maid, English, ail past. “There was no paper published in of them. Chester then, and I had to go to Darby With his eyes closed, Mr. Larkin, in with the Sheriff’s advertisements to imagination could see the scene as he Walters’ office, and I frequently waited has seen it many times; the horses hitched while they were being printed. I was to the stage at the door, the passengers elected Sheriff in 1810, and I never had a clambering aboard, the guard blowing deputy, although it has been stated that his horn, the driver on his seat, gather¬ 1 had.” ing up the reins, then with a graceful, “You hung the last man sentenced to flourish of the whip over the horses’ death in this county?” heads, the lash snaps with a report like a “Yes, while I was Sheriff I hungj rifle shot, the horses carom, and with a Thomas Cropper, a colored man, in thej rush and a roar the coach is off, and 1b | swallowed up In a cloud of dust. fliig* tiy^iie Bheriff,was ifi the same styleTjIT All this happened a half centurv or architecture as tu« Ctty Hill. During more; ago, which is now about the aver- the six score years iu which the latter was age life of man, but Mr. Larkin to-day vised as a Oouit House many important is hale and hearty, and transacts all his events connected with the history of the, own business, writing receipts and doing Slate and county have occurred tueropy, , other clerical work with neatness an! whil-’ trials that for the tune absorbed (dispatch, in spite of his.88 years. / | jublic interest were heaid within iheee j Ancient walls. Some of these incident ' aot generally kuowu, it is designed briefly So recall in this article. When the court house was completed, |4he mild criminal code devised by Penn 1 ”au«l been superceded bv the fierce and j sanguinary rigor of the Eaglish law,hence -J the brand, maiming of prisoners arid the .1 filaagliug noose, which Lord Mansfield at 3 a later period declared to be the only safed Igaard'of society, permeates for seventy year# the reoords with instances of legally r THE OLD CITY HALL. voAicted tortures and the death penalty tor trivial infractions of the law. The Justices of the Supreme Court rode cir- SOMETHING ABOUT CHESTER’S AN¬ ouit iu those days and held Oyer aud Ter- miiaer twice a year iu the several counties CIENT COURT HOUSE. of the province, where crimes of an ag¬ gravated character were heard and pushed i So conclusions “with neatness and des- -4! ■The aidest Public Rnilding In Penn- patch.” No meddling lawyer daied then A S'" wag his tongue iu the prisoner’s behalf, sylvanln, With Allusions to Some but coaid cross-examine witnesses, and, if of the Interesting Events That Has the judges consented, in an exceedingly inferential manner might make sugges- jUBappeued Therein. vioes as to legal points. The prisoner oa f,ri’d alone was permitted to marshal and discuss the evidence to tbe jury. Tae, On the west side of Market street, teody of tue executed malfactor was pos¬ Oheeter, midway in the square formed by sibly used for dissecting purposes, al¬ Fourth and Jb'ifth streets, is the Git> though in the early days cio medical - if all, the ol lest public building in the schools were established iu the colony, -0OK1SQOH wealth, antedating by eight for in 1728, when William David was con- years the State House in Philadelphia • vi-ted at Chester for the murder of his 1 The ancient structure was for sixty-two ■master, William Cloud, the sentence of * year# the Court House of Chester county ‘y r.b- court concludes, “and his body at ye and strange coincident, after the erection 3 ilixoosal of ye Governor.” m #f Delaware county it was the s-at of jus- . 11 the old court house about 1730, for tiee of the new shire tor precisely a iike'fl tho record of tbe Oyer and Terminer is - sawber of years. Erected ot dressed dor, happeued one of the re any iucideuts stone in 1724, the date is still to be seen • in r.*e most noted case recorded in the in the south wall, it was doubtless the judmial annals of Great Britaiu. Oq the most imposing edifice in the .Province, romtutic circumstances of that trial the' and in 1888 when alterations were mad.- forgotten story of Florence McCartney 4© adapt it for the present requirements! was founded, and Sir Walter Scott derived •f the city, great difficulties were had in i from the same source the material for his demoting some of the masonry. The id On v' MauDering, Tobias Smaliwtt thus« for building still presents the pent roof pro- : Roderick Random, aud Charles Reid, in jections over the first story windows, as his story of the Wanderiug Heir, adheres Was then the architectural custom, and a cloasly to the evidence given in the hear¬ like treatment is seen in the gable end sing of an action brought by Camp'Dell over the second story facing the street. ®raig vs. the End of Anglesey, iu the •For more than a century a small belfry frish Exchequer Court, iu which the rose from the centre of the roof, where ejectment of Craig, who had taken a lease formerly hung a bell, round the upper Scorn James Aunesley, was merely the peg part of which ca9t iu the metal was th- stn. which, hung the real is-ue—had the “Chester,” and the numerals word k -teceassd Earl a surviving legitimate son. “1729.” Afier the building whs put The case is fuliv reported iu 6'h Howell phased by the borough, the belfry was re¬ State Trial, in Burk’s trial connected with moved, a steeple with a clock erected at ■4k® aristocracy and in two seperate and gable end facing Market street, and 4he Ciecinut reports of the case published in vritbin recent, time, other changes have 1744 James Aouesley or Henuesley (for been made. Oa tbe same square t'-1ti r. • ■ 6 was uuder the latter name he was kidnap¬ baek from the line of the Court. Har, ped and shipped to Pennsylvania aud ike eoruer of Fourth sir.-.-, where is now sold as a redemptions!-) iu his narrative re- / [Mason iq Hall, was the old jail, the front fates that he was trie l in Cues tar as a •>ari the building, occupied as a dwell- ,\>v ty to a burglL'yJmt the evidence fail¬ ed to conue t h’ -ith the crime. F L —- S- * fA «£ THE OLD COURT HOUSE. .Stated to tue lourt that while endeavor¬ construction. The bench on which _ ing to escape from hie cruel master he Ju-t:s and his two associates sat was a 2Stet the fugitives, and, supposing the of- bench in verity which still intact is one of !Seer.e were assaulting them without cause, fhe curiosities of Colonial times retained i» aided in resisting the arrest, tie, with in the Court House at West Chester, e ethers were sentenced to death, but in' whi’her it was removed 106 years ago _oase execution was suspended and the Within the room, however, were several lad of fifteen was ordered to be set in the j ineti who have made au impression on the ■ pillory, in Market Square, each market! history of the State which time has. not lay tnioi early dawn to noon, with a pa¬ efi'a 'Od. per affixed to his breast requiring any one The central figure, on whose desk lay s| who might recognize him to report to the velvet cap, the only outward eneignia of Chief -Justice—David Lloyd, then residing J bis high station, was Chief Justice Wil. in the borough. For five weeks on each lLm All-n, who in early iife had read law market day, he was so exposed until tu the Middle Tetnple, London. He was Drummond, his master, happening to visit of medium height, with full, round face Chester, recognized him, produced his and regular features, his bearing haughty,, r hill of sale and was awarded his runaway ■and nis manner, although affable, indicat- servant, ing eon-eiou ness of his position as one of It was a warm day, August 15, 1768, the most influential and the wealthiest when the Chief Justice and his associate man in the Province, who, while accept- Justices of the Supreme Court were hold¬ o'"- t*--» Tftort salary appertaining to the ing Oyer and Terminer in the old Court ■ffi . be- ;• i, ,i the sum' SO received int : wm House. John Dowdley and Thomas Vau¬ iis inherit.<1 fortune, ghan, indicted for the murder of Thomas mer- Shape, in the preceding March, were on cantile ventures, he maintained a sumptu¬ (rial The apartment was crowded de¬ ous residence in Philadelphia, and a sea¬ spite the sultry weather for the Justices side retreat at Long Branch, and always when riding circuit were always greeted attracted attention when he rode the cir-| wrh a goodly concouise of people. The ouit in his coach and four, driven by Court room was severely plain, without imported English coachman, who was ornamentation unless au indifferently noted far and near as a “good whip.’ Six paiuted escutcheon bearing the royal arms years subsequent to the trial of which of England, wLieh hung ou the wall back write, Allen resigned from the Ben of the bench, rnu ht be »-o regarded and prompted thereto by public opinion even the desk of the judges was of rude mmm causa of his Tory proclivities, in wh 29 four sons shaied, and ]iist prior to the ive office iu Chester county. During thet ^duration ct Iadepeupence be removed jrevolntion, he like most of the colonial England, where he tiled in 1(80. His 'lawyers, leaned towaid the King’s tu- name, however, remains to this day in tnority, but after the war Governor Allentown, which he founded, and the 'Miffim appointed him ihe first President site of which he owned. At hie side was |Judge of Delaware couniy. Before he Associate Justice Thouies Willing, a bad taken his seat on the bench and trained lawyer, who had likewise been a while serving as a delegate to the s-cmd student in the Middle Temple, although iState Constitutional Convention in 1790. he never entered into active practice at he died in Philadelphia. Near him stood the Bar. In September, 17G1, Governor John Morton, then Sheriff of Chester Hamilton appointed him one of the pu- couuty. Prior to this lime he had given isui justices of the Supreme Court. In eleven years continuous service to 1 is the revolutionary struggle, notwithstand- constituents as a member of the Provincial Assembly, and subsequently served seven more tears in that body. After having discharged the duiies of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, be was fr, turned as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he achieved immortally by voting for the adoption of the Dec laration of Independence. It chanced tnat William Forbes, then proprietor of “the Pennsylvania Arms,” the ancient hostelry across the street, still standing and now known as the “Washington HoU- A FAMOUS LAWYER. I the Middle Temple; at t his time was ( of Governor Penn’s Council, and ab forty-five, was in full maturity of mental powers. His speech was warm and impassioned while his analysis of ihe evidence aud his tierce denunciation of the crime of the prisoners, swayed the crowd, insured conviction aud iu a month thereafter death for the accused The rustic lad by accident bad found his call ing i:i life. Before he left Chester he »«. Serted to Ihe amusement c: hi- !ies.r.e'iSj that he Mso would ieuM Jaw aud AS IT LOOKS TO-DAY. sway crowds and juries with his eloauenee. iug his sympathy with the colonial cause Notwithstanding Die defective education, was questioned, he aud his partner sub¬ for he had only the iniiion customary scribed £15.000 in gold to purchase pro¬ with country lads of that period, and . e- visions for the Continental troops. Iu spiie all opposition, he made bis wav t<> ll776 he was a member of Congress, but Philadelphia, where he entered the office nor, a signer ofthe Declaration. After the of Nicholas Wain as an errand boy, he (establishment of the first Unbed States read law industriously and filled iu every, B tuk he was the first president. O. John opportunity with Lttin, Fienoh and his¬ Lawrence, ihe other Associate Justice I tory. After his- admission he /advanced -know nothing except t.hxt he was a lawyer s: ;-p by step until at, his death in 1819 bel t>y decree, who, fora time practiced in was the recognized leader of the Philadeld Philadelphia, and bis daughter, I think, phia bar. arried James Alien, the youngest eon of) The brutal punishment of branding wasL e CbW .1 ns'i'-xo frequently inflicted and as It e as Marchs Ao taa ucotk. bau Lloiiry 3 1770 at a special court held by Jus-* Graham, the prothoaotary, register and iices William Parker Huq Richard liiley,* clerk of the courts, then the moot lucra- tor the trial of negroes, Martin, he slave' . of Thomas Martiu, was coivicted of an attempted rape aud s'euteuod to tbirry- llf \ aK Be-J>r ended with the let- ;MSn vftrehased from iierlm for £693 3s for^aeadp’ etnd he exported 8d. From a monetary standpoint Kerim rovicce by hie master within had no just causa to complain of ‘‘the monthson pain of death to the slave, deal.'" time was allosved the master that he The first court held in the new county ighr. find a purchaser for his chattel,but A of Delaware was Nov. 9, 1789, aud there the branding was done in open court in being no bar William Tilgbman, (seven-! the presence of the justices. The Sheriff teen years later appointed Chief Justioel , or his deputy heated the branding iron in of Pennsylvania) address the court, star,-^ a poriable turnaee and the prisoner being ing the circumstance aud finally moved , secuied. the red-hot braud was applied to his o«u admission, >vhieh being approved! the flesh aud held there, notwithstanding by the bench, he immediately moved t.he| tue agonized screams of the victim, until admission of William L Blair, and he in 1 the ineradicable mark bad been affixed | turn did the like honor for another until; The last, case that I shall call attention b hat day eight geutleinen were qualified; where the barbarous code of punishments members of the bar of Delaware eouuty.j of the last century was inflicted, indicates Hugh Lloyd, an Associate Judge ap-j gtbat the legal fiction that the protnulga pointed by Governor Mifflin, April 24, tion of a law necessarily implies imrae 1792, who, after continuing on the Bench diate popular information of its provis¬ thirty-three years, tuissiug ouly one Or-! ions is a fiction indeed. John 'fully j phans’ Court, when nearly 84 years of age, | Nov. 27, 1788, was convicted of horse ’ resigned his commission. John Hill Mar-; stealing and was sentenced ‘‘to ataud one tin reates the following ane :dote‘ of the hour in the pillory, between the hours of old Justice. “On oue accasion he was I 9 and 1 o’clock to-morrow morning, to be asked if the duties devolving ou an Asso- whipped with t.weur.y-nine lashes on his • ;T ■ J.jd re were no* on.ru;-, a-i-l bare back, well laid on, to have both ears »Wero*l; ‘Yes, Very. I sat, five )caas olr , cut off and nailed to the pillory and to be the same bench in the old Court House at mprisoned six months,” besides the pay- Chester without opening my mouth. One ; neut of a fine and costs. The jest of the day, however towards night, afterTisten-j incident, although John Tulley did not ing to the details of a long and tedious^ appreciate its application, was that, the trial, the president leaning over towards! Act of Sept. 15, 1786, two years prior to me aud putting bis arm across my shoul¬ ^ the trial, had absolutely abolished the ders, asked me a question: ‘Judge,’ said! punishment of the pillory, whipping, he, ‘don’t, you think this bench is tnferu ! branding and the cropping of ears. But ally hard?’ To this important question Ij . this last ease was tried at West Chester, / replied, ‘I thought it were.’ And that’s! two years after the county courts had I the only opinion lever gave* during my It been removed thither, hence the ne vness long judicial career.” of official duties may be urged as an ex¬ A CASE OF HANGING. cuse for the infliction by the justices of Io 1818 John H. Craig w«s tried aud prohibited punisbmennts. convicted of tbe murder of Edward Hun¬ On September 15. 1778. James Fitzpat¬ ter, of Newtown, a justice of the peace, rick, the original of “Sand? Flash,” in who had been a wttuesa to a will. The .Bayard Taylor’.- ‘‘Story of Keuuett,” was murderer supposed that, by tne death of tried in the old Court, Bouse, on an indict- tbe witness, probate would be repressed, ent for burglary aud robbery. He was( and his wife would receive a much larger convicted and executed eleven days there-i share of her father’s estate thau under after. In November, 1785, Elizabeth that instrument. The evidence for the Wilson, was found guilty of infanticide and executed January 3, 1786. The dra¬ Commonwealth whs so direct and convic¬ tion so sure, that Bird Wilson, the matic circumstaaces connected with both President Judge, became depressed at the of these cases are w 11-known and simply certamity of being compelled to pronounce a passing allusion is all that is necessary a sentence of death, that he tendered his I to recall them to memory. resignation from ihe Bench, determining THE LOCATION CHANGED. that, he would not sit at. the trial. He After the Revolution the residents o: a’terwards entered the Episcopal miuis- the remote parts ofChester county egitatecj tty, in which profession he rose to mer- the location of tne oouut.y seat ia a more o bed emiuence. Saturday, October 20, central position and after several years of 1824, the esse of James Wellington, it., bitter struggle, at one time almost amount dieted for the murder of William Bonsall. ing to au armed contest between the fac- of Upp- r Darby, was called for trial; dons, the removalists succeeded in making Washington Labbe, who had been in- the Turk’s Head Tavern, now West Ches¬ Idieted with him having been convicted of! ter, the new seat of justice. In 1786, the1 murder in tbe second degree. The case old county buildings at Chester were sold continued all of the Sabbath and § to William Kerlin for £415. The case was j't it whs not until Tuesday morning f now reversed and the residents of tht that the jury found a verdict of murdei eastern part of the cLunty beseiged tht in the first degree against Wellington. Hr assembly for the creation of anew shire, was hung December 17, 1824, audit is which was finally don* by the Act of 1789 said, that five years after his execution, a when Delaware county! was erected, anti convict dying iti Sing Sing Prison stated! , once more the Courts (were h- ld in the under oath tnat he and three other men bail committed tbe murder for which -ancient building, the property having .... -4 rllibgton suffered. Ttiomxs" (JroprTy terior of the buildinjrSiT nearly us posnibk bred man, May 28. 1841, whs tried f r its original appearance. ' * ’ t the murdei of Martin its, jiHB Truing St. David’s is one of the oldest churches in ham He was couvict-d aud bung Au«u* Pennsylvania. The exact date of the organi¬ 6, 1841, in the jail yard, the scaffold zation of its congregation is not known, but staudint: in the rear of th building oil as early as 1635 the neighborhood in the vi¬ Market street, now occupied as a. shoe cinity of the church was settled by a number sto-e. Cooper was t.be last. person iii of hardy Welsh emigrants from Radnorshire, Deia-vare county to suffer capital punish- Wales, and it. lias been well established that ’ mr by 1700 a congregation was organized. The I;i 1815 the agitation of the removal of ministers, who held the service in Welsh, the county seat of Delaware county to, a preached at the houses of member’s of the more central location be. an in earnest and congregation and on September 7. 1714, it was after a protracted snuggle the fjegii-la- decided to build a church at Radnor, the tute passed an act submitting the ques¬ corner-stone of which was laid on the 9th of tion to a vote of the people. At ti e elec¬ | May, 1715. Fot over half a century after the tion held October 12, 1847, the remoral- church was built no floor was laid in the ist.s were victorious, aud May 26, 1851, the last court convened at Chester, yielding) bi.il ling and there were no pews, tlio wor¬ thereafter t> Media the seat of justice shipers being seated on benches at first fur¬ On Deeemoer 9, 1850. the old county| nished by the occupant but subsequently buildinys were sold at public sale in three! placed there by the vestry and leased by the lots. The Court House was bought byf congregation._ the borough authorities for $2611, the! I The church was floored about 1765, and in Prothonotary’s office by James Sampson 1767 a vestry house was built on the site of for $1526, and the jail and yard by James! the present Sunday school. It was not unt Campbell for $3520. With this sale the j 1S44 that the present parsonage was bui star of Chester’s manufacturing greatness ; Captain Isaac Wayne, the father of Mad . first dawned above the hoiizon and with thony, was the chief mover in the circulatio the convertiou by James Campbell, of of a subscription in 1771 to build the gallcr the ancient goal into a cotton factory a which when first erected extended farther new birth was given to the old borough than it does at present, passing over the front j To-day Chester ranks the second city in door and joining on the east wall. the commonwealth in textile manufactur¬ There is some talk at the moment, of re¬ ing aud while so expanding it has gath¬ storing the gallery to its original appearance. ered within its boundary many and vari¬ To give access to this gallery the curious old ous other enterprises until it is now a stone stairway was erected at the west end of the church. busy hive of industrial activity. H. G. Ashmead. When the Revolutionary war broke out the pastor of St David’s was Rev. William Cur¬ rie, a Scotchman, liberally educated, who had assumed the duties of office in 1737. In May, From, 1776, feeling that the obligatiou^>l' his office compelled.him to do so, ho resigned, and after his departure the church organization ap¬ pears to have been demoralized and the church was closed. There are traditions to the effect that it suffered more or less from Date, / /f ?$ , the contending armies. It is said that the lead, in which the small diamond-shaped glasses in the windows were held, was taken by the soldiers. Another tradition states that General Grant massed some of his command 81. DAVID’S CHURCH in the cedar thicket which, during the Revo¬ lution, was on the site of the present rectory preparatory to his attack on Wayne at Paoli THE ANTIQUE EDIFICE AT RADNOR TO on the night of September 20. 1777. but it is doubtful if this is a fact. It is quite likely, BE RESTORED. however, that some of the American troops who were killed in the Paoli massacre were buried in the graveyard of the old church. An interesting story is told of the Rev. ITS JIISTOHV R. IiODiG OflH David Jones, who was Wayne's chaplain from 1777 to 1783. It is said that, holding services at St. David’s during the wav, lie It Still Remains in Outward Appearance saw from the pulpit, comfortably sealed be¬ fore him, several young arid active men. J1 is W iiat it Has Been for Over a Century and auger rising, he threw away his sermon and,, a Half, Rut the Interior Has Suffered shaking his fist vehemently at th* astonished Alteration. youths, demanded to know why they did not go into the American army and tight the British. “lam not afraid to go,’’ Im saidj The vestry of the quaint old St. David’s “They may kill me, if they like, aud make a Church at Radnor have decided to undertake drumhead out of my old hide, but on it they j necessary repairs in the church, and at the will play rub-a-dub-dub till the British ard same time they may make some interior al¬ scattered out of the country.” Then, in wild terations with the vimv of restoring the excitement, he threw off a heavy military cloak which hung around his shoulders anil displayed an American uniform I' r f -4&J : I- f v. •;4 11 * *«S/i OLD ST. DAVID’S CHURCH. After tlie war was ovor, the Rev. William Currie, in 1783, again took charge of St David's for a few years, and began to one getieally collect funds to repair the ravages which time and the war had made in tho old church building and graveyare walls. The Great Valiev Episcopal Church, of Chester county, St. James at Perkiomcn and the Swedes Church near Norristown, bein united with St. David’s in one parish, the g suit was the calling of Rev. Slayter Clay. In August, 1792. while Mr. Clay was rector, the church was incorporated. It was during Mr. Clay’s, rectorship an addition was made to th graveyard and the wall repaired. The present northwest wall of the graveyard was added at a still more recent date. This forms the boundary line between Delaware and Chester counties. On July 30, 1S20, Bishop White conducted the first confirmation ever held in St. David’s Church, sixteen persons being admitted to membership. About 1830 a proposition to modernize the church was brought forward by the vestry. It was not received favorabl by the congregation. The vestry, however, determined to alter the interior of the church, consequently the gallery, which passed over- the front door, was taken down, the high- back, old-fashioned pews torn out and the YrV present ones substituted, the pulpit enlarged' 1 and tlie sounding-board removed. Curious as it may seem, there have been several attempts since then, originating in the vestry, to down or enlarge the church, but they ha all been defeated, j Tho present vestry I appreciates the historic value of the cd so renowned since Longfellow wrote his known verses upon it in the Centennial Near the church has been erected a GENERAL WAYNE’S GRAVE. ! monument toitiie memory of General ny W ayne. The stone is inscribed as ; as Benjamin Franklin declaf other of all the subscription Jibru North America,” that at Dari General Anthony Wayne was born Vaynesbo rough, in Chester County, .State the first in' the colony outside/ of Phil¬ ■S'* Pennsylvania, A. D„ 1715. After a life of adelphia. and considering the- scarcity _A fX0^flCLV,Snfullrit'Bti’ he died in December ©f fuon«y iu that day and Iho delay li.ti), at a military post on the shore of hake mnd difficulty of importing books from Erie, Commander-In-Chief of the Arrav of the over the sea was a most creditable l nited States. His military achievement! are consecrated in the history of his country action -of the 21) Friends who were its and tn the hearts of his countrymen. His re¬ .founders. mains are here deposited. -tnsre- The original articles of agreement Ou the other is inscribed : /were signed March 10, 1743, Joseph Bonsall being chosen secretary; Nathan In honor oi the distinguished militnw cm- jviceof Major Gen. Anthony Wa^e:^^ Gibson, treasurer, and John Pearson, •librarian. They were ordered to' “trans¬ Ian affectionate tribute to bis memory this mit ye several Sums of money .sub¬ stone v. as erected by his companions in arms, scribed by this company to Europe as y1® .State Society of Cincinnati, thirty-fourth anniversary of soon as conveniently may, and purchase tne Lniteci .States ol' America; an event which therewith such books as heretofore constitutes the most appropriate eulo/num of voted for.” Each copartner had sub¬ an American soldier and patriot. scribed 20 shillings, with a promise of Beneath this monument Wayne’s remains t> shillings more annually. Books were interred with impressive military cere¬ were suggested by all and any that monies after they had been removed from the imet with objection were discarded, un- • (fortress at Presque Isle. The crowd gathered iiess saved by it two-thirds Tote. John on this occasion is said to have been so larcre ; JJartram, the great, naturalist, born and ; jtkat many of the limbs of the trees in thesur- living on a Darby Creek farm, became ’ rounding yard broke with the weight of the! Interested in the project. Just that,year people who had climbed upon them to witness ' the privilege of borrowing books i'rrihi if- thetlic burial. Iu another uartpart of the graveyarderave-u-nrrl the Philadelphia Library had been is a massive slab which bears the following tended to him “a« a deserving man.” inscription: There is a small number of us in Mary Wayne, consort of (lie late Mai or Darby, near Philad.,” wrote Secretary "Genera1 Anthony Wayne, died April IS, 1788, '■QBonsair, to Friend Peter ColliiKon. of 8 aged H years. Aondon, “who have formed ourselves I Major General Anthony Wayne, late com- | -j-p n «<■ ♦ I, t i, . . . . onto a company in order to purchase a mauder of the Army of the United .States, .small set of books for our use; with died at Presque Isle December 15, 179G, aged ■ /well-grounded expectations of our num¬ .years. His body is interred within the ;ar- ion near the town of Erie.” ber increasing m a little time.; and be- »ing advised by our friend ilfid neigh¬ Thc stone just meutioned was erected prior bour, John Bartram, to apply to thee to the removal of Wayne’s remains to Old St David’s. ,to purchase said books. But as out¬ number is small, so is the sum of E. Leslie Gilliaj money, amounting only to 15 pounds, jas per bill of exchange arnwn by Re- tiicca Edgel on Lnrance Williams.” A catalogue was seut, and Collinson was Instructed to buy as far down the list ©^possible. The following books duly arrived, n number having been selected by Col- linson himself. The list furnishes an Interesting commentary on the literary study of the Delaware County grand¬ fathers. The shipment consisted of: 'The Gentleman Instructed. Puffen- jlorf’s Law of Nature and Nations, The Spectator 18 vols.), The Turkish Spy (8 vols.), Tournefort’s Voyages f2 vols.), Whitson’s Theory, Addison's Travels, jJBarchiy's Apology, Loeke on Education, Tleligfon of Nature Delineated, Gorden’s G-eography, Grammar, Sherlock on Founded by the Friends a •Death, Whitson’s Astronomical Princi¬ ples,Mondrall’s Travels.Dyohes’ Diction¬ ary, Tull’s Husbandry, Blnckmoore on Century and a Half Ago. 1 (Ye Creation, Independent Whig (3 vols.), Wood’s Institute on Ye Laws of England, Milton’s ParadAse Lost and SEC0ND IN THE COLONY- Regained (2 vols.), Puffer/dorf’s History of Sweden, Rawligh’s History of Ye j World (2 vols.), The Life of the Duke ©f Marlborough ( 2 vols.) tSThe First Pounds Sent Over to Eng-j Very soon after were added Sewell’s land, and the First Shipment "History of the Quakers,” Samuel Fish¬ er’s “The Rusticks Alarm to Ye Rab- Of Books Received From ,bies,” “Plutarch’s Lives,” and the « '“History of Ye First Settlement of Vir- Over Sea. iginia, New York. New Jersey and Penn¬ sylvania by the English.” At every meeting, read the rules, Darby Library Company, will “the members then present shall seat l&brate its 150th anniversary >Tues- themselves in Sober, Decent, Regular flay, March 21. While the Pblladel- t manner, Such as becomes Christians ^hia-Xibrary Company, founded in 17.ill, • .’SI ( - f i g land Students” Tbte boots wereTcept at for assistants, and also to admit such persons ’the librarian’s heu/se until March, lot/, Into the Company as two-thirds of the mem¬ bers then being shall approve off. And to con¬ ilie having to be there “every other sev¬ sider, regulate and determine all such mat¬ enth day in tUe afternoon. Books ters and things as may be laid before, the »re bought direct in London until 1760. Company by any of the members thereof. 1872 a lot whs bought for $1000, and It was also provided that at all the meetings - -resent two-story brick library build-, of the Library Company the members “shall me erected at < a cost of $8895. In the jj seat themselves in sober, decent, regular centennial yefir a 50-foot flagpole was ( manner such as becomes Christians and stu¬ put up ill front, of the library. and a dents, then the secretary shall call the mem¬ large Ainerir/au flag dedicated with spir¬ bers by their names respectively worthy of ited exercises. commemoration,” and the following gentle¬ By change of calendar the anniver¬ men signed the articles of agreement effecting sary day tails upon March 21. Exer¬ an organization: cises and £. reception will be held in the Joseph Bonsall, John Davis, James Hunt, library hull. Charles Lloyd Serrill will John Sketchly, George Wood, Joshua Thom¬ read the 7 “Historical Sketch” and Dr. son, .Samuel Bunting, Nathan Gibson, Benja¬ Daniel (A. Bfinton will deliver an ad¬ min Lobb, Enoch Elliot, Thomas Pearson, dress on’“A Study of Old Stories.” Mr. William Home, Joseph Lees, Peter Elliott, Morgan, Bunting is chairman of the Jonathan Paschail, Abraham Johnson, Isaac Pearson, John Hunt, Joseph Hunt, Abraham Celebration Committee, while the pres¬ Marshall, John Pearson, Richard Lloyd, ent officers are: President, Jacob S. David Gibson, Joseph Levis, Benjamin Hayes, Serrill; vice president, John M. Shrig- Thomas Pennell, Henry Lewis, Charles ley; /secretary, W. Lane Verlinden; Crosby and John Levis. Joseph Bonsall was treasurer, Daniel S. White, and libra-i first secretary; Nathan Gibson, treasurer; John Pearson, librarian, and William Horne, riany Mrs. Deborah W. Bartram. Isaac Pearson, Thomas Pearson and Benja¬ min Lobb, assistants. « ?’ Shortly after the organization it was or¬ dered that “ ye secretary, treasurer and libra¬ From,. C rian transmit ye several sums of money, sub¬ scribed by this company to Europe as soon as they conveniently may, and purchase there¬ with such books as is heretofore voted for, if the money be sufficient for ye use of the Library Company.” A meeting was held on B Date, May 14, 1743, at the house of John Pearson, librarian, and the treasurer wrote the follow¬ ing letter to a friend in Loudon: Darby, ye 14tli of 4th month, 1743. Friend Peter Coi.linson: DARBY’S OtFTlBRARY There is a small number of us in Darby, near Philad. who have formed ourselves into a Company in order to purchase a small set THE OLDEST LIBRARY IN THE STATE of books for our use; with well-grounded ex- nectations of our number increasing In a lit¬ tle time and being advised by our frd. and EXCEPT ONE. neighbor John Bartram, to apply to thee to purchase the sd books, and in confidence of thy good disposition and from ye character it jms he gives of thee to encourage such a decision have thought fit, thereupon, to send to and desire thee to do such an office of kindness for ns; but as our number is but small, so is the Founded One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago sum of money, amounting only to 14 pounds, as pr bill of exchange drawn by Rebecca Ed- and Kept Up by Subscription Ever Since. gel on Larance Williams, merchant, payable to thee in thirty days after sight thereof. We Nearly One Hundred and Thirty Years also send herewith a catalogue of such books as our company approve of, requesting thee Without a Building. to be so good as to put so many of them (taking them in order as they stand on, the list) as the money will extend to pay, reserv¬ ing sufficient to satisfy thee for thy trouble, *3 An interesting institution is celebrating its with the cost of Insurance here. And when one hundred and fiftieth anniversary this ,,tho books are purchased, please to ship them month, and that is the Darby Library, which off pr first opportunity for Philadelphia in ueb a manner with such directions as ap- is the oldest library in the State, except the ear.s to thee most convenient either for John Philadelphia. It was founded in 1743 by the artram or the subscriber hereto. Be so good good people of Darby, who, on the 10th of ,_lso, as to get the books lettered on ye back if mJiat can be done without much trouble or cost March, to the number of twenty-nine, signed !br as many of them as conveniently can be. the agreement by which it was founded, We also desire thee to send a price of each binding themselves to pay twenty shillings •ook purchased, that being necessary for us to | now In pursuance of our agreement. Thy Kj down and five shillings a year to keep it up. ■ '“nip nswering our request will much oblige us, :m The agreement further set forth : .vho with due respect are thy unfeigned That whereas it is found by long Experience rlends. Signed in behalf of said company. that no Considerable number of people will at By Josep h Bonsadl, Secretary. all times keep in a Regular Decent Decorum On the 5th of November, 1743, the books without Some Necessary forms and rules to ■ame from Peter Collinson and in a letter he ! walk and go by and suitable persons author¬ ized to Put these rules in Execution, therefore, isked that in future Mauley, book-seller on j we, the subscribers, hereunto Do agree that Ludgate Hill, London, should be made corrc-j here be an Election held Yearly on the 1st ipondent of the company and that he (Colli n- Jay of May (except that happens on the first son) would overlook the books sent and the ; | Day of the week, In such case on the Day prices paid. The books thus forwarded were ■ next following) to elect, by ticket, a Secretary, the Gentleman Instructed, Puflondorf’s Law Treasurer, Librarine and four other persons rc and Notions*the Spectator (.3 vols.), | pointed to purcha^ books reported tliat'fficy Turkish Spy (8 vols.), Tourncfort’s could not get the books in Pennsylvania, and age to the Levant (2 vols.). Whit¬ said “that insurance is so high and dangerul' 's Theory, Addison’s Travels, Barclay’s the sea is so great at this time that they judge jlogy, Locke on Education, Religion it might be to the advantage of the company Nature Delineated, Gordon’s Geography not to send it (the money) until further!. ,, and Grammar, Sherlock on Death, Whitson’s orders.” Ou May 1, 1747, the compauy re- Astronomical Principles, Mondrak’s Travels, mitted £19 to England for additional books]? "Dyclie’s Dictionary, Tull’s Husbandry, Black- It appears that Williams & Boeketiff, the more on Ye Creation, Independent Whig booksellers, in London, had not acted to the (three volumes), Wood’s Institute on Ye Laws I satisfaction of the company, for the meeting of England, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Re¬ ordered the secretary to draw for the balance, gained (two volumes), Puffendorf’s History in the hands of the firm, and appointed other I of Sweden, Raleigh’s History of Ye World parties as purchasing agents until 1760, when (two volumes), The Life of the Duke of Marl¬ David Hall, bookseller, of Philadelphia, re¬ borough (two volumes). ceived and filled orders for the company. Jum — The articles of agreement which the mem¬ During the Revolutionary War the meet- , bers of the Library Company were required ings were regularly held, and May 1, 1781,5 j : to sign are very curious. The membership the share held by John Morton, which by will I fee was 20.s. and besides that amount each he bequeathed to his son John, was vested in 1 member was annually required to pay 5s. to¬ the latter’s eldest brother, Stetckley Morton, wards the purchase of hooks and the expense Dr. John S. Morton having died. No effort ; of the library. The officers consisted of the was made to obtain a lot and erect a library | secretary, treasurer, librarian and four other building until January 5,1795, when Richard ! persons for assistants and they were elected Welling, Hugh Lloyd, Matthias Holsten, ' annually. It was provided that at the meet- Thomas Levis and Benjamin Brannon were t ingS of the Library Company members ‘ ‘ shall appointed to ascertain and report the site of a seat themselves in sober, decent, regular man- lot and probable cost of a suitable building. ; ncr, such as becomes Christians and students, On January 2. 1797. the committee reported j i then the secretary shall call the members by that they could not obtain a lot “at a price j 1 their names, respectively, as they stand on that would possibly do.” hence the project was 1 ! the records, to deliver any votes which shall ! abandoned. i be writt on a small piece of paper, folded up In 1804 the house where the library has 1 | with the name of the person writt thereon, been kept was sold, and it became necessary j whom they have selected for secretary, treas- to remove the books. A committee was j I urer, librarian and assistants for the ensuing therefore appointed to secure a place for the • year.” library, which was done, the collection being New members were elected by ballot and removed to Pearson’s house, at the corner of j the books to be purchased were named by the Now and High streets. j members, of which a list of titles was furn- On January 3, 1871, the library was again I ished to each. Any book proposed could be removed to a room over Philip Supplee’s sad¬ : objected to and after a debate, itithe question dle-shop, his daughter Mary being engaged as I was not decided, the matter was put to a vote librarian, her services and the apartment 1 ’ and if two-thirds were favorable the book being obtained for $75 per year. In 1872 an j was entered on a list of volumes to be pur¬ effort was made to purchase a lot and erect a chased. library building, subscriptions being solicited j to that end, and so successful was the move- 1 The librarian was required to be at the ment that on March 25,1872, a lot was bought library every Saturday in the afternoon, “in from David Henry Flickner, $1,000 being the spring and summer quarter from 5 to 7 paid for the ground. The present commodious o’clock, and in the fall and winter quarter building, admirably adapted for the purpose, from 3 to 5 o’clock, to deliver and receive was erected by Charles Bonsall, at a cost of between $8,000 and $9,000. books. ” If a book had been damaged beyond Iu front of this building, a flag-pole over j ordinary wear, the member who had taken it fifty feet in height was planted early in the out was required to pay its value, and if of a Centennial year, and on March 29, 1876, a1 set the cost of all the volumes. According to large American flag, the gift of a citizen of j size the books could be retained from two to the borough, was raised, the ceremonies on four weeks; only one volume could be taken that occasion being of a highly interesting ■ character. out by any member and no one could lend or ' The. present officials of the library are: hire a book from the library. ! President, Jacob S. Serrill ; vice president, That no improper persons should secure John M. Shrigley ; secretary, W. Lane Yer- I membership in the library, it was provided linden ; treasurer, Daniel S. White, and j that by a two-thirds vote of the members of librarian, Mrs. Deborah W. Bartram. the company any member acting in an E. Leslie Gilliams. i indecent, unbecoming or disorderly manner, ] should be repaid the prime cost of their li- | brary books, etc., after deducting a reasona¬ ble amount for the wear and delay of the books, and the offenders then disowned by the company and debarred of all rights and privileges of the library. At a meeting in May, 1743, Joseph Lewis gave the company “ Sewell’s History on the Rise, Increase and Progress of the People called Quakers.” valued at 15s.; Nathan Gib¬ son gave Samuel Fisher's work called “The ustick's Alarm to ye Robbies,” valued at: hs.; Benjamin Hayes gave “History of ye First Settlement of Virginia, New York, New orsey and Pennsylvania, by ye English,” valued at 4s. (id. In 1740 the committee, wrho had been-- ap- There is some talk, at the moment, I of restoring the gallery to its original' From ,. a carance. To give access to this g; iery the curious old stone stairway was erected at the west end of the church. l.. When the Revolutionary war broke j out the pastor of St. David’s was Rev. William Currie, a Scotchman, liberally educated, who had assumed the duties of office in 1737. In May, 1770,-feeling that the obligation of his office com¬ pelled him to do so, he resigned, and after his departure the church organ¬ ST. DRVID CHURCH. ization appears to have been demoral¬ ized and the church was closed. There are traditions to the effect that it suf¬ A CONSPICUOUS RELIC OF REVO-I fered more or less from the contending LUTIONARY TIMES. armies. It is said that the lead, in which the small diamond-shaped glasses in the windows were held, was After Standing for More Than a Century taken by the soldiers. Another tra¬ It is I'elng Altered—Remains of dition states that Gen. Grant massed “Mad Anthony” Wayne. some of his command in the cedar thicket which, during the revolution, HE VESTRY OF was on the sito of the present roetory the quaint old St. preparatory to his attack on Wayne at David’s Church at Paoli on the night of Sept. 20, 1777, Radnor h a ve de¬ but it is doubtful if this is a fact. It cided to undertake Is quite likely, however, that some of necessary repairs in the church, and at the same time they may make some in¬ terior alterations with the view of restoring' the in¬ terior of the build¬ ing as nearly as passible to its original appearance. St. David’s is one of the oldest churches in Pennsylvania. The exact date of the organization of its congre¬ gation is not known, but as early as 1685 the neighborhood in the vicinity of the church was settled by a number of hardy Welsh emigrants from Rad¬ norshire, Wales, and it has been well established that in 1700 a congregation was organized. The ministers who || held the service in Welsh, preached at the houses of members of the congrega¬ tion and on Sept. 7, 1714, it was de¬ OLD ST. DAVID’S CHURCH. cided to build a church at IgRadnor, the corner-stone of which the American troops who were killed was laid on the 9th of May, 1715. in the Paoli massacre were buried in or over half a century after the the graveyard of the old church. church was built no floor was laid in An interesting story is told of th the building and there were no pews, Rev. David Jones, who was Wayne’s the worshipers being seated on benches chaplain from 1777 to 1783. It’ is said at first furnished by the occupant but that, holding services at St. David’s subsequently placed there by the ves- during the war, he saw from the pul¬ try and leased by the congregation. pit, comfortably seated before him, several young and active I The church was floored about 1766, and in 1767 a vestry house was built on men. His anger rising, he threw the site of the present Sunday school. away his sermon and, shaking his It was not until 1844 that the nresent fist vehemently at the astonished parsonage was built. Capt. * Isaac youths, demanded to know why they Wayne, the father of Mad Anthony, did not go into the American army was the chief mover in the circulation and fight the British. “I am not afraid of a subscription in 1771 to build the to go,” he said. “They may kill me, gallery, which when first erected ex- if they like, and make a drumhead out | tended farther than it does at present, of my old hide, but on it they will play assing over the front door and joining rub-a-dub-dub till the British are scat¬ the east wall. tered out of the country.” Then, in j 37 ,d e'xciterafffl, he threw off a heavy | Near the church has been erected a itarv cloak which hung' around his plain marble monument to the memo shoulders and displayed an American of General Anthony Wayne. “ uniform. stone is inscribed as follows: ji__ After the war was over the Rev. -Major-General Anthony Wayne was William Currie, in 1783, again took born at Waynesborough, in Chester charge of St. David’s for a few years, I County, State of Pennsylvania, A. D., and began to energetically collect j 1745. After a life of honor and usefull- funds to repair the ravages which time ! ness, he died in December, 1796, at a and the war had nJude in the old military post on the shore of Lake Erie> church building and graveyard walls. Commander-in-chief of the Army of th e The Great Valley Episcopal Church United States. His military achieve¬ of Chester County, St. J aines at Perki- ments are consecrated in the history of omen and the Swec.es' Church near Nor¬ his country and in the hearts of his ristown, being united with St. David’s countrymen. His remains are here de¬ in one parish, the result was the call¬ posited. ing of Rev. Slavter Clay. In August, On the other is inscribed: 1792, while Mr. Clay was rector, the in honor of the distinguished mili¬ church was incorporated. It was dur¬ tary service of Major-General Wayne; ing Mr. Clay’s rectorship an addition and as an affectionate tribute to his was made to the graveyard and the memory this stone was erected by his 1 wall repaired. The present northwest : companions in arms, the Pennsylvania wall of the graveyard was added at a i State Society of Cincinnati, July, 4tli, still more recent date. This forms the 1809; thirty-fourth anniversary of the boundary line between Delaware and j United States of America; an event Chester Counties. which constitutes the most appropriate On July 30, 1820, Bishop White con¬ eulogium of an American soldier and ducted the first confirmation ever held patriot. Beneath this monument Wayne’s re¬ in St. David's church, sixteen persons •- being admitted to membership. About mains were interred with impressive 1830 a proposition to modernize the military ceremonies after they had church was brought forward by the been removed from the fortress of vestry. It was not received favorably I Presque Isle. The crowd gathered on by the congregation. The vestry, how¬ this occasion is said to have been so ever, determined to alter the interior large that many of the limbs of the of the church, consequently the gallery, trees in the surrounding yard broke which passed over the front door, was with the weight of the people who had taken down, the highback, old fash¬ j climbed upon them to witness the ioned pews torn out and the present burial. In another part of the grave¬ ones substituted. the .pulpit enlarged yard isd massive slab which bears.the Ifoliowing inscription: Mary .Wayne, consort of the lata, [ iMajor-iienefal Anthony Wayne, died I April 18, 17p3, aged 44 years. Major-General Anthony Wayne, late , ! commander of the Army of the United {States, die J at Presque Isle, Dec. 15, 1796, aged 2 years. His body is in¬ terred within the garrison near the town of Erie. The stone just mentioned was erected prior to the removal of Wayne’s re¬ mains to C>ld St. David’s. . .< Date, GEN. WAYNE’S GRAVE. ^ -=, - - v:: and the sounding-board removed. Cu¬ "Marcus Hook, with fiatural advantages rious as it may seem, there have been that are not surpassed in the country, and several attemps since then, originating that should in a few years make her a in the ▼ ;stry, to tear down or enlarge rival of Chester, has awakened to a new the chu.'ch, but they have all been de¬ life which in a few short months have feated. The present vestry fully ap¬ given her an impetus that will soon cause preciates the historic value of the her to take her place, where she rightfully edifice, so renewed since Longfellow belongs, in the front rank of the bus;v wrote his well-known verses upon it in •manufacturing boroughs of the county. the Centennial year. On Feb. 14,1700, the citizens of Marcus Hook petitioned William Penn to grant em "a charted as ‘a market "'town. "On Walter Wood; collector of borough, county 6ept. 12,1701; a charter was granted in re- and school taxes, James T. Martin; com¬ ponse to this petition. Au attempt was mitting magistrate, Frank S. Vernon; ade in 1760 to revive this charter, and at building inspector, Isaac B. Vernon. The meeting held April 29, of that year, John meetings of council are held on the second Wall and John Crawford were chosen and fourth Monday evenings of every clerks of the market, they being the suc¬ month. cessors of John Flower, Walter Martin SCHOOLS. and Philip Roman, who were named as! The schools of the town are graded and clerks of the market in the first charter. will compare very favorably with those of: From this date until March 7, 1892, the any borough in the county. The primary) charter was allowed to lie accumulating school is in a frame building in Market! the dust of over a century. On the latter street. The grammar school is located on date the borough was reincorporated, and Post Road near Market street. The build- ■ shaking off the dust of the past entered ing is a handsome brick structure of the lists of the towns of Delaware county modern architecture built during 1890. who are striving to become the “queen” The value of the school property is about j borough of not only this county, but of $7 ,600. The members of th* school board this section. The movement, which had are: William H. Phillips, president; R. H.j for its object the revival of the charter of Downes, treasurer; William Pechmann, the borough and the infusing of new life ■ecretary; J. D. Goff, Benjamin Johnson, ~ and blood into the town, had its birth, as Jr. and W. F. Prosser. The regular meet¬ . has been the case with almost all move ings of the board are held on the last Friday 1■ ‘ merits for the advancement of the material evening of each month. The principal of prosperity of a nation, state or community, the grammar school is Miss Mary P. Mc-i . among a few earnest men who, believing Farland, who is assisted by four compe¬ the town could not live on reminiscences tent teachers. * alone, and that the wheels of her progress ADVANTAGES. «hould not be retarded by her own citizens, Briefly summerized the advantages Mar¬ f'ere willing to welcome the burden of cus Hook offers to the prospective manu-1 ensure they incurred from their less pro¬ facturer, resident or investor are: A gressive and more conservative fellow citi- healthy climate, good water, unexcelled Eens. This little group of citizen*, who ot railroad facilities, a harbor where vessels! a “fellow feeling” and working for a com¬ of the greatest tonnage can cast anchor, mon purpose, held informal meetings river frontage on that great water high¬ almost nightly, and around the hearth of way the Delaware river, an electric rail¬ the acknowledged leader of the movement, way connecting it with all the towns in John Kerlin, gathered Job L. Green, this section, two large oil works, terminal Thomas G. Locke, Rev. Thomas J. Taylor of a great pipe line, a flourishing iron and other kindred spirits. The result of works, one large lumber yard, two coal these meetings culminated in the applica¬ yards, drug store, one hotel, hosiery mill, tion for a charter and the granting of the one ship yard, a number of stores in vari¬ same at the date above named. Thus the ous trades, low taxes, good society, good “open hearth” became the humble medium schools, three churches, and one hall. 1 “opening” the eyes of the people of the Burgess of Marcus Hook. own to the advantages of having the The present burgess of Marcus Hook, borough reincorporated, and later in Job L. Green, was born in the house he “opening” up the many advantages of the town to the public. now resides in on Delaware avenue, Mar¬ cus Hook, Lower Chester township. He The chartering of the borough marked received his education in the school of his the opening of a new era in the affairs of birth place, and at an early age became a Marcus Hook, and the rapid strides she has waterman, in which he became so proficient made in the last year fully demonstrates as to become a captain of a schooner before the wisdom of those who advocated this he had arrived at the age of 17 years. For action, and they are today accorded their *ull meed of praise by all. The first offi- twenty-one years he was engaged on the ers of the new borough were: Chief Bur¬ Delaware river trade as captain of various gess, Samuel Vernon; treasurer, W. H. schooners plying on Priest; members of council, Samuel the Delaware river "Wrightson, W. T. Marshall, John Downes, and bay. In 1883 he "William H. H. H. Heycock, M. D. Mar¬ accepted a shall and Captain John H. Richardson; with George W. clerk of council, Robert W. Rennie; solici¬ & Sons Lumber com¬ tor, O. D. Dickinson, Esq.; surveyor, W. pany of Wilmington, Smith Morrison; building inspector, Isaac Del., as foreman of their lumber y Vernon. The present government, com¬ posed of official* elected at the February He remained election of this year, are: Burgess, Job L. this company Green; members of council, W. H. H. H. 1889. A life long Heycock, John Downes, terms expire 1894; zen of Marcus Hook, M. D. Marshall, Captain John Richardson, and one of the most terms expire 1895; Harry Lewis and David earnest advocates of „„„„„„„ „„„„„ Syfrit, terms expire 1896; treasurer, W. H. the reincorporation of U ‘ S G * - j| _ Priest; clerk of council, R. W. Rennie; the borough. He was one of the candidates solicitor, W. I. Schaffer, Esq.; surveyor, for the office of burgess at the first election Jb / held under the new charter in April fare of not only the member* ef hie own and was defeated by the small majority of church, but for all wheat he cam aid im the 6 votes. At the next election in February, battle of life. The paster* sine* the forma-; 1893, he was elected over a very popular tiom of the comgregatiom ia 178® te date opponent by a majority of 44, and was in¬ have been: E. Dayer, IT®# to 1TH, followed stalled into that office in March last. in turn loy Johm Walker, Josoph Walker, Mr. Green is well equipped for the posi¬ D. L. McGean, T. Jones, Isaae Gray, Miller tion he now holds, having served as auditor Jones, E. W. Dickinson, H. B. Harper and of Lower Chichester township for six C. W. W. Bishop. The latter has been years and school director of the same town- pastor since 1879. ship for the same period. Burgess Green | is a member of Chester lodge, Royal Ar¬ St. Martin’s P. E. Church—Rot. G. C. canum; Linwood lodge, Knights of Pythias, Bird, Rector. and has been treasurer of Marcus Hook For 123 years prior to 1828 St. Martin’s lodge, American Legion of Honor, since church was a part of St. Paul’s parish of 'its organization. Always identified with Chester. In that year it became a separate the Democratic party, he has for many I organization, and from that time to the years been a member of the county execu¬ j present has been in charge of the following tive committee. rectors: Benjamin S. Huntington, John On leaving the employ of the George W. Baker, Clemson Henry, H. Hickman, Bush & Sons Lumber company, in 1889 Joseph A. Stone, J. Sturgis Pearce and G. Mr. Green became president, treasurer and | C. Bird, who has been rector since 1871 and general manager of the Keystone Press has endeared himself to all classes. | Brick company, of Trainers, and much of the success of this enterprise has been due 1 to his able management and energy. This company now employs about 100 men, and | their products have a well-earned reputa¬ tion for superiority. The daily output is about 60,000 bricks. The bricks used in i the construction of the House of Refuge at Glen Mills, Pa., and the Law building, electric plant, and the new Blakeley mills at Twelfth and Walnut streets, Chester, were made at these works. CHURCHES. HE history of Media is familiar to Three handsome church edifices that are almost alb the citizens of thi9 sec- at once a credit to their congregation and H tion. The town lays no claim to an ornament to the town, are numbered great antiquity, and her citizens among the institutions of Marcus Hook. do not boast of a dead past, but — have an admirable pride in her Cokesbury M. E. Church. ^ remarkable progress, present im- Prior to 1850, Marcus Hook was a charge portanceand flattering prospects of future ! under the control of Chester circuit; in prosperity. The first dwellers on the land that year it was created an independent now the site of the borough of Med a were j church, and the congregation was under Peter and William Taylor, of the parish of ! the charge of Rev. Joseph Carlisla. The Sutton, county of Chester, England. They place of worship was in an old frame bought of William Penn on March 3, 1681, structure on the river front, now marked 1,250 acres of land, for which they paid 103^ I by the old cemetery. The following pastors cents per acre. Over half of this land was have in turn succeeded the first pastor: Rev. on the exact location of Media, the town Joseph Carlisle, James Rush Anderson, which came into being 168 years later. The William. H. Brisbane, H. R. Callaway, northern boundary of this land was not | James Flannery, J. F. Crouch, S. R. Gill¬ far from the site of the present county ingham, George Quigley, William M. jail. The Taylors resided here until their | Dalrymple, E. W. Dickinson, J. Aspril, death and the property afterwards passed William M. Gilbert, T. W. MacClary, M. to their heirs-af-law. Many of the de¬ ' Soviss, Alex. M. Wiggins, Ravil Smith, scendants of these are now residents of {W. K. MacNeal, C. Hudson, H. F. Isett Media and Delaware and Chester counties. and the present pastor, W. B. Chalfant, In October, 1847, the people of Delaware I who took charge in 1891. Under his pas- county voted to move the county seat to i torate the church has paid off all its float- Media, and in the following year the sen¬ 1 ing debt,and the only indebtness iE a funded ate of Pennsylvania approved the act, and debt of $2,000. The value of the church on April 7, 1S48, Governor Shunk signed building and parsonaga is about $12,000. the bill. The present membership is 160, and the In 1849 the work of building the county Sunday school attendance is about 150. buildings was commenced and pushed so rapidly that by Mav 29, 1851, the buildings Marcus Hook Baptist Church—C. W. W. Bishop, Pastor. . were completed, and on Aug. 25, 1851, the This church is a handsome brick build¬ first court convened in Media. Media was incorporated as a borough ing on Market street, and the congrega¬ March 10, 1850. The first election under tion is composed of many of the leading the charter was held here Tuesday, March citizens of the borough and. adjacent coun¬ 19, 1850. At this election, at which Isaac try. The pastor, Rev. C. W. W. Bishop, E Bricoand David Hardcastle acted as is am able and earnest worker for the wel¬ inspectors, the following officers were chosen: Burgess, W. T. Pierce; town coun- ■"ZfiWXr oil, Dr. George Smith, Dr. Joseph Row¬ BOROUGH GOVERNMENT. land, Isaac Haldeman, Nathan Shaw, The present officers of the borough are Thomas T. Williams, John C. Beatty; Chief Burgess, George J. Stiteler; President wn clerk, Thomas Richardson; treas¬ of Council, George E. Darlington; Solicitor \ urer, Charles Palmer; asssessor, Robert V. G. Robinson; Treasurer, C. D. M Rowland. Broomhall; Council, Frank I. Taylor, C With this brief reference to the early B. Jobson, T. E. Rorer, Ed. H. Hall and , ys of the town we will speak of Media Thomas D. Young; Clerk of Council, W. K _ as she is today, the “Queen Borough” of Tricker; Justices of the Peace,N. T. Waltei ■’ Delaware county. and J. B. Dickeson; Tax Collector and As¬ LOCATION. sessor, T. E. Levis. The natural advantages and beauty of BOARD ON TRADE. the country in and around Media are ap¬ Although not a part of the borough gov¬ parent to the most casual observer. As a ernment the board of trade is still entitled matter of fact the Indians who inhabited to mention here because it is composed oi' it before the advent of the white man re¬ public spirited and enterprising business garded it as one of the most beautiful and professional men, and whose aim is tc1 gpots known to their tribes, and reluc¬ advance the interests of Media. To this tantly gave possession to it even to Penn ! body belongs the credit of a number oi and Ins peaceful followers. improvements that have already beer! ^ With that inborn love of the beautiful made. They heartily assisted council ini in nature which is a strong passion even the movement that had its result in the j in the untutored savage, they longed to present fine streets of the town. Horace ' return to the vales of Crum and Ridley P. Green is President of the board, and the i. \ creeks, and the wigwam of the last Indian other officers are leading citizens. - in Delaware county was planted on the MEDIA’S PRIDE. knoll (now “Braecrott”) overlooking the valleys of these streams, and it was from here the last representative of this fast Her Public Schools ami Teachers by disappearing race took his last look at the Leon H. Waters. grandest portion of a “land he loved so Although Media was chartered as a ■well,” and made way for his “pale faced borough in 1850, it was not organized as a •brother,” who, like him, recognized the separate school district until 1856. During beauty of the locality and the other in¬ this time the children of the village at¬ numerable favors kind nature had show¬ tended the school now known as “Sandy ered in this portion of her footstool. Bank,” in Upper Providence, just outside Media is the county seat of Delaware of t he borough limits. Sfiuatyt situated on the Philadelphia and On March 29, 1856, the first board of di¬ West Chester railroad, fourteen miles rectors for the independent district of :rom Philadelphia by this road and twelve Media was organized as follows: H. Jones miles by pike. Brooke, president; R. H. Smith, secretary; The streets of the town are well paved William F. Pearce, treasurer; Samuel P. hm and shaded and lighted by gas and elec¬ Rush, Thomas T. Williams and D. R. tric light. The churches, schools, mar¬ Hawkins. kets, stores are the equal of any borough There were at that tirae two one-room in the state (see further description); the school houses in the borough: one a sma'.q reads leading to the town are good, some brick building on Lemon street, between being telford. The Chester and Media State and Front streets, and the other the , Electric railway connects the town with small stone house the adjacent towns and country. The which still stands on population of the town, according to the the three cornered lot census of 1890, was 2,736. The present east of Providence population is now over three thousand. road, at the end of The borough is a town of homes, and as Franklin street. The a majority of the citizens own their owe board decided to open homes the population is a permanent and two schools, and not desirable one, and as the town is depending being able to rent a on no special industry or industries foi suitable room for the her prosperity a depression of trade in nc primary school, they wise effects it. The reasons that hav< erected a one story aused so many to make their residenct frame building just ere are patent to anyone. The towr north of the brick on charter prohibits the sale of alcoholic Lemon street, and on spirits as a beverage, and as a consequence the same lot. The drunkenness is almost unknown. The grammar school was LE0N H- WATTERS, facilities for reaching the large cities art opened in May, and the primary school in unsurpassed, the climate equable, watei June, 1856, with Edmond Cheney and pure, the drainage and sanitary conditions Ellen Valentine as teachers. are excellent, and the absence of manufac¬ An arrangement was also made with the turing establiehments all conduces to makt school hoard of Nether Providence by Media beyond doubt the best, healthiest, which part of the pupils were to attend pleasantest and most desirable residence school in the stone building on Providence borough in the commonwealth of Pennsyl road, the school being conducted under the vania. joint management of the two board& Owing to lack of harmony between the 41 two boards, however,' the experimenWMd15^— HALL BUILDIXC. not pro\ e satisfactory, and was abandoned andhth0ld buildjn? was then dow after a few months. The building was and the present handsome twelve roor then leased to the Nether Providence So^Ib8 feCted at a -st of abou board, and in 1858 was sold to William L. it- out a yeaf ago a lot was pui Green for $385 The property on Lemon chased in East Media where, in the nea street was sold in 1S60 to C. R. William- erected for°tT r°°m bldIdinS will b S£\,for and now belongs to the e ected foi the accommodation of tin Fields and Mann estates. In 1859 the eastern half of the present eg. °n 01 th“ =■»“«,I school lot on Olive street, between Carbon The rate of taxation has varied from and Third streets, was purchased, and a three and a ha!f mills to ten mills on the one story brick building of two rooms was collar being the highest in ISbi. The erected on it the same year. This was Pr®s®nt. ,rate lor tb e entire levy—both school afterward converted into a four room lminsbUlldmS fuud~is four aud one-fourth building. The rest of the square, extend¬ ing west to Lorth avenue, was purchased 'Ljbe fat® appropriation for 1858 was in 1873, and in 1875 the capacity of the building was increased by the Erection of Iofei-l5oo PreSellt year ifc is -aiething a two story addition of four rooms on the The Media Board of Education has the west side. Thus enlarged it served to ac¬ t dlstineti0Q of being the first in commodate the schools of the growing e state to have a lady participate in its village until 1SS4, when the rapid increase | deliberations. On .Jan. 8, 1874, Mrs. Mel- m population made it necessary to provide i vma Fairlamb was chosen to-fill the va- for additional schools. 1 JCaiicy ciuised by the resigna tion of Samuel ■ • Rush; since which time three other 42 ladies, Dr. Prances N. Baker, Mrs, Joseph The following is the present .'corps of G. Cummins and Mrs. William Eaves, Jr., teachers, with the time that e.v.'.i has have served acceptably as directors of the taught in the schools of the borough: public schools. Leon II. Watters, principal, four years; The schools of the borough have had in Miss Anna M. Braden, high school, eleven all eighteen principals, elected as follows; years; Miss Fannie M. Bennington, A Edmond Cheney, April 26,1856; Peter Sher¬ grammar, four years; Mrs. E. B. Thomas, wood, Oct. 20, 1856; George Alsop, Decem¬ B grammar, nine years; Miss Lydia Wor¬ ber, 1858; Joseph Ad. Thomson, May 23, ley, A intermediate, nine years; Miss Anna gg|;185~; W. Wallace Sweet, Jan. 11, 1882; i). Edwards, B intermediate, three years; Si Wv. Harlan, May, 1362; James Lees, Dc>v Miss Hattie Thomson, A secondary, two Jr 14, 1S63; Daniel Lewis, Jan. 8, '!86! they themselves might have been addicted or inclined to frequent such disreputable and de¬ graded resorts.I will do them thejustlec to be¬ lieve that they would have desired to protect [their sons and their daughters from such in¬ fluences, and that they would have sought to establish themselvcsas far as possible from such aplaeeas G oucestorand from New Jersey in general, and, even though they were men who cared nothing for the Church and never participated in its services, nevertheless I think they would have welcomed its influence for their children, and would have chosen to build their homes within sight of its spire and WAYNE’S NEW CHURCH. within sound of its holy messages. ‘ ‘Wayne owes a debt which it can never re¬ pay to the Christian philanthropist who built A MAGNIFICENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH that first church. A wise propiiet could have foreseen that which has come to pass, and it DEDICATED YESTERDAY. jis, I take it, a great evidence of the practical I sagacity ot the philanthropic capitalists who j developed this town—Mr. George W. Child3 Sermon by Dr. Charles Wadsworth, Jr.— i and Mr. Drexel—that they selected for their Interesting Services—The Old and New land improvement operation a spot already Church—A Sketch of Rev. W. A. Patton, hallowed by a Church of Christ, They knew D. D., Pastor. where a movement for suburban homes would succeed. The influence of this old sanctuary was the sunlight which gave the increase of prosperity to their undertaking Yesterday marked one of the greatest of It was settled 23 years ago that this should IWayne’s triumphs. Her new $65,OCX) Presby¬ be a community of families—a village of ideal terian Church was dedicated with impressive houses. Almost prophetic read the words |ceremonies at 3.30 P. M. in the afternoon and from the sermon preached at the dedication evening. Over seven hundred visitors filled of that first building: ‘Families of wealth the handsome new pews at the first service, and worth and moral influence will come and more than the church’s complement of here to find houses, if they can find as well (850 gathered in the evening to celebrate the i a hallowed Sabbath and a beloved sanctuary, “Retrospijct and Prospect’ ’ of Wayne Presby¬ and year after year you will better undei-I tery. stand how the man who erected this sanc¬ The Dedication Sermon. tuary was a public benefactor by the very | The orator of the day was introduced by the argument ot the text: ‘He loveth our nation Pastor, who said it was, to him,a great privi¬ for He hath built us a synagogue. ’ *’ lege to have the son of the late Rev. Charles The other clergymen in attendance were Wadsworth, D. D., who delivered the ser¬ Rev. George H. Lorah, Pastor of the Wayne mon at the dedication of the Old Wayne Pres¬ Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. J. D. Ran¬ byterian Church, December 8, 1870. dolph, of Atglen, Chester county, and Rev. Dr. Wadsworth, spoke from the text: |J- T* 1'instead, D. D., of Coatesviile. ! “Jesus Christ hlroselt being the chief corner¬ Among those present were Mr. and Mrs stone”—F,ph. ii, 20. He said in part: “This J. C. Pinkerton, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jefleris' day is one of the great days in the history of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barritt, Mrs. W. A. Pat- the Wayne Presoyterian Church. The only ton. Mrs. Frank Smith, Mr. J. If. Beale Mr. other day to be compared with it in import¬ J. M. Rowe, Mx-. William Green, Mrs. L. K ance is the 8th of December, 1870, when the first church building was dedicated. My Burkct, Goi. Thomas Field, Mr. Robert Elliott fatner on that occasion preached the sermon, Mr. Jacob Weidman, Mr. I. S. Sharp, Mrs’ Henry Birkinbine, Mr. J. H. Watt, Mr. J A and I am theretore in a certain sense a con¬ necting link between these two memorable Ball, Mr. and Mrs. William Wood, Mrs.G.W services. Arms, Miss Arms, Mr. E. B. Bensell, Mr. and “On the former occasion the church had no Mrs. George Ramsdcll, Misses Ramsdell, Mr. L. W. Elder, Mr. Thco. Gugert, Misses Scott! history. It had only an opportunity. It was Miss Belle Wood, Mr. and Mrs ■ dealing, if I may so speak, in futures. To¬ day, it has both a past, and a future. It has •J. W. Grummon, Mr. Horace Geiger! Mr. J. A. Linn, Mrs. John McLeod, Mr. and both record and opportunity. Then it was a prophecy only. To-day also it is a prophecy, Mrs. James Campbell, Miss Campbell, Mr. but it is at the same time a fulfillment. Be¬ and Mrs. Charles M. Hogan, Dr. James'Aiken,’ fore the Wayne of to-day was and when there Mr, G. M. Araan, Mr. J. W. Cooper, Mrs. S. were hut the old Presbyterian Church steeple A. Coyle, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Blatchley" and a few sea tiered houses around it, a pas- Mr and Mrs. J. P. D. Castie, Mr. and Mrs! ! senger, as he flew by on the cars over the road- J. P. Wood, Mr. B. P. Obdyke, Mr. W. S. Rirk, Mr. Charles Eldredge, Mr. and Mrs! tbed of ‘the unest railway on the globe,’ | would possibly have reasoned somewhat after H. C. Conkle, and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Ware! i this manner: The conditions of affairs at The Evening Service. this point are ready tor the growth ofa desira¬ I .T,he serv|ce in the evening was devoted to ble community. It. has advantages which addresses bv the clergymen, who took “retro¬ will give it a conspicuous lead over other spective and prospective” glances at the con¬ |j stations upon this line. They have dition ot the church. Those who spoke were laud Just as desirable, outlooks just as Rev. J. M. Crowell. I). D., Rev. J. IddTson I beautiful, air just as salubrious; but this sta¬ Henry, D. D., Rev. Willard M. Rice, D D tion of Wayne iias a church, nay, one, two of Philadelphia; Rev. J. T. Vance D d” and three, that will attract around itself the of Chester, and ltev. Thomas J. ’Aiken’ ibetter elements, the desirable residents, the of Berwyn. Rev. Thomas R, MacDoweil’ law-abiding population. Men looking for J). D., oi Park, sburg. Moderator of the Presl homes will be reassured by its existence, and [bytery of Chester, presided. ; will locate within its influence. If men had Dr. Patton was born forty years ago, at .S(. found a saloon, or a race track, however much Johns, New Brunswick, ol ScotCh-Irish pa- jrentage. His famiiv removed to Philadelphia members, and installing Howell Evans Ruling Elder. At this meeting a call was extended! to Rev. S, P. Linn. He accepted and was in-! stalled by Presbytery, July 5th, 1870. The building being completed, it was dedi-; caied December 8, 1870. The sermon was; preached by Rev. Charles. Wadsworth, D. D. Rdv. John Chambers, Rev. J. W. Dale, D. D., Rev. T. J. Shepherd, D. D., Rev. Prof. Lorenzo Westcott, Rev. T. J. Aiken, Rev. R. H. Allen, D. D., Rev. J. McLeod, Rev. B. B. j Hotchkin, Rev. Alfred Nevin, D. D., Rev.: W. M. Rice. D. D., Rev. B. L. Agnew, Rev. Edward Hawes. Rev. Matthew B. Grier and other eminent divines took part in the exer¬ cises. The church, with the lot upon which it is erected, also the parsonage, with lot attached thereto, together with an endowment fund of $20,000, was the!gift of J. Henry Asktn, under whose personal direction the building was commenced and completed. A New Church from a Little Girl’s Savings. j lie record of the church committee shows, in efl'ect, that soon after the beginning of Dr. Patton’s Incumbency it became evident that the old church was too small for the needs of when he was one ye tr old. His early educa¬ the congregation, and, at a meeting on July tion was had in the public schools. When 28, 1899, the church authorized the appoint¬ quite a lad he entered business life with a ment of a Ways and Means Committee to view to becoming an architect. He, however, consider what steps should be taken towards abandoned this, and entered the Genesee the erection of a more commodious building. Academy, Livingston county, N. Y. Thence On August 7 a number of gentlemen of the he went to Union College and Seminary, from church met, at the invitation of the Pastor,at which be graduated m 1S77. In the mean¬ the Hotel Bellevue, at Wayne, for conference! time he was, on the 19th of April, 1870, li¬ in regard to the proposed work. After an in¬ censed to preach by Presbytery of Philadel¬ formal collation the Pastor stated that he had! phia North. that day received the first cash contribu¬ On the 24th of October, 1878, Ur. Patton was tion for the new church trom Miss ordained to the ministry by the same Presby¬ Clara Edith Blatchley, a little girl, j tery that bad licensed him, and the same in the Sunday School. The amount of this evening he was installed Pastor of the Rox- contribution was $153, consisting of a onc- borough Presbytcriu Church, where ho re¬ dollarnote, one twenty-five cent piece, two mained until March, 1881, when he received a dimes, one nickel and three one-cent pieces, unanimous call to the Pastorate of Doylcs- ail of which represented the little girl’s entire town Presbyterian Church. Here he remained stock of pocket money saved up in her little nine years, during which time the church en¬ bank, but which she cheerfully offered to the joyed uninterrupted prosperity, doubling its Lord. The narratiou of this little story of congregation in that time. sweet childish charity excited so mnch inter¬ ,Dr. Patton accepted a call to Wayne Pres- est that the Pastor was induced to offer the Jyterian Church and entered upon his duties various pieces of the gift for a friendly auc¬ here April 1, 1890. During the past three tion sale among the gentlemen assembled. ! rears this church has kept apace with the al¬ The bidding was very spirited, and the money most marvellous growth of Wayne. The brought a total of $220. The envelope con¬ church to-day is reckoned one of the strong¬ taining the donation sold for $9. At the same est in the Presbytery of Wayne. meeting subscriptions to the building fund Besides enjoying the hearty support of his were received, and an aggregate of $3806 was people, Dr. Patton has been the recipient of reached. Later, subscriptions inereasedthe flattering honor* from Uia brethren, beimt fund to about $40,000. twice elected Moderator of Presbytery and In the first week of September the enter¬ twice a Commissioner to the General Assem¬ prise received great encouragement from Mr. bly. He is now Secretary of the Outlook Com¬ George W. Childs, who gave the church an mittee of his Presbytery, Chairman of the eligible site valued at $.5000. Home Mission Committee of the same body, At a meeting of the congregation on January I and President of the Second District of the 21, 1891, a Building Committee was appointed Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Associa¬ of the following gentlemen: J. AVoods Pink-1 tion, which district embraces the counties of erton. Chairman; Charles G. Blatchley, Sec¬ Bucks, Berks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, retary; Harry C. Conklc, Treasurer; Albert Montgomery, Northampton and Schuylkill. F. Walters and Chandler B. Walton. The When Dr. Patton took charge at Wayne the corner-stone was laid with appropriate cere¬ congregation numbered 100. Since then 182 monies on May 12, 1892. new members have joined. The present mem¬ The splendid structure, a picture of which bership is 822, representing a congregation of is presented herewith, is, by many, thought about 1300 souls. to be the handsomest ehureb In Eastern History of the Old Wayne Church. Pennsylvania. When entirely finished it will Tiie first movement toward the formation ot have cost, including the lot, $65,000. It is an a Presbyterian Church atWayne was the bold¬ old English Gothic, cruciform ground plan, ing of public religious service in Wayne 112 feet through the nave, 84 feet across the Hail, on Sunday morning, June 5, 1870. transept. The seating capacity is 850. It is According to an appointment of Presbytery, built of Port Deposit granite, lock faced, the Commissioners, Rev. B. B. Hotchkin, broken range masonry, trimmed with Pro lessor Lorenzo Westcott, Rev. T. J. Aiken bull' colored Indiana limestone. From and Ruling Elders James Moore and Thomas the southeast corner rises a massive Aiken met on June 24th and organized the quadrilaieral tower, 100 feet above grade, ' Wayne Presbyterian Church, comprising nine surmounted by four stone minarets. The! , 47 WAYNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. :■ 'J Presents a rare coinbiMtwn of st.engt.h and beauty. From sculptured cor¬ bels and polished granite pillars spring strong and graceful Gothic arches which support the open timbered roof of natural finish North From, Carolina yellow pine. The wainscoUng doors, pews, and, indeed, all the furniture’ ar,°r ,ta'7 \-‘l0 HE VESTRY OF. was on the site of the present rectory the quaint old St. preparatory to his attack on Wayne at David’s Church at Paoli on the night of Sept. 20, 1777, j Radnor have de¬ but it is doubtful if this is a fact. It ! cided to undertakel is quite likely, however, that some of necessary repairs in! the church, and at! the same time they' may make some in¬ terior alterations with the view of restoring’ the in¬ terior of the build- in? as nearly as passible to its original appearance. St.Sf David's0 ^ 'c is1C f\oneVO £k r\-fof +llQthe oldest! churches in Pennsylvania. The exact | date of the organization of its congre- j gation is not known, but as early as 1685 the neighborhood in the vicinity' of the church was settled by a number of hardy Welsh emigrants from Rad¬ norshire, Wales, and it has been well established that in 1700 a congregation was organized. The ministers who held the sei’vice in Welsh, preached at! the houses of members of the congrega¬ tion and on Sept. 7, 1714, it was de¬ ODD ST. DAVID’S CHURCH. cided to build a church at the American troops who were killed Radnor, the corner-stone of which in the Paoli massacre were buried in was laid on the 0th of May, 1715.1 the graveyard of the old church. For over half a century after the I An interesting story is told of the church was built no floor was laid in Rev. David Jones, who was Wayne's, the building and there were no pews, chaplain from 1777 to 1783. It is said thei worshipers being seated on benches that, holding services at St. David's] at first furnished by the occupant but during the war, he saw from the pul¬ subsequently placed there by the ves¬ pit, comfortably seated before try and leased by the congregation. him, several young and active The church was floored about 1705, men. His anger rising, he threw and in 1767 a vestry house was built on away his sermon and, shaking his ; the site of the present Sunday school. fist vehemently at the astonishedi It was not until 1844 that the present VA'Uliis. deroapd.e4 to know why they parsonage was built. Capt. Isaac | cl’fi not go'An t o me American army/ Wayne, the father of Mad Anthony, | and fight the British. “I am not afraid was the chief mover in the circulation to go,” he said. “They may kill me, of a subscription in 1771 to build the I if they like, and make a drumhead out gallery, which when first erected ex-1 of my old hide, but on it they will play tended farther than it does at present, rub-a-dub-dub till the British are scat¬ passing over the front door and joining tered out of the country.” Then, in on the east wall. wild excitement, he threw off a heavy There is some talk, at the moment, military cloak which hung around his !°f restoring the gallery to its original shoulders and displayed an American j appearance. To give access to this uniform. /gallery the curious old stone stairway ' After the war was over the Rev. vjas greeted at the west end of the William Currie, in 1783, again took church. charge of S,t. David’s for a few years, When the Revolutionar}^ war broke and began to energetically collect rut the pastor of St. David's was Rev. funds to repair the ravages which time! William Currie, a Scotchman, liberally and the war had made in the old educated, who had assumed the duties j church building and graveyard walls. of office in 1737. In May, 1776, feeling The Great Valley Episcopal Church that the obligation of his office com¬ of Chester County, St. James at Perki-j pelled him to do so, he resigned, and omen and t|ie Swec.es’ Church near Nor¬ after his departure the church organ¬ ristown, being united with St. David's ization appears to have been demoral¬ in one parish, the result was the call¬ ized and the church was closed. There ing of Rev. Slavter Clay. In August, are traditions to the effect that it suf¬ 1792, while Mr. Clay was rector, the fered more or less from the contending church was incorporated. It was dur¬ armies. It is said that the lead, in! ing Mr. Clip's rectorship an addition which the small diamond-shaped! was made to the graveyard and the ■lasses in the windows were held, was ! wall repaired. The present northwest aken by the soldiers. Another tra- wall of the graveyard was added at a ition states that Gen. Grant massed still more lecent date. This forms the >me of his command in the cedar boundary line between Delaware and thicket which, during the revolution, j Chester Counties._ - •V X* , - >v mte con- nrst confirmation ever held i s church, sixteen persons tted to membership. About position to modernize the 1 brought forward by the was not received favorably Legation. The vestry, how¬ led to alter the interior h, consequently the gallery d over the front door, was > highback, old fash- torn out and the present uted. the nulDit enlai-o-ed iding-board removed. Cu- ay seem, there have been ops since then, originating jin the vestry, t„ > tear down or enlarge 1 the church .'but they■ have all been de- feated. The present; vestry fully a»- j predates the historic--C value of the edifice, so renowed since Longfellow wrote his Well-kno wn verses upon it in the^Centennial year. Near the chu irrh lias been erected a EN. WAYNE’S GRAVE, plain marble monument to the memory Tne stone jus of General _Anthony Wayne. The prior to the re stone is inscribed _as follows: mains to Old S Major-General A.mtiiony Wayne was born at ajmesborou h. in Chester County, State of Penns > ’v in la. A. I)., ■ o, and usefull- From Dec umber, iTVu, at a the shore of Lake Erie, lief of Lie Army of th e Sis military achieve - rated in the history of in the hearts of his s remains are here de- I yn tne other is yiscribed: n honor of the distinguished mili¬ tary service of Major-General Wayne- :“dmas an affectionate tribute to'his j thls stone was erected by his ■ companions in arms, the Pennsylvania 1 °f Ciucinaati, July, 4th, 18 J, thn ty-fourth anniversary of the j United States of America; an event nch constitutes the most appropriate liatrfotm °f ^ American s°l 52 .gi A Historic Spot on the Bryn Mawr Road empties into the Schuylkill at hocken, the Matson’s Ford of the Revolution. That Has Been Generally Forgotten in It is about a mile and a half west of the river, the Attention Paid to Valley Forge and and between six and seven miles from Valley i Forge. What is understood to be to Gulph, Its Snrronndings. from which the mill takes its name, is where the Gulph creek passes through the Gulph hill, and to effect a passage has cleft it to At the intersection of the old Gulph road its base. The stream and the road by I with the Bryn Mawr road, about a mile and its side wind through it somewhat in the a half from Villa Nova, on the main line of shape of an S, and at the narrowest part there is just room enough for both, the whole width the Pennsylvania Railroad there has been not being more than forty feet. The hills on erected recently, by the Pennsylvania So- either side are pretty steep and are covered • ciety of Sons of the Revolution, a very with rocks, bushes and trees to the summit. unique and at the same time striking and Near the oldGulph Mill,on the south side of the appropriate monument to mark a Revolu¬ entrance, a rock juts out over the road at an tionary camp which has heretofore been elevation of about fifteen feet. Beneath this rock travelers along the road have sought neglected and overlooked by historians. shelter for generations from the heat of the The monument, which will be unveiled on summer days or a sudden rainstorm. the 19th of June, is nothing more nor less than a huge boulder eight or nine feet high, The revolutionary history of the old Gulph I which was found on one of the hillsides in Mill and the surrounding property is ex-! the neighborhood and hauled to its present ceefllngly Interesting. "Tt~wiir~btrretu^gibered position and erected at a considerable expense. that Washington^ after breaking camp at under the auspices of Mr. Joseph Gillingham, j White Marsh, with the idea of getting into who resides in the vicinity. It is inscribed | winter quarters at Valley Forgo, marched to as follows: Matson's Ford with the intention of cross¬ GtmrH Mimes. ing the Schuylkill river there. When the The main Continental Army commanded first division and part of the second had by General George Washington encamped in passed, however, they found a body of the; this immediate vicinity from December 18 to enemy, consisting, from the best accounts, ofj!: December 19, 1777, before going Into winter quarters at Valley Forge. Erected by the about 4,000 men, under Lord Cornwallis, pos¬ “ Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revo¬ sessing themselves of both sides of the road lution,” 1892. This memorial to the soldiers leading from the river. This unexpected of the Revolution stands on ground presented event obliged Washington to order the troops by Henderson Suppiee, owner of the Gulph who had crossed to return and prevented Mill, erected in 1747. the army crossing the river until the suc¬ ceeding night, when they crossed three miles] Within a stone’s throw of the monument is further up the river at Swede’s Ford, Lord still standing a substantial old stone building, Cornwallis, after collecting a good deal of which although erected as far back as 1747, forage, having in the meantime returned to is yet in a good condition. The mill, which I Philadelphia. On the morning of the 13th of probably antedates any other in Montgomery I December; 1777, the army safely passed over county, is situated at the intersection of the? Swede’s Ford, marched three miles inland! and encamped at the Gulph Mill, ‘‘aplace]- Gulph road with the Gulph creek, which! not improperly named,” remarks Albigence i, an officer in Washington’s army, in diary. 11 For this gulph seems well Lnder dUte of December 17 the following pted by its situation to keep us from the entry was made In Washington’s orderly book: “The Commander-in-Chlef, with the asureand enjoyment of this world or being blfbest satisfaction, expresses bis thanks to nversant with anybody in it.” the officers and soldiers for the fortitude and The exact location of Washington’s head¬ patience with which they have sustained the quarters at the Guiph Mill has never been de¬ atigueof the campaign. Although in some termined, but tradition points to a house that instances we unfortunately failed, yet upon I the whole heaven hath smiled upon our arms stood about one mile north of the mill and and crowned them with signal success : and about half a mile east of the road. It was we may upon the best grounds conclude that known as Walnut Grove, and was the resi¬ ny a spirited continuance of the measures ne- dence of Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Hughes, jcessary for our defense we shall finally obtain Pennsylvania Militia. It was built prior to the end of our warfare-independeuce, liberty 1743 by his father, John Hughes, stamp offi¬ cer. The house, which was a notable build¬ The 18th- of December was set apart by ing of the day, was taken down about twenty- Congress as a day for public thanksgiving five years ago. and prayer. The army at Gulph Mills cele¬ brated it by remaining in its quarters, the LOOKING DOWN THfc OLD GULPH ROAD. From the following exfricFlrom a letter I various chaplains performing services for 1HenitUTby J°hn Laurens t0 brother, ______THE COLLEGE CHURCH AND MONASTERY. tjon and chief "of the Latin doctors. To I tiful edifice of a Gothic style, with two the right of the painting is the college spires, in celebration of the foundation of coat-of-arms, with the motto: “Tolle lege, the institution. tolle lege.” A free translation is “Take up It has really been 51 years since Villanova the book and read.” These were the words was founded, but the fiftieth anniversary that came to St. Augustine while he was is held this year because the college had young and walking in the garden and led been closed temporarily for short periods him to give up the pleasures of the world on several occasions. The jubilee, how¬ for religious study. On the right wall of ever. does celebrate the fiftieth anniversary the room is a beautiful painting of Sc. of the first commencement. To all intents Cecilia,and on the left wall is one of David this celebration is meant to be that of the playing the harp. On the wall opposite fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. the platform is a copy of Murillo’s famous fj_Dr. Thomas C. Middleton, 0,3, A., for¬ painting of St. Thomas, the local saint of merly president of Villanova, has written Villlanova. as a souvenir a historical sketch in book A NOTABLE GATHERING. form of the “Augustinian Monastry Col¬ With these surroundings the eminent lege and Mission of St. Thomas of Villa-; nova.” Villanova, or Belle-Air, as thA clergy and alumni will sit down to a ban¬ locality was called formerly, was acquired; quet. Archbishop Ryan will welcome the by the Catholics early this century. Rev. visiting clergy. Toasts will be responded Thomas Kyle, of St. Augustine’s Church, i to by Bishop Keane, of the Catholic Uni¬ of this city, and Dr.Moriarity, commissary! versity at Washington; Bishop McNeirney, of the Augustinian province, regarded it as of Albany; Bishop O’Farrell, of Trenton; a splendid place for the establishment of Bishop McMahon, of Hartford, Conn.; the order. On January 5, 1842, the title to the country seat of John Randolph, a John T. Lenahan, of Wilkes-Barre; Hon. pious Catholic, was granted to the “Broth¬ John Breen, of Massachusetts; Dr.Thomas ers of the Order of Hermits of St. Augus¬ L. White and others. In the evening there tine.” Mr. Randolph’s property consisted will be a meeting of the alumni. For thej of 200 acres. At that time the Randolph next two weeks religious exercises will bet residence was the only building on the held in the college church, which is a beau-1 land. Here the Augustinian Fatheis opened the house. The first members of | the order to reside at Vilianova were Father Dennis Gallagher and Father Jere¬ Father Christopher McEvoy, the present miah JRayn. president, is a man of great ability and the institution has prospered under his direc¬ AN HISTORICAL EVENT. tion. During the past year 105 students were As regards the first establishment of in attendance. The graduating class num¬ community lite at Vilianova it is said that bers fourteen. Fr. O’Dwyer said mass in the parlor ora¬ During its existence Vilianova has had tory and blessed the new monastry on St 13364 students, both lay and ecclesiastical. Augustine’s Day, August 28, 1843, and un^er fche especial patronage of ■ i'oim.n,as of Vilianova. The selection of St. Thomas of Vilianova as the chief .patron of tne institution was considered a From, singularly happy choice of the Fathers, for I early *.?„*“? sixteenth century the province r i e ln Spain, was ruled by Thomas of Vilianova, a man of saintly character who was distinguished for his kind-heartecF I ne*s \° the poor. He established hospitals schools and at Valencia a college, and it was to honor this predominant trait of the samt that Spanish piety bestowed on him I trie title Atasgiver. 1 After the mass and dedication by Father DANIEL GARRISON BRINTON,' ! U Dwyer, Vilianova was launched on its religious and educational career, but the ■Book News for July publishes a fine sanction of the Holy See was wanted to portrait ot Dr. Daniel G. Brinton of P’ace the institution on a canonical basis On December 22, 1843, Pope Gregory' Media, as well as a very interesting AVI, py a brief issued through the con-i sketcli ot his life and literary achieve¬ gregation of bishops, blessed the institu-1 ments. Although he has lived in Media tion. Classes were opened immediately. ®^er- fiom 1843 to 1845 there were nearly! for a number of years, Ins retiring dispo¬ fifty students on the rolls. The Fathers' sition has prevented our citizens realizing and teachers lodged in the second story of his eminent scholastic abilities. We fthe hni 1 ill A™. Z'u L :ics. therefore take great pleasure in repub¬ the Bummer of 1844 ■ the new college I building was completed. lishing the article alluded to above in order that our readers may correctly es¬ iiS'V&S $"£, »”» St-&: AAA A. r hundred mem6ers;be w'asllTsoTh'e friend'' —- land disciple of Walt Whitman, and has On the 28th of August, 1609, in latitude" ^published an essay explaining his eccen- thirty-nine degrees and five minutes north, Itric versifications. Henry Hudson, the English navigator, | In November, 1889, the Archaeological discovered a great bay, which, after hav¬ I Association of the University of Penn- " ing made a very careful examination of Esylvania was organized, and Dr. Brinton ' the shoals and soundings at its mouth, he Sat once became a leading spirit in its j entered, but soon came to the cautious ^councils, and by personal labor and influ- j conclusion that, he that will thoroughly 1ence . materially advanced its progress, f ■ discover this great bay, must have a small IThe formation of a museum is necessar¬ pinnace, that must draw but 4 or 5 feet of ily slow work, and too often lails through water, to sound before him. Thus Was 3 misdirected energy ; but this has not made known to the civilized world, the b been the fate of the undertaking' in ques-J 1 [first knowledge of that great hay, gfter- lion. Looking upon such a museum as ! j wards named Delaware bay in honor of | valuable in proportion to its collections H [Lord Delaware, who is said to have en- l being the result of exploration intelli-H ; tered it one year subsequently to the visit j gently conducted, Dr. lirinton insisted, fl i of Hudson. from the very outset, that by such means, I It is not the purpose of this paper to rather than by the purchase of ooliec-$ ’ treat of the early colonial historv of the tions or single specimens, should the, settlers along the Delaware bay and the |woilv be carried on. His wise counsel Delaware river, or even of that portion 'lias prevailed, and as material lor the il- ? which is included in the boundary lines [lustration of archaeological lectures, i:.cH of Delaware County, except to refer to it Universitj^ now possess hundreds of ob¬ so far as it relates to the boginning of jects of which every available fact with Baptist history in Delaware County. From reference to their history is known. the beginning the emigrants were com¬ I Brinton’s scientific work covers sol • posed of different nationalities, the larger j broad a field that it is difficult for anygone number coining from the British Isles and I person to follow wheresoever he leads- the Netherlands. Although coming to i but if it be a safe guide to accept the gen ¬ endure the hardships of the pioneer life in eral trend of criticism among arclueolo- a new world we find them bringing their desire to worship God just as they did in jgists, ethnologists,, and those learned in j linguistic.lore, he has touched upon no the land of their fathers. When William J subject without throwing light thereon, Penn, the Friend, landed in 1682 at Ches¬ j His latest work is “The Pursuit of Hap- ter he brought with him such a strength jpiness,” in which he aims to apply His! of persona] influence and such a number i studies of the nature of mail to the at¬ of adherents to this society, that not only tainment of a considerable degree of per¬ Delaware County bqt a still larger region sonal felicity. American science and adjacent,. grew up largely under the American letters may be proud of such a Friend’s influence, The Friends largely worker, for his position, both as a scien¬ predominated especially outside of Phila¬ tist and a litterateur, is no uncertain one. delphia, It is estimated by careful his¬ J Besides the two positions that he holds torians that in the early history of Dela¬ jin Philadelphia, to which reference has ware County nine-tenths were under the been made, Dr. Brinton has been Presi¬ influence and discipline of the Friends dent of the American Folk-lore Society But whence came the Baotists within jandof the Numismatic and Antiquarian' our borders at that early qay? The record Society ol Philadelphia ; he is a member of the first baptisms in tl}e streams of of the Anthropological Societies oi Berlin 1 Delaware County constitutes an interest¬ j and Vienna and of the Ethnographical v ing chapter in the Baptist history of (Societies ol Paris and Florence, the Royal m America. Let us examine with some care the very beginning. Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen, tiie 1 Royal Academy of History, Madrid, the ! Dr. George Smith, who has written an American Philosophical Society, the -x accurate andimpartial history of Delaware American Antiquarian Society, etc. County gives the following, “There were j He has received these academic de- m a few Baptists located within our limits at grees; a. B. and A. M., Yale College: a very early date. It is said that one Able M. D. andLL,D., Jefferson Medicai Col- Noble, who arrived in 1684, formed a jiege ; D. Sc., University of Pennsylva- society of Baptists in Upper Providence, Chester County, where he baptized Thos. Martina‘public Friend.’ Noble appears to have been a seventh-day Baptist and . From, belonged to a community that was after¬ wards known s; Kiethian Baptists Be¬ sides Thomas Martin, a number of bap¬ YY s. rc.' tisms are recorded as having taken place at a very early period, and at various places m the coifiity, but a highly inter¬ esting manuscript in the possession of Date, Robert Frame, Esq. of Birmingham, sat¬ isfies me that no regular church of the HISTORY OF fcAl^ISTS IN BELA-: Baptist persuasion had been organized unt 11715. Meetings, it is true, were held WARE COUNTY. m private houses in Chester, Ridley, Prov¬ idence, Radnor and Springfield, and bap¬ A mum-’ SKETCH OF A PAPER READ tism was performed according to ancient BY W. B. PATTON BEFORE order in the adjacent creeks, and even the THE MEETING OF THE DEL¬ Lord’s Supper was administered, but these were the doings ol variable congregations AWARE BAPTIST UNidN rather than tlte qots of an organized HELD IN MEDIA, church,” This is the account of the first baptisms, 0Jr ___ From ETie ancient records in trie possession of the Brandywine church and from Mor¬ < seventy-tour years, two generations. We gan Edward’s <‘Materials lor Baptist His¬ now see a Baptist interest arising in an¬ tory” we get stjll further information as fol¬ other neighborhood which developed into lows. Thomas Martiu baptized a number ’ the second church of the county and the ol other Friends and a Keithian society was eighth Baptist church in Pennsylvania organized October 12, 1(597 witli 19 mem¬ viz, the Marcus Hook Church. May 3rd bers, having Thomas Martin as their 1789 the church was organized with Rev. minister. This little band of disciples Eliphaz Dazey as pastor, with 16 members. continued to prosper until 1700 when the The church was received into the Phila¬ Sabbath question broke up the Keithian delphia Association in the following Oc- society. Those who observed the seventh ] tober. day as the Sabbath kept together at New¬ We now pass on forty-one years, an¬ town, where they had a small house of other long period that we may come to worship not far from the present New¬ the organization of the third church in town Baptist Church.' The others wor¬ the county. It seems like barren history shipped wherever they found the most to record the organization of but three comfort, without any church connection churches in something over a century. until 1714 when Abel Morgan, pastor of But let us remember that at that time the united churches of Pennepek and i Delaware County was not as at present a Philadelphia visited the neighborhood suburb to a great city and netted with and preached the glad tidings of truth. numerous railroads. The old times were Meeting with these Kiethian Baptists, slow times compared with the present. Mr. Morgan found them to be sincere The third church was constituted in Rid¬ Christians, and after conference with them ley, now the Ridley Park Church, in 1830, lie concluded to organize them into a mainly through the instrumentality of V church. A meeting for this purpose was Rev. Joseph S. Kennard, then pastor of held at the house of John Powelliu Provi- the Blockley Church in Philadelphia, as¬ Hdeuce township, at which Abel Morgan sisted by Rev. Win. S. Hall then a young ot Philadelphia, James Jones and Joseph man just entering the ministry. Eaton of Welsh Tract Church in Delaware, We now come to a period in which the were present. They then organized the churches multiply more rapidly than in Brandywine Church, the first Baptist / the early history of the county. Just two Church in Delaware County in the fallow¬ years afterward, on Nov. 10th 1832, the ing manner; ‘‘It being being the 14th Newtown Square Church was organized R day of the month vulgarly called June, with seven members. The first meeting p 1715, the first part of the day was spent in ot Baptists prior to tiie organization was fasting and prayer, to implore the blessing held in the house of Deacon Samuel Davis of God upon the proceedings. They then I' in Haverf ord. The meeting house was solemnly lifted up their hands in the name built in 1834, remodeled in 1860, and again of the Lord Jesus Christ and pledging in 1873, burned down in 1890, and the themselves to be governed by the Word l present edifice built in 1891. of God were recognized as a baptized The Upland Church is the fifth in order. Church of Jesus Christ, holding and main¬ It was organized in 1852, mainly through taining tho same principles and practices the instrumentality of the late John P. as other baptized churches in the province Crozer, father of the present Crozer fam¬ „ of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in Amer¬ ily, who brought his letter from the Mar¬ ica. Thus they were recognized as a sis¬ cus Hook Church. Inseparably connected! ter church by the aforesaid delegates from with the history of this church is the rec¬ Philadelphia and Welsh Tract Churches, ord of our beloved Crozer Seminary which and the church has had a clear line of has just passed its 25th anniversary. No 'blessed history until the present day. The brief sketch bore can adequately present ; church as constituted consisted of 15 the work lor Christ which it has accom¬ members, all of whom more than a cen¬ plished in Delaware County and through¬ tury ago passed over the river to unite out the world. Many churches have been with the glorified church above.” Such established through the influence of! was the origin of the first church in Dela¬ professors and students, who for all these ware County, no iar from where we meet years have faithfully toiled. What a 'to-clay. Long may Brandywine prosper power it will be in the future. under the blessing of the Great Head of The first church of Chester with 21 con¬ ; the church and may her history be un¬ stituent members mostly from the Up¬ broken in the centuries to come. land Church, was constituted September We are impressed at this day with the 24th 1863. Through the liberality of John solemnity and simplicity which charac- P. Crozer ground was secured upon which ■ terized the organization of this, our pio¬ Benjamin Gartside erected the lecture neer church, Equally so are we as we fol- room fronting on Penn street. Afterward |low its history. At first, the church met the present large and comm dious meet¬ Tor worship in private houses, but in 1718 ing house was erected. The church, look¬ the first Baptist meeting house was btiilt ing to the future has secured a still more ■for its home in Birmingham township as desirable lot in another part of the city. ■ many of the members lived there, also During the early part of the year 1871 the Banother house was built iu 1742 in Newlin Baptistsin Media began to holdkneetingsin ffl township to accommodate still another tho Court House. Tliis was followed bv jS branch of the church who lived about the erection of their church edifice which twelve miles distant. For nearly five was dedicated May 2nd, 1872. The church 3 years the church had no pastor and de- a'as duly recognized by a council of .S pended upon the hardy pioneer preachers churches,Bept. 12th of the same year. ■i of that day who nobty stood by the little Since then services have been regularly ,1 band. maintained and the church has prospered. From the organization of this first Realizing the need of more room, a build¬ H church until the organization of the sec¬ ing fund has been established which now ond we must pass over the long period of exceeds three thousand dollars. They I gladly welcome their sister churches to! this meeting almosnmTfuHsamj^^wS^^^ where the first church was constituted j norne Gur ers,' we^oufeV this very day, June 14th, one hundred and hot, from the church of heavenfy glory seventv-eight years ago. Took upon us to-day, to behold the loyalty xne meeting House for the North Chester with which we keep the vows we assum- Church was completed during 1872 and ed when we were baptized into the name first occupied in June of that year. The ; of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy church was recognized with appropriate Ghost. “Wherefore seeing we also are services, May 8th, 1873. James Irving j compassed about so with so great a erected the house at his own expense and i ofoud of witnesses, let us lay aside every has largely contributed to the support of j weight and the sin which doth so easily the church. beset us, and let us run with patience the During 1872 through the liberality of race that is set before us, looking unto Samuel A. Crozer, a chapel was built and * Jesus the author and finisher of our a church constituted in South Chester. faith.” .Since then Mr. Crozer has built an excel" ’ lent church edifice which stands in a growing part of the city. , About the year 1870, Mrs. John P. From, CC:./< Crozer purchased the meeting house which stands in Village Green and estab¬ lished a mission which was carried on by - the students of the Seminary. The . church was organized in 1880 and the late Dr. J. M. Pendleton preached the recog- Jon sermon. Mrs. Crozer also pur¬ Bate, sed a valuable property for a parson- and bequeathed a fund for the main- ance of the services. HISTORIC}. TV AJ7LS. At Lansdowne the first sermon was —-I—.- preached January 30th, 1887 in Mr. Mit¬ Workmen Excavate Foundation Wal chell’s parlor to a congregation of 32. The Which Are Noted church was organized February 14th of the same year with 13 members. May Woikmen while excavating for sever 24th the corner stone was laid and during new stores on the Conlin lot on Edgmor the same year the church edifice was avenue, below Third street, on Monday built. The church is located in a beauti¬ unearthed the foundation walls of thi ful and growing part of the town. building where the first Legislature o Coliingdale, the youngest in the sister¬ Pennsylvania met. hood ot Delaware Countv churches was organized in 1888, and although young It was a double house and (he lot on and feeble, looks hopefully forward to the wnich they stood was on an old plan oi future. Services are regularly maintained the borough of Chester, made about 1765. and much encouragement is given by the It was thought and so reported in the j community IrTwhicb the church is lo- History of Delaware County, that the old walis had been torn away and no one I am indebted to Rev. W. H. Burrell for was any the wiser until the excavations a sketch, ol the history of the chiirches of for the new stores were started. The our colored brethren, as follows s The first Assembly is supposed to have con¬ African Baptist Church of SOuth Chester, vened December 4,1682, and the old walls began in the fellowship of d few Baptists must have been built over three hundred *2“ T-ginia arid frda organized May, years ago. 1879. Mr. Saniuel A. Crozer was their friend m providing for them their house It has been suggested by many of Mr. ot worship. They have prospered since Conlin s friends that a tablet be placed their beginning and are contending for in the new buildings, with the history of the faith once delivered to the saints. the old foundation walls. The church at Fernwood was organized August, 1889, with 14 members. Their meetings are held in a hall, as so far they are destitute of a house of worship. The ^urohat Morton was organized in May, 1888, with 30 members. They have a neat and comfortable house of worship and have enjoyed prosperity. There is also a mission from the South Chester Church established at Moore’s station, near Rid-'-' ley Park. Such is a brief sketch of the history of the past. It speaks but little of the many trials, the devoted services, the consecra- Ji,- yes’ whicli ;u'e embodied in the es¬ tablishment of these sixteen churches.® THE ASSEMBLY HOU It is a cause of gratitude that of all the churches so far established, not one uas ’ disbanded. In every one, to-day, the v HfSlOKIAN ASBME4D COSISIBPlj gospel is preached and the ordinances % faithfully observed as they were deliv-4 AN INTERKBTINfJ PAPER ered by the apostles. Ret us look hope- > ---- ‘ ' lullv to the future aud with a firm faith I Tlie Old Sandeisnd House and the in Christ, the great head of the church, portant Part it Played in the resolve to be worthy descendants of a fl / Early History of the City aud State. Oil the 14th day of July, in this Colum¬ . ried Ann. the odTv daughter or Joran bia year, 1893, while workmen were dig¬ Kyn or Keen, the fouader of Upland,and ging the cellars for the buildings to be on June 13, 1670, he recieved a patent erected, on the land of Philip Conltn, on for the ground on which the “Double House” was afterwards erected-.' He ap¬ the West side of Edgmont avenue, South] pears to have beeu an enterprising man, of Third street, the most important arch- j a merchant who succeeded in acquiring geological discovery ever made in the Old for thosedays a large fortune In 1677 Borough of Chester, if not in the State of he is recorded as the only person within Pennsylvania, was unearthed. It was the present State of Pennsylvania who the foundations of the Sandeland dwell¬ owned a negro slave, while In the census ing, the “Double House,” wherein, on of 1630 he" is set down as one of the the 4th day of December, 1682, the first “responsible housekeepers.” Mrs Deb¬ Assembly ever convened in the province orah Logan, the owner of the old Logan met, continuing in session for three days house on Second street, demolished a few before Us final adjiurr ment, and over years ago to make placs-for J. J. Buck¬ whose deliberation for a part of the tinie ley’s packing establishment, when writ¬ William Penn, in person presided. ing of the “Double House” iu 1817 states] The foundations, the north end of that it “was built with lime made of oyster which began 182 feet from the intersec¬ shells, became rudtnous and fell down] tion of Edgmont avenue with Third many years since.” (Logan and Penn street, were In remarkably good preserva¬ Correspondence, vol 1, p. 46, note) M tion, while the sides as well as the addi¬ tions to the rear, at the northeast end, IMPORTANT IN HISTORY. were of such easy recognition that Assis¬ In 1827, in some notes, sbe pre¬ tant City Surveyor William Wood had pared for John F. Watson the no difficulty in determining the dimen¬ annalist, of Philadelphia, she made ,the sions of the aDcient structure. Its front¬ same statement, adding, “It was called age was fifty feet on Edgmont avenue, the Double House by the way of distinc¬ falling back at the south end towards tion My mother, Mary (Parker) NonD, Second street twelve feet from the build¬ who died la Chester, December 4, 1799, ing line of the present highway, while at well remembered it” Mrs. Logan is the north end the distance was fifteen recognized as an authority on the colon¬ feet. The depth of the main building ial history of the State and she asserts was forty-two feet, five inches. The that this house “was that in which the addition in the rear to the northwest end first Assembly for the Province and terri¬ extended three feet beyond the side of tories was held ” Professor Gregory B. the main structure, and was fourteen Keen (fJenna. Magazine of History, VoK feet in width and thirty-two feet in 2, p 416,) makes the eamj declaration length From a few courses of bricks and the “Traveller's Directory,” by' remaining iu the front wall above the Moore & Jones, an exceedingly scarce sto o work, it was evident that bricks volume, published In 1802, in an account had been laid in the form of a double of Chester, says: “The first Colonial] wall, a clear cleavage line or opening Assembly for the Province was convened botween the bricks was very noticeable in this place on the fourth day of Decem¬ extending the eutlre frontage of the ber, 1682, a part of the old wall still repl house, while inside of the cellar, on each mains” After the walls had entirely] side of the steps—there were two fi ghts disappeared from view tradition attached] of steps—were stone abutments, four in the meeting of the Assembly to the old all, doubtless designed to sustain the Friends’ Meeting House which stood on thrust and add to the strength of the the adiolning lot to the south of the walls. The briek3 were easily detached “Double House,” an absurdity inasmuch from the mortar, but the stone work ad¬ as the record of Chester Friends’ Meet¬ hered with great tenacity. ing shows that the mieting house was AN ANCIENT STBUCTU.8E. j not completed until the early part of 1694, nearly twelve years after the first coming The possibilities are that the old house, , of P*nn and the meeting of the Colonial wa3 built several years prior to 1675, and that-the bricks used in its erection were Assembly at Chester. The old Friends’ made at New Castle, for it is known that Meeting House was sold in 1736 to Ed¬ nearly twenty years prior to that .da’e ward Russell and within the memory of Cornelius Helperts de Jsger had a yard many persons yet liv ng It was u°ed bv and kiln at that place, giving employ¬ Samuel Long as a cooper shop. Long’s ment to four brick makers. (Penna. estate sold the lot in 1844 to Joshua and Archives, second series, Yol. 7, p. 516 ) Wiliiam P. Eyre and they in 1848 tore James Sandeland was a Scotchman, |or‘ down the old Friends’ Meeting House. gentle birth, bora in. 1646 It is probable' ONCE Tns VILLAGE HOTEL that his father was a sea captain, master la 1675. James Sandeiands kept tavern of the “Dutch Scotchman,” and that he iu the Double House. Early lu that year, Jorought his family to live at Upland, for Sandeland, in tooting a drunken Indian jertaln It is that the mother of James from his p-u m se3, used so much vio¬ Sandeland lived at Cl ester in February, lence, that the latter rubsequently died. 1684, as she was one of the witnesses ex¬ The incident seems to have aroused such amined at the trial of Margaret Matsotf, the witch of Ridley creek. James maijj^ , flfc'rc thenoTcd Interview betweenTenu] and Sandel&nd occurred, in 'No-, vember, 1082, as related by Mordecaij Howell, in his testimony on the great Chancery suit, between the heirs of Penn and Lord Baltimore (Penna Archives, second series, Vol XVI, Page 719) during which he stated, “Mr. Penn went to one Sanderlen’s, at a place then called Up-; land, but now Chester. * * But he Bate, .' (the witness) heard it talkt among the people that it was with intent to have built a city there, but that he and Sand- erlln could not agree.” Iu 1080. he gave FIFTY YEARS AGO a piece of ground on which a-court house and prison was erected, and from 1088 to 1090, represented the county of Chester, in the General Assembly. He died at To-Day Is the Anniversary of the Chester, April 12.1092, aged fifty-six years, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Great Flood is In fact,a memorial to his memory. The ancient tablet which formerly was placed over bis grave and that of his vrife Ann, in the body of old St. Paul’s, is still pre¬ . W. ANY LIVES WERE LOST served, set in the wall of the Sunday school room of the present church. f'The double house lot as well as other real estate in Chester descended to his John B. Rhodes Tells of the second son, Jonas Sandeland, and re¬ Terrible Disaster of Aug¬ mained iu the family until 17G2- The absolute title at the date mentioned was ust 5th, 1843. vested in Ann, the daughter of Jonas, and she being dead, her daughters by her first husband, (Richard Magee) Mary John B. Rhodes, the prominent manu-| Paine and Susannah Sheppard, sold their shares, the first to R'chard Russell and facturer of Aston, Las favored the Times the latter to Henry Hale Graham. P; « repUed*he“ would not pay while lib blood y To Mr. Kent, of Clifton, who, f< was warm.” Byre afterward gave Crook ! trouble, the properly having passed o twenty days notice and on February 21st, of Ssmuel Bancroft’s hands, petitions 1850, upon Crook’s refusing to pay, levied the Comt with the result as before men and drove five cows away. tloned. There had been no school he! Crook’s farmer, Joseph Hurst, selected there from 1890 until this year. the cows for him, (Byre ) A GOOD APPOINTMENT. Byre afterward advertised and held a 1 In the appointment of Mias Bertha sale at which no bids were offered. About IHannum.of Media, as teacher, th8 Ridley twenty persons were present, some out of 1 Falls authorities have made a wise curiosity.He then .’.advertised a second selection, she being a blight young lady time and sold the five cows at public sale of rare abilities, and will undoubtedly for ninety-five dollars, two being sold to make this school one of the best la the Ed D. Pierce and three to Wllllamt. county. CROOK MEANT BUSINESS. The School Directors, who have thuaH Crook was at both sales. At the firsl far served, are as follows : ae said, “Ariy man who purchases those CROOKVIUtE SCHOOI. DISTRICT, cows buys himself a law suit ” At the 1830—Wm T Crook, Hobert Buck, Jame3 W J second sale he claimed the cows and ut Daio, Wm Lees, Wm Turner, Jr., and Nathan tered the same word3 about a law suit as Chadwick, | at the first. 1851—Robert Hall, James Ousey and Elishal Williams cried the sale and struck off Gordon. j to himself three of the cows for forty one ! 1852—Jacob D Dudley, Thomas Crompton and \ dollars. j James E Holt The case was tried in Chester and j 1833 to ls58 no report. Crook brought down a hay wagon load ol TODMORDEN INDEPENDENT. men whom he seated in the court room, | 1859—Samuel Bancroft. Wm Turner.Timotby as the people of the township claimed at Dawson, Peter Barbour, Alex McBride and the time, to overawe the judges and jury Benjamin Lord. After Crook lost the case sgalnst Wll 1860— BeD.iamin Lord and Thomas Cohill. ! Hams, he (Crook) confessed .judgment in 1861- Pater Barbour and Chas E Bourne. (open Court for seventy nine dollars and 1863—Wm Turner, Samuel Bancroft, and j costs In the case against Pierce, the case j Wm Carn9y. oting settled without the return of the 1863—Samuel Bancroft. Jeremiah Craner and cows to Pierce. In the case against the iTimolhy Dawson. School Directors he suffered a noil pros I 1861 -Peter Barlow and Charles E Bourne. After all this Crookvllle remained a l£t>5— John Hibbetts, Wm Turner and Reu¬ separate school district until it was abol ben Allen. j ished together with all other Independent 1863-Samuel Bancroft John Hibbetts and districts throughout the State, by the Act •James Redmond. j of Assembly of May 8, 1854 1867—Joseph Richards and George Latch. By the Act of May 8, 1855, all Indepen 1868 - Reuben Allen and Wm Turner. : dent districts which were abolished bji' S* 1869— Samuel Bancroft and John Lawton. J he Act of 1854 were to continue unttjjg 1870— George Latch, John Hibbetts. ; Juns 1,1856, and twenty or more citizens 1871— No report. of a locality could petition the Court ol 1873—Samuel Bancroft, Charles Speed, Rob" Quarter Sessions to es’.abllst an Indepen¬ ert Cunningham. dent district. 1373—Wihiam Millener, John Dolin, M. Mar¬ tin. PETITION FOR TODMORDEN DISTRICT 1S74—Samuel Thomas, Frederick Heydon, Although Crookvllle was recognized Thomas Canning. after June 1,1850, a* indenpudent, It was; 1875— No report. not ^lil February 22d, 1858 that a peti 1876— Samuel Bancroft, James Hamilton, tioaffAs p-esented to the Court by citl- Mary LaDe, George Latch. zsm thereof praying that Todmorden 1877— Hugh Mcilutrie. Frederick Heydon. diftrlct be established. The Couri j Samuel Thomas, appointed Ell D Pierce, Wm, T, Pierce 1878— Samuel Bancroft, Michael J. MeMul- and John J. Johnson commissioners in lan. Alexander Wilson. the matter, to report at the next term of 1879— John Conway, Alexander Wilson. Court The Commissioners reported 188:—Samuel Thomas, Frederick Heydon, favorably, which the Court confirmed and Thomas R Nichols. decreed that the district be established 1831—George Dempster, Christian Wolfal, according to law. Todmorden had thus William B. Buckley. become an independent, district and has 18S3-Samuel Bancroft, Wm Buckley. always been recognized as such. It was 1883—Albert Clegg, John Wilson. a flourishing village until about 1883. 18:4—No report from then until the mil The mills then closing, no school was j started, about 18S5 or 1880, since which time held for a year or two About 1885 the Samuel Bancroft, Aaron Jewel, Wm Barnlield, mills started egaln and the School Board L Mabett, Edward Johnson, James Crystal. reorganized and school continued until Edward Worrall and Jesse Plumbley have about 1890 when the mills were again been elected directors. But Mr. Bancroft is closed j now dead, and the others have moved away, Lewis & Co,, of Philadelphia, acquired leaving the district without a board of diree- the premises and sold the mill property 'tfM&MillTff' i inf'' jjitl i 1 The Smith boys then fled, and for many weeks were lost to the closest search of American officers. Washington offered a reward of one thousand dollars for their capture. In New Jersey two young men, half starved, with suspicious demeanor, emerged from their seclusion to inquire of I a lad of only eighteen how near they were to the limits of the British army. This lad, with true American heart, caused their arrest. They were taken to Philadelphia, identified as the Smith boys and a few days later, in Chester, were court-martialed and hanged. Their bodies were sent to Elam for interment by the family. A STIRRING TALE OF THOSE It is said when he pronounced sentence TRYING DAYS. upon these men the great Washington _ wept. The Cruel Murder of Constable Boyd and the Subsequent Hanging of His Murderers- ' The following authentic story of local interest is nowhere found in print. While going to the autumn election in 1832 it was related by a George Hannum to ’Squire P. M. Frame, to day one of the oldest citizens of Birmingham, Delaware county. It was then entirely new to the ’Squire. By the corroborating testimony of several grandmothers who spun in those days he verified all the facts and now vouches for the truth of the entire A Pennsylvania Lemon Tree of CnequaleA story: Beauty and Size. In the village of Elam, Delaware county, While strolling through the beauti¬ in the dark days of the American revolu¬ ful lawn of Shadeland. Upper Darby, tion, in that huge ancient structure oppo¬ a few days since, viewing the sad site Bullock’s store, so long used as a havoc made bv the late storm upon hotel, lived a Smith family, presumably some of the pioneer ancestors of John and the grand old trees therein, my atten¬ the other Smiths of to-day. Of this fam¬ tion was attracted to a structure ily, John and Robert,both energetic young bearing a striking resemblance to one men, were actively identified with the of the huts of the South Sea Islander militia of the colonists in their drills. In due time, when open field work and funds of the late “Midway.” were alike needed to defend the canse of My genial host, Joseph Dunn, in¬ freedom assessments were made. Thomas formed me it was made to protect Taylor, of Concord township, was appoint¬ ‘■mother’s tree” from frost, and ap¬ ed collector. He lived on the farm now proaching nearer we beheld a ^nobie owned by Thomas E. Hibberd, near Con¬ cord station lemon tree full of fruit, in all stages Thomas Taylor solicited funds from the of maturity, from the tiniest forma¬ Smith boys in vain. At length he re¬ tion to lemons of a size seldom seen solved upon having recourse to the law. in our market—about 200 in alL The Accordingly he took with him Constable William Boyd armed with a warrant. They giant trunk measures 14 inches in found the Smiths absent. They had affec- circumference, and huge branches f|tion only for the British. The officers extend eight or ten feet high, cow seized a valuable black horse, which they ered with masses of dark, glossy led away to Collector Taylor’s home. When the Smith boys arrived and learn¬ leaves, flecked with pink tinted buds ed what had transpired they became ex¬ and snowy fragrant flowers. The ceedingly angry. Arming themselves with tree is a miracle of beauty and fra¬ guns they pursued the officers. Coming grance, and shows it has been loudly up to where the horse was tied by the gate they passed by seeking the officers, ■ and carefully reared. A few ques¬ who, sniffing danger, fled from tbe house tions drew forth its history. by the rear into a field of standing corn. A way back iu the 20’s the The Smith boys pursued. Constable from which this noble tree grew wa Boyd being lame, he was soon overtaken by Robert Smith who leveled his gun. planted by the owner’s mother, Boyd pleaded for mercy. The gun was then resided upon the Trvou Lewi drobped, but at that moment John came tarrn in Radnor. Several times upon the scene and cried, “Shoot him, has been frozen down to {.the la shoot the rascal.” Robert shot and mor¬ tally wounded Boyd. trunks. At the age of 50 Jit flgu t.Vw» nftntpnnial in 187 6. as tb€ largest and most flourishing tree hero. In the little cemetery attached to - (there, bearing 180 ripe lemons and St. David’s Episcopal Church at Radnor, [about 300 in all. It was badly Delaware County, Pa., stands yet another scorched by the tire at Lauber’s res¬ monument covering portions of the re¬ taurant, which was quite near the mains of General Wayne. The history Horticultural annex, and it required connected with this dual grave has never several years to recuperate. It is (been given to the general reading public, now perfectly healthy and wonder, Although it is a part of recorded local his- [fully luxuriant for its age, having itory. jdoubtiess few equals outside the The block house is a counterpart of one tropics. that occupied exactly the same site in the old days of Indian warfare, and served ]• Nothing would induce the owner as a rendezvous and headquarters for the to seud it to the World’s Fair for hardy pioneers who in those troublous tear of injury, but had it been there times found it necessary to be as skilled it would have reigned queen, for no in handling weapons of warfare as the tree in Hort.cultural Hall or else¬ tools of the husbandman. Many exciting incidents occurred on the site of this old where, in our estimation, could com- block house during and preceding the (pare with it. Revolution, and Fort Presque Isle, estab¬ It is so large that housing it has lished in 1753, adjoining it was one of Hbecome quite an undertaking, and the most important French outposts in the days of the French-Indian war, and ; (often robs it of its wealth of beauty later it was the garrison ground and mili¬ [and fragrance. Doubtless all feel tary post for our own troops. that it should be where it need not The original block house was built in jbe disturbed and have an even tem¬ (1795, and was for. some time afterward a j military station. It was, through an act perature, etc., but the words ; of vandalism, burned in 1853. Even as (’ate as 1812 this historic spot echoed with the sounds of martial activity, for right under the bluff on which the block house stood, and within a stone’s throw, ran the old channel that led from the bay to i > Lake Erie, through which Perry’s fleet passed on its way from the shipyards to the famous naval fight and victory on Lake Erie. To this channel entrance on a cold day in the Fall of 1796 came a vessel from Detroit bearing General Wayne, who had embarked from that port after concluding peace negotiations with the northwestern Indians, subsequent to a successful mili¬ tary campaign against them. He was on his way to his eastern home, and was seized with a severe attack of gout soon after embarking on the vessel, and when the port of Erie was reached he was so 'he Revolutionary Hero Honored ill that it was not deemed safe to move him any further. By his own direction be at; Both Ends of Pennsylvania. was taken to the block house and a cour¬ ier was sent to Pittsburg for Dr. J. C, Wallace, who had served as surgeon dur¬ ing his Indian campaigns, and who was BURIED AT RADNOR AND ERIE. familiar with his ailment. Dr. Wallace only got as far on the way to the relief of his patient as Franklin when he learn¬ ed of General Wayne’s death, which oc¬ curred December 15, 1796. During his" How His Remains Came to Be Distribu¬ illness he received all the care and at¬ tention it was possible to give, and two ted—Old St. David’s Church. Yard days after his death his body was buried (at his own request in a plain coflin, at the in Delaware County and the foot of the flag-staff of the block house, in uniform and boots. The top of the Block House at Erie. coffin was marked with his initials, “A. W.,” brass-headed tacks being used. In the Fall of 1808 General Wayne’s 1 daughter, Mrs. Altee, while seriously ill, On a sightly bluff on the garrison expressed the wish that her father’s re¬ grounds at Eri£, Pa., guarding the chan¬ mains should lie in the family burying- nel entrance to Presque Isle Bay and ground. Realizing that it was her death¬ overlooking the broad expanse of Lake bed, and with a desire to please her. Col¬ Erie* and within the handsome part of the onel Isaac Wayne, the general’s son, con¬ Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, sented to carry out her wishes. He camefe istands a block house erected a few years to Erie in the Spring of 1809, through the' ago by the State to mark the resting- wilderness in a sulky. Arriving at his place of at least part of the dust of Gen¬ destination he sent for Dr. Wallace, who had in the meantime located _in Erie, and ,r. eral Anthony Wayne, the Revolutionary 'with him concluded arrangements where- [by the remains were to be prepared for OLD ST. DAVID’S, RADNOR. In this churchyard a part of "Mad Anthony’’ Wayne's remains are buried. removal; Colonel Wayne declined to wit¬ But the grave was not permitted to ness the disinterment. The body had lain rest forever forgotten. In 1875 the late in the graves so long that it was expected Dr. Germer, who was then Health Officer that nothing but the bones remained. of Erie, and who was an earnest admirer, Imagine Dr. Wallace’s surprise to find it of General Wayne’s military deeds, began | in a semi-petrified condition and in an al¬ a systematic search for the grave. In the; most perfect state of preservation, with interval since its last disturbance the! the exception of one leg and foot. Dr. block house and all the old landmarks Wallace divided the body into convenient above ground had disappeared, and it took! parts and had to boil them in order to long searching and digging to bring it to separate the bones from the flesh, as it light. Finally the base of the old flag¬ would be impossible with the primitive staff was found and soon what was left means of transportation to carry more of the original grave of General Wayne than the bones packed into the smallest was uncovered. A portion of the top of; compass through the wilderness that then the coffin with the initials ‘‘A. W,” was! existed. They were strapped to Colonel in a good state of preservation. This, . Wayne's sulky and in that way safely with other relics of by-gone days,_now j , conveyed to the family burying-ground in forms a miniature museum in the main! Eastern Pennsylvania, and the flesh and room of the block house dedicated to his other parts of the body were reinterred memory. The grave has been walled up in their former resting-place. with stone ana everything done to pre-| F " T ■ * THE OLD BLOCK ROUSE AT ERIE. Built 1795, destroyed 1S53. From an old painting. * A , — .. self-chosen resting-place of Mad '-nrjlliam Penn, the Beilars, Whor- .ny Wayne, one of the bravest and Townsends, Bickleys, Pu- dashing heroes of the Revolutionary seys and a dozen other kindred spirits would gather to discuss the affairs of simple justice to Colonel Isaac the early settlers and frame laws for the ayne, it should be stated that neither he government of themselves and Quaker ■any of the relatives knew or were in- brethren. aed of the condition of the remains at No stranger ever visits Upland without the time the grave was opened, or they going out to the "Old Penn House" ag would not have sanctioned further pro¬ the place is known though why it should . ceedings looking to the removal of the be so called is inexplicable unless it is body.—Buffalo Express. on the ground that there Penn spent many evenings. As a matter of fact it appears that the[ house was the home of Caleb Pusey and 1 that Penn was merely a visitor, though a very frequent one. From local traditions it is learned that the place was built by Caleb Pusey in 1683, just about a year after the estab¬ lishment of the Chester Mills, of which Pusey was the manager, and the site was chosen as much for convenience as for its natural beauties though the latter were by no means lacking. The house was originally one-and-a- half stories in height and had only two rooms, one on the ground floor, the sec¬ ond being the attio or loft, entrance “OLD PEffl HOUSE”! to the latter being by means of a crudely made ladder. The windows on the ground floor were primitive in style with the old fash¬ ioned diamond panes, while those In the .A. Quaint attic were more like doors than windows. The roof was the old "Dutch” and was Chester. of tiles and shingles while the house C' - ' itself was of brick brought over from England for that express purpose and the walls are of unusual thickness. WHERE THE PUSEYS LIVED There Caleb Pusey and his wife lived for many years, but Anally it was sold by him and he removed to Marlborough in Chester county, where, he died at an ad¬ And. Where Penn Spent Many vanced age. an Evening. The old house in the course of time be¬ came the property of Richard Flower and by him was bequeathed to his heirs who in turn transferred it for a monetary con¬ sideration together with all mill proper¬ ties to John P. Crozer in ' 1845. That event marked an epoch in the history of Upland. j Modem houses were built for the mill employes, streets laid out and the place in the course of a few years became the model of a thrifty milling village. The Pusey house alone remained as a memory. It is now owned jointly by Samuel, Robert and Charles Crozer the sons of John P. Crozer and the passing years have brought but few changes to the ancient dwelling. A small wing was built against the southern end, but it, too. is so old that it is with difficulty distin¬ guishable from the original building. A small frame porch has been placed in front of the old doorway, the ladder lead¬ ing to the attic has given way to wind¬ ing stairs while a modern range Alls the fire-place before which Pusey, Penn and their friends UBed to sit and toast their toes before a blazing fire of logs. Other¬ wise the little house is exactly as it was some three hundred years ago. To-day and for the past twenty-two years it has been occupied by John Jor¬ dan, a colored coachman, and his family and many a party of visitors have tiler shown over the building telling the# THE OLD PENN HOUSE. legends, and quaint lore of people long since dead and forgotten. j Within sight of the famous old Chester It is related as a part of the1 local his¬ Mills in Upland township, and facing the tory of the place, that when William Penn j mil! race there stands to-day and has lived in Chester he was never happier than when after a pleasant row up Ches¬ ! stood for more than two hundred years ter creek, he could spend an evening with j the quaintest, queerest little building in his old friend and fellow-emigre, Caleb [ all Pennsylvania. It is a building that Pusey. links the past with the present and about During the celebration of the Bi-Centen¬ nial the Crozer brothers had a model of j which cluster memories and legends of :the Pusey house built. It was placed on men and women whose names are indis¬ I a float and formed one of the chief at¬ solubly associated with the history of the tractions of the procession that passed State. • through Chester’s streets during the great • 3 Y2 _ in honor of Penn’s landing.) io-uay the model occupies a prominent; [position upon the magnificent lawn in '.the grounds which surround the residence of Mr. Charles Crozer on Main street, in Upland and is an object of almost as uch interest to the visitor as is the lglnal dwelling. P.»r» of the Prism Built in 1695 Still Date , i "/.£&£, Standing. The west side of Edgmrnt avenue south Sheriff' Carr’s Grandmother.—Mrs. of Eber James’store is occupied entiiely Martha Carr, widow of the late Janies I by commission houses, with the exception) Carr, was born on the 6th of April, 1806,; of one building neatly opposite Graham) at St. Mary’s, Chester County, Pa., being street. This is used as a dwelling. This now in her eighty-ninth year, and has house was a part of the wall of the o’d resided at her present home, corner of court house and t rison used in the early [Gulf road and Aberdeen avenue fori dajs of the colony. seventy-six years. Her maiden name [ The old wall forms part of the northern! was Clemons, being a daughter of Ser¬ gable, extending nearly to the second! geant Patrick Clemons, of Col. Bull’s story. The old wall and the part added! regiment of Revolutionary fame, and only his absence with a scouting party in bkiidiBg the present structure can be! that night saved him from being a victim easily discerned. The jail was in the cel¬ of the Paoli massacre. She has also the lar and the iron rods which barred thej honor of being the mother of fourteen escape of the prisonere,while not obstruct¬ children, all of whom were living at one ing the fresh air, are still in the frames time ; seven of them, with the father, of the cellar windows. The court room have passed to their rest, the mother and was in the first story and the jury rooms seven remain. There are also living at on the second floor. the present time twenty-six grandchil¬ This old court house an3 j ul was built) dren, forty-five great grandchildren, ard in 1695 and th9 part of the wall of the) one great-great-grandchild. During the present house is therefore just one year war of the late Rebellion, five sons en-( listed under the Stars and Stripes and less than two centuries old The masonry served with the Armies of the Potomac is still a3 substantial as the walls of any and James, and strange as it seems all of the buildings adjacent, built within the lived to return home and are all living at past few years. the present time with the exception of ne. The names of those who entered v re ranks are : Clement, Morton, Mc- 'lees, Isaac and Rush ; the latter died From, .'h'G’Jl. fter the war ended. On any fine day the ubject of our remarks may be seen sit¬ ting in her high-backed chair on the porch, living in the memories of the past E >.i/Av and enjoying the visits and calls of | friends. The little old stone house stands at the northeast corner of Gulf road and Date, Aberdeen avenue, and the rear portion i(now) was erected one hundred and fifty years ago. In 1804 an addition was built iin front ; the interior of both wings are; ?as old-fashioned as can be seen anywhere, ANTHONY WAYNE’S t there are wooden latches, fire-places, etc. ; Mrs. Carr owns considerable land in the vicinity of the old homestead ; on the North it extends to the county lines of NEGLECTED GRAVE. Chester and Montgomery. Though liv-j _ ing at Mount Pleasant, Wayne is her post office address. Her son, Isaac, re¬ The Decaying* Stone in Radnor mained unmarried and he is living at the old homestead, taking care of his aged Churchyard Is the Sold¬ mother and looking after the household affairs. Sheriff Carr intends to have a ier's Only Public family photograph made soon that will embrace five generations, as follows : Monument. His grandmother, mentioned above, Clement Carr his father, himself, his lghter, Mrs. Wm. H. Cornog and her —-Elwood T.i—^ Carr—A-. -!Cornog..—a-—w WAYNE’S SECOND INTERMENT j ■ T6 sylvania Sootefy- of the Cihbinha 3 Accepted Historical Account Shown ing assembled an address was made Colonel Francis Johnston, who said, to be Inaccurate and Evan the among other things: “Permit me my dear friends, barely to mention1 to you Spot Where His Remains Lie the name of Wayne! General Anthony Wayne! General Wayne was, at the is Somewhat Uncertain. early dawn of our revolution awakened [ to a just sense of our country’s wrongs and gloriously prompted to risk his life and yet, the honorable but neglected re- g / HERE recently I mains of this once highly revered mem¬ ber of this, our society, now lies on the fT-d “ Lump «B appeared in "The dreary, inhospitable beach of Lake Erie .v. 'sT.-J&'i'zK ff * Press” an ac¬ Certainly then my brothers of the Cin¬ count of the re¬ cinnati, it behoves us to drop a tear moval of the re¬ over his scattered ashes, and if per¬ mains of Major chance, our footsteps should touch that hapless shore that drank in his blood, General Anthony j gently, Oh! gently, let us tread among Wayne from ! his uncoffined bones.” Presque Isle, on A resolution was then offered and the shores of immediately adopted to erect a monu¬ Lake Erie, to ment to Wayne to cost $500, and the ma®6 ter was placed in the hands of a com¬ Radnor, near mittee consisting of Colonel Johnston, Philade lphia. Major Jackson and Horace Binney. The This article has above action of the Cincinnati, which suggested the was most probably the result of a sketch . . questions: I n of Wayne’s life and services which had what year did the reinterment actually ■ appeared in the ”Portfolio” for May, 1809, together with an excellent portrait ianri wf;3.the event publicly observed^ engraving by David Edwin, of course and in what part of Old Radnor Church¬ ■proves conclusively that no such pub¬ yard do the General’s bones really lie? lic funeral at described in Dr. Stllles’ All accounts of the reinterment of Mad i book could possibly have taken place on Anthony are so manifestly inaccurate [July 4, 1809. that no reliance can be placed in any On July ’4 of that year a gentleman having noticed a printed account of the Dr Stifle < °f,date whIch ^ey contain [proposed monument, writes from New ~r.r-J?tille’ l,11 his recently published "Life York city, to the editor of a Philadel¬ teni™6, which has attracted wide at¬ phia newspaper,,enclosing a letter which tention, says: “His son, Colonel Isaac he had received from a friend some pf,^ne' In 1S,09 caused his remains to be ■ time bef ire, who was traveling near the removed ana reinterred in the family Great L .kes. This letter was dated from Fort L( Beauf, August 25, 1807, and savs: , I-* attached to St. David’s “There was foriherly a considez-able Chuich at Radnor. The very impressive garrison kept at Presque Isle.. Reflect¬ ceremonies which took place on this oc- ing that the remains of that old wor¬ irf^ thAaie f1Ily descrIbed by Mr. Lewis thy veteran, General Anthony Wayne, book/® supplementary chapter of this were interred at His particular request under the flag-staff belonging to this fort. I was inducedVone morning to pay Ahe? A° the chapter by Mr. it a visit. He lies \ neglected and for¬ Sh ill fiRd the following statement gotten. The hero wfcs interred beneath I Jiicn is very much at variance with the the flag-staff, which,V as If conscious of facts: "His remains in the first in¬ stance were interred at Erie. In 1803, the Pennsylvania Society of the Cin- jcmnati determined to erect a monu- m x (ment to his memory in the cemetery of the Church of St. David’s in Radnor, Delaware County. In consequence of the resolution. Colonel Isaac Wayne, the general’s son, visited Erie in June of year ('• c- 1809), and caused his father s remains to be exhumed, and mley „?Ler® rem°ved to Waynesborough. 1 he 4th of July was appointed for the reinterment of the remains at St. Da- ; vid s. Mr. Lewis further informed us that on the date appointed, viz., the 4th of July, 1803, vast crowds attended the burial. The City Troop (according to Mr. Lewis), under command of Robert Wharton, was present, with other vol¬ unteer companies. Further than this we are told that the Rev. David Jones I preached a stirring sermon to the mul¬ titude, and that a veteran of Wayne’s [earlier campaknes, marched out from Philadelphia .before the procession. Mr. [Lewis also says that another great serv¬ ice was held at St. David’s upon the oc¬ casion of the unveiling of the monu¬ ment, two years later, in 1811, and at ithat time some companies of militia al¬ so assembled. A CONTRADICTORY ACCOUNT. Unfortunately for Mr. Lewis' narra¬ tive there is extant a contemporane¬ ous account of the celebration at Phila¬ delphia of July 4, 1809. On that day the the honor committed to her care, impa-' First City Troop, instead of marching tiently waited for the sepulchral hon¬ ors due from his country, but alas, And- , to Radnor had a comfortable dinner, Ing him at last neglected and forgotten, as is their custom, at a tavern at Falls the enclosure prostrate, and his grave I of Schuylkill. That day also the Penn¬ polluted by unhallowed swine, she fell, and in her fall embraced the Hero." After saying that he replaced the palings ^ surv _ which had once enclosed the tomb he continues, “At. the head of the grave Power~to~their*f^/?on^est tributeTn^their stands a small mls-shdpen flat stone, nicked out of the rubbish of the fort, thousands of monum^lP^^ this™v with A. W., the initials of the General’s name, scratched with. a nail. No epi¬ -sssf taph! The wretched space below was yet hundred fold tha ,w,aT\a wo:rfhine s an unoccupied. Could I depart and leave it marks the last riL5ecayl,n?: st°ne which still blank? No, my friend, I could of Washington Ti?1* of the peer not; but with my penknife engraved in kept sod at secluded uPon.the un- rude, but legible characters ‘Shame on ?azmg on this; fat- David’s and my Country!’ ” half-efPaccd inscription6 ^°ne’ THE TIME OP REMOVAL. recognition of thehero on,y Pub,!° It may be that Colonel Isaac Wayne j one is indeed temntod stoney Point, went to Erie in June of 1810, instead off the traveler at T«n,‘° exclaim with 1809, although there was no public ser¬ upon my country-” que Isle- Shame vice held at St. David’s on July 4, 1810,' THOMAS ALLEN GLENN. either, for at a meeting of the Cincinnati held July 4 of that year it was resolved that “the committee who have superin¬ tended the monument of General Wayne, be instructed to erect the same over his remains where they now lie, in the; County of Radnor.” it having been the intention of the Cincinnati in the first! instance, apparently, to place the monu-1 ment at Erie. From this it would ap¬ pear that the remains were removed either in the Fall of 1809, or the Spring < of 1810, and that the reinterment was private. The unveiling of the monument Date, •'.r/.iyVl at Radnor, on June 5, 1811, appears to have been quite an imposing event, but It seems that it was not the Rev. Davis SOME NOTABLE MEN. Jones, but Dr. William Rogers, pro¬ fessor of rhetoric at the University of Pennsylvania, who made the stirring JOHN LABKIN, JB. address on that occasion. The various volunteer companies of ■V,; horse, forming then the First Pennsyl¬ The subject of this sketch has just vania Regiment of Cavalry, commanded 4 by Colonel Robert Wharton, Lieutenant passed his ninetieth birthday. This is a John Smith, and Major Hughes, as¬ remarkable age for a man who has, all his sembled at Evans’ tavern, near the life been as active and industrious as has permanent bridge, at 5 o’clock A. M., been Mr. Larkin. on June 5, 1811, and moved out the Lan¬ caster road until they were met by He bids fair to be with us for years to Isaac Wayne, "Esquire,” at the junction come, and we all hope he may. We are of the old Lancaster Road and the Nor- all proud of Mr. Larkin, and we have • ristown Road, who, together with the Norristown Volunteer Cavalry, conduct¬ reason to be. He is one of the founders ed the procession to St. David’s Church. aad makers of Chester City. In doing The monument to be unveiled had been this he has not left a train of suffering in placed in _position some days before by PTraquar & ComparTyT stone~ cutters, of his wake. I am told he never forclosed a Philadelphia, who had also prepared the mortgage on a purchaser struggling to ob¬ stone and carved the lettering. tain a home. This is remarkable when Few persons are aware that another memorial to Wayne is extant on the old we consider the great amount of his busi¬ Rp.dnor churchyard. It is in the shape ness transactions and sales of real estate. of a half-effaced inscription on the vault He has been a successful man. But he containing the remains of the General’s wife, and simply states that he lies did not achieve success by gulling others buried at Presque Isle. The grave is down. God’s blessing, as well as man’s, so placed near to the church wall and must rest upon such a man. When he surrounded by other ancient stones that dies this and more wiil be said in the fnn- ic would have been impossible to have erected the Cincinnati’s shaft here. Is eral sermon, but I say it now. He has is possible, as has been suggested, that just as much right to hear it or to read it the General does not repose under the as have the weeping mourners who fol¬ "Wayne monument,” but lies buried be¬ side his wife, and that the marble shaft, low after. with its lettering already carved thereon Mr. Larkin was always a remarkable was set up :.s near as might be to the man. If yon we re to ask him what was soldier’s grave on the convenient and commanding knoll which it now occu¬ his occupation in life I think it would pies? Who can now say? puzzle him to tell you. He might say he The above facts, scanty as they are, had been a farmer, a merchant, a vessel were only gathered by long search, through flies of the last decaying news¬ captain, that he ran a saw mill, was a coal papers of the past, and it is very prob¬ and lumber dealer, a builder, even a able that other and more valuable Infor¬ .speculator in land and a financier, if not mation respecting General Wayne may a politician. He has been Sheriff, Legia. be found in the same repositor:/. In view of the most meritorious services rendered lator, Councilman and Mayor, besides by Major General Anthony Wayne dur-1 filling numerous minor offices, and he fill¬ ing and subsequent to the Revolution, ed the bill in every position and avoca¬ and considering the fact that he was the most distinguished officer given by Penn¬ tion. He knew more law than soma law. sylvania to the War for Independence, yere, but was alwas wise enough not tc it seems, indeed, incomprehensible that act as his own lawyer no movement has ever been inaugurated! to erect a monument to the memory of I once heard John M. Broomall, speak, Pennsylvania's first soldier. ing of Mr. Larkin, say that he was sue The plain marble shaft at Radnor has cessfnl in all bis many undertakings be¬ served its purpose, and should now exist cause he always put energy into his work I have thought of this remark many times ~~ * ' - and while it is true, it is not Sufficient, of itself to account for Mr. Larkin’s success. There is something; ebe to be considered. Bneiness paths are strewn with the wrecks of energetic men Mr Lirkin was always a man of uuas- jsuming manners. He was never inclined to put on aay airs of superior importance or gr£iu wisdom. Bathe was always of importance in every ahair in which he was engaged, and he possesses that prac¬ tical wisdom which enabled him to know when the proper time came for action. He never seemed to be in a hurry, though POINTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST he had large business interests to care for IN DELAWARE COUNTY. and look after. He has always been pos¬ sessed with a mind disposed to singleness ;and directness of purpose. He went BY MISS H. EMILY GROCE, PRINCIPAL straight at his work, backed up by sound OF THE LANSDOWNE PUBLIC judgement and he followed the scriptural SCHOOL. injunction “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” Here is a man, possessed with unusual Read Before the Delaware County Teach¬ capacity, both physical and mental, bless- ers’ Institute, November 8, 1891. 1 led with great length of davs, now quietly |passing them amid his family, friends and j neighbors, who has not buried the talents The same poetic fantasy that causes j entrusted to his keeping oy the Master, one to look with pleasure on the scenes (but has made use of them in multiplying jthem for the benefit of his fellows, who, of his childhood, creates in 11s all, to [with one accord, rejoice to behold his even a more intense degree, a desire to ipeaceful life and rise up and call him study the childhood of our nation, and blessed. jj especially of that section of it which J we call “home.” From, The first permanent settlement made within the bounds of Pennsylvania .GLl, was made in our own little county. In 1642 the Swedes,under the governorship of John Printz, established the colony Date, of New Sweden, and the seat of govern¬ A Local Relic of the War of 1812. ment was located on Tinicum Island. -J,1,10 American is indebted to Col. Jos.' They also built a fort here named New , Willcox tor a copy of the following roster ot a company,; of cavalry raised in this Guttenburg, and a mansion for the 3 county in the war of 1812-14. It did serf Governor, known as Printz Hall. The 4 jvice under command of Capt. John Will- | cox, but no record of it has been kept, remains of the chimney of this house j j and as nearly all of the names represent were standing within the present cen- j ;our old families, doubtless some of the tury, and even to-day a small yellow j descendants can send to the American , some reminiscense of this service. Most foreign-made brick may bo picked up | ; °f our older citizens of the present day in that locality. The site of the man¬ remember these men, for their sons and daughters are still all around and about sion was near the present Tinicum) us. We have seen the original copy in Hotel. Governor Printz was quite a| the hand-writing of Capt. John Willcox, diplomatist and managed both fed man I and the following is its text with the names added : and white man equally well, so as to j The subscribers being willing to render then- prevent hostilities. His services were! country all the service in their power at this important crisis and to join and assist in pro¬ so much appreciated by bis Sovereign, tecting their family and property from the that in addition to his annual salary as \ ravages and plunder of an invading force—do agree to form themselves into a Company of Governor, in 1643, the whole Island ofl Cavalry—to he governed by such rules and regulations and commanded by such officers as Tinicum was granted to him and to his J shall be adopted and agreed upon by the mem¬ bers. The election of officers to he held when¬ heirs. ever a sufficient number of members shall have In 1646 a church was consecrated to signed tlieiruuvii names.nivmco - Isaac Cochran, E. Pearson, divine worship and a burial place was David Baker, Preston Eyre, laid out on this same island. William Boon, Win. Kerl'in, Geo. Dun, Jun. Win. Eyre, In June of the same year a great con¬ John Kerlin, Thos. Smith, Luke Cassir, Peter Hill, vocation of Indians, including ten C. Churchman, John A.. Donne. Thos. Hempil, J. K. Hill, sachems, was held at Printz Hall. Samuel Boon, G. W. Hill, Here the league of friendship between] Jos. W. Pennel, Wm. Hill, John Hinkson, Thos. Robinson, Swede and Indian was renewed. Joseph Black, Robt. K. Coburn, John Willcox. In 1072 the celebrated George Fox, in the records of the Chester Court, founder of the religious society of in August,Auppnst lr.Rn1680, fla jury1 11 r\T nfof wmvimiwomen iirnr.was • friends, passed through the whole ex appointed. This is the only instance of y i - I tent of our county en route from New the kind on record. Having now occu-, England, but he had no mission for the pied the country for some years, thee Swedes, so passed on ; little ones were springing up about! In the same year the first court was them, and the all-important subject oft established at a place then called Up¬ education began to absorb their atten-l land, and the first instance on record of ( ! tion, so at a monthly meeting held in appointment of guardians - for minors Darby. 7tlr Mo., 7th, 1692, it was agreed was made in this court in 1677. It was that Benjamin Clift should “teach the case of Hendrick Johnson, deceased. scoole one whole yeare, except two Jan Jansen and Morten Mortensen weeks.” His salary for the year was were appointed to be overseers and £12 less than $00, and to be boarded by guardians. The population of the his employers. Among the emigrants present Delaware county was at that to this country now came a number of time two hundred and forty persons. Episcopalians, and in 1700 a log house In 1680 William Penn negotiated was built on the site of St. David’s or with Charles II. for the tract of land Radnor Church in which they wor¬ now known as Pennsylvania, and the shipped until 1715, when the present next year the little court at Upland church edifice was completed. In 1702 passed into English hands. In 1675 a church was built at Marcus Hook, We first read of anyone outside the the present site of St. Martins. Ser¬ Swedish Church’ preaching in this ter¬ vices had already been held for some ritory. At that time William Ed¬ time in St. Paul’s Church, in Chester. mondson, a traveling Friend, preached In 1713, a congregation of Seventh-day at the house of Robert Wade, in Up¬ Baptists organized in Newtown. In land . 1706 a road was laid out from Darby to William Penn reached this country to Chester, known as the “ Queen’s October 27, 1682, in his ship Welcome. Highway,” afterward called the King’s He landed at Upland, but it was to Highway, and in 1766 registered as be known as Upland no longer. In re¬ Darby and Chester road. In 1683 a membrance of the city from whence he king’s highway was opened from Prov¬ came he called it Chester, and the idence to Chester, and in 1686 one from name Chester county was given to all Bethel to Marcus Hook. the surrounding district. This same In 1712 an act was passed to prevent! year the Welsh bought up 40,000 acres the importation of negroes and Indians of land and made settlements named into this province. This was the first after the homes they had left—Morion, restriction on that demoralizing human Haverfield, afterward changed to Hav- traffic, which had been introduced into erford, Radnor, Newtown and Goshen this country nearly one hundred years The following year, 1683, William before by a Dutch trading vessel. In Penn made his famous treaty with the 1714 the Chester monthly meeting of Indians. This is the earliest treaty on Friends decided that Friends should record ; the only treaty never sworn not thereafter be concerned in the im¬ to and the only treaty with the In¬ portation nor purchase of slaves. diaus that was never broken. Chester Wm}. The old Town Hall in Chester, which Mills, on Chester Creek, were erected was used as a courthouse up to the time the same year. This is the site of the of the removal of the seat of justice to ! present 11 Forestdale Mills, ” owned by Media, was erected in 1724. 5 George G. Dutton. The first mission from t.hothe Romancm,-.,,,,. In 1688, Friends having settled about j Catholic Church within the present Darby, a meeting-house was erected on - :; limits of Delaware county was estab-I lished about ■the hill now occupied by the burying- 1730,' at the- residence ofVA |B 'ground. In the year 1700 Haverford Thomas Wilcox, at Ivy Mills. The Meeting-house was built. Previous to church services were conducted in the this they worshipped in an old build¬ dwelling-houses of the Wilcox family I ing erected in 1688. In this new build¬ W- ' K\: i for a century and a quarter, when the! ing William Penn preached during hisj present handsome church was erected! second visit to Pennsylvania. there. . A. 4 i .. 1,1 'a minute of thSSSHHH QEst I in 1738, it speaks of the vain practice of hatchet ( r suppose it was the same his- LnnK at marriage ceremonies, * .^T*Vit?f1ha,tChet)- ^hington kept from which we may infer that this cus- a lock ol the hair as a memento. |tom was part of the wedding festivity ? .! °n the day following the battle , we hear of such a remark! ItT, American army passed through rble freak of lightning as that which I °u lts mar°h to Philadelphia. occurred in November, 1768. A youno- I the following winter, during the en¬ woman, Margaret Levis, of Springfield • campment at Valley Forge, Radnor was the victim. She was struck down! 1 irends Meeting-house was used as a apparently lifeless, but soon after re-1 J hospital. vived. Tiie uppers of her shoes were On the 10th, 11th and 12th of Decern- 1 torn from the soles, and even the silver giber ,1779 Cornwallis, with a detach- 4 buckles thereon were partially melted. ment of British soldiers, passed through 1 This young lady afterward became the , Darby, Haverford and Radnor, strip- 4 wife of Thomas Garrett, and the grand- f| ;pmg many families of their provisions ■ mother of Isaac P. Garrett, of Lans- \ ■jmoney, clothing and even of their fur- *! downe. M.mtuie. The cruelty of this premedi¬ I A road to Strasburg, or what is now tated raid was scarcely excelled by known as the West Chester road, was i 1 ockburn on the Atlantic coast in 1814. I laid out in 1770. In 1780 the Legislature of Pennsyl¬ We think that of late years silk cul vania passed an act for the gradual | ture has been introduced into this |(abolition of slavery. | country, but it is simply a revival of Jr, Since the Island of Tinicum has from one of our earliest industries In 1734, the first played such an important part | silk had been manufactured here in jin the history of our country, in 1780 Delaware county and the silk worms it felt itself of sufficient importance to fed from our own native mulberry tree. : be made a distinct township. Hereto- 1 The hostilities with the mother coun¬ | tore it had been part of Ridley. It pe- try first began to agitate this section in : j titioned the court and its request was 1776. The British had built a fort at /j granted. K Billingsport on the Jersey shore. Its j t0 this time Delaware county and jj proximity to Hog Island made it neces- ■■ Chester county have been one under* jjsary to fortify this point. This they the name of the latter. Now those! | decided to do by overflowing the j people living in the western section off I island. Militia were kept stationed in the county felt that the seat of justice | different ^parts^of our county, but on ■ was not sufficiently central, so at last | the eleventh day of September, 1777, succeeded in having it removed to West; I the climax was reached. The two I PL ester. Then those living in the ■ | armies were within seven miles of each vicinity of Chester being dissatisfied , I other. On one side the Brandywine;^ appealed to the General Assembly that I lay Howe with his army, impetuous V a separation be made. This was | and anxious for an engagement, while granted, and the result was our little [on the the other side lay Washington, Delaware county with its present; ; j cool and collected, but quite as ready to limits. The first election for the 13 | meet his opponent. A review of this/ i county was held in October, 1789. | terrible encounter, in which the Amer- During the preceding winter a very! | icans lost nine hundred in killed and ' tragic affair happened on Darby Creek, L j wounded is unnecessary. The noble S i where it forms the line between Marplel R Frenchman, Marquis de la Fayette,® land Haverford. A party of four—L 1who so gallantly aided us in this battle, i David Lewis, his fiancee, Miss Lydia « ^ was wounded while rallying his men • | Hollinsworth, another young lady and ‘ “ V on the high ground near the site of the J a driver left their homes in the morn- 7 H present school building. To give some ing for a long sleigh ride. The weather 1 ^ea their sufferings from exposure, moderated during the day, and in the |j , I shall simply relate one little anecdote j evening when they returned Darby® George Dunn, grandfather of our secre- | Creek was much swollen. The driver !< tai'y, Mary L. Dunn, had his cue frozen ■ ] refused to cross it, whereupon Lewis J U to the ground during the night. Gen- took the lines, missed the bridge and 'i I era! Washington cut it loose with his plunged the whole party into the flood. ! All weie rescued but Lydia, whose 9 78 jody was not found until the next day.] southern part of the county, and were It was said that 1,700 persons attended! ^ commanded by Capt. John Hall. John L. Pearson, or Ridley, was the lieuten¬ her funeral. [£? In 1792 an act was passed to mcorpo-B ant-colonel of the regiment to which rate the Philadelphia and Lancaster H these companies belonged. After Ches¬ Turnpike Company. The road was, * ter was relieved from danger the com¬ however, not completed until T794.| panies removed to Darby, where for This was the first turnpike road con- two weeks they encamped in the Meth¬ odist and Friends’ Meeting-houses at structed in America. j * i We have now reached the middle of M that place. the second century of colinization in Besides the two companies of militia Pennsylvania, and as yet but little at¬ Delaware County also furnished two tention has been paid to education, but j companies of volunteers. One of these, now a new page in the history of ourj the “Delaware County Fencibles,”1 \ commonwealth is turned, and after due was commanded by Captain Jamesj consideration each monthly meeting of Serrill; the other, the “Mifflin Guards,” | Friends appointed a committee to es- j^ by Dr. Samuel Anderson. ] tablish schools under their jurisdiction, u The Bank of Delaware County was and in 1797 six hundred acres were pur- |; • incorporated in the year 1814. I chased in the edge of our neighboring I In 1817 Edward Hunter, a highly re-1 r county of Chester for the establishment i spected citizen of Newtown township, f ; of Westtown Boarding School. I was deliberately murdered by John In 1804 an act was passed to provide Craig. ’Squire Hunter had witnessed] for the erection of a house for the em- a will and Craig ignorantly thought! p ployment and support of the poor of j that by killing the witness the will j Delaware county. The farm selected! would be broken. Craig was tried, con¬ for this purpose adjoined the present; victed and hanged in Chester the fol¬ borough of Media, and was bought for lowing year. As up to this time noth- jj$33 per acre. This was soon seen to be, ing of such a brutal nature had dis-j an injudicious selection, on account of turbed their quietude in time of peace,! the quality of the soil, so when the the excitement over this event wasE county seat was moved here, the farm intense. My grandmother was a little; Iwas sold in two sections, one portion at ft girl at the time and in no way person-! $250 per acre, the remainder at 1341.50 ally interested in the affair, yet the ex- “ per acre. citement made such an impression on '< The first railroad in the United States j her young mind that she never forgot jj was built in Ridley township by Tlios. [ the circumstances. Leiper in 1800 to convey stones from On Novembei 8, 1819, the Post Boyl his quarries on Crum Creek to his the first newspaper published in DelaF landing on Ridley Creek, a distance of ware county, made its appearance. about a mile. ! About this time the citizens of Rad] The second war with Great Britain nor became very much dissatisfied and created no greater alarm in our section | petitioned that they might be annexed than was common all over the Union.;. to Montgomery county, as they were so During the summer of 1814, the British] much nearer to Norristown than Ches¬ fleet entered the Chesapeake, and forti-I ter. This was a matter of serious alarm ; fixations were thrown up around Mar-1 and at once the -question of removing] F cus Hook and Chester, and as a means the county seat sprung up. Accord f of precaution the public records of the ingly, June 8, 1820, a meeting was held county were kept packed up ready foi and the subject considered, but over removal to a place of safety. twenty years from that time elapsed n Several thousand militia were en- before any definite action was taken. I camped near Marcus Hook. Of these For some time dissensions had ex¬ two companies of one hundred men, isted among the Society of Friends. each were from our own county. One These matters came to a crisis in 1827, company was formed at what is now and the result was the division of the known as the Lamb Tavern, and was Society into what are now known as jommanded by Captain William Mor¬ the Hicksite Friends and the Orthodox \ gan. The other company was corn-1 Friends. posed principally of men from the 1c°\the twenty-first of September, 1833, five men—George Miller, Minshall [prohibition clause in the borough char-1 am ter, John Miller, George Smith ! ter may have been the strongest force v and John Cassin, organized themselves and the highest moral incentive to its & into a society to promote the study and progress. diffusion of general knowledge, and the I torn 1845 up to the breaking out of ^ establishment of a museum. This was ' the Civil war, growth and improve-1 the beginning of the Delaware County 4 ment in every line was rapid. During Institute of Science, whose influence . this period the Delaware county turn- \ has been felt and acknowledged far be- § pike, Darby plank road, West Chester yond the limits of the county whose I turnpike and many other artificial name it bears. ;roads were constructed. In 1833 the Orthodox Friends found¬ During the Civil war, Delaware ed Haverford College. county in the amount of money given In August, 1843, probably the great¬ men enlisted, clothing and provisions! est freshet, that has ever swollen our gratuitously given for the comfort of streams visited this section. Darby the soldiers, was surpassed by no com- munity in the Union of the same ex- I at Hey'S MiIls> att»ined a height j tent. ot D teet. The greatest height of Crum Creek was 20 feet above high water Since the time of the Civil war, the mark, while that of Ridley Creek was watchword in every department was A feet, Chester Creek, at Dutton’s “Onward.” Population has rapidly Mill, rose to the height of 33 feet 6 increased, now numbering seventy five inches. Nineteen human beings lost thousand. The Pennsylvania Training then- lives by drowning and many School for Feeble Minded Children, others made hair-breadth escapes. with one thousand pupils, a most ex¬ Thiity-two county bridges were de¬ cellent institution, supplying the needs stroyed and many smaller ones, the of those most needy, and yet but one other of the kind exists in the State, ^SlPUbliC property was estimated at , ^4W00 while that of private property and that but recently established' amounted to about $191,000. Outside Swarthmore College, whose standing is9 ofthls the Philada., Wilmington and too well known to be commented upon. altimore Railroad sustained damage ■ Bryn Mawr College for women, than to the amount of $4,500. which none higher exists in America. ■ The removal of our county seat toj Williamson School for practical instruc- - Media was one of the most important tion, not only mentally but also for the * events in our history, and productive of various trades of handicraft, founded gi eat results, an inspiration to an ad¬ in accordance with the will of the late % vanced civilization. The election for Isaiah Williamson. Burd Orphan! Asylum of St. Stephen’s Church, os-1 'October l^SE** Wmovalwas held tablished by a bequest left by Elizas Howard Burd. This building, by t^e f thm7°-r t0 the passa®e the act au- way, was, when finished, considered Sfc I 21 V°te t0 be taken on the 'had h removal, several routes the most costly edifice iii Delaware! thmul h expeidmentally surveyed county. These, together with the older H colleges before named, private institu¬ tions of high grade, too numerous to mention, and last, but not least, our th^maTt^ u6 PreS°nt Ioca«on for the load, the site of the new countv own efficient system of public schools, . town had doubtless a natural influence make our little county an educational 1 center second to none in America. Sit¬ ■« tom SS™1 °f ‘he 1>,,Mic WWM horn Chester gave new life and lauda- uated on one of the highest points in the county, near Glen Mills, is the new to "" pIaoe’ 01 to House of Refuge. From the top of the them , . . "^^euousamong mem, and a shining light wig i„i Administration Building in all direc¬ John M. Broomall. & the late tions, the view is obstructed only by the limited power of the eye. The I dering access to^hfladdphiaeasy and I mode of discipline and plan of working in this institution is worthy of study and admiration. Every surrounding is' ennobling and elevating. Among the land marks in our county; round which the memory loves toj hover and soar in admiration, we have I From, the Wm Penn House in Upland, and at Swarthmore the original house in' which our immortal painter, Benjamin 1 West, was born and spent his child- j hood and youth. In this house, with Bate, .cC>./£ [ indigo and yellow ochre and a few rude j 1 paints given him by the Indians of REVOLUTIONARY RELIC. f that locality, he gave vent to that tal¬ ent, which when developed, gained fori An Old Pi?ce of Furniture Owned by him the admiration of the world, and Concordviile Han. A. A. Cornog, a well-known resident | entitled him to a burial place in West- of Concordviile, Delaware county, has I It minster Abbey, beside the hero of in his possession an old case of draw¬ Waterloo. 8t. Paul’s Church in Ches-) ers that have quite a history, because of their great age and association with jjfe ter is still in possession of two chalices Revolutionary times. This piece of fur¬ with their salvers, one of which was niture has been in possession of the presented by Queen Anne, and bears present owner for the past forty-five years, and previous to that it was own¬ ■ the inscription, “Annae Reginae ” In ed by John Hickman, who was for many A the church yard of St. David’s Church years a sexton of the old St. John’s Episcopal Church. Previous to his | lies the remains of Gen. Anthony owning them they were the property of Wayne. Up to within a few years ago a family named Bullock, who were on the site now occupied by the livery among the earliest settlers of that part of Chester county where the battle of I f stable of Mr. Shoemaker, Lansdowne, j Brandywine was fought. Some of his IT stood an old chestnut tree, twenty-one family were interred in the old St. John’s Cemetery nearly two hundred , ji feet in circumference, under which years ago. Wm. Penn is said to have preached. William Porter, who is one of thel Prominent among the many philan- oldest residents of Concordviile, saysl of the old piece of furniture, that at thel throphists who have made our country time of the battle of Brandywine this I their home, during at least a portion of case of drawers was placed before thel their lives, I am proud to mention the window in order to protect the oceu-l pants of the house from the danger of I Pioneer Banker, Anthony J. Drexel, being struck by rifle bullets. This old! m and the friend of the poor man, Geo. piece of antique furniture is still well I preserved, and the owner has a number! W. Childs. of times refused good-sized sums of[ The very name America is dearer to money for it. us, when we look upon those places honored by the presence of the great “Father of our Country,” when he and From, //.:/F f his noble followers passed through our section, in that fierce struggle, which made us what we are to-day. Such is : ? tx ' • .« v. the association connected with the Harvey House, at Chadds Ford, where £ Dat^SS^£...(../& t'/M he quartered during his stay in that neighborhood. The Runnymede Club House, in Lansdowne, where he is said OLDESTRECORDS | to have passed a night en route to Phila¬ delphia. The Gilpin House, where m ’ Lafayette made his headquarters dur- the Seat of the Earl¬ liis stay at Chadds Ford. Birm¬ ingham Meeting-house, Darby Meeting¬ iest Court in the State. house, Radnor Meeting-house, used as hospitals, where so many suffered and BEFORE PENN’S TIM died for the benefits which we are reap- iDg- ' | - The Records of the Old Coun are Now In Possession of ,.s- Chester County. jjJBJi 15" .< i oldest county in the State is Chester Philadelphia ana Bucks counties. Lan- ( nty. The present Delaware county was [ caster county was divided off in 1729, five ' i part of Chester county until 1789. Soon years after the erection of the old build¬ ing. alter the Revolution the people in the upper The old records of the Courts were all end of the county began to set tired of taken to West Chester, and the oldest coming away down to the extreme corner [Court records in the State, are therefore to Chester to the county seat, and a move found there, and it is also a fact that the was made to establish the Court House in records of the Chester county Courts go a central location. Accordingly, in 1786 even further back than the organization of the records were removed to a new town the county—to the times ol the Provincial which was called West Chester. Three Courts. There were several sessions of years later, in 1789,the present Delaware these Provincial Courts, held before the county was carved out of Chester county first division of the State was made—into and West Chester is now far from being in the three original counties. It is evident the center of that county, being only a that the clerk of the Provincial Court be¬ trifle over three miles from the Delaware came the clerk of the Chester county Court county line in one place, while it is over after the division was made: for the records thirty miles from the extreme northwestern are kept in the same book, an that book is | and southwestern corners. now in the Prothonotary’s office, at West Upon the formation of Delaware county Chester. in 1789, the county seat of the new county Absolutely the first Court ever held in was established in Chester, and the old Pennsylvania was held by nine Justices of Court House on Market street, now the the Peace, at Chester, September 13, 1681. City Hall, was bought back from a private j William Clayton was the president Jndge, owner, who had purchased it when the and it is a peculiar fact that the present records were removed to West Chester. | Judge of Delaware county is named Clay- The old Prothonotary’s office stood where 'ton. the Times office now stands, and the jail was at the corner of Fourth and Market seventh day of the fourth month, called June.” William Penn, proprietor and Governor, presided. Ff'om, CHURCH ANNIVERSARY. Paul’s Episcopal fhurch at Chester The Old City Hall, built 1724, originally Court House of Chester county. streets. In 1853 the county seat of Dela- ware county was moved to Media, and the t*r h 10 the borongh of Ches- IT® bu?ldina! waa erected in 1724, at d at that time it was the Court House for all that part of Pennsylvania not included in i'. r~r.i - .3 , *«, . *„ ■■■ “Wearing th e“same Colors The name of Faraday has long been familiar to the residents of this portion of Delaware County. The estate bounding Rutledge on the side toward the railroad was its rector for over thirty years, has long been known as “Faraday Park,” spoke eloquently of the work of the while the corporation which supplies the •Church during its almost two centuries electric lights to our streets and houses is of usefulness. Bev. W. B. Bodine, of known as the Farady Heat, Power and the Church of Our Saviour, Philadelphia, ’ Light Company. hiso spoke. Every man, woman and child among St. Paul’s Church was organized in us knowing the name as well as they 1702, add the work of construction was commenced in July of that year, and! know their own, there are many reasons was completed in January of the fol¬ why they all should know something ol lowing year, so that the anniversary the life and extraordinary career of the celebrated last evening was the occu¬ man who bore it. pancy of t.he church building rather than Michael Faraday, one of the most dis¬ the inception of the church. It was originated by the heirs of James Sande- tinguished chemists and moral philoso¬ lands. the original owner, undpr the phers, born in 1794, tbe son of a poor Swedish patents, of the land upon which blacksmith, like almost all great men, most, of iho city of Chester now stands. rose to distinction from the ranks of the Sandelands owned a great building, for people. (If the school boys and school those times, the foundations of which were unearthed last year on Edgmont girls of Morton aud Rutledge have never .Avenue, below Third Street, in which read any other ot these “Rutledge Let¬ ters” we would like them to read this one, because it contains some things impor¬ tant tor them to know, and useful for them to remember, and if anyone should ask them why Mr. Irwin named his place “Faraday Park”, and who Faraday was, if they do not know already, they will be able to tell hereafter.) He was early ap¬ prenticed to a book binder in Blandford Street, London, named Ribeau, and worked at his trade until he was twenty- two years of age During young Fara¬ day’s apprenticeship, his master called the attention of one of his customers, Mr. Dance of Manchester Street, to an electri¬ cal machine and other scientific apparatus, which the youug man had made during his leisure moments, which so wou for the youthful inventor Mr. Dance’s favor¬ able regard, as to cause that gentleman— who was one of the old members of the Royal Institution—to invite him to ac¬ company him to hear the last four lec¬ tures which Sir Humphrey Davy gave there as Professor. Faraday sat in the gallery, took notes of tbe lectures and at I a future time sent his manuscript to Davy | with a short and modest account of him¬ - --- X _ S' self, aud an inquiry whether it was possi¬ ble for him to obtain scientific employ¬ ment in the laboratory. Davy, struck with the clearness ana accuracy of the memoranda, and confiding in the talents f From, aud perseverance of his youthful corre¬ spondent, upon the occurrence of a va¬ cancy ia the laboratory in the beginning of 1813, offered him the post of assistant, which he accepted. It is said that the elder man of science at first endeavored to dissuade him from the pursuit, but Date, ■. L 3,. convinced by his evident earnestness, not . only gave him the position named, but Invited him to accompany him on a jour¬ ney to the continent, as assistant and amanuensis, and upon their return to London, Davy confided to him the per¬ RUTLEDGE formance of certain experiments, which led in his hands to the condensation of sie oi- “Karadav”—How gases into liquids by pressure. Here he ■ With Our Neighbor- first gave evidence of that extraordinary Iaraday— His Humble power and fertility, whicu have rendered ro Eminence-His Last- Presbyterian” Makes his name familiar to every one even iquiry—a Prize Fight slightly acquainted with physics, and vi to Ten Church sek- which ultimately led to his appointment uetic Mania-Board- in 1827 to Davy’s post of Prolessor of Bartends Pa Chemistry in the Royal Institution, nown as tbe Fufienaii Proiessorsiiip. . Faraday’s researches and discoveries raised him to the highest rank among European philosophers, while his facuity of expounding to a general audience the c, ..imw . J, result of his recondite investigations, rendered him one of the most attractive lecturers of his age. His career exhibits a splendid instance of success obtained yAS by patience, perseverance and genius, From, over obstacles of birth, education and for¬ tune. f* ! y ! Date__5]aaaL_ . From,._. u : .. HISTORIC OLD CHURCHES. St. Peter's in East Whiteland and St. David’s in Radnor More Than a Century Old. Date, i> j^ _/ ^ Arrangements have been made to have the St Peter’s church building, m East Whiteland, repaired. This church and St. David’s, in Radnor township, Delaware county, are the oldest church buildings in Eastern Pennsylvania. The present building p MILL BURNED. it appears from the records of the ves¬ try, was erected in 1744 On the site of the present building Destruction of an Historic Build¬ there once stood a log church, but so ing at Glenolden. little is transmitted to the present generation that no certain information respecting it can be given There ap- pears, however, this record on the A COLONIAL FLOUR FACTORY. book of the vestry: “Mav 19 17S9 • The said vestry approve of the disposal of, old log church. ’ ’ The logs were It Ground the Grist for th e Revo. sold to a member of the vestry, with ; which he erected a dwelling house for lutionary Patriot, a son, who has raised in the same a large famiiy of ehiidren. It is thought Various Bite of Sews ,n‘h^ Frow that the log building must have been the County Towns. Wh«, is Go. erected some forty or fifty years before thepresent building was completed. «n in Me d|a n]K) ^ The first title to the land on which Immediate Vitlnlljr the church stands bears the date oi May 30, 1774, Matthew Davis granting The Glenolden the same to William Moore, Thomas Moore, Morris Cuthbert, these persons br;rr holding the grounds for the use of the night. The’ fl' destroy,Kl by Are last congregation. The price or vearlv time and th bumed fiercely. for a rental of the grounds is named in the other prone ;rea*ene*»**>■» were The oldest gravestones in St. Peter’s facS/V^v®?1 W&S USed as a spool ^earS the date A. D., some +*• bUtJlad n0t 138611 TUnnln& for. 1709. St Peter’s may truly be called a nur L™0' Th-e STist mil] dates back the mother of churches. St. Peter’s feevrVV °f bef0re tbe American has been the recipient of several be¬ m T 3 tl0n Played an imP°rtant parti quests since its organization. Some L. ‘he struggle for independence in fur- of the money, unfortunately, was not f°r the Continental well secured, and thus a portion of it Acmy at different times. has been lost from the pious uses ^lc.h donors intended. Rev. William Allen is the rector. l nas always been associated with the family. While they were on the grounds an auc¬ tioneer in the person of ex-Sherifl Howard, of Delaware county, appeared on the scene, accompanied by a company of about fifty ladies and gentlemen in whose veins the: Sharpless blood was coursing, and in a twink¬ ling the historic property was put up at auction. To the amount of $210 per acre was the faim of 44 acres bid. but the heirs in whbsel hands it now i« felt that the price was in¬ sufficient, and lor this reason the land wasj withdrawn, as the sale was not forced in any¬ way. A tract of iif acres ot land partly wooded, was sold to Samuel Lyons, of Chester city lor $1,110. ‘‘If the old place should change owner¬ ship,” observed William H. Sharpless this! morning, “1 trust that it will not go out ofl the Sharpless family, because such a pro- Tierty should be kept on account of its old as-| sociation. That is the place where the ere"*1 From, Jh Bate , // - /SfS -f r. f?, £ j f .tjjjz.qs f (■ ft fa fralfI Jf fcAJLjfrAf, * f * TIE ONLY ROMANCE A STORY OF THE LAST CENTURY HANDED DOWN BY STURDY FARMERS. GRAVE OF ELIZABETH MAYER Over a Hundred Years Ago the Life Drama Recorded Below for the First Time Was Enacted in the Little Hamlet in Delaware County. About two hundred yards back from I Tile Laud Was Btd to $240 Per Acre that ancient hostelry, "The White Yesterday. Horse,” in Ridley township, Delaware i William H. Sharpless, ol South Walnut county, on the crown of a gently street, and his brother B. F. Sharpless, of sloping hill, is a solitary grave. The I ^Missouri, yesterday journeyed down into headstone, half-buried in a tangle of , Delaware county to visit the Sharpless rock, ooison-ivy vines, faces the north, and ' which the latter gentleman had never before in consequence has been but little : seen. damaged by the inclemencies of win¬ They tomnl the property located not far ter’s storms or the disintegrating ef¬ from the trolley line which connects Media fects of summer’s torrid suns. The and Chester, and for some time they sat be¬ inscription is as sharply defined and side it, looking at the carved initials ot then- as easily read to-day as it was when ancestors John Sharpless, “J. S., 1682,” on It came fresh from the hands of the ! the lace of the great boulder, and pondering graver, one hundred and fifteen^ w> on the history ot thrift and enterprise which years ago. tms is the quaint reading, to decipher which it is necessary to j (trees to the soutn, the spreading cautiously push aside the tangle of branches of which overhang/ the vines which cling about it: mound and shield it from the hot rays -:-1 | | | |- of the sun. The birds nest in them, also, and sing their matin songs In Memory among the dew-kissed leaves. The hill slopes to the north and east. At o( its base on the former side is a field ELIZABETH of dank corn, its silken tassels and long, green leaves rustling In the the wife of summer breeze. Toward the east the JACOB MATER hill ends in what was once a bubbling brook, but has now degenerated into who departed this life a tiny “run,” the banks of which are thickly overgrown with sumac, al- the 19 day of Oct’r i ders and wild blackberry vines. On 1780, the edge of the cornfield there are mounds that mark the burial place and in the of half a hundred warriors of the 22th Year Delaware tribe. Just beyond the copse of trees is a fence and on of Her Age. the other side of that a dismantled and neglected burial plot, where lie -1 I I I I-. The black soil in which moulders the bones of Ridley’s Revolutionary; the dust of this young wife is fertile sires and grandams. The wall which I THE OLD WHITE HORSE TAVERN. | as all the ground comprised in the "James L. Moore Place” is, and has encloses this plot has long since fall jbeen since it was first reclaimed from into decay and the stones that markea the virgin forest, but never has plow the graves have been carried away' been put to that portion immediately Tet none of them were much older surrounding the grave of Elizabeth tnan the solitary mound a few feet Mayer. The oldest inhabitant of Rid¬ distant, the stone marking which is ley township, venerable George Urian, in as perfect condition as it was when is unable to tell why this is so, but prs*" set UP over a century ago. the fact remains, and this is the key This is the story: to a Revolutionary romance that is When the old White Horse, then now told for the first time. considered a model of architectural The grave is not unpleasantly situ¬ grace and convenience, was first built ated, for there is a copse of sturdy Anno Domini seventeen hundred and ' seventy, there came one day to the *' ' iifirmMmrtr-nimr;■ • ■ - •vsw; The dead woman left no papers that I tamous inn an English widow, who would establish a clue to her identity ! gave t e name of Smith. She was j and only a few sovereigns in money. aencaie as to physique and refined as The girl Elizabeth, now a blooming to manner, and althougn she held damsel of 18, mourned sincerely for aloof from all intercourse with the the “Madam,” and shed bitter tears. sturdy pioneer folk who tilled the The buoyancy of youth soon assuaged farms thereabouts, spending the major her grief, however, and she took up the burden of life as half companion, half servant in the household of mine host. No mlniatur^ has been preserveu of Elizabeth Smith (that was the name she bore), but tradition has handed down stc ries of her beauty, and it is not as:onishing, therefore,; that the farmer s’ sons for miles around became ardent suitors for her hand. She was qiiite a coquette, how¬ ever, and while having a bright smile and joking worths for all, seriously favored none. There followed stirring times, and; war’s fierce alarms brought as guests; to the old inn the soldiers of both V. life* r/ portion of her time in her own apart¬ ment, she promptly paid her bills and the landlord meddled not with her affairs nor asked impertinent Ques¬ tions about her past. Accompanying the widow was a girl, a stout-limbed, healthy creature with flaxen hair, a peachy complexion and the bluest of blue eyes. Whether this child was the widow’s daughter or even a relative—there -was no facial resemblance between them—no one ever knew, and the widow never en¬ lightened those curious ones who speculated as to the relationship. As for the girl, who was called Elizabeth, Abandoned Trites Bnrying Ground. I,she- was as ignorant as the rest. She always called the widow “Madam,” armies. General Howe himself was and appeared to know very little served by the beautiful maiden, and j about the life they had led before stern Washington and courtly Lafay¬ coming to the White Horse except ette took from her hands the gourd that they had lived in “a big city, containing water from the famous old | far, far away, on the other side of the pump well, still in working order, and world.” renowned for the purity of its water 3 Five years the widow and the girl for miles around. Elizabeth courte- Elizabeth lived at the White Horse ■ sied smilingly to the great generals, the former growing daily more fragile, flirted with the subalterns and crazed 1 and the latter rounder and taller and I with the witchery of her charms the plumper and more beautiful. Just be¬ humbler private soldiers. fore the old bell in the tower of the : Among the frequenters of the tavern § State House at Philadelphia pealed was Jacob Mayerv a grave-faced, t? out to all the world the tidings of strong-limbed young man, who con¬ American Independence the Widow ducted a flourishing smithy on the Smith took to her bed, and although Amosland road just east of the Ches¬ a local leech was called in to attend I ter pike. Like all the other young men in the neighborhood, he was an ad¬ : her, she grew rapidly worse, and one \ night wearily turned her face to the mirer of Elizabeth’s, but »she never wall and fell asleep. The landlord of showed him any special preference. i the White Horse took charge of her Therefore, the people thereabouts effects and had the body interred in were much surprised when the banns the Trites Burying Ground, which has of marriage between the two were pub¬ now fallen into such woful neglect. lished in the village church one Sun- 87'%" day morning: in August, 1780, and they had not yet recovered from their sur¬ prise when, two weeks later, the cou¬ ple were married. Jacob was a staunch rebel, and was armorer in the band of courageous patriots commanded by Mad Anthony w^yne. Since the war began his smithy had been closed, but he prom¬ ised his blushing young bride that as soon as the war should end he would start it up again and build a little cottage near by. Elizabeth entered into his plans with vivacious interest, and still performing her nondescript duties at the IVhite Horse prayed night and morning for the success of his Excellency, General Washington. Every day it was her custom to visit - the grave of “Madame” Smith and deck the mound with fresh flowers On the morning of October 19, 1880 she went up to the hillside burying ground as usual. A negro servant at work cutting corn in the nearby field declared afterwards that the young wife was joined by a tall officer in the scarlet uniform of his Majesty the King, and that they conversed to¬ gether earnestly. Anyway it was this Grave of the Tall Officer. self-same negro who slipped away to the camp of a body of Continental ually forgotten in tne rush of equally soldiery encamped near where Glen- startling incidents that marked the olden now is, and informed the com¬ ending of the struggle for independ¬ manding officer that a small party of ence and the birth of the republic. The British were in the Moore field back of husband, sturdy Jacob, coming back the White Horse. Forthwith a eauad- from the war, reopened the smithy, j ron was hastily mounted, and guided but never built the little cottage he by the negro crept upon the squad nad planned. It was he who set the of red coats, whose commander was quaintly-worded stone above his wife’s holding such mysterious converse with grave, and he appeared to derive a | Elizabeth Mayer at the Trites burying deal of satisfaction from the univer¬ | ground. sally expressed opinion of those of his The attack was a complete surprise neighbors who had seen the dead body I and the red coats,the tall officer bring- of the tall officer, “that he and poor I ing up the rear, retreated across the Elizabeth favored each other enough (Corn field toward a thick wood on the f" brother and sister." other side of the Amosland road. As they fled they were exposed to the fire of the Continentals and the tall officer was seen to reel in the saddle and fall heavily to the ground. At the same instart a woman’s piercing shriek rang out from the vicinity of the grave yard, and when, having routed the enemy, some of the Con¬ tinentals walked toward the burying ground, they found the young wife, Elizabeth Mayer, lying dead upon the ground, with a smoke-blackened bul¬ let hole in her white forehead, and the weapon of destruction gripped fast in her stiffening fingers. H was because of this that her ! body was laid away outside the Ridley burying ground, among the graves of • tne Indian braves, and the supersti- OF BENJAMIN WEST tion that attaches to suicides, for self-murder it plainly was, has kept that portion of the farm untilled all House in Which the Famous Painte.^ these years, and may be responsible for the growth of poison ivy that shrouds the mound. Three of the Brit- Was Born Sliil Stands. in^uding the tall officser, were killed in that running fight across the corn field and the trolley cars NOW 0 vy-’ BY SWARTHMORE COLLEGi w°eTor^mblev,ab0Ve their £raves> which IVth/rf Where Amosland road cross¬ es tne Chester pike. of it: a11 was never ex- Disadvantages Under Whi«h the Art¬ beth Matod> the tragiC endinS °f Eliza- ist Labored During His Early been f VWng life. from having een a nine day s wonder, was grad¬ irincc William Penn had honored so far Quaker «s to desire him to give to that part of the country a name, he would, in remem¬ SWARTHMORE, Penn., Au, 24.—“, X take brance of his native country, call it Ches¬ ter. my pen in hand,’1' was the trite beginning The West family descended from Lord of - letters a hundred years ago, and in a Delaware, who distinguished himself under small room redolent and resonant with the the Black Prince. About the year 1607 the West family embraced the tenets of the witchery of long ago, the scribe takes Quakers; in 1669 they emigrated to Amer¬ ica. the pen in hand, in the attic room which John West was left to complete his educa- was the dreaming place by night and day tion at the great school of the Quakers at Ixbridge, and did not join his relatives in of embryo art in America. America till the year 1714. Soon after his Come up the narrow, steep, and wind¬ arrival he married the daughter of Thomas Pierson. Benjamin was born in this stone ing staircase which little Benjamin West house on the 10th of October, 1738. At that mounted to reach his bed chamber. How time the Friends had “ fixed as one of their small, how quaint. The dormer window sits Indisputable doctrines that things merely ornamental were not necessary to the squarely in the sloping roof, opening with the well-being of man, and that all superfluous turning cf a wooden button. Leaning out things should be excluded from the usages upon the broad sill of the casement, many fcnd manners of their society. In this pro¬ scription was included the study of art as times, without doubt, the boy saw friendly applied only to embellish pleasures and to Indians lurking among the trees where gratify the senses at the expense of im¬ now are seen the flitting figures, capped mortal claims.” It Is recorded as a fact that “ at six years arid gowned, of the students of the college of age Benjamin West had never seen a near by. fricture nor an engraving.” Yet his placid | To every lover of art—indeed, to every ife absorbed the beauty of nature, and the first expression of his talent was in the American—there should be a dramatic picture of the sleeping child, drawn in this charm in the story of the Quaker boy, which dear old house. It is commonly told that should become as familiar as that of Whit¬ It was his sleeping sister who inspired him; but Benjamin was the youngest of tington. For is there not a cat in it, and the children. The mother of the baby was the*1 favor of a monarch and the luxury of Benjamin’s sister. In the month of June, London town, to cushion his declining years? 1745, she had come with the Infant to spend a few clays at her father’s. When the child This interesting West house was built in was asleep, Mrs. West invited the mother to 1724—commodious as a dwelling for that gather flowers in the garden, giving the lit¬ time. In 1S75 it was put in habitable or¬ tle boy a fan with v/hich to flap away the dies while he watched baby in their absence. der, and is now used as a residence by one The child smiled in its sleep. Seizing pen of the professors at Swarthmore. Its sombre and paper, and having fortunately both red color, verifies the idea one gets from the and black ink on a table near by, he drew a picture which he endeavored to conceal picture. The ground*>bout it is to-day, no when his mother and sister entered. The doubt, as full of springs as when the mater¬ mother, noticing his confusion, requested nal Grandfather Pierson discovered a large him to show what he was hiding. Mrs. West looked at the drawing with pleasure, spring of water in the first field he cleared and said to her daughter: “ I declare, he for cultivation, for which reason he called has made a likeness of little Sally,” and his plantation Springfield. kissed him with fondness and satisfaction. This is chronicled in the celebrated English Thomas Pierson was the confidential Life of Benjamin West as “ the birth of friend of William Penn. a.nd accompanied fine art in the New World.” hint to America. Or their first landing, Penn In the course of the Summer a party of Indians _came to pay their annual visit to said to him: “Providence has brought us safely hither: thou hast been the companion 'Of my perils; what wilt thou that I should j > call this place?” Mr. Pierson replied that, Tbe West House. The Birthplace of Benjamin West, Swarthmore, Penn. lngfleid. Being amused wttn sketches of vers and birds which Benjamin had [overhead had disappeared. When able to — de, they taught him to prepare the red and yellow colors with which they painted their own ornaments. To these his mother, added blue, by giving him a piece of indigo: «so that ne was instructed by the Indians to sfssssiiri prepare the prismatic colors. They also **ught him to be an expert archer, and he sometimes shot birds for models when he IwPtrived a camera without ever having wished to copy their plumage in a picture. heard of one. Afterward he found this eon .Little Benjamin’s drawings at length at¬ m'’S?fe aiuiciPated. Williams the's-imer" tracted the attention of the neighbors; he wa* told he ought to have brushes made 'complefedecameVnre feiVingIrabout that time a superior h2 ^ fr°m England- But the of camel s hair fastened in a quill. He tried talent nf obsecvation and innate to think of a hairy substitute for a camel- After hhle.f,!‘xteen-y ear-old lad is proved he saw Jls father’s favorite black cat.’ that*histhinnl1^iness Mr. West was anxious iputting the fur from the tip of its tall, Ben- A meeinfnfSri P.r-pare for business. made his first brush. That, however °f the Society of Friends was did not last long, and other brushes were be diil0 consid®r Publicly whaf ought to kaken from pussy’s fine hairy coat. At last be done concerning the destiny of Benja- Kis father was grieving over the probable S ent thCOns“?eratlon of his unmistakable (distemper that was spoiling the beauty of laid t'hJir serlous-minded men one by on! confessed his depreda- that thalrT ba,nds • °2 hls hsad and Prayed tions, when the father’s respect for the tuat the Lord might verify in hi^ lifp tho lad s ingenuity 'tempered his rebuke for SDit^of —Ich had induced them, in misusing Grimalkin. j S tlieir, rell&10us tenets, to allow him When Benjamin was eight years old he I to cultivate the faculties of his genius. ntnnned a Pre?ent of a box of paints and |. tVJien about twenty years of age Ben fi^*a^-d.S1X engravings by Greyling-- j jamm West went to New-York for the beL the first. pictures he had seen except his ter chance of painting the portraits of peo¬ • ;Tbat be slept with the precious ple in business there who wished to s^nd a obai j beside his bed, and many t0i BuI°P® tbeir likenesses. The prices *he. r0Uused. himself to stretch out his which he fixed for hls portraits were 2!! £and to touch his treasure, to make sure it was not a passing’ dream. The next, morn- l^'ngfh S bead and 5 guineas for a half ffihWoT»hae w?s a Scotchman named bl^ii?fCta>,rrie<3,it to.tbe ^nret and bussed Who Painted portraits in himself there, forgetting to go to school A Philadelphia about the year 1815 but how messenger coming from the schoolhouse to wen or h°w long is not recorded ask the cause ot his absence, his mother John Singleton Copley, who was born in tvent up to the garret to find him. He was 1 ^°,S\0n.1Tl 1731 ’ is called the fiilt portrait busily engaged not in making a copy but I painter, but he was only one vear olfi^t. a ^Position from two of the engravings than our Benjamin, and ” our artist *• en Sbctj -seven years afterward his first in tered the school at fifteen, to which Coolev vemle attempt was hung in the Royal Acid came the next year, wh4n seventeen Sb Pf'.painting Christ Rejectedr?4 ^ ; and Ws^ubhme th° trreat h4LWeiVru!y contemporaries. When ^.enjamin was twenty-two years painter declared that “ there were inventive of age it was decided that he should touches in the first which, with ail his sub. sequent knowledg-e and experience, he "had .abroad to Improve himself in his art. He not been able to surpass,” , already tasted sorrow; his mother hnd died, and his affection for a charSfng yoSng -■•u inventive” talent comes down tn lady was carried over to a later chfptor to \^Q/^Prese?t tl2le in tile person of Frederick his lire’s story. On the 10th of July 1760 Macmonnies, descendant" of Benjamin WeSt who so happily embellished the Columbian he arrived m Rome. On that very ’ night Exposition and later gave to New-York that irui«5b?d r.1IlZited t0 an assembly of distto- impersonation of pathos eJd enl?gy^thl iCardinal Alba to’. Hirirtontnc^c^fea1^ HaTpark Ue °f Nathan ^ the City the virtuosi then In Rome in his kSnwtodtl1 of medals and intagii™ Lord Gratohl^ pJdeb^rSMrm<,w-y !’lvftn hlm was a dollar paid Dy Mr. Wayne, a gentleman nf conductedyoung West to the Cardinal, neighborhood, for some d?awing^?n pieS^ An° • . ^ nave the honor to present a vounp-' PPP^ boards, given to BenjaSn American who has a letter of totrodu!ttoS 1 h?^l ^sh?Jlnear by- wbere he often amused to your Eminence. He has cotoe to Itlv Pis fr, wiyne^m^- 2, West s Memoirs” by the art- J?an!yto?,, -1 U„aanPnS \m^AmericantUdyins must the befine an art3 Tn-” 1 IflTs particular Request. as Lls firet patfon Sr bkck^ ”ardOnalh!XClaimu,d: v!‘ Is he whlte was fair hp ?1 i- rom x arma he proceeded to Genoa, ami ' 1 .nence to Turin, considering this city the Philadelphia in 1802. In 1806 Lie Philadel¬ last stage of his professional observation in phia Academy of Arts was chartered. Italy. He also enjoyed a visit to Leghorn, American artists went over, sure of re¬ Venice, and Lucca. Of Lucca he .wrote: ceiving welcome and assistance from West. " The inhabitants of this little republic Charles W. i’eale, the father of Rembrandt! present the finest view of human nature Peale; Gilbert Stuart, arid John Trumbull that I have ever witnessed.” Early in 1763 were pupils of West in London. Mrs. West] he arrived in France, where he hastily re¬ wa« known as “ the beautiful American.” viewed the treasures of art, then went Her letters, still in the possession of the over to England, in August, desirous of see¬ family, breathe only of the kindness of all ing the country of his ancestors, and to rest | she met; and they speak especially of the after such prolonged mental exertion. He favor of “ our gracious Queen Charlotte. ] met several American families who had j West sent a portrait of his wife to her; . come over to visit their relatives, and by brother as a peace offering. Mr. Shewell them was naturally led into social life. I never looked at it; it was stowed away in However, he painted there a portrait and the garret of his mansion. One of hisj • a picture for the exhibition of 1701. grandchildren remembers having beaten As he settled down to the new life, min- ' with a switch the portrait of his “ naughty! , gling the delights of his art with the pleas- | aunty,” who smiled upon the children play- . ures of society, his longing for “ the girl ing in the attic, where she had gone to weep, j he left behind him ” was intensifying. a lovelorn maiden—smiied upon them, from] Elizabeth Shewell, an orphan girl, resided her calm estate of wedded bliss in old England. with her brother in Philadelphia. An am¬ . Leigh Hunt, a relative of Mrs. West, de¬ bitious man, he urged her to marry a scribes their beautiful home in London. wealthy suitor; she refused, saying ‘she Mr. West had added a gallery at the back could not utter false vows. of the house, terminating in a couple of “ I’ll tell you whom you shall not marry,” lofty rooms. This gallery was a continu- & he cried. “ the beggarly young Quaker. ation of the house passage, and, together : Mind! you are not to see or speak to that w :th one of those rooms and- the parlor, ] rascal of a painter again.” formed three sides of a garden, with busts Poor, loving Elizabeth was shut up, and on stands in an arcade. The gallery and orders given the servants to refuse admit¬ all the rooms adjacent were hung with the tance to “ Ben West ” if he ever came to artist’s sketches. In the further room the the door. Five years she waited; then, as¬ visitor generally found him at work. Mr. sisted by friends, watching within and with¬ West was prepossessing in appearance. He, out, she descended a rope ladder from the had regular features and a mild expression. window of her room, and was hurried into His manner was so gentlemanly that the a waiting carriage and driven rapidly down moment he exchanged his gown of the the quiet street (quiet yet, at midnight, studio for a coat, he appeared full dressed. in good Philadelphia!) to the wharf where! He would talk of his art all day, painting the ship was ready to sail. The father of I and talking all the while, In a charming Benjamin West received her, cared for her manner. During the peace of Amiens he during the romantic voyage, and delivered visited Paris to pay his homage to the . her to the eager lover, who came aboard First Consul. Napoleon had been lavish . , the ship at Liverpool, and embraced her in his admiration of West’s pictures, and fc: rapturously. West thought Napoleon’s smile enchanting, '* Hast thou no welcome for thy old and declared that his leg was the handsom¬ H father, Benjamin?” asked the very old est he had ever seen. Indeed, he said, his * man, who stood, smiling, to behold their - “ love for the Conqueror was a wedded ■ i Joyful meeting. love, ‘ for better, for worse,’ for he retained \ “ That I have, father! ” cried the son, It after the downfall.” and the father never after felt a moment’s Mr. West was a wonderfully industrious negiect. man; the list of his paintings copied from They went immediately to the Church of his books fill many pages, and furnish a St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, and were mar¬ marvelous evidence of persistent toil and ried. This was on the 2d day of Septem¬ pains. George III. offered him the honor ber, 1765; a favorite church for weddings of knighthood, but the simple-minded An¬ to this day. glo-American withstood the temptation, That Winter there was good ice and rare gratefully and courteously declining an 'skating, and West made himself famous honor which he certainly merited. by performing the graceful feats he had From “ the account of B. West' with His learned as a youth on American rivers. He Majesty,” which was a “ running Account,” received attention as a portrait painter from from 1768 to 180i, these totals are copied: many persons who were attracted to witness £4126 his skating. West’s painting of “ Agrip¬ 21705 pina Landing with the_ Ashes of Ger- 6030 manlcus ” so pleased the King, George III., 1426 that he became his patron, and continued his friend for nearly forty years. George £34187 at that time ” possessed great constitu¬ It is said there were at least 430 paint¬ tional charms,” Benjamin avers, and a ings outside of those made for royalty. tincture of humor; he had read much, and Mrs. West was an invalid for several his memory was tenacious; he was fairly years; she died Dec. 6. 1817. Three years entitled to be considered an accomplished later, on March 10, 1820, Mr. West expired 'gentleman. Under his patronage and the at his house, in Newman Street, and was name of the ” Royal Academy of the Arts buried with great funeral pomp in St. Paul’s in London,” that Institution was formally Cathedral. He was buried beside Sir Joshua opened on the 10th of December, 1768. Sir Reynolds and Sir Christopher Wren. The Joshua Reynolds was Its President until following is the inscription on his tomb¬ his death, when Benjamin West became his stone: successor. Here lie the remains of Benjamin West, Mr. West’s first discourse to the students Esquire; President of the Royal Academy of was delivered Dec. 10, 1792, on the occasion Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; born Octo¬ of the distribution of the prizes. Nourished ber 10, 1738, at Springfield, Penn., in America; among the simple folk, whose neighborly died in London March 10, 1820. kindness to eaoh other In sickness Is as nota¬ In that honored place the famous artist ble as their quaint garb or plain language, finds perpetual recognition; but here in the Quaker lad no doubt mused about the Swarthmcre the country children yet claim dreary places where sick people went to - fellowship with the boy who ground char¬ suffer and die. In his prime, he began a coal and chalk together and crushed the red splendid picture of Christ healing the sick, .-juice from wayside berries to vary his col- putting into the picture love “for his nomer anu sympathy for the hospital at Phua-b delphia. The picture was bought at £3,000 lr^ Lv.iuon; but uie artist eopleu it, making a changes, and presenting the _copy to Ttictr c/naitit inscriptions Show the marks of time, htid soon will be entirely effaced. Here is facsimile of each From, ... IAMBS CoopER: DECESED : TH E FORTED j DAY ; OF NOVEMBER ; IN f* THE : YEAR : OF . GOD 1731 HIS ; AGE : FIF TY j TWO : YE ARS Date, MARTHA DICKEY : DECE3EU j AG VST : T HE TWEN A HISTORIC BUILDING. TY : F 1731 HVR:AGEi TWO : YEA The MIDDLETOWN PRESBYTERIAN RS : AND : 3 |; " IX : MT CHURCH, -OF DELAWARE COUNTY. HS. Amcng the very old Inscriptions to be found on the tomh-tones are the fallowing: One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniver¬ ‘•DAVID BUCHANAN, died Nov. 31, 1738 ” sary of I!s Organization—OUT Inscrip¬ “True to his friend; lo his promise Just; tions on the Tombstones—Names of the Renevolenf; and of religious trust.” Pastors and Stated Supplies. It is said that he was an ancestor of the cubsequent President of the United Stntes. There are many other tombstones bearing dates earlier than 1800. but of this transition The oae hundred and severity-fifth anni¬ year ef the two centuries only a single In¬ versary of the old Middletown Presbyterian stance Is here mentioned, which Is singularly (Church. K wyn Station, Delaware county, is quaint and suggestive: ;to be Celebrated to-diy. ••In memory of Mirths, wife of William j The church and its burial ground is a spot Kailyards, who departed this life September Viiete much history has been enacted. It 19th 1803 aged 44 years ante-dales by fifty years the Kevolu:loti and ‘‘Remember man as you pass by. [tile Declaration of Independence. It is As you are now, so onci was I, within five miles westward of the spot on the As I am now, so you must bp, Delaware where William Penn first landed. So prepare for death and follow me. ” Indian chiefs, British red coats and.Colonial iBoldlers have alike pressed foot upon itssa- Scores of the old graves have been levelled jered soil. Within the past year, under the with the earth by the hand of time and all I (traces of them lost; ethers are mere undula¬ Very shadow of the church, the present Pastor u pas picked up two Indian arrowheads in tions of the ground, with no headstones to (perfect preservation, which, after long years, tell who lies beneath the sod. Many are [had worked their way to the surface. marked simply by rude field stones bearing For well nigh two centuries now, however, no Imcriptio i or date, while others are bold the soldiers of the Great King have pre¬ and distinct In their characters after more empted this lovely spot for divine worship. than 153 years. Here are graves of soldiers • The historical facts are abundant, and if only (who fought in the Revolutionary War,and in the wars of 1812 and of the Rebellion, side by f they could be discovered would be of sur¬ § passing Interest. Like these arrowheads, for side with that.host of nameless ones whose h long years they have been burled, unlike bones repose in peace in this ancient and ! beautiful house of the dead. them doubtless never to be disinterred iu this life. None of the earlier congregational Immediately at the southeast corner of the ! records have survived. Tradition has it that (church Is the grave etf the Rev. James Ander- j they all perished in a fire that consume i the 'Soe. who was one of the eiriiest and much | residence of the Pastor, or more probably the beloved Pastors of the church whose names ■tated supply, in the year 1812. All the sub¬ have survived. He gave hisentire activemln- sequent records older than Dr. James W. Jslry to this field from 1770 to 1793. the year of Dal»’s ministry, which began in the spring bis death, September 22, aged 54 years. Close of 1816, have also disappeared. The follow¬ ito ills grave, surrounded by a railing, ate the ing, however, are dependable facts in the h>s- graves of his son and two graadsons, James, | tory of this congregation : a member of the United StitesNavy, who Inscriptions on Tombstones. died in 1840. and Richard, who died in 1837; This is the oldest Presbyterian church In end alongside of these is the grave of Rleh- | Delaware county, organized, as there isevery jard Snowden, father of one of the Pastors of j reason to believe, not later titan 1730. Dr. the church and grandfather of Colonel A. ! Bmith, in his history of Delaware county, Loudon Snowden, »f this city. The inscrip¬ ; atales the fact, which is confirmed by the tion on his tomb is a classic model, worthy testimony of one of the members now living, of Addison fnr Its purity of diction, its apt- jpess of expression and its dignified eulogy. j that there stond in the eeme'ery a headstone bearing the date of 1724. showing that then pThe remains of the Rev. John Smith, ‘‘an God’s people had begun to bury their pre¬ bumble and laborious Minister of Jesus cious dead (fit this consecrated spot beside Christ,” so his epitaph states, an occasional the ohureh, and arguing conclusively for a ■upply of this church, who died in 1839. rest prior date of the organization. That stone, here, as also does the body of the Rev. James along with others, has since crumbled and "W. D.tie, for 25 years Pastor here, and founder ! «f arfjoiuing congregations. Over his re- ! j disappeared. The oldest decipherable hcad- | atones now standing bear the. date of 1731. ynains the congregation and his friends In I MIDDLETOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Delaware county buve erecled an enduring doors, a neat pulpit replacing the one that .monument of granite, inscribed with the rec- stood 'en feet above the heads of the people, »rd of his illustrious career. j as the oldest members of the present genera- The peculiarity of the following Inscriptions i tion still remember. During the present Have few parallels anywhere! "In memory Pastorale of the last five years, several Im¬ »f Jane Colvin, died October 9, 1811, agod 63 provements in the way of addition to the rears. Parsonage, and renovating and repainting “The kind goodly Jane, both church and manse, have been made at It’s here she doth rest, an expenditure of over a thousand dollars. But her spirit lives The past summer the entire interior of the Above among the blest” church edifice has been beautifully decorated ••In memory of Robert Colvin, died March and recarpeted. ;*3812, aged 62 years. Pastors and Stated SnppUes. ‘‘Come, look on my friend, An approximately correct list of the several ti And you’ll drop a tear, Pasters and stated supplies who have served For honest Robert the congregation from the beginning to the ( Doth lie buried here. ” ! present time would Include the fallowing Ministers: For the first eight or nine years The Present Edifice. safter tlio organization the church seems to IThe original building was a log church, I have been dependent for occasional preach¬ sh served-the congregation tin 1768, when ing upon the courtesy of the Pastors of ad¬ It was replaced by a stone structure. This joining congregations, especially Dower t latter building, during the 130 years or Its ex¬ i Brandvw 1 na or D la ware, or such chance istence, has undergone several modifications ’ supplies as were obtainable. But in 1729 and repairs, but through all the changes the John Tennent was the first supply of whom old waits-of 1706, now solid as adamant, still there is definite record. The Rev. Robert stand. Of tlu.se changes there is definite ac- Cat hear! Was there from 1780 to 1740, and from , count of but two. At the outset of Dr. Dale’s 1740 to 1770 there are no existing records. Jin Is try, in 1843, the building then bein°- Too Rev. James Anderson was Pastor { ^considerably delapidated, ” so the record from 1770 to 1798. From 1793 to 18C0 the church "dates, it was greatly repaired, enlarged and was again dependent upon bu nodes,- whose to proved by internal changes, the exact na¬ names*are not known. From 1800 to 1879 'he ture of which It is difficult now to learn. Rev. Thomas Grter was Pastor; 1809 to 1817, After tills the building remained unchanged the Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden; 18 down lo the fire of 1879, which consumed the to 1822, the Rev, Nathaniel Todd was slated entire interior woodwork, leaving only bare supply; 1823 to 1827. the Rev. Larry Bishop; wii Us. 1827 to 1830, tiie Rev. Robert MeCschran ; 1831, ) Under the Pastorate of the Rev, T. D. the Rev. N. Harned. The next, regular P Jester, (he Interior was soon after rebuilt in a. tor was the Rev. Alvin H. Parker, from 1833r modern, substantial and comfortable man¬ to 1S39; in 1840 the Rev. John L. Janeway was| ner, the modern pew taking the place of the supple; 1842 to 1844, the Rev. J. Martin C>n- 3 d-fashioned high-backo .... V pew with closed nell; 184! !o 1845. the Rev. W Milan* L. Me- _ — - n^i ... . ; trlllhWIPSi il»; IS 16 to 1870, the Rev. James W. Dn1 p, I toredTor nine years, tendering hts reslgna- IX, was Pastor; 1873 ‘o 1889, theR-v. T* I (ion. owing to impaired health. In the fail irlington Jester; in 1889 the present incam- of 1889, and aoeepling the call tendered him _the Rev. William Teuton Kruse, took by the Middletown Church. Under Ills effl- | charge. I cie.it labors la this old and honored Held the The church Is beautiful for location ■ congregation has grown and prospered, and standing, upon a high and commanding has entered upon a new era of activity undr situation, whencOdu all directions the eve F T W , ■ r ,, sweeps for miles a surrounding country rich !n the variety of its beauty, looking down upon Media, Chester and t.hc Delaware river whose channel may be traced as a broad band of burnished silver in the morning sunlight, nwdat, nightfall there may be clearly dis¬ cerned on the face of the sky the reflected lights of Philadelphia and Wilmington. Not fir from here may be seen the old “Presbyte- rienfold.” over Chester creek,and the saddle path still traceable In parts up to the very chnio’i, both well worn, “whither ttie tribes went up, fhetribes of the Lord, unto the testimony ol Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. ” The Itlotber of Churches. Old Middletown has been the Mother of Churches. Prom her have sprung successively Old Ridley, 1820; Marple. 1835; the Crookvllie Church (now extinct), 1856; Chester First 1852- Media, 1854, and Gl-n Riddle, 1880. Nor is’ her work done yet; she still brings forth fruit In old age. Her present active membership is ninety communicants. The past, five rears have in many respects been the most prosper¬ ous in her history, and there seems good ground to think that her best life and work yet lie In the future. Among the treasured possessions of the church Is the precious folio volume of Richard Baxter’s Works presrnt- ed by Dr. Isaac Watts, of London, in the year 1/35. the dedicatory inscription on the fly leaf of which reads; ‘‘This Book, called Mr. Bixter’s Directory was given by ye Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts of London to ye PmieMant Dissenting congre¬ gation usually assembling at Middletown in Pennsylvania, that people who come from far and spend tbeir whole day there may have something proper to entertain them¬ selves wnh or to read to oneanother between the sessions of worship, morning- and affer- noon, and Mis for this end entrusted to ye i care of ye Protestant Dissenting Mlafster who prerc '.es there, and to hts successors to b° used by him or them In their weekly study when they please, and to be secured and del voted to the use of re congregation on ye Lord’s days, Jany SO 1735-6.” This volume is now In the custody of one of the trustees, Mr. James W. Howard, but will be displayed at. 1 he church on the ap¬ proaching anniversary observance. A copy of Dr. Watts’s hymns, also the gift ot the author 1i this congregation, from which the Minister nsed to ‘‘line” the hymns to the people, has been tost. Many other interest¬ ing relics and events cluster around this ancient edifice. The present Pastor, the Rev. William Ten- ton Kruse, was born in the city of New York, October 17. 1856. His parents were natives of Germany, and he received his early educa¬ tion at Laurens, South Carolina, where his parents had removed in I860. Pie entered ■I,,, °f,the°IdeSt and »‘°st histork Prirceten College in the fail cf 1874, and graduated from that Instiluiion with honors ST ,!,nI)tVVare «>unty was tin in 1878; the seme year he entered upon his d f,lenoiden- or more popular]v theological -studies in Princeton Seminary, knotvn, Inskeep mills, on the Muck!- graduating in 1881. He wag licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Philadelphia mpattus creek at the intersection o( in tiie spring of 1881. and, on September 6.h J.5 and Ilidley townships, which of that year, wasoidained by the Presbytery vvas totally destroyed by (ire on the of Chester and installed Pastor over the 55 aytxs Presbyterian Church, where he la- jevenmg of February 24, a brief ac hgmtrnif Which was given in the la iiSt |chased at Sheriff’s sale a lot of Hand, ‘issue of I’kookks's We present toj Our readers to-day the accompanyingj containing 43 acres in Ridley township, (illustrations, by our special artist, of the across the Muckinipattus creek from mill as it originally stood, and the! the mill property, which he continued to own as late as 1783. 1 n 175)0 Peter [ruins, together with the portrait of [Ephraim Inskeep Ridgway, who now] Ross is said to have had control of the [owns tlie property. mill. In 1707 the mill-seat land, as There is no record of the exact datel well as the 43 acres across the creek, [of the erection of the old structure,| were sold by Sheriff Abraham Dicks, [whose grim walls, could they but speak, as the property of Charles Davis, the |would no doubt tell some interesting| purchaser being John Jones, who the same day conveyed the premises t.< [stories. Ashmead’s History of Delaware | Caleb Phipps. At that date the mill was in existence, and had been built [county furnishes the following in re- Igard to the tract on which the old | long prior to that date, tradition assert¬ (structure has stood for so many years ing that it was erected by Thomas “The trait of land of 500 acres was I Shipley about the year 1755, he being a niiler by trade. In 175)0, Hiram ‘granted, May 111, 1W3, by Richard Walton was operating the mill, and in [Nichols, Governor, of New York, to 1800 Elisha Phipps, a brother of Caleb, Israel Helme, Hendrick Joubson, Oele was the lessee and so remained until [Koeck and Jan Min.-terman. Tlie stract seems to have been divided, for 1808, when he purchased the property.” ‘on the loth of April, 1083, one portion Elisha Phipps was a strange erratic I character moved by the impulse of the THE INSKEEP MIIIS, DESTROYED BY FIRE FEB. 24th. 1896. lof it owned by Oele Koeck, (and on hour, He was a good tiddler, and al-l (which, later the mill was built) was though a Quaker, it was his delight to I " jsold to Morton Mortonson, who in turn get the boys and girls from miles I ■ August 7, 1708, conveyed it to his son, around to gather at the mill in the I Lawrence, who later sold to his son, evening and dance on the mill floor. I Tobias Mortonson. On the 10th of He would play at all the country dances | ■ April, 1755, Tobias Mortonson sold 24 in the neighborhood, and although fre- | [acres to Thomas Shipley, of Wilming- quenfly remonstrated with, he would ■ ton. The property remained in the always be on hand when a dance was ■ Shipley family for many years, and in [f 1774, Thomas Shipley, of Darby, pur- RUINS OF THE OLD MILL. in contemplation. One of the strangest I he tossed his old hat on the fionr^ina incidents in his history is related as I j it is said, his first words to his wife, follows: The mill was located at the who had given him up for dead, were: head of tide water and Elisha owned a [ j “Mother, how near is supper ready ? ” shallop, “The Dusty Miller ” in which i He subsequently said that after j a Mm he transported his breadstuffs to mar¬ the capes, a sudden imputse^dec-idec ket. It was a swift sailing boat, and it I him to sail for the West Indies, when is said that when Elisha entered in a he sold his flour, and took aboard i race on the Delaware river, which he! large cargo of rum and molasses. Hi frequently did, “The Dusty Miller” •sailed from the West Indies for New was always a winner. On one occa \ork, traded his rum and molasses foi sion, he loaded his craft with flour and I | gmin with which he loaded his yess*el sailed for New York. Weeks elapsed, I and sailed for the Muekinipattus. (Jap- and no tidings were heard from “The J tain Helms,an old seaman, who resided Dusty Miller ” A month passed and 'in the neighborhood at that time, then his wife became uneasy and went accompanied Elisha on this eventful to New York, which was a long and voyage. tedious journey those days, in search of| March ”1, 181:2, Phipps sold the prop- him. There she hoard no tidingsof her eity to Halliday Jackson who owned husband He hadjiot been seen by the: it until February 27, 1S28, when lie in persons with whom he had been accus-j turn conveyed it to Ephraim Tnskeep, tomed to trade. She returned to her who subsequently purchased a large home in a disconsolate mood, fully con¬ amount of timber land in the neighbor¬ vinced that her husband had been lost hood. at sea ; nearly five months had passed, The mill was run as a grist and saw a lawyer had been consulted as to the mill, and it was always a busy place, missing man’s estate, when, on a sum up to within the last few years. Grist> mer evening, just before dusk, when were brought by tlm farmers from fai the “glide wife” was seated on the I and near, and always in the busy sea¬ porch of the old homestead just above son it was necessary to grind night and the mill, she saw “ The Dusty Miller ” day. The saw mill was also a busy coming up the Muekinipattus with the j place. A great amount of the timber flood tide. Shortly after the craft was j for Thomas P. Cope’s line of ships was moored at the wharf, Elisha entered sawed at this mill by Mr, 1 n.skeep. -tit-ttmi” Li«iiU.iiaccustonie^ illiUIII(‘!’ _Evan Watkjns, father ot Joseph Wat kin, of Pasjehalville^ o.ne-ol IHSKEEP’S OLD MILL. noted imllei's of his hay, vim for a number of years for Mix I nskeep" Some Interesting Reminiscenses. Old Log and afterward rented and conducted Houses In Darby Township, Etc, the business on his Mr. Ridgway, present A friend writes : The publication in took’cliarge of the mills about 185.3 and | Progress of March G, of the history of run them on into the latter part of the Inskeep’s mill and the illustrations of ’00s. After that there were a number 1 the old mill as it stood for over a of tenants in the following order : Ml century and a half and of its ruins after John Eaves and John Weaver,Shields . J its destruction by fire on February 24, A Gibson, Peter Smedley, a Friends’ Blast, has given rise to many interesting preacher, being foreman for the last Hreminiscenses in connection therewith. ! named firm; George Martindale, Frank Franklin Lloyd, the father of Israel i Kimble, Thomas Ronsall, Emil (J Lloyd, of Darby township, learned the Wagner and Albert Wilfong, who va¬ trade of miller with Thomas Steele at cated the mills two years ago. The Jjtlie old Darby mill at the public wharf last tenant was James Lee, who has on Darby creek, and about 1832 went I occupied the mills for the past year. :jjtas a journeyman miller to Inskeep’s He conducted it as a grist mill and ■imill. It is related of him that he bobbin factory, and lost all of his stock 7 would place a barrell of flour on end j and machinery in the fire. His loss is upon the mill floor and then with ease estimated at nearly $3,000, against place another on top of it and then a which there is $1,800 insurance. third barrell, making a tower of the In LSliO the old wooden water wheel, three barrells. He would then wager which run the grist mill for so many i that none of the many farmers that years was taken out and a turbine came with their grists to the old mill wheel put in. | 1could take the top barrell off much less h Mr. I nskeep, by whose name the place them as he had done. mills are still known, was born in Marl- At the south corner of the old mill ton, N. .J., and died in his 87th year. I over the third floor there was a large After Mr. Inskeep’s death the prop¬ beam of oak extending several feet out erty passed into the hands of the pres¬ lover the tail-race. This was fitted with ent owner, Ephraim InskeepRidway, a a large iron hook or ring to hang a grandson of Mr. 1 nskeep. Mr. Ridg¬ block for lifting the grists that came way was born in the house which over¬ in boats. It was customary in the looks the mill, a portion of which is early days of the mill for farmers living said to be older than the mill, and has jin New Jersey to come over to the resided there ail his life. He celebrated [mill with their grists in boats. Some his sixty-second birthday on Tuesday Times two or more farmers would come last. A portion of the house is visible together for company, and at high tide in the accompanying sketch of the Icomp up to the mill at the south and ruins. have their grists taken into the mill. | Although standing for nearly i cen- After7 the grists were ground they tury and a half, it remained for Prog- jjwould go in their boats out the Mucki- to give the people a picture ol this rkss nippatus to Darby creek and down the spot, so rich in beauty and tradition, ■creek to the Delaware river and across and we feel sure that our readers will ■the same to their Jersey homes. Mills welcome this initial of our purpose to jin those days were scarce and long give, as occasion warrants, truthful journeys were taken. illustrations of local events in t/iie In this connection it may be inter¬ history of our county and the ni^ny sting to mention a few of the old log beauty spots in which it abounds. houses in Darby township. There are ^several of these dotted about which date back to the last century. A pile of stone from the chimney is all that is I down. B “datesback' to the “Forest | left of one that stood on the Thorough¬ nmival, when the roads were mere! fare road in Calcon Hook, now the paths through the woods. Still fur-! property of Joshua P. Kirk, but for tlier north are to be found the ruins of - many years the home of Benjamin the Rively house, and two squares! Urian and family. southwest on Bartram avenue a pile of A log house stood near A. P. David stone from the chimney is all that is son’si II 1 i"- 1 ' nv • ; ... on “Trites’ ” property, ojiposite left of another. A few years ago there I ^ie en(* °f Ashland avenue. The im¬ stood a log house on Ashland avenue 1 mense buttonwood trees now standing near Garfield avenue, once the prop’-1 once shaded this old homestead. Fur¬ -x. erty of Rev. M. E. Cross. There were! ther east on the Hook road is still three near Glenolden—one on the Shal-1 m standing a log house nearly opposite cioss farm, the covered spring can be I- inbit avenue, now owned by William seen from Elmwood avenue and the I h>. H. Serrill. One of these old houses old trees near; one in the meadow near! stood fifty years ago on the Heacock the run, and one due south from the% property, now owned by David Lewis. station. This last stood on the north B , this has all vanished. To the south bank of the Muekinippatus, and wasH we find the ruins of the Boon house, in owned and occupied by William RidgJi the side of the bank, near the present way, the father of Ephriam, the pres-B arge house; and right in front of it ent owner of the old mill. was a very old log building on the Isaac Horn farm, where William From,.p Unan, father of Edwin Urian, once taught school. The log house, near the Chester pike on the Bice property due north from oicroft, is in good condition. This was once a hotel. On Park avenue '■ Wuuuxjlg XU1UWU “eai°f'k1lane> 011 the property of John Runnymede Club,” at the corner Keithler, is one of these log houses of Baltimore and Owen Avenues, Lans- ao-wne, has been sold by Samuel T. Fox now weatherboarded, and occupied by & Co. to Daniel D. Mullin and Hug-h H. Hibbitt for $11,000. The original build¬ William Founds. During the past ing is said to have been built In 1732, and winter the old double log house of Jon- Generals Washington and Lafayette slept in the house on their way to the TinniT»ill - ’ robes’ has been taken Brandywine. The Historical Society of j Delaware County contemplates purchas¬ ing the property for its use, It is said. J Ay. m yest rday tastefully decorated with plants. The exercises commenced at 2.45 p. m. by the hearty singing of the old hymn: “All People That on Earth Do 175tli Anniversary Was Celebrated at Dwell,” after which Rev. John L. Jane¬ way, pastor of the church in 1840, of¬ Middletown Wednesday. fered the invocatory prayer. The choir sang: “Sing Unto the Lord, O Ye Saints of His,” after which Rev. Mal¬ colm J. McLeod, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, of Chester, read the 90th Psalm. Rev. William R. Bing¬ The OU1 Clim-cSi AVns Thronged Yester¬ ham, D. D., the oldest member, contin¬ day by Presbyterians and Others At¬ uously, of the Chester Presbytery, of¬ tracted by tJie Unusual Event— Curious fered prayer. Rev. Joseph Vance, clerk of the Inscriptions on the Tombstones. Chester Presbytery and pastor of the Second Church, of Chester, gave an historical address on “Early Settle¬ The one hundred and seventy-fifth ments on the Delaware.” The doctor anniversary of the Middletown Presby¬ told of these, briefly, from Port Nas¬ terian Church was celebrated yester¬ sau, the first settlement on the Dela¬ day with afternoon and evening ses¬ ware in 1622; Cape May, in 1630; Wil¬ sions. The edifice, which has been mington, in 1638; Tinicum, in 1645; somewhat modernized, and recently New Castle, in 1650, to Chester and Philadelphia, He spoke of the -early renovated, was filled writh an audience settlers in their relation to the Church representing the hack-bone of Presby¬ in America; starting with the Holland terianism in this county and near-by, Dutch, Swedes, Fins, English, includ¬ and many visitors were present from ing the Quakers until the sturdy other churches. The platform of this Seoteh-Irish began to build up church¬ es, in the latter part of the 17th and historic church, which ante-dates the early part of the 18th centuries. The Revolution by about fifty years, was THE MIDDLETOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 101 (loctor’St paper was full of historical facts, put together and delivered in an i earlier’ congregational records navem, interesting manner. n survived. Tradition has it that they all I OTHER ADDRESSES i perished in a fire that consumed the residence of the pastor, or more prob¬ ably the stated supply, in the year 1802. All the subsequent records older than feSST’ *ivi"s ■»** Dr. James W. Dale's ministry, which 1 ™ °U+r 01dest Daughters,” which i began in the spring of 1846, have also Ridley Presbyterian, and I disappeared. The following, however, the Marple Presbyterian churches are dependable facts in the history of . were spoken of by Rev. Vincent Nich¬ this congregation: ols pastor of the former, and Rev C INSCRIPTION ON TOMBSTONES. I RodaeT> pastor of the latter church.' This is the oldest Presbyterian Reminiscences” were given in a church in Delaware county, organized ^apPy strain by Rev. P. H Mcwry nas as Diere is evsrv reason to believe, not *°r °f the First Presbyterian Church latv+han 1720.1 Dr. Smith, in his his- ■: 1 tjhester, who, alluding to the words fnPitx,Dtlawar C0linty, states the! of the former speaker, said the “chii fact, which is Confirmed by the testi- • fen” of this the “mother” church" niony of one of the members now liv- are the Media, Marple, Ridley and mg that there itood in the cemetery a [ First Presbyterian, of Chester, while headstone bearing the date of 1724 the grandchildren are: The Second showing that then God’s people had begun to bury their precious dead on “cE.eT1W this consecrated spot beside the church ^ a.eWVa,t°r' *£ b£ date of gthetUhf gorganization. Cj>nelusively forThat a stonePrior eral minTsl letter® of vesret from sev- an°dnfi^lth oth!rs> bas since crumbled present ’ ° Were unable to be aad c lsaPPeared. The oldest decipher- da£ ofeai7S3i°neS D°W standi“g bear the ft®r the afternoon session, lunch was sex red by the ladies, from 5 to 6 Their quaint inscriptions show the iff at'' ifeveningsession commeno- marks of time, and soon will be entire- ' f f u \ ?cIock- Tlle sermon was ly effaced. Here is a fac simile of each: " preached by Rev. W. A. Patton D D ^ JAMES CoopER- siaSsians,a3 i1,ne 272/-28.W9s° t0AfterA«f° r introducinghis text: Col( hisS- DEOEBED: THE FORTED: DAY- CF g ^rmon by complimenting Pastor NOVEMBER: IN fr«se upon the,happy occasion, he pro¬ THE : YEAR : OF ceeded to his sermon, which was ear- GOD 1731 I nest Scriptural, spiritual and appro¬ HIS : AGE : FIF priate m its illustrations. 1 TY : TWO : YE ARS FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY. MARTHA DICKEY : W,*at 1STWs°OMHinis Old Housef“le ofEaily God. of DECESED • The church and its burial ground is AGVST : T a spot where much history has been HE TWEN enacted. It ante-dates by fifty yea-s TY : F Sen R7°1UtiCn ahd Declaration of f 1731 HVR: AGE : westwardffwestward of *thehK spotiS V at™ Chester* flve on the TWO : YEA RS : AND ; s Dlande*d*’ Wjlliara Penn first IX : MT HS. inSS7f foot upon lts saered soil. With¬ in the past year, under the very Among the very old inscriptions to shadow of the church, the present pas- lowhilg-d °n the tombst°nes are the fol- tor has picked up two Indian arrow- pfTev i m perfect Preservation, which, 17ogVj'v ID BUCHANAN, died Nov. 31, toftteheIOSrS’ had WOrked their way “True^to his friend; to his promise For well nigh two centuries now however, the soldiers of the Great Benevolent; and of religious trust.” aVe Pre-empted this lovely spot x. is saio that he was an ancestor of f-ts f f61 ™hip- The historical StatesDS<3CiUent President of the United could abundant, and if only they ccmla be discovered would be of sm- There are many other tombstones beai mg dates earlier than 1800 but of i neads,hSlg for^ lrlongSt ' yearsLlte they «-«= have arrow- been this transition year of the two cen- : buried unlike them doubtless never to tunes only a single instance is here ;- mentioned, which is singularly quaint be disinterred in this life. None of the and suggestive: 1 ni Pn memory of Martha, wife of Wil- ‘ -11am Sallyards, who departed this life 98 V' , It’s here she cloth rest, But her spirit lives t'ember 19th 1800 aged 44 years Above among the blest.” “Remember man as you pass by. “In memory of Robert Colvin, died As you are now, so once was I, March 8, 1812, aged 62 years. As I am now, so you must be, “Come, look on my friend. So prepare for death and follow me,” Another old tombstone shows the And you’ll drop a tear, For honest Robert grave of Samuel Crozer, who departed Doth lie buried here.” this life August 3d, 1747, aged 27 years. THE PRESENT EDIFICE. My glass is run My work is done The original building was a log My body under ground; church, which served the congregation In tomb'd in clay till 1766, when it was replaced by a Until the day Atone structure. This latter building, I hear the trumpet sound. during the 130 years of its existence, Scores of the old graves have been has undergone several modifications levelled with the earth by the hand of band repairs, but through all the changes the old walls of 1766, now solid time and all traces of them lost; others f.A II: are mere undulations of the ground, las adamant, still stand. Of these with no headstones to tell who lies be¬ changes there is definite account of but neath .the sod. Many are marked sim¬ two. At the outset of Dr. Dale’s min- ply by rude field stones bearing no in¬ jistry, in 1846, the building then being scription or date, while others are bold “considerably delapidated,” so the rec¬ and distinct in their characters after ord states, it was greatly repaired, en more than 150 years. Here are graves of largedlare-p.d and ironrovedimproved hvby internal soldiers who fought in the Revolution¬ changes, the exact nature of which it ary War, and in the wars, of 1812 and of is difficult now to learn. After this the the Rebellion, side by side with that building remained unchanged down to [rkost^of nameless ones whose bones re- I the fire of 1879, which consumed the *pbse in'peace iAthis ancient and beau¬ entire interior woodwork, leaving only tiful house of the dead. bare walls. Under the Pastorate of the Rev. T. D. HARRY PASTORIS BURIED HERE. jfester, the interior was soon after re- Immediately at the southeast corner milt in a modern, substantial and com¬ of the church is the grave of the Rev. pilable manner, the modern pew talt- James Anderson, who was one of the ng the place of the old-fashioned high¬ earliest and much beloved pastors of jack .pew with closed doors, a neat pul- the church. whose names have sur¬ Oit replacing the one that stood ten vived.. He gave his entire active min- feet above the heads of the people, as jf |istry to this field from 1770 to 1793, the ;he oldest memhers of the present gen¬ |“ | year pf his death, September 22, aged 54 years. Close to 'hi,s grave, sur¬ eration still remember. During the rounded by a railing, are the graves of present Pastorate of the last five years, his son and two grandsons, James, a eeveral improvements in the way of toember of the United States Navy, addition to the Parsonage, and renovat¬ who died in 1840, and Richard, who ing and repainting both church and tlied in 1837; and alongside of these is manse, have been made at an expendi¬ the grave of Richard Snowden, father ture of over a thousand dollars. The bf one of the pastors of the church, and (past summer the entire interior of the grandfather of Colonel A. Louden fchurch edifice has been beautifully dec¬ Siiowden, of Philadelphia. The in¬ orated and recarpeted. scription on his tomb is a classic model PASTORS AND STATED SUPPLIES. worthy of Addison .for its purity of dic¬ An approximately correct list of the tion, its aptness of expression and its several Pastors and stated suplies who (iignifed eulogy. have served the congregation .from the The remains of the Rev. John Smith, beginning to the present time would I “an humble and laborious minister of include the following Ministers: For f Jesus Christ,” so. his epitaph states, an the first eight or nine years after the 1 occasional supply of this church, who organization the church seems to have aied in 1830, rest here, as also does the been dependent for occasional preach¬ iody of the Rev. James W. Dale, for 25 ing upon the courtesy of the Pastors of ears pastor here, and founder of ad- ■ adjoining congregations, especially lining congregations. Over his re- Lower Brandywine or Delaware, or maibs the congregation and his friends such chance supplies as were obtain¬ in Delaware county have erected an able. But in 1729 John Tennent was 'enduring monument of granite, in¬ the first supply of whom titer-e is defi¬ scribed with the record of his illus¬ nite record. The Rev. Robert Cabh- trious career. cart was there from 1730 to 1740, and I The peculiarity of it'he following in¬ trorn 1740 to 1770 there are no existing scriptions have few parallels any¬ records. The Rev. James Anderson where: “In memory of Jane Colvin, was Pastor from 1770 to 1793. From died October 9, 1811, aged 66 years. -793 to 1800 the church was again de- “The kind goodly Jane, :■ “ 1 .= . ; Tt ' "PTl' III I v* <• - -- V . . 101 m- •aKfe. ■ ' ' lent upon supplies, whose‘•names' Dissenting .Minister who preaohe not known. From 1800 to' 1809 the there, and to his successors, to be use. .ev. Thomas Grier was Pastor; 1809 to by him or them in their weekly studj 1817, the Rev. Nathaniel Randolph when they please, and to be secur Snowden; 1818 to 1822, the Rev. Na¬ and devoted to the use of ye congrei thaniel Todd was stated supply; 1823 tion on ye Lord’s days, Jany 30 to 1827, the Rev. Larry Bishop; 1827 to This volume is now in the custody 1830, tihe Rev. Robert McOachran; 1831, one of the'trustees, James W. Ho war! the Rev. N. Harned. The next regular A copy of Dr. Watt’s hymns, also the Pastor was the Rev. Alvin PI. Parker gift of the author to this congregation, from 1833 to 1839; in 1840 the Rev.’ from which the Minister used to “line” John L. Janeway was supply; 1842 to the hymns to the people, has been lost, j 1844, the Rev. J. Martin Connell; 1844 Many other interesting relics anc I'to 1845, the Rev. William L.MeCalla; events cluster around this ancient edi 1846 to 1870, the Rev. James W. Dale fice. D. D„ was Pastor; 1873 to 1889, the Rev. The present Pastor, the Rev. Wilia "T. Darlington Jester ; in 1889 the pres¬ Teuton Kruse, was born in the city ent incumbent, the Rev. William Teu¬ New York, October 17, 1856. His par¬ ton Kruse, took charge. ents were natives of Germany, and he The church is beautiful for location, received his early education atLaurens, standing upon a high and commanding South Carolina, where his parents had situation, whence in all directions the •removed in 1S60. He entered Prince¬ eye sweeps for miles ‘a surrounding ton College in the fall of 1874, and country rich in the variety of its beauty graduated from that institution with looking down upon Media, Chester and honors In 1878; the same year he . the Delaware river, whose channel may tered upon his theological studies be traced as a bread band of burnished Princeton Seminary, graduating i silver in the morning sunlight, and at 1881. He was licensed to preach tl nightfall there may he clearly discern¬ gospel by the Presbytery of Philade ed ^on the face of the sky the reflected phia in the spring of 1881, and on „ |lights, of Philadelphia and Wi'lming- itemlber 6 th, of that year, was ordaii K ten. Not far from here may be seen by the Presbytery of Chester and pf® old “Presbyterian ford,” over Ches-w ' stalled Pastor over the Wayne Presbj *-XX L-rfr-a:ic l the saddle n'.I'llath I) _nHia- | terian Church, where he labored fe | H-traceable -vnrt n/s r* in parts__, up toi the>. very I nine years, tendering his resignati,c_, church, both 'well worn, “whither the owing to impaired health, in the fall tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, of 1889, and accepting the call tendered unto the testimony of Israel, to1 give him by the Middletown Church. Under thanks unite the name of the Lord.” his efficient labors in this old and hon- THE MOTHER OF CHURCHES. I ored held the congregation has grown and prospered, and has entered upon Old •Middletown has been the Mother a new era of activity and usefulness. . of Churches. From her have sprung successfully Old Ridley, 1820; Marple, 1835; the Orookville Church (now ex¬ tinct), 1856; Chester First, 1852; Media, 1854, and Glen Riddle, 1880. Nor is her work done yet; she still brings From, forth- fruit in old age. Her present ac¬ tive membership is ninety communi¬ cants. The past five years have in many respects been, the most prosper¬ ous in her history, and there seems good ground to think that her best life and work yet lie in the future. Among the treasured possessions of the church is .the precious folio volume of Richard Baxter’s Works, presented by Dr. Isaac Watts, of London, in the- year 1735, the dedicatory inscription on the fly leaf of which reads: “This Book, called Mr. Baxter’s Di¬ rectory was given by ye Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts of London to ye Protestant Dissenting congregation usually assem¬ bling at Middletown in Pennsylvania, that people who come from far and The Mov^nmt for a New spend their whole day there may have something proper to entertain them¬ City Hall Meets with selves with or to read to- one another ■between the sessions of worship, morn¬ Much Opposition. ing and afternoon, and ’tis for this end entrusted to ye care of ye Protestant i! Farnan’sAppointmentaSurprisetothe ! buildingthereinthemiddleofapark. i sylvania,andincludedthepresentcoun¬ NEWS OFTHEWEEK.I of theSecondWard.HisplanIstorent Market StreetbetweenFourthandFifth or sellthepresentcitypropertyon Select CouncilmanSamuelGreenwood, a newCityHallhasbeenrevivedby $100,000 andatleast$60,000couldbeob¬ which thecityownsonMarketStreet. This couldbedoneatanexpenditureof Chester Creekanderectalargestone Seventh StreetbetweenMarketand Streets, andtobuygroundonWest for nearlytenyearstheschemetobuild — vicinity. in advanceofpricesthatimmediate $90,000 or$1000afoot,butthatislittle Many estimatethatthegroundisworth tained fortheninetyfeetoffrontage\ old StateHouse,orIndependenceHall,i tures intheStateorcountry.Itwas which isoneofthemosthistoricstruc¬ buildings butfromthesentimentagainst if evennowthereisabuildinganywhere and itsoldwallsaresuggestiveofmuch a goodexampleofcolonialarchitecture while itisnotanornatestructure, in Philadelphia,wasthoughtof,andi erected in1724,severalyearsbeforethe selling ordestroyingtheoldbuilding, come fromthecostofnewcity known ofthesouthernportionPenn- with itsoverhangingevesispractically arrival here,itwasatthetimeofits history ofearlydaysinPennsylvania. as itwasinpre-Revolutionarytimes. ness andwhiletheinteriorarrange¬ shape, andareovertwofeetinthick¬ of hugeblocksstone,squaredto more substantial.Thewallsarebuilt the Commonwealth,anditisdoubtful construction thebestpublicbuildingin Built onlyforty-twoyearsafterPenn’s divided off,andthecountry westofthe years afterthecourtswerefirstheldin; caster, ChesterandDelaware.Five ties ofYork,Dauphin,Lebanon,Lan county comprisednearlyallthatwas Court HouseofChesterCountythe ments havebeenchangedtheoutside, this oldbuildingLancaster Countywas in thewesternpartof county began tion, whenwhatisnowChester County in 1729.Aboutthetimeof theRevolu¬ Octoraro wassetupasaseparate baili¬ to objectcoming fortymilestoChes¬ had becomethicklysettled, thepeople wick withLancasterasthe shire-town, have theseat oftheofficesmovedtoj finally successful in1786,wasmadeto some more centrallocation. ter tocourt and aneffort,whichwas 102 Chester, Sept.21.—Afterresting-quietly The chiefobjectiontotheplanwillnot When thisbuildingwaserectedasthe A funny incidentoccurred during the Special Correspondenceof"ThePress.” Leaders—What thePeopleAre Doing intheOld Town. in GoshenTownship,nowWestChester. ..violent opposition. pany ofmilitiaformedIntheoldbor¬ construction ofthenewcountybuildingsl whisky alongasanadditionalprotec-: new buildings.Theywerearmedwith ough togoGoshenanddestroythe removal ofthecountyseatandacom¬ Chester hadstrenouslyobjectedtothe. tion. Theyweremetatthepresentsite an oldcannonandtookabarrelof' leaders ofbothsidesattackedthebarrel of WestChester,socalledbecauseit of whiskyandthecampaignendedina After agreatdealofthreateningthe was westofChester,bythesettlers great jollification,thecannonbeing that sectionheadedbyMajorHannum. and theoldCourtHousewasagainput: from theeasternendofChesterCounty fired repeatedlyinhonorofthegood were movedtothenewcountybuildings ware Countyuntil1863,whentherecords was usedastheCourtHouseofDela¬ time. its centuryandaquarterofuseasthe borough ofMedianowstands.During in UpperProvinceTownship,wherethe in useafterarestofthreeyears.It seat ofjusticenofewerthanfifteen murderers weresentencedtodeathfrom borough halloftheChester, building wasusedfrom1853to1866asthe bles ofcolonialtimeswerereceivedin County, wassentencedherein1841,and the lastmurdererhangedinDelaware) passed onhimthere.ThomasCropper, Kenneth” hadthesentenceofdeath: and CaptainFitz,theoutlawbold, the oldcourtroomonfirstfloor, and becametheCityHallin1866,when lower floorwasremodeledIntothecity the oldcourtroomandvariouspublic Washington, Lafayetteandothernota-; the Baltimore&Ohiodepotnowstands.; was executedin“GallowsField,”where the heroofBayardTaylor’s“Storyi pose ofitwouldmeetwiththemost ical associations,andanyefforttodis¬ by thecitizensonaccountofitshistor¬ the citywasincorporated.Itisprized offices. years untilwithinthelastdecade functions wereheldthereforover1601 From, W In 1789DelawareCountywaserected Since theremovalofcourts - -- 103 THESEWPEraSTLVASIA QUARANTINE STATION AT MARCUS HOOK. ~The si copy fitiic town ot Marcus-Honk RICH in historic lore lies a scant quarter of a mile above the , statKiu and all the country thereabouts is lull of interesting history. More Than Tliree Centuries A so UNCHANGED FOR TWO CENTURIES wj?® ?ld Jii.isp Of Marcus Hook' has Qnetr. Christiana Granted the .-hungre.. but little witn the passing years, hand Where the Village jlhere are the same quiet, shady streets, with peaceful cottages behind the trees Now Stands. on either hand, running down to the nvlr' 01; 0l,t int<* the meadows mn the other three sides of tbe town [iho onD suggestion of modern times tb^PernwivTd':e‘1L0f the Present month | about the old town is the (single railway }rp r ennsj Ivama State yuaraiuk: • Nt i- track, which runs along one quiet street, tion vaoaU the quarters it had occupied over which trolley ears from Chester rstnhi?!t< lUr • t01ic ntarT’r a century, anc) come and go half-hourly. The trolie<- |Stabhshed itself at Marcus Hook. The {which rejuvenates most localities, seeuis r:^PertM^1E «‘°ng the river- 1 ° have had very little, if any. effect I,1011 Marcus Hcou. comprising threg jon Marcus Hock. It was a quiet fish¬ •tnfT cotta^s- in which the quarantine ing town two centuries ago, and it is ht H'ho !LI,,JW ,ocated’ has been leased the same fishing town to-dav. a trifi- !*?,,, ”Ie aatrue at. an annua< rental of more quiet, if anything. The big oil ’vtio e 18 admirably located for [jd.arantuie purposes. The middle cottage plant ot the Boar Creek Refining Com- j pany is generally spoken of as located 1 as seen fitted up for the administration building. and the other two will be used at Marcus Hook, but it is really some as residences. Directly opposite the ad- distance below the town, and the little community seems to have derived no S a oHr lniitldi-Df? it,is Pr°PCced to i progressive impulse from that source ' fnvli ,*JfT\ °Vt >nt0 5lle river to af- the people of the town are mostly plain Tri . 1 ? intake landing place for vessels ..his pier need not be long, for the derm hsher iolk, owning their little 'homes channel comes in close to the shore at land with no ambition to be other than «hat they are. But with all their plain¬ ••tort«P0ID " '!e «roundS surrounding the ness end simplicity, they have one qual- rf?1?? are fipacious and well laid out I- [ ity more common to the wealthy dwell- I ers in large cities. They are proud of 104 tie by tying gay ribbons in his beard ! and by sticking lighted sulphur matches their own ancestry, and the ancient in ■ his bushy eyebrows. The Swedish glory of the village. Authentic record*, woman, Mather,' was reputed to be his , and when records are wanting, traditions wife, but whether she was his favorite have allowed no part etf the town’s hi«- is not known, for he had 13 others. ! tory to fade into the past unchronicled. That he eared a good deal for her. how- 1 A GRANT FROM QUEEN CHRISTIANA. ever, is evidenced by the fact ^ that he The oldest of the records show that “was wont to beat her soundly.” on August 20, 1053, Queen Christiana TRADE SUFFERED FROM FREEBOOTERS. of Sweden granted the land upon which At the meeting of the Provincial Coun¬ the town afterwards arose to Cantain cil in Philadelphia. August 11, 1716, Hans Ammundson Besk, as a reward Governor William Keith called attention for loyal services. This was 30 vears “to the great losses which this colony before the coming of Penn. Besk set¬ has already sustained beyond any of its tled upon his land, but very soon he neighbors, by our Trade's being blocked sold sections of his property to others up and infested with pirates at the of his countrymen, and a small hamlet capes of this river and bay. One French. • grew up around him. After the com- 1 a noted pirate, wiio has done the greatest j lng of Penn, in 1082, Marcus Hook mischief of any to this place, has been grew more rapidly and became a rival lurking for some days in and about ; of the neighboring town of Chester. In I this town.” 1708, according to an old chronicler, There is no record, however, of any these towns were of equal size, “both attempt on the part of Penn’s govern¬ consisting of almost 100 houses.” Among ment to capture the notorious buccaneer, these hundred houses stood one small and that glory remained for the Gov¬ church, surrounded bv a small grave¬ ernor of Virginia, who in 1718 sent Lieu¬ yard. One Walter Martin, the records L tenant Maynard against him. The pirate say. "for some good cause Decame em- j shift was caught off Cape Hatterae. and bittered against the Friends,” and so on J Blackboard died by the sword of the December 18, 1699, he devised to the j gallant lieutenant after'a fierce hand-to- town an acre and one perch of ground hand encounter. The victor returned lo for a churc-li and free burial place, “for Norfolk with the ghastiy head of the the use of all people, Quakers and rer pirate stuck upon the prow of his .puted Quakers only excepted.” The ship. chmch became known as St. Martin’s.! All of this is history, well authenticated. in honor of the founder, and the present The “Tale of the Adventurous Galley” church, the third or fourth successor of j is only traditional, but- is still deserving of some credence. About the time of the original chapel, hears that title to j this day. The old churchyard still re¬ Blackboard’s capture ar-1 death. Penn’s mains undisturbed, and in its peaceful government sent out the armored sloop , shade a weather-beaten stone marks the Adventurous Galley against a pirate grave of the founder, with the date of ship and captured a boat load of the his death, 1719. There, too, is also; rovers just as they were attempting to buried Emanuel Grubb, who, eoming embark from the -scene of their over¬ into the world on July 30, 1682, was the night debauch at Marcus Hook. The . first child of English parents born ill captain of the viet'oriuos sloop deeming it Pennsylvania after the grant to Penn. unnecessary to take his prisoners back to Philadelphia, summarily executed A RENDEZVOUS FOR PIRATES. them on the spot. They were lined un Marcus Hook was not always a peace¬ along the bulwarks, and the negro cool# ful community, but that was not the . fault of the villagers. Bold, bad menj armed with a mighty ax, chopped oil came up from the sea in ships, and were the heads of a dozen, one after fh< wont to hold frequent revels in the i other. town. The pirates that infested the SHIP-BUILDING AT THE HOOK. Atlantic coast at the conclusion of the From that time the bold buccaneers seventeenth and the beginning of the ceased their predatory visits to Marcus eighteenth centuries chose Marcus Hook Hook, and the town settled down aaain as a favorite rendezvous. One street to its former state of quiet respectabili¬ of the little town, in which the pirates’ ty. Its only dissipation was the weakly disputations, punctuated with curses and market and" fair, for the holding of pistol shots, were most frequently held, | which Penn had granted a charter in the is known to this day as Discord Dane, j year 1700. In 1753 the catching of vFb On that street, probably, lived a Swed¬ ceased to be the sole industry of the ish woman called "Mather.” whose rani" place. In that year William Howell in the village chronicles is coupled, to j established a shipyard at Marcus Hook, j her everlasting shame, with that of the! anil around this pioneer yard others j notorious “Blackboard.” “Blackboard,” • grew. For over a century William How¬ I or Drummond, or Trench, as he was ell. Samuel T. Walker. William Cran¬ ! variously railed, was the most desperate ston. Simon Sherlock and Simon Cran¬ | find obnoxious of Marcus Hook’s pirati- ston built wooden ships. of various ton¬ i cal visitors. He seeroa to have horn nage that played no insigifiea.nt port credited r th an extraordinary share of in the commerce of the colonies, and that desperate courage and devilish cruel- later of the independent States. A num¬ t.y which formed so large a part of the! ber of the Marcus Hook vessels were make-up of the freebooter of those days. armored by the Continental Congress, -No small part of the fear he inspired was and formed part of the defensive fleet, due to his hideous visage. Many livid which guarded the river and bay 4. wars seamed the upper portion of his THE SCENE OF MANY DUELS. sensuous face, which was covered below , In the early ’30s the quiet of the by a heavy black beard. He ■studiously place was occasionally disturbed by pis¬ heightened hio hi deb us ness when in bat- tol shots at early dawn, for the gallant gentlemen of the time were accustomed 105 f r „„ ti.Ara io settle their differences. Of the many duels fought at Marcus Hook none occasioned more talk at th.. time thnn the Hunter-Miller affair, lhe nrincipals, neither of whom was over |)i veavs of age, were scions ot promi¬ nent families. William Miller, .5 r., a young Philadelphia lawyer, and Charles <> Hunter, a midshipman m the Amer - con navy tad been drawn into the. duel, which proved fatal to the former, through ! The quarrel of two others. .They met on the morning of Sunday, March 21., 183. I At the word both men fired anci Millet I fell dead instantly. Hunter and his friends hurried to New Castle. boatded I a vessel there, and escaped to ISev Yoik, ' while Miller’s friends bundled the body of the unfortunate youth into the car¬ riage in which they had come, and took it. back to Philadelphia, keeping it over¬ night in the room of one of the party. The father of young Miller was then apprised of his son’s fate, and, the story becoming public property, indigna¬ When friend 'William Penn sailed up tion grew strong against Hunter. The he Delaware river to take possession of State Legislature promptly requested lis new province, after his long voyage President Jackson to strike the name of 'rom the old country, he landed, not at Hunter from the roll of the navy. Pres¬ Philadelphia, but some miles down the ident Jackson ,not only did that, but or¬ 4ver at the ancient town of Chester, dered that the names of four others who he jriprietary was hospitably re¬ had attended Hunter at the duel also vived at this little village and was en- be stricken from the roll. Hunter was ertained at the “Essex House,” then afterward reinstated, and served with he residence of Robert Wade. AH ves- gallantry in the Mexican war. His im¬ iges of this old dwelling are now gone, petuous bravery led him into trouble jut it is reported to have been a very again, however, for during the war be jpalatial mansion for early times in the captured the town, of Alvarado without (colonies. orders, and was court-martialed for it and dismissed. He died in poverty in, 1 Of all the towns in the immediate St..Joseph’s Hospital. New York. vicinity of Philadelphia, Chester is A CONGRESSMAN’S ESCAPADE. probably the most interesting to visit Within a stone’s throw of the scene of from an antiquarian standpoint, as al¬ Miller’s death another memorable duel though the old “Essex House” is gone, was fought, on June 25, 1842. Con¬ there are still to be seen there? a num¬ gressman T. F. Marshall, of Kentucky, ber of ancient dwellings of great age who was conceded to be an orator of and interest in connection with the scarcely less forensic ability than the early settlement of the colony. Hut illustrious Clay, took umbrage at a little or no effort has been made by the people of Chester to preserve these scurrilous editorial reflecting upon him relics of long ago, and the rapid march published in the New York Courier. Mar¬ of modern improvements is fast oblit¬ shall challenged Colonel James Watson erating all the old historic places. Webb, the editor, and the latter jour¬ There is even a measure pending now neyed to Wilmington to receive Mr. Mar¬ before the City Council of Chester; shall’s representative. Eluding the au¬ Which, should it become a law, will thorities, who had obtained a hint of wipe out one of the oldest buildings in what was intended, the principals met at daybreak just over the Delaware the State. State liue. At the first discharge of The bill provides for the sale of the I the pistols they missed. The second dis¬ historic old Chester Court House, on charge wounded Webb in the left knee. (Market street, between Fourth and Marshall demanded another shot, hut Fifth, and for the appropriation of the the surgeon declared Webb to be too 'proceeds to the erection of a new City seriously wounded.' Hall, with a small park around it, near Seventh and Market streets. As a spec¬ imen of quaint antique colonial archi¬ tecture, the okl Court House cannot be , excelled. The old Chester Court House although it has figured less prominent- * 1 ly in the nation’s history than hallowed Independence Hall, antedates the Phila¬ delphia State House by a score of years, as it was erected in 1724. During all the years of its existence it has never once'been the scene of any occurrence of national import, but with the local history of Chester it is most intimately and interestingly iden¬ tified. It is built of massive gray atone, if 106 l>lace of re..,, ngonorous items of his identity repeated --- fhe beau or time after time, hour after “hour. For tester, as there tradition that a long time past a. groom of the chnm-< Richa rdson had four beautiful “‘laugh! her, indefatigable and brazen-throated as a Bremen waterman, has intoned the roll: “Your Royal Majesty, Otto town. It is said that they had such ex- Wilhelm Luitpold Adalbert Waldemar, S“18lte)1,y transparent complexions1 that King of Bavaria, Ffalzgraf Of the the gallants were wont to remark that Rhine, Herzog of Bavaria, of Frankeu v hen drinking a glass of wine it might and of Suabia.” throats.'1 nLkliny 'l0Wn ^eir fair! And out of this man, with all these pompous titles, the light has gone. He is Otto, as he might he Jocko. It is a JL/lllinjfe 1 me upa omtionarv war Rj<>h- brute, prone of instinct, upright of car¬ ardson’s house was a conspicuous ob, riage still by mere habit of his joints fe;*/rom thf river, and when the Brit-i and muscles. ish frigate Augusta, in 1777, sailed un A few years ago the poor King used v«rDe^are Ul VRr to attack Fort to try to fly, and was quite happy Mifflin, her commander, in sheer win poised upon a footstool, which seemed to ness, opened fire on Chester. One of to him a lofty pinnacle, spreading his the shots shattered the wall in the gn- heavy and impennate arms in vain at¬ the 01,1 ttiehardson houfe, tempts to soar aloft. vhich the owner repaired by placing a ! The King’s periods of lethargy are circular wmdow in the opening tlnis | frequent, and during these intervals made. This window is still to he seen. | his torpor is so deathlike that his at¬ tendants are sometimes in doubt as to Airer tne house was vacated by the whether or not he is still living. When Richardsons, it became a public Inn he recovers animation he abandons and tor many years was unproductive’ himself for two or three days to exces¬ various tenants occupying it, but none sive smoking, consuming as many as a remained long, because of a tradition || hundred cigarettes a day And in his that the house was haunted, It is said habits as a smoker Otto is not less that shortly after the Revolution a ne¬ whimsical than in other respects. His gro, named Leban, was murdered in matches stand in a large silver box, the dwelling by a blow from an ax. His fixed upon a tray as large round as a blood is said to have made an indelible bicycle wheel. The box holds not less stain behind the door where he fell, audi than two or three hundred matches. his spirit wandered around the place of The King ignites them all each time he his untimely death. On the fth of May, i lights a cigarette. With infantile per¬ David Bevan purchased the prop-! versity he tries to make this bonfire erty at sheriff’s sale. At Bevan’s death eem to be the result of an accident, In 1»18, his son took charge of the hotel but his attendants know that the sud¬ a time. On the 27th of September, den cracking and the qu'ck flame is 182(>, he sold the property to John Ford, one of the greatest of his pleasures. who named the place the Steamboat It was reported by a visitor two or Hotel, the title which it still possesses. three years ago that Otto had an un¬ pleasant trick of trying to, light his Ford fixed the place up and offered' cigarette at the eye or the nose of the many attractions to increase his busi¬ nearest servant, supposing, or affect¬ ness, among them a bagatelle board,: ing to suppose, that an electric spark the first ever .introduced into Chester, i would be found to furnish fire. This and so popular did it become with the folly, like some other of his habits, men of the town that they seldom re¬ was probably wantonly mischievous, mained at home, and their deserted for the doctors who watch the King wives finally christened Font's new believe that many of his freaks are attraction “the bag of hell.” It is said! deliberate indulgences of a childish that 1< ord was extremely jealous of his love of teasing. an(l frequently locked her in one There is no trick of this sort that of the upper chambers of the old build- Otto does not play, and his attendants ing. From Ford’s day the Steamboat lead a sorry life. One of his favorite Hotel has passed through the hands of devices for their discomfiture is to in¬ many owners. It is still a popular tav¬ vent unpleasant stories about them, or ern and much frequented by the rail- / disastrous incidents in their domestic road men who work in the vicinity. lives, and then affect to discover these facts in the newspapers and read them At the corner of Second and Market out with huge gusto. When one of his streets the old Blue Ball Inn still I doctors denies him an excessive allow- stands. This is another historic hostel- nce of his favorite beverage—cham¬ rie, which has now degenerated into a pagne and beer poured together—Otto i«i\ orite tavern and drinking place for reads aloud an imaginary column of the negroes who reside in its vicinitv. the Munich Tageblatt, in which the The Blue Ball was also erected by physician’s private life and profession¬ Richardson on property inherited from al "character are shockingly mauled. an aunt, Grace Lloyd. The building of And the solemn doctor has to stand pa¬ the Blue Ball was the carrying out of tiently while the servants chuckle over another of Richardson’s ideas toward the intelligence that his diploma was improving Chester. TTnfortunatelv issued by a Veterinary school and that financial difficulties overtook him be¬ his practice is exclusively confined to fore this house was finished, and if not, the promoting of graveyard insurance at the present time, for vears holes swindles. were to be seen in the wali, indicating! Long practice, combined with the where the boards of the scaffolding simian taste for mimicry, which char- rested. >4, *V v :fy > : ,■> . 107 - - - ■ - - .--I —. .. ^ The Blue Ball was erected before the mechanics’ lien law was passed, and in las the Barber mansion, me property on •‘'■-.early days when masons were not which this house was erected was pur¬ 1 f THE JAMES BARKER HOUSE. / ; . „ Ag - v At the southeast corner of Second low the eornei- of Graham street, A| j and Edgemont avenue, a picturesque quaint, old-fashioned house with peak- I ! row of old dwellings still exists. The ed roof, suggesting Dutch architecture, j first of these houses was built by still stands. Doubtless at one time this David Lloyd in the latter part of the mansion was a fine and pretentious ‘Seventeenth century or in the early residence. It is now battered up and part of the eighteenth century, as in a for years has been practically uncared deed to William Ticklers, dated Jday 4, for. having degenerated into a machine 1703, It is set out that the old house was shop, where farming and agricultural then erected. Since first built the house implements, are repaired. At one time has been at various times somewhat al¬ this old building was known ns the tered and modernized, but it still bears Hoskins house, and it is one of the old¬ 0 quaint and antique appearance. David est structures in Chester still standing. Lloyd was one of the leading citizens of colo'nial Chester, and a large property It was built in the latter part of the owner and influential man. During the latter part at the eighteenth century the old Lloyd house was occupied by ianTnuan Inn.6 HIti isQ y/two0hn stories.Hoskins in height, witla/ William Siddons, who was arrested and pent roof and dormer attic wlndSS accused of the murder of a peddler and f The f*ePs antl P°1-ch which existed be- the robbing of this man of money and street line was definitelv fixed other valuables. Siddons, however, was extended a goodly distance into the tried and acquitted of this crime. J ri]e, hallway runs through he centre of the building, leading to Across the way from the Lloyd the wide, easily ascended staircase house is another old dwelling, known which nses from the rear of the en¬ hance. The windows in the lower ■ I ruoms are deeply recessed within the 108 ► ■. ' apartments, and old-time window seats] are constructed therein. John Hos¬ with his family. Air. Graham became , kins, who erected this house, was a very prominent in public affairs. He native of Cheshire, England. He emi- was delegate to the convention for al- | rated to this country in 1682 with his teriug and amending the Constitution, ife. On the 4th of June, 1762, the prop- - and at the-time ot his death, June 23, erty was sold by Hoskins' heirs to 1790, he was president of the Court of Henry Hale Graham, and Mr. Graham j Common Fteas and Court of Quarter turned the old inn into a private dwell- i Sessions for Delaware county. ing, where he resided for some years l; ANCIENT ROW OF HOUSES AT SECOND AND EDGMONT AVENUE — Anyone who has ever yisited Ches-) ter is familiar with the appearance of the old Washington House, which stands right in the heart of the city ! on Market street, between Fourth and Fifth. The title of this old hostlerie dates back to Penn, for by patent dated May 31, 1686, the commissioners of | William Penn conveyed to James Sandelands in fee, twenty acres of land in Chester, and a part of the tract on j which the hotel building was_subse- quentlv erected. The property descend*] ed to .lohn Sandelands in the distribu¬ tion of his father’s estate, and was sold by him to John Wright, who, after holding the premises for about seven years, conveyed it to one William Pen-; nell, who in turn sold it to James Tre¬ go. At Trego’s death the property de¬ scended to his son James, who* con¬ veyed it to Aubrey Devan. 'Dp "to this time the ground was De- lieved to have been Used as a pasture land. In the following year, however, 1747, Bevan erected the* present hotel building, and gave to it the title of Pennsylvania Arms. Considering the period at which it was erected, the old Washington House is quite a model of the architectural eminence to which the early builders had arrived at that time, and is a good evidence of the pro¬ gressive spirit which controlled t' Tlie Hoskins House, Built in 16S8. citizens of this old town in the ear iy davs. V;' H; After the evacuation of Philndel- da hv the British army, William Ker- wlio became the owner of the Peun- lvania Arms in 1772, changed its name to the Washington House, in honor of General Washington, who often tarried there to partake of the I THE OLD WASHI SfGTON HOUSE, ** y - -jr offered him by mine host. * °r considerably over one hundred years now this old hostelrie has born the name of Washington, and it is like¬ ly to do so until its decay, which, Judg¬ ing from its present substantial appear¬ ance, is still far off. During the exist- ence of this ancient tavern the major¬ ity of the prominent visitors to Ches¬ ter have become its guests, and on the oiu registers are ro oe seen maim names noted in the history of this countrv. J TI The Chester Court House, Built in 1724. I Mlij1 »i| 101 iin ilf m silr liiiinimimyil imiininiiin THE OLD STEAMBOAT HOTEL. I#*?:- t*' >{ TCTING. i ---....0„ „>. the Trustees were —iT- between the above date and Au&tist 18, 1869, when arrangements were, mt From, ^. for “a"a pifblic meeting of thethe citizens<-iti*on« i terested in the establishment of a Nor ; I03-! School in West Cliester.” .This meet¬ ing was held in the Court House. Mon¬ . ^^/uc^stjCL O^y_ day evening. August 23, 1869. and the gen¬ tlemen chosen as a committee to ad¬ dress it were Jos. J. Lewis, Dr. Worth¬ Bate, Tt...'. y?..^ I ington and Capt. R. T. Cornwell. At the above mentioned meeting of the citizens the following resolutions were offered by W'm. Darlington, and, after kmiiiMU being earnestly advocated by Capt. R T ■9 Cornwell, Wm. B. Waddell. Esq.. Prof. Wm. F. Wyers, Rev. Wm. E. Moore and arly history R -Emmett Monaghan, Esq., were unani¬ mously adopted: A Backward Glance Which Extends Through a Resolved, That we deem the establish¬ ment of a State Normal School in the Period of Twenty-Five Years. borough of West Chester, or its imme¬ T*1-- Andrew Thomas Smith, who fill* diate vicinity, highly eligible, and easily the c!hair of pedagogics at the Normal, is practicable and demanded bv the nefcds preparing a history of .the school, to be ot the First Normal School District. issued in pamphlet form during the next Resolved, That the proposition of the trustees and contributors of the West few day^. It contains a great deal of Chester Academy, to make their valua¬ valuable data, and will be kept as a ble property, library and museum, a basis treasure by many who are connected for the establishment of such a Normal with the institution by ties of the past or School, appears to us to be exceedingly liberal, and we recommend it to the fa¬ tf e»i?re?ent' . The book an account of the founding of the school, and there vorable consideration ot our fellow-citi¬ zens in the hope and expectation that it are many statistics which have been com¬ will receive their prompt and cordial sup¬ piled as being of interest in showing port. what has been done. Resolved, That William Darlington, *v.Th^r but an infant his father moved into —r-rr the hotel, and it was here that the ITS OLD GOES! events took place which have now be come well-known history. When he was 7 years old he pulled enough hair cut of the family cat’s tall to manu¬ facture for himself a paint brush, For Nearly a Century "Uncle with which he used to daub George” HasTrampedto New¬ around cn the walls with the red I and yellow earths which the friendly Indians would give him. town Square’s Hostlery. Out of the countless persons who have stood before the painting in In dependence Hall, “Penn’s Treaty With the Indians,’’ scarcely a few ever MEMORIES OF THE PAST have known from what humble roof the artist emanated. £■ - -wh — r- V, ' . • 65*;^ OLD NEWTON SQUARE HOTEL, a Whig one night and perhaps aj The tavern m itse ffT tnoug-h, is o: Tory the next. His father has often much local historical interest, and the told him of the times when George | low cellinged walls of the little bar¬ Washington would pass through the room have during the early part of the neighborhood and stop at the hotel | century resounded to many a good-na¬ and the old-fashioned pump would tured Drawl, said “Uncle George” soon be surrounded half a hundred when called on by an Inquirer re- deep by the thirsty soldiers who were making a virtue of necessity and ex¬ tolling unceasingly the many good qualities of the well water. Speak¬ ing of old pumps,” said he, “I've got a ! pump here as old as any of them, and the water seems to get better every day.” Just then several children ran into the yard for a drink. “You see,' said he. “all the neighbors have got to depending’ on this old pump, instead of their new-fangled affairs.” ECHOES OF THE PAST. “Uncle George” likes to pass through the queer little rooms of the hotel ev¬ ery once in a while, for he says they seem to be filled with echoes of the past. “I always used to go up and sit on the porch when the stage coach was coming,” said he, “so I might get a glimpse of the city folk, and then there would be an occasional letter for me, They used to have six coaches, artd when the driver would stop for a change of horses or perhaps a glass of hot tod¬ dy, a dozen or so of us young fellows would sit around and crack jokes with him and try to find out everything new in town. That seems so long ago, now, though,” said the old man, and he reached up to wipe away an involuntary tear. “We had exciting times, too, when the stage coach used to be held up by a band of highwaymen. The robbers George McClellan. would conceal themselves at Castla Rock, a little way up the road, and when porter. During the two wars with the mail coach came along they held it i Great Britain the long-suffering land¬ up in good old-fashioned style. The lord was kent in a continuous state chief was caught after a while, though, I of turmoil, his high-posted, curtained and hanged. We don’t have any such Jbeds being obliged to bear the weight - ..... a wistful far- .vay ldok in his eyes. The cave at Castle Rock has served more than once as a haunt of highway men and it w.is in the ’70’s of the last century that Fitzpatrick, the noted out¬ From,, law chief, was at his zenith.- He had an accomplice named Dougherty, who was ei*>loyed as hostler at the New¬ town Square tavern, then called Pratt's I l ....— House, whose crimes excelled even the leader’s at times. -. Fitzpatrick was finally betrayed by a woman with whom he had fallen in love. She used to wander around do¬ Bate, sMjms...L ffyy ing occasional work at the' tavern, where she met a man who tried to in¬ duce her to leave her outlaw master and lead a better life.- Her benefactor '• .frf ^ jC r . — - -^1- was finally waylaid and robbed by Fitz¬ patrick. Her pleadings to induce the robber to give back the money were rudely repulsed and as a means of re¬ FIRE DESTROYS venge she led the village constables to his den. He was shortly afterward hanged. Fitzpatrick often entered the bar-room of the Newtown Square tavern with a AN OLD LANDMARK. pistol in each hand. Pie would lay one of- them on the bar while he drank and then abruptly back out with a “Good- day, gentlemen.” Burning of the Stone Mansion The oldest buildings hereabouts are this old hotel, “Uncle George’s” house, of the Black Family on and another oldTfotel whicn usea to do called the Fox Chase. This is some¬ thing like 150 years old, -and when built Hog Island. was one of the largest hotels than exist¬ ing. It has been out of use as a hotel for several years, however. "Uncle f| George” said that during the war of A MAGAZINE ENDANGERED. ec 1812 he could remember when over 150 of the American soldiers were sleeping in the house at one time. A FULL-FLEDGED GHOST. There is a story that at this time one Powder Plant at Port Miffln Saved lay of the soldiers, who- was on guard, was killed, accidentally it was thought, by the Garrison, Police and Firemen. another, and for twenty-five years after on the anniversary of his death he was Nothing but the Walls of * seen stalking about in front of the house L J with a gun on his shoulder. The man the Ancient Dwelling who had killed him died suddenly one 1 night at the end of that time, arid the . Left. ghost was never seen again. “If all of my chums,” said the old man, “could have one more night on earth, it is safe to say that they would spend it around these old haunts of our Standing on the west bank of the Dela- j boyhood instead of fooling around the i ware, just south of Fort Mifflin, and I cities where everybody is trying to get just over the Delaware County line, an ahead of his neighbor. I’ll soon be among them now, though, and then I’ll old stone mansion has for the past hun- i tell them how the old places are still dred years been one of the landmarks here.” of the country side. Yesterday morning Although the old man is in his 96th year he looks scarcely over 70, and his it was destroyed by fire. Nothing but eyesight and hearing are as good as blackened walls remain of what was they ever were. He has quite a large perhaps the typical plantation homestead , garden, which he works in and keeps in perfect condition. Even now, when of this part of the Commonwealth. the cherries on his trees are ripe, he The house was part of the estate of repudiates with scorn the idea of his the late Edward Black, whose family daughter, who is a woman of almost 70 years, picking them, but climbs up for nearly a century have been the own¬ to the top of the tree himself and picks ers of the 1500-acre tract, known in times the fruit. He prides himself on his be¬ past as “Hog Island” but more recently ft ing quite an athlete in the days gona by. as “Black Island.” "Hog Island” it “I can remember,” said he, “when I was when swine were the chief product cut across the fields and meadows to of the territory; “Black Island” it be¬ Eagle Tavern, about four miles from here, without touching -a fence or a came by virtue of its ownership. Twenty gate, and I have jumped over a stick years ago the back channel of the Dela¬ two inches higher than my head.” ware completely separated it from the "That hasn’t been lately, has it?” In¬ terposed his listener. main land, and there was no possible “No,” said he, with a sad little smile, communication between It and Fort Mif¬ “that’s been quite a few years ago. flin except by boat. Now the estuary is I can’t content myself with doing noth- I ing, though, and I must have my walk scarcely more than a ditch. Twenty ’ to the hotel, if nothing else. I think years ago also these 1500 island acres, hat’s the way I’ve kept my system In were richly productive; to-day they do, ood condition.” Uncle George” fully realizes his old- not more than produce enough to keep age and is perfectly satisfied with the the family of the Blacks in comfort. race he has run. His only wish is to die before the two old hotels, which have became sacred in his eyes, are dis¬ I persed by the ruthless hand of progress. : *vv. . KE CAME THROUGH THE ROOF. Black and her five children were at breakfast at 9 o’clock yesterday- morning when the fire broke out. It was caused by a defective flue. An oc¬ From, .( X fU('m c ^ cupant of part of the old plantation ser¬ vants’ quarters saw smoke coming through the roof and gave the alarm. There were no neighbors nearer than vtlAj (f^ Port Mifflin, and it was Impossible to check the flames. Word was telephoned up from the fort to the Twenty-first Sub-District Police Station, at Sixty-fifth and Woodland Avenue, and Sergeant J. N. Murphy and four patrolmen made the five-mile run down to Hog Island in company with Engine No. 10 and its crew, but arrived too late to save any¬ thing but the outbuildings. AN ANCIENT DEED. The family, however, succeeded in get¬ ting a few of their personal effects out An Old Document Which Will Interest of the house. One daughter saved some lawyers and Conveyancers valuable diamond ornaments, but a $500 set of silverware was burned up with for Its Qnaintness. the rest. Only a few pieces of furniture Mrs. Wm. {Jib-son, of Madison street, were saved. It is estimated that the this city, has in her possession an old value of the opntents destroyed is about $2000. The house was built of bluestone well preserved parchment -deed, for a with brownstone trimmings, and original¬ tract of ground now included in Balti¬ ly cost $10,000. Mrs. Black says the loss more city. The document is peculiarly is totally covered by insurance. The interesting to lawyers, conveyancers long porches that adorned the eastern and real estate men, because of the and southern fronts of the mansion were character of the conveyance, wihich burned, as was also every other vestige conforms more closely to the manner of woodwork. Nothing is left standing but the bare walls and an old-fashioned in vogue in Great'Britain than was ever chimney, the base of which fills nearly ; adopted in the Province of Pennsyl- a quarter of the entire interior, and the j vania, and because the -conditions ap¬ top of which was swaying in the wind pertaining to the Baronial system in all day yesterday after the fire. England of that day. 'For these pecu¬ POWDER MAGAZINE IN DANGER. liarities we publish the old deed in full. At one time during the conflagration ■ It is as follows:- the powder magazine at Fort Mifflin Maryland S. S. Charles absolute Lord was in great danger. It is situated only Proprietary of the Province of Maryland 500 yards from the Black Mansion, and the wind was blowing briskly in that and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore, to direction. The police and firemen lent all persons to whom these presents shall a hand to the garrison of the fort in this come, Greeting in our Lord God everlast¬ connection, and the threatened disaster was thus happily averted. The burned- ing, Know ye that for and in corsdera- out family have arranged for a temporary tion that Sewall Young, of/Baltimore shelter in some of the smaller buildings county, in our said Province of Mary¬ on the island, and will decide as to re¬ building in a few days. land, hath due unto him Eighteen acres of There have been many suits in days Land within our said Province by virtue gone by as to the actual ownership of of a Warrant for that quantity granted Hog Island, and the Black family’s pa¬ trimony has been considerably reduced him the Seventeenth Day of January, thereby, but their title is now said to Seventeen hundred and forty-two. as ap¬ have been recently validated. There have pears in our Land Office, upon such Coa* also been some interesting suits in con¬ nection with the early free soil character ditions and terms as are expressed in our of the island acreage. Representatives Conditions of Plantation of our said Prov¬ of one of Philadelphia’s most historical ince, bearing date the fifth day of April, families put to pasture there many years ago several pairs of ponies. These were Sixteen hundred and eighty-four, remain¬ allowed to breed without let or hindrance ing upon Record, Together with such al¬ until their progeny became somewhat terations as in them are made by our of a nuisance to the human occupants of the island. Nothing has been paid further Conditions bearing date the fourth ior pasturage and when the original pas¬ day of December, Sixteen hundred and tures came to claim their drove of wild ninety-six, Together, also with the alter¬ horses, the lords of the manor refused ations made by our Instructions bearing to surrender them. Then followed a long litigation, which resulted In a com¬ date at London, the twelfth day of Sep¬ promise by which a part of the drove tember, Seventeen hundred and twelve. remained at the pasturage. Some of Registered is our Secretary’s Office of our this breed of wild horses were scamper¬ ing about the fields yesterday while the said Province, Together with a Para¬ old mansion was going up in smoke. graph of our Instructions bearing date The neighborhood of the fire has for the Fifteenth day of December, Seven¬ many years been a famous resort for lovers of sport. Duck, plover, snipe and teen hundred and thirty-eight Registered reed birds are very plentiful. in our Land Office. . We Do therefore hereby grant unto him, Qm said Sewall Young, all that Tract or . the eapitol, is GBladenburg, on his old Parcel of Land called Young’s Chance, estate, where, on August 24th, 1814, the lying ana being in Baltimore county af’d, battle of Bladensburg, which preceded on the north side of Patapsco River, be- the capture of Washington, was fought, gining at a bounded red oak by the side of and because nearby is the spot known as a ridge on the West side of Quinn’s Falls, the “field of honor,” where on February' and running thence south twenty Perches 6th, 1819, 'Senator Mason, of Virginia, West, Southwest, one hundred rods, fifty- was shot dead in a duel with Congress-j two perches, North twenty perches, and man McCartney, of the same State thence by a Straight line to the beginning where on March 22nd, 1820, Congress¬ containing and laid out Eighteen acres man Baron shot Commodore Decatur ini more or less, according to the Certificate a duel, Decatur dying that night in the! of Survey thereof taken, returned unto dining room of the house in which the our Land Office, bearing date the first widow of General E. F. Beale now re¬ Day of July, Seventeen hundred and forty- sides. Eight duels occurred at Bladens-| three, and the remaining, together with all burg, hut it is unnecessary to particu-; rights, profits, bond fits and privileges, larly recall them. • thereunto belonging. Royal Mines ex¬ cepted, To have and to hold the sam® unto him, the said Sewall Young, his heirs and assign forever, to be holden of us, ■ our heirs, as of the Manner of Baltimore in free and common Sockage by fealty only for all manner of services, Yielding and paying therefore yearly unto us and our heirs at our Receipt, at our City of Saint Mary’s, at the two most usual Feasts B||ln the year, viz: The Feast of the Annun¬ ciation of the blessed Virgin Mary & Saint Michael, the Arch Angel by even & equal Portions the rent of Nine pence Sterling in Silver of Gold, or the full value 8 thereof In such Commodities as We, our heirs of such Officer or Officers as shall be RUTLEDGE, appointed by us IS; otfr hbirS from lim'd to time to Collect &, receive tBfe game, tm Walter H. Neall Becomes a Clin¬ shall accept in. discharge thereof at the ic ai Instructor—The story of kct choice of us & our heirs, or such officer ledge—What mld records Reveal— or officers afs. Provided, That if the said Reminiscences of ‘The Good old Days ’—The Founding of Rutledge— sum for a fine for alienation shall not be The Locality in Revolutionary paid unto our heirs or such'‘-officer or Times—Pioneers of a New settlement I officers afs. before such aliena- S —Everything to be Done- jhurch and chool organized—Present Con¬ tion & the said alienation enter-f ditions and Future prospects. ed upon the Record either in the Dr, Walter H. Neall has oeen notified Provincial Court or County Court, where by the Dean of his election by the faculty the same parcel of Land lyeth, within One as clinical instructor of the Medioo-Chi- ] month next after such alienation, then the rurgieal College of Philadelphia, and has sa’d alienation shall be void & of no effect. signified his acceptance of the position. Given under our Great Seal of our said ovince of Maryland, this first day of De¬ Among the gentlemen In silk stockings ember, Seventeen hundred & forty-five. and silver buckles who, on the Fourth of Witness our Trusty & Well belcvel July, 1776, entered the old State House on Thomas Bladen, Esq., Lieutenant General Chestnut street, in Philadelphia, were and Chief Governor of our said Province John Morton and Edward Rutledge, rep¬ of Maryland, Chancellor & Keeper of the resentatives respectively from Pennsylva¬ fffj Great Seal thereof. nia and South Carolina. 'They played their parts In the great drama of Nation¬ IB T. Bladen signs in the margin of the 1 al Independence, and when their work deed.' The great seal, which was so in ; was ended, passed gently down the size as well as name, is pendant, and ; stream of time and slept with their fath¬ repesents on one side a Knight with an ers. The years rolled on ; children were uplifted sword, and in armour, astride born and children died, and though more of a prancing charger, while on the op- | than a century has passed away, the two posite side is the personal arms of the names which were coupled together in the long ago by a strange Baltimore family. The -deed is record¬ coincidence are again brought side by side. ed, volumes and pages being indorsed The Revolutionary Morton lived and on the face of the document, but the 11 died in i he substantial stone mansion on date when placed on record does not 1 Morton avenue, still standing, and now appear. occupied by Charles W. Kennedy. His Thomas Bladen owned a large estate latest descendant passed away not so in Maryland, 'part of which is now 'in¬ many years ago, and in his last days the cluded in the city olf 'Washington, and “Old Judge” would indicate a certain his name will be ever prominent in the tract of high ground upon the estate history of the country, because about four miles, measured from the dome of j TK with I the added prediction that, at some time [maintains its own school (which is one of lor other the town would rise. What was the very best in Delaware County), and j|prophecy then is history now. elects its own officers. The recent bur¬ In 1681, as the old chroniclers tell us, gess, Wm. T. Poore, assumed the duties | William Penn, governor and proprietor, of the office peculiarly well equipped by (granted to John Slmcock in lee, 5000 acres . reason ol his long and faithful previous of land, to be allotted and set out in the service in council, and so performed his [province of Pennsylvania, and subse- ‘ duties during the period of his incurn- Iquently by a general warrant bearing 't beney as to retire at the close of his term date the 17th day of October, 1681, there with the universal commendatiou and was surveyed and laid out on the 22nd respect of his fellow-citizens ; it is confi¬ day of September, 1682, under the said dently hoped that his successor, Wm. E. John Slmcock as part of said grant, by Thompson, Jr., will make a record alike the land surveyor of the county of Ches¬ ) creditable to himself and the borough, ter, 2200 acres of laud in said county. he, like Mr. Poore, having had the ad- A part of Chester, in which was included | vantage ol extensive experience and long this 2200 acres, was subsequently consti¬ ; training in the legislative branch ol the tuted a new county called “Delaware,” borough government. and a part of these 2200 acres covered the Third—It is a social unit, including . ministers, doctors, journalists, mechanics, slope udoii which Judge Morton fixed his prophetic eye and which is now the site teachers, business men and lawyers, of “Rutledge.” unique and original in its conception, as¬ Thus it comes that the new settlement tonishing in its progress, varied In its in¬ is rearing is rural cottages upon what terests and comprehensive in its designs, was, even long ago, historic ground. The combining all the legal powers and safe¬ waters of the brook running by the Rut¬ guards of a corporate body, with the ledge Institute near what is now called aims and objects ol a co-operative asso¬ ciation. Linden avenue, were doubtless quaffed by the native savage, while the warrior The Rutledge Mutual Land Improve¬ with his long bow sought rest and shelter ment Association was Incorporated on beneath the shade of its trees. the 19th of June, 1885, and the first of the eleven articles of the declaration embody¬ When the “Old Judge” died, his name ing the principles and regulations of the survived in the village and railroad sta¬ organization, constituting its first official tion of the vicinity, but the name of Rut¬ act, adopted unanimously amid a storm ledge came by a more circuitous pathway of applause that shook the building in than that of direct descent from the il¬ which the meeting was held, provides lustrious subscriber of the Declaration of that “at no time hereaiter forever shall our Nation’s Independence. any part of said tract of land or any of More than thirty years ago, the English the sub-divisions thereof, be used or occu¬ novel-reading world was surprised and i pied for the manufacture, brewing, dis¬ delighted by the appearance of the story tilling or sale of any malt or spirituous of “Rutledge” by a then unknown au¬ liquors.” thor ; and so it came to pass that when, This declaration is embodied in and be¬ a few years ago, a company of Philadel¬ comes a part of every deed, and thus pro¬ phians associated themselves in an or¬ hibition of the most pronounced type is ganization for the purpose of establishing interwoven into the very warp and woof rural homes and came to fix upon a name of the organization. tor their proposed town, one who had read the story suggested “Rutledge.” Morton and Rutledge! associated with In contemplating Rutledge, we have I the announcement of the most glorious olten been reminded of Williamsburg as historic event that mortals ever heard, it was in the early days of Thomas Jeffer¬ are again united in living monuments of son. Though the capital of Virginia at growing communities, which, as the that time, It contained about the same years roll on, will serve to perpetuate and number of houses as does Rutledge to¬ render more enduring the memories and day. Instead of being built upon four [associations of their well-earned fame. avenues, however, it consisted chiefly of And now after the lapse of more than a one street of the same width as the Rut¬ [(quarter of a century, we attempt to tell ledge highways, three-quarters of a mile the story of Rutledge anew, hoping, ' ex¬ long, with the capital at one end, the col¬ pecting, confidently believing that in the lege (William and Mary) at the other, lyears to come there are yet to be unfoki- and a ten-aore square with publio build¬ jed chapters of greater interest, more ings in the middle. The roadways were widespread importance and more credita¬ not as good as those of Rutledge, there ble achievement than any yet aceomplish- were no telforded streets, but the great led in the past. planters’ families traveled through Vir¬ What la Rutledge ? ginia mud in their gorgeous oid-fashioued First—It is a community In which every high coaches drawn (of necessity) by six citizen has an equal voice, and every horses. Imember an equal vote. The nearest ap¬ ******** proach to it in ancient or modern time?, Let not the pioneer of a new settlement > was the far-famed town government o hope to escape trials and tribulations. |New England ; and in its constitution The Rutledge pioneers had theirs in abun¬ ind practical operation is the most per¬ dance. Everybody wanted a corner lot, fect system of “Home Rule” ever yet de- everybody wanted to live on the main ]vised by the wit of man. street, everybody wanted a southern ex¬ Second—It Is a borough having a com¬ posure. The first embarrassment was pletely organized local government. It disposed of by demonstrating the increas-: .(fixes its own tax rate, expends its own - -___ ed cost on corner sidewalks, the second | Li ■ ■ Fi '• humor wouldhaverivalledthePickwick almost fromitsorganization,beenIndue-§ chaser thatthesouthernexposure,would and thethirdbyconvincinglotpur¬ papers orthe“InnocentsAbroad,”while lated someexperienceswhichforgenuine ed towritethissketch,hecouldhavere¬ tary oftheRutledgeHandAssociationI housa I\ bo prettywellassuredatsome.partofthe church andtheschool. those safeguardsofcivilization—the lie buildingserectedatRutledgewere lutely true. memorable productionso!beingabso¬ possessing theadditionalmeritoverthose S. MauilandAlexanderAndrew,together called tothepastorate,whichhestillfills; associate editorofThePresbyterian,was ary 10,1891,Rev.W.McKinney,D,D, April 23,1889.AtameetingheluFebru¬ organized bythePresbyteryofChester, ment ofthePilgrimfathers,firstpub session, andGeorgeH.Ross,Richard Maximilian Weiss,HenryH.Bitler,Wm. Young composingtheboardoftrustees. Richard McCulloughandRandolphS. with thepastor,constitutingpresent ler totheunknowncountryselected ed themtosomanycoachesontheroad the comparisonbyanalogyfurtherliken sands year”andupwards,extending commodation ofpersons“tenthou¬ ecclesiastical club,designediortheac¬ in acommercialcityeverythingIsaptto slightest dangerofhittingaChristian. London churches,ofwhichhealleged cism ofMr.Carlyleconcerningcertain Independent wayfarer. veyance, andtrudgedalongonfoot—an denied himselftheprivilegeoftravelling one whichaccordedwithhismeans,or class andthird-class,ofwhichthetravel¬ to Heaven,dividedintofirst-class,second- ern fashionablechurchtoanexclusive and accordinglyachurchnumerically Attention hasbeencalledtothefactthat window acrossthechurchwithout that apistolshotcouldbefiredinto Young, DavidG.Myers,JosephRoyal, ferred tostatesthatheonceheardafine dollars. Thepopularwriteralreadyre¬ its numberofsouls,but estimation ofthetownnotaccordingto weak butfinanciallystrongranksinthe young fellowfullofzealforeverything by theusuallyreooirnizedmodeofcon¬ one hundredandseventy-fivethousand the directmeansofaddingacapital plished byacertainsermon,thatitwas high andgoodexultIntheaccom¬ be measuredbyacommercialstandard, dollars tothechurchmembership.Our sincerely rejoicedinthe factthatthe author concedesthattheyoungman exerted onbehalfofobjects whichhe thousand dollars,werethenceforth tobe session ofonehundredand seventy-five meant nothinglownormercenary, but fashionable church musicdoesnotescape esteemed thehighestand best.Even tho criticism of ourauthor,herelating power andinfluenceattaching tothepos¬ Had HarryR.Keen,theefficientseore-. The CalvaryPresbyterianChurchwas As inthecaseofmorabiesettle- Mote pointedandseverewasthecriti¬ A popularwriteroncelikenedamod¬ m f ■'.‘'VVJ - esting,asshowingthecustoms ofthe of adifficultaccompaniment,thecongre¬ cord,” andstraightwayfourhiredper¬ mind, upontheministerannouncing the ludicrousImpressionproducedonhis formers executingitwiththeassistance hymn, “ComeLetUsJoininSweetAc¬ gation meanwhilesittingsilent. son whytheoldconceptionofaChristian the churchatRutledgeThereisnorea¬ plies ;andamongthem,oneatleast,is few, towhichnoneofthiscriticismap¬ equally importantandinterestingtoall, and conditionsofmenmightcometo¬ church, astheoneplacewhereallsorts should notberealizedeveninmodernso- gether anddwelluponconsiderations Histcry ofDelawareCounty, -which old dayswhen thestagecoachesfrom every readeroftheTimes. Itisint< appended, if.worthyofthe reading-b; use asihotel.Itwasfirst licensedin rnont-a-vemie, .whichistobetorn, 1-717, andtheekfetchfrom Ashmead’ States 'thathasbeenin continuous hotel structure,isoneoftheoldest,if to makeroomfora not theoldestbuildinginUnited In Couti»iaii«UseasHotelforOne WAS LKEJTSEDIITHEYEAR1717 Interesting HistoricalDescriptionof IN ilfflilTIVffl conception Isrealized.Fromhundreds, the UnitedSlateseverySunday,thereare perhaps thousands,ofpulpitsthroughout ... andintheRutledgeohurchthat_ read, whichhavenothinginthemofthe laboriously preparedsermonsearnestly spirit;of thepresent,containnotmost ing andsinning,havenosuitableness distant allusiontomodernmodesofliv¬ whatever tothepeopleofto-day.Such is nottheRutledgepulpit,such There arechurches,andwehopenota “the churchatRutledge' Country. Probably tireOldestHostelryIntile Hundred andEightyTears,ItWas Bate'. The oldCityHotelatThirdand ^ theOldCityHotel new andmodern a^; •• w STork 'a.nd Philadelphia for the rumramg out.' to t.hefl>elaware and has a South rumbled through Chester and very large wooden fb ridge over it, in, the changed horses at the old tavern. Air. middle, of the town, the Delaware is Ashmeacl writes: reckoned three raftes over at this place, j On fee kith o£ December, 1700, James and i*» a very good road for shipping; 1 SajKlalaruda, the younger, -conveyed the the Court House and Prison are two : land on the northwest cornea- of Third tolerable large buildings of stone, there street and. Edgmont avenue, on which are in the town a church dedicated to this building was afterwards erected, 6t. Paiul, the congregation are after | to David Roberts^ and on May 26, 1714, the manner of the ohureh of England; \ Jonasf Sanidelands, the brother of a Quaker Meeting and a Sweed’s “?” Jaimes, and Mary, his wife, confirmed church; about l6 of the clock, forenoon, the track of ground to Roberts, reserv¬ comers and us of their leeve went to ing, however, a yearly ground-rent of St. Paul’s; where we heard a .sermon three shillings to his heirs. I believe preached by the Reverend Mr. Baek- the building was erected by David | house, on the 16th chapter of St. Duke, Roberts shortly after his purchase from 30 and 31st verses, from this some of us James Banded ands. He received the paid a visit to the Friends’ who were license there in 1717. In 1728, David then in meeting, but as it happened id Roberts sold the property to Ruth Hos¬ be a silent one, after we had sat about kins, widow of Sheriff John Hoskins. 15 minutes, they shook hands and we On March 5-6, 1738, -Ruith Hoskins con¬ parted, from this returned, to our Inn, veyed the property to her son-in-law, where we had a very good dinner, and John Mather. He was a prominent about 4 in the evening set out for Phila¬ citizen, an attorney with a large prac¬ delphia,, accompanied by the Sheriffs, tice, and a justice of the peace, an im- Coroner' and several gentlemen of the portent dignitary in those days. John tow-n, past through Darby a town 7 Mather leased the premises to James miles from Chester, standing on a creek Mather, perhaps his brother, since John of the same name ajfd at a stone bridge Mather named his only son, James, pro¬ about half a mile further, was met by bably for the person mentioned. That the Sheriff, -Coroner and Sub-Sheriff, of 'James Mather kept the tavern here in Philadelphia county. Here the com¬ 1746 we know, for he was one of the pany from Chester took their leave of number of innkeepers who petitioned us a.nd returned.” the Legislature for payment of certain James Mather subsequently purchas¬ claims, more fully referred to in the ed the lot on which National Hall was account of the Black Bear Inn, and in erected and there, in an old stone house the journal of William Black, who was for many years kept a public-house. It the notary of the commissioners ap- is so described in t)ie deed from Alary i pointed by Governor Gooch, of Vir¬ Alum's to- Jonas Eyre. y ginia, to unite with those from the -Alary Hoskins', who had married John colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland Al'ather, was a most admirable -wife and to treat with the Iroquois or Six Nations mother. Her careful training of her of Indians in reference to the land west daughters is evidenced by the fact that the Alleghany Mountains. In de- both of the-m became- the -wives of dis¬ ribimg the journey of the commission- tinguished men, and are alluded to by \ 9 from ‘Virginia and Maryland to writers of acknowledged position on ledelphia, under date of Saturday, several occasions for their personal ex¬ 25, 1744, he records:— cellence and wo-manly w-orth Ruth ine males from Wilmington, and at Al-ather, to whom the property was de¬ thdline dividing New Castle and Ch-es- vised by her grandmother, married j t-rl counties, were waiting the High Charles Thomson, one of the most noted ShA-iff, Coroner and under Sheriff of men, in our national annals. He was a j Chaster county, who conducted us to native of Ireland, and during all the Chester town, six miles further, where difficulties with the mother-country we fe-rtved a feiw minutes before nine was an ardent Yfhig. He was the first at night, and put at Mr. James secretary of the Continental Congress Mathew, (Mather) the most consider¬ of 1774, and continued in that office dur¬ able house in ffbe town: most of the ing the long struggle of the Revolution. company betaa very miuch fatigued In recognition of the faithful discharge wfth the (Jay'S1 ride being very warm, of his duties, he was chosen to bear to they inclin’d for beds soon after they Y/ashington the intelligence of the lat¬ alighted,, ana tiro’ for ray part I was ter’s nomination, to- the Presidency of not very tiffed, yet I agreed to hug the the United States. Of him' John Adams pillow with the rest.” in his- diary, writes, “Charles Thomson AN IMPRESSION OP CHESTER. is the Sam Adams of Philadelphia the The next entry in his journal, doubt¬ life of the cause of liberty.” He retired less after refreshing slumber, is headed from public office, and during his la(*t-er , j ‘•Chester in Pennsylvania, Sunday, the days translated the Septnajgint, which J 26,” and he records his doings in, and was published in four volumes in 1808 impression of, Chester, of that day He died in Dower Merlon, Montgomery thus: county, in, 1824, in his ninety-fifth year “This morning, by the time the sun P.ufh Thomson died without children returned, to enlighten my bed chamber, surviving her. John Al'ather. by hi3 I got up with a design to take a view will, dated Affla.y 26, 1763, demised the of the town. It is not so large as Wil¬ premises to his daughter. Ruth and mington,; neither are the buildings so hi-s son.-in-law. diaries Thomson: and large in general, the town stands on a in, event of the-jie-ath of -Ruth without a-e month of a creek of the same name, children, then to his gran-ddaughter/iy® j &*£!€? a,r\q ±i,u/cjQ. S3F. „v. t..IWSfci Thomson were n-Smea as “‘tfesoutSPS.' ney Jane alone took out letters testamen¬ in verse by Philip Sexton, then living tary. Charles Thomson, after the death at ’'Squire E e’s, on Edgmont avenue, of Ruth,, his wife, without children, during the e rly part of this century he March 5, 1785, released to Mary Jackson referred to is hotel thus: all his right and title in the premises "If yoi THIS OLD TAVERN. stand on the bridge And look to the east, A description of the old tavern is fur¬ You’ll here see an eagle, nished in the Pennsylvania Gazette in As as a beast. the early part of that year: “To be sold.—A commodious tavern in “Call at this tavern the borough df Chester, now in the ten¬ 1 Wifi tout any dread; ure «f Mr. Peter Saikend;—the house You’ll there get chicken. is three stories, high, has four rooms on Good mutton, and bread.” each floor,—large kitchen adjoining, and a well of excellent water at the kitchen Mrs. Engle; was the mother of the late door; the stapling is good, can contain Hear Admiral Fr ederick Engl a, who upwards of fb-rty horses, and has room died in 186G, and of Captain Isaac E. above for sixj tone of hay; there are a Engle, of the merchant service, who j large yard and garden belonging to the died }n 1844. Her daughter, Mary, house, also hi® acres of highly improv¬ married the late Hon. Samuel Edwards, ed pastures, i This house has been a a member of the bar and represent¬ well accustomed Inn for upwards of ative in Congress' from this district forty years past. For terms apply to from 1819-21, and again from 1525-27, the subscriber in Philadelphia who died, leaving surviving him his “DAVID JACKSON. ; son, Henry B. Edwards, Esq., a mem¬ “January 19, 1785. ber of the bar, a leading citizen of “N. B.—Depreciation certificates of ' Chester,, and a daughter, Mary Engle the officers aid soldiers of the Pennsyl- Edwards, who intermarried with Ed¬ 1 vanla line, as also final settlements of ward Fitzgerald Beale, at that time the said line, at their current value, lieutenant in the navy, and noted for will be take'if in part payment for the his celebrated ride across Mexico with above premises.” dispatches from Commodore Stockton On March i, 1785, Mary Jackson con¬ during our war with that country, sub¬ veyed the hotel to Major John Harper, sequently pron*;nent as superintendent who gave it the name of “The Ship of Indian affairs and In exploring ex¬ George Washington.” Harper was the peditions, constructing public high¬ landlord of this tavern when the re¬ way®, and in surveys for projected jail- moval of the .county seat to West Ches¬ roads. In I860 he was appointed sur¬ ter Was the important topic of consid¬ veyor-general of California, and under eration in Chester county, and the part General Grant’s second administration he took in t! at struggle has already was United States Minister to Austria been mentioi ed in this work. Harper General Beale is one of the' largest having remo red to West Chester, he land owners In the world, his estate in made default in the payment of th< m- California comprising two hundred I terest on the mortgage. Suit was thousand aiciles of land. J brought by the executor of Mary Jack- Mary Engle’s daughter Abby. married / son, dec'eased, and on August 1, 1788, John Kerlin, Esq., a member of the ( Ezekiel Leonard, sheriff, deeded the Delaware county bar, and for many tavern and lot to her executor, Dr. years president of the Bank of Del¬ Da/vid Jackson, of Philadelphia; and aware county. Her son, Frederick E. , the latter coiveyed it. January 14, 1793, Kerlin, died in -California more than jk to .Matthias Berlin, Jr., of Trenton, N. twenty years ago, and the other son, J., who was t le brother of William Ker- Cp.pt Charles Kerlin, a well-known lin, the own* r and host of Washington merchant captain, now retired from House, and subsequently returned to service, lives in New Jersey. The lat¬ Delaware eoi nty to reside. ter in May, 1853, brought to Chester the On March : )th of the same year, Ker- i first Chinese ever known to have been ljn sold the :avern to William Pierce, ‘ in that town. His strange dress, and of Lo*wer Cl Chester, who devised the “tall” three feet in length, drew a large estate to his widow, Mary. She married crowd of boys together, who followed David Coate., of Philadelphia, and the him whenever he appeared in the latter and h s wife conveyed the pro¬ streets. perty, Fetonary 27, 1802, to Abraham IN THURLOW S TIME. Lee, of Sair: George’s Hundred, Dei., Mrs. Engle was succeeded in business and he, in turn, March 22, 1803, sold the by John J. Ttiurlow. shout 1828. I quote property to Ediward Engle, who kept j from John Hill Martin the following the hotel until he died (about 1810), and graphic description of the- old hotel in bis widow, ijfary Engle, continued the its palmiest days as a stopping-place business until 1833, when she retired for one of the! lines of stages which then and leased the premises to John J. passed through Chester for Baltimore, Thurlow. Tie ancient hostelry under Washington and the South. He says: Mrs. Engle’s supervision was the fash- “How well (T remember ‘Thurlow’s. in ion able and populer hotel of the bo-r- the days of 'iti busy greatness! Well I re¬ ough. In 182 when General Lafayette member how, when I was a boy. X linger- was the guest of Chester, the First City >' ed near its hospitable doors to see the Troop of Pliladelphia was quartered handsome hor; es of the Reeside, Stockton 1 at her house; then known as the Eagle & Stokes, Mi rde'ck & Sharp, and Jan¬ Tavern; for n a description of a jour- vier's riva!| liras of stage coaches chang¬ iiJM~ll Mil fl J ed: the smok ig steeds detached bv ac- I M , - . ostlers, I 'the new relay of well- j ed horsbs substituted,- and saw the 1 e driver,' an important man in those •S. with Mr great coat of many capes long- whip; the weil dressed travelers IniercHtiug Addition Made by » entering ajbou't 'talking ’and smoking Antiquary to Ul« Collection •r their deal, waiting for the stage, t I have pbeped into the small, clean Historic Crockery, „ar-room, in the centre of which stood a | 'A wel'l-ktaiown liociatl -coilfedtar of large coal stove (in. Winter) in a large ohim'a has recently ma'd'e a, moficsal sand box, that served as a huge spittoon. lalddiitfon to toils articles 'o.f historic In one corner of the room stood a semi¬ itehest. (He has 'became the owner circular bar, -with its red railings reach¬ •ai ing to the ceiling, into whose diminutive crockery -pliitJdhar, which Us in precincts the jolly landlady could scarce¬ WeligtoibortoioOid of a hiumidireld' years ly get her buxom person, while her hus¬ About Itlhe ftJiimie 'Washtogtoin- band with his velveteen shooting coat, from the Frefeildienjoy isieverail poll with its -large buttons and its many England, as a imeraanitile vetoitnibe, itocke-ts, excited my.intense admiration. iplDdheris especially tor Itlhe Ami At his heels there were always two or market, lorn Whtdb po-rtriaitls. of three handsome setter dogs, of the finest lita'gltom were dohsplicuomlsily 'dliispS breed and well trained. Sometimes I got Ttoe pitchier metaltlibinie'd is elilgtoit a glimpse of the south-west room. This fin- height anld tils lim lexael'llanlt preserva¬ was the parlor; back of it was a room tion.. On one lsii!de -i's a series of sixteen where travelers wrote the-ir letters;'and iiinltierliactog loops, -each loop Ibearling * back of the bar -was a cozy little room, mine hostess’ sanctum, into which only name of a, iStlalfce, forming 'a dirlcle iin special friends were admitted. All these benlteir oif whiildh life tltoe spread are now one large American bar-room. bearllng itlto-e shield, Ithle arms b-e'ing a ‘‘In reading accounts of the old English copy of the tflirfeic -coaJti of arms inns of coaching days, my mind involun¬ \wtoiMi rwiemel -uisieidi by Ithle iUnffitied tarily reverts to ‘Th-urlow’s,’ for there on States government. iTtoieire are the walls were hanging the quaint old sixteen 'loops, pres'entling ittolc miamn coaching and-""hunting prints imported- o!f the- orligtoall thirteen States, will from England, and around the house was Vermont, Kentucky anld Tennessee, i ‘Boots,’ and the ‘Hostler,’ and ‘the pretty matter beiing ialdimii]tit!eld; to Itlhle nnliion.1 waiting-maid with rosy cheeks,’ all from 1797, ftlhe 'centennial of which is now old England. The horses are all hitched, ibetoig -cefebriaitield iisi lavffldienjoe itJtoialt this the passengers are ‘all aboard,’ the driver pitcher d'oiels not alnitleldalte Ithlalt year. has taken his seat (the guard is blowing .On Itlhle other isliidie,. to at medallion his horn, having taken one inside), is tormied of laurel leaves, is- a piiictare gathering up h'is many reins; now he feels for his whip, flourishes ft over his of WiaishtogitOm-. Jiufetliide with bamdlalged four-in-hand, making a graceful curve eyas anld1 'the idlraiwm sworld to her hands5 with Its lash, taking care not to touch febanldis1 ais a supporter loin (tlhe 1'efflti isliidie his horses; hut does it -with a report like ■of Itthe poirltlrtalilt, while the right support a rifle-shot, the hostlers jump aside, and -er ii-s tlhe Goddieisls oif Liberty, tooQIdJing with a bound and a rush, the coach is off in 'her tojan'dis a isltiaff >wli)tito itlhle- Stars amid for Washington or Philadelphia, carrying Sibrlipies-, 'Wlitlto sixteen' stans to tlhe field, perchance within it Clay, Webster, or ainld on another -staff a liberty dap, Calhoun.'And of a winter’s evening when which life no ll'oinigelr -radognliizled ais appli¬ I have stolen out from home, I have pass¬ cable to this Country, for tthle- llib'erlt/y ed the ‘Tavern,’ and seen seated around -cap was an -eimbiiam iiinldiiloaitlilnlg that tflne'e- its cheerful tire the magnates of the town, telling stories of other days (as I dom hald been Igfiiv'eto ltd a dependant by now could tell their names.) And some¬ ihiiis master, Whereas Itlhe Onliltleld SltiaJtete times peeping through the green blinds, I worn itlheiilrisi iby itlhe- sword. For- ithialt rea¬ have seen a quiet game of w-hist going son Itlhe Godldieiss of liberty omthe Capi¬ on; perchance it was ‘all fours,’ or else a tol w-eiarfe lai helmet. Ini -front of iWialsto- game of checkers or dominoes.” lington’s picture, knieeH'iing lorn one1 knee Mir. Thurl-O'W- retired from busin-ess Is -Columbia, offieirlilnig a Qiauiriel branch to ■about 1840, and was succeeded by the father o-f his country, Over (tlhe 1 Maurioe W. Deshong, who kept the portrait -an angle to' ttJh'e ladt of flight 1 hous-e for a few years, and was follow¬ -beiarls- aloft a iciro'wm, -from wthidh radii- ■ ed by Major Samuel A. Price, who- con¬ aibes streams -oif might, While on Itlhle tinued the business until 1853, when the crown appieiairls tlhe namie Washington. late George Wilson became the host. 'The oval whiildh isiuinrioumidls Itlhe figure ife , After a few years Mr. Wilson retired, and wias in turn succeeded by Lewis A. ifoirim-eid of a ribbon gathered to- illoiops, | Sweetwood. The death of Mrs. Mary and here again are preis-e.nltled the names Enigley. in 1870,-at the advanced age.of of the slixi'tieieh iSItialties., ninety-four years, compelled a sale of Undlenmealtlh the spout Ife a imlouOigrlaim, ! the ho-te-l and other property, by order ipneisielpitjiihig Itihie- fetters, “iC. IF. iC.,” pios- of Orphans’ Court, to settle her estate, isiblly the mamje oif the maker. Tlhe and in that year William Ward, as pliltidher is an exidaeldiimigly valuawiie anld trustee to make the sale, conveyed the Imitteirtesltlinig ihdldliltliom to a idomiieoftlilon hotel property to- Jonathan Pennell, which -all-raaidy presents mainly articles who, in turn, the same year, sold the that are io;f ailmiosit prildelesis wailnie- to Itlhe premises fro Paul Klofrz, the present anltliiqiuary. owner. The latter has made important additions and improvements to the I eastern en-cj. of the ancient building. ■.4,•fr*' suggested that'Horace L. Oheyney, Esq., should represent the Delaware County ■ Historical Society on th-e Ib'olard of man- lagehs until the society Should meet. From t7 &'(A. On mOtiOn- oif A. G. 1C. Smlith the adti'on lotf the president was approved, and M-r. Oheyney was continued ate the rep¬ QLxP^ ' , resentative Of the Society on the board. Mr. Cheyrey being present, -made a very .pleasing verbal report of what took place at the meeting at Plaoili, on the Date^iA. .£J__ 1 20hh inist. ZJt< r i Mr. B. R. Myers offered the following: '“Resolved, That -the Delaware County HistOrfficiafl! Society appoint a eomimlitltee 1 of three to procure suitable icertliifloates Of membership for charter members, HISTORIAN’S MEET signed by th-e proper officers with seal aitfoaidh'edt The charges for the certifi- ■ 'cate off membership shall not be -less I than fifty cents 'each.'’' The Delaware County Histor¬ | The re'SollUJtiiOn was referred to the j next meeting of the Council for pomslM- ical Soqiety in Session. • eratlon and report, that body the meet¬ ing being off opinion bawling ample power to adt on the matter -in their d'ite- I icnetior. OR, VANCE READ AN ABLE PAPER 'The annual ele'ctilon resulted in all I ith'e oUjd officer's being retained in -place. Rev. Joseph Yianlce, 'D. D., read an lu Which He Recalled Delaware Coun- exceedingly able -and -well considered paper on ‘‘Soane Of tbe Men- Wham Del¬ tians Who Attained Eminence, and aware County hias given to ith-e World.” Whose Influences and Eabors - At (it's cloniciituisdlom Dr. J. L. FortWood ; Islploike of the (blirthlpliace lolf John Mor¬ are Still Active ior Good. | ton, at MOtrdls’ Ferry, Darby creek, the Old Ibfulilildlimlg to Which' 'some .-additions have b-eten.made being still! in good pres¬ ITttre regular annual meeting of the ervation. IHe described the old domicile .Delaware, County Bitelfcariicial Society 'and some Interesitinig finds h-e had miade was held yesterday afternoon, din the 'there in reference t'o -a date Which had -office of A. G. C. 'Smith, Co-unity S-up-er- been conioealed by pilaster, th’at had Wtienldent, oif SchlooQis, dn th-e Court (crumbled -arWay from ith'e Wall in the in¬ House, -at Media. The ordinary routine terior of itlh-e building. business being cio-UdliUded- Jameis Fryer, On motion off Hon. John B. HinfcsOn i0'f Chester, presented -t!o th-e is'oeli'elty for the thanks o!f th-e so’di-etly Were ext ended tibe nis-e o-f thte president a ihUhdsloime to Dr. Yanc-e for his interesting and in¬ .gavel made from th-e Wood of the old structive paper. -1 -C'i'tly Hotel, as 'also a paper weight for , The sub ject off a picnic to one off the .tide use of the corresponding secretary, | noted historical plaices within the eoun- •mlaide of woo'd -frioim the same (building. ; ty during th'e e'olmlmg -summer, unider The Chester County Historical Society ! (the auspices of the s'oicilelty, the Chapters presented a volume treating on Hafflay- of the Daughters of th'e Revolution and ett'e at Brandywine. The Historical So- the several! New Century and Woman’s (di'ety o-f Delaware presented first and dubs in the County, was diseutesCd, and second volumes of Historical arid Bio- ’ lin order that ampl-e time mlghlt be had gTaph'idaJl paip'ers re'aid before thlalt so¬ to perfect arraingemenltis, on..miotion of ciety, as wel-l as H. C. iCanrodls sketch A. G. C.’ Smlith, a Committee off five wa-s of the “Three .Signers flro-m Delaware, appointed, with full power to act in the j wlhii-l'e the Dauphin Co-unity Historical matter. Society presented Dr. Dgl-e’s atocoumit of RrClsIildenlt Smith appOinltCd- A. G. -C. ! -the Old Plbysitefflahis off tlhlalt icdumlty and iSmlth, Mrs. J. N-ewKin Trlatiiner, Morgan • hils memorial ioif 'Montgomery Bloy-d. Biunltinig, 'Dr. Joseph Yanice anld Horace ’ -The corresponding s'eoreuary was m- L. Chieyney the committee. teltirr-cited -to return the tihank-s of the On) mtotion off H. G. AShlm-eUd it was t 'society for the gift's to the several decided to htold a special meeting oif (the | dOmoris. ©OciPty on the evening -Of Thursday, [ iP-reisiildenit A. Lewis Smith -read the iNovemher 4th next, in Common Council ' Teorres-ponlde®ce between H. H. Gl-lky- Chamib-er, in the Old Court House at 1 -so-n, Esq., . of- PhpenixVill'e and Dhe-ster, after wlhifch the meeting ad- f- hilmis-ellf, in ref-eirenlcie to the or¬ jioumed. . ganization oif the Paolli Memorial . .-D*r. J'Osepih Ylance’s paper on “Some j Association, in Whlidh Mr. Snhitth_has -off the Men whom Delaware CO-unty has ! Do the Warta,” wajs as toimows:' iMlr. (PresiMent anld members of the i the t-aM of the idSmeskic <&|t, were Idiefyt the early equipments oif the young ar Iif you Willi take up the coins u's reports Itlis't for hlis work. The Mite's of hi's de¬ : 1890 you may learn the Valine of the lighted mother after gating at hliis I total output, of the farm, loom and shop efforts fixed the bent of hi’s life and : to Delaware County for each year of the imalde hlim an artist. A friend sent biim {last decade, iTrlalce lit back to the first a box of paihts and some engravings, census ainld compute the aggregate. the first he had ever seen. IWIilliteum Beyond tJhaJfi, estimate the approximate WMliaims, a painter Of ‘PhPadeflpbiia, value df each year's prodlulct' until you gave him seme linsitnuc’biotols. At Lan¬ reach iGovemmor Prtotz’is grlikt mini at caster he first tried portraiture. In 'Karla Bung, in 1643. Add your figures 1756, when eighteen years old, he began iato)d you have to money value just wh'ait work as a portrait painter in PbiMM- (Delaware icournty has prloducOd an'd (phia. Two years Halter be wenlt to New igiiiven to -the World. IBut there is a York, anld in 1760 to Rlome With letters product not valued in dollars -and eemltls I to Gardlinall Albanli iHlils igenlifus was —Jit life that of the home anld family. there recognized and he was sdoni to J. P. Crozer $b«u)d be S‘>ceaile \ Sli, -rommere r~r«: 'tire presto® :ne- 18^6, and tois famlily, in aaoordiamce Wittto ■etait, ,PlM®aldefltpiliiiia. His igratodlflatltoer 111 is wustoes itoave -fluHly enldloiweld' Ifltoe im'e .from England itlo Pe'mnsylvlaniila in ISemftnany, until! now, Wiltlto aim aMe ffac- Hite father was .a ptoysicAan- in -ulity, lit tolas bedoime one off ititoe lealdling IheSter. The son Studied medi'.aime I seminiairiete iotf toe Haipitlislt Cltourdto. [Hto Dr. Thomas Bon'd, im PiMladiei- j Mr.. Citeer maide oftoer large gifts to ipMa, graduated aft tito-e Umlivens’-itiy of ititoe work of leldiuloaltlian and piulbMcaJt'iion , Eldlimfborlg, .in 1785, ianld punished IMs He died iMandto llto, 1866, atod was Jburlield alt Unilanld-— ffcdies dux Plarlils-. On Ms relthrm toe praidtuieed meldlMme in Willmlingtoin., and loir atoiime in Georgia Jtlto'eh returned to- Idtoesitter, and1 isiuiddeeldedi in esItfdtol'LsMing OUR EMINENT MEN la large pra'dtiiloe, Ilm, tlhe Whiskey -ln- temTeetAom in 1794 he volunteered as a j teluir'geon and served 'Wliltih. Blue .troops. Fo;r tihite tote Friidnlds disowned tolilm, Who Have Made the World but toe fre)fu'9eld Itlo diilsicwix them. -He Their Debtor. (served- 'in the Penmsylla’vn'i'a Degi'sfflaltiure .from 1794 to- 1802, amid w'ais- e'leSdtield to 'ittoe Senate tin 1808, and wias idlitetinghlish- ,ed 'for has sagiaditiy anid lilberall views., BRIEF SKETCHES OF NOBLE LIVES IHe was- president olf Itto'e Delaware iCtoiumlty IBIanfc. In 1817 toe removed to 'S^fhliiliaJdieWpIMia, .and there leontlmiu-ed Ms pr'aiqMce, taking an aldtlive pant in public Dr. Vanec Graphically Portrays Wb»t ),dnIt-ei’ietslIs,ibeiiimg lootoinieidbed WilbliltheiPenn- Tills County JB.os Done lor Agrlcnt- ! Sy l va n la Hospl'tlal, Friend's’ Alsyluim, the | Penin B!ank add till'© Schuylkill (Niawiga- lus-c, for Our A’nvy, and lor Onr | toitoni Company., Public Softools—Koll ol Honor. T Hite chlariitiels found toeliir idM.eifesit -ex¬ pression in Ms gliding ?400,000 to found | '-titoe Preston Reitirelat, “for iiind'ilgenlt m'air- dOm Itoli's issue we present toe donldliud- \ '-ie.d women of go'o'd -character.” ling part off Dr. Vlamce’te exicee'dlingly in- This molbl’e charity is Undated on Haim- j lteiresltinig and able paper raald before to'e iiltoon! .sltneelt, between Tlwiemltlieltlto -and j Delaware Ooiunlty HilsttioPiclall iSoiei'etty, on -I Twenty-Mist -streets-, IPtoillladtelptolia, j Monday last, oin ;“ISome Of Ititoe Men j •Wiltoim a few monithls latf-ber .Ms deialtto " Wtolom Delaware Oountiy toas given. t)o J .blue iDegisiIatture passed an ,ac,t -iinooir- Ititoe ^WoTQIdl.‘”, Dlr. :Vlam)ce icionltiiniulinig,' Iporialfing ilt.. The corner islt'o'ne was Halid felaid:! k j July 17-th, 1837, and ttoe iitos'tlitouitliom is AGiRIOUiL'TTURIE. ”| on-e of the inojteld dbarli't'ies loif PMlilaldel- IL*e|t me toede speak !0f one iwtoo 'pitolila. Uaoiulgh. bom alt Buitoimgtloni, N. J., ipa|me Dr. Preston diileid 'in IPItolilliald'eQpltolla, to Delaware oouinltly las 'a young man ; January 4rtlto, 1836, ianld -wias .buriied in i. ud Ittolrougli Ms life Was idienlbifleld wiiitto "j If lie Fri'endls’ grave ylairld, on E'dgmloinlt Delaware ootu'nltly linlterleStls. II reffelr too ! ] lav-emu'e. IHIHs ramialins to'a've since been isaao Niewttloni, itltoie fiirlslt C'omJmli!sislioiruer i removed to PbliLadeilipMa. - off Agrliculltlurie. He owme|d toe Penns- -Another iDeHawiare: loounltly plMHain- dale farm on ititoe iMedia pikie. By its Itoroplist -wials Jo'toto P. 'Grozer, founder off ■ itoaaltlmeisis, older atod' piroldnqtiiveniesis lie ICrbzer Titoeolotgli'aall -Seminary, alt -Up¬ was kmorwu ais one Of toe model Iflartn'ers land. A mlan w-too by tolils fitting and ■ If-air-see'inlg benelfloanide and by ttoe spirit Iolf tohle IS|ta|tie. As a miemiber of tote iSrtjait© AgPiicuiiltiuTlaJl IS'oteietoy Hx© was frequenitfly toe i'mparlbeldi Itlo Ms family, Itoas proved If® be 'titoe ver-y foramo'sit of Delaware lsen|t as a delegate tio titoe Nialtlilonall So- [ , fc'outotiy’s benefactors. IHe Was to'om, in teiielty, latnld dnltklddnided a reslollutlioin nrg- j'lji 'Sw-inttoimiore, January ,131th, 1793, in ttoe Ang lOongrdss t'o -esltialbiilsto. la NTaltliomial same tooulse i-n wltolidto Bemlj'amta Wiest ' DepaPtimlent of Agrttlcni'llbure. (He Halid toils ' pHatn ismdoessli'vely belfoirie PrelsQdeintisHlar- was Iborin. 'Ate a mamiufladtuirer of 'f Woolen anld c'oltltlon goods Ito-e began at nisom, Tiaylior, iFMImlome, Buicto'afa'an and Lapiidea on Oram or-eek in 1821. After - ‘Liinico-lm1. Ttole tfiuisit response Was a Bu¬ rwlarlds relmlo-veldl [to West Brianicto, near reau of Agrlicn'lbune aittoadtoed too totoe RJockdlale, amid in 1845 bought -the prop- IPaibeelt Offilee iiin 1862, allltltoloulglto under ieirit)y alt Upland, dnld buli'it ttoe Henry Gtetoelriall Tlayllor’s aldlmimlBltraitiilan', to'e Olay mill An 1846. IHe w'as gre'albly pros- to'ad been aippofcntoeld too tiake ponltriol of -perons An Ibusto-ess amid became rweallthy. agrfflciuilltiunail matterls to tole P|a|tienit 'He was a devout man an'd tois ,scull1 pros¬ Offl'ce, Ititoe Agri/onlltluriall Departomienlt was pered. laiultliloiriilzed Iby Congress and Presaidtento As an expression iolf tolis desire t'o pro- ILliineoiin very naturally tefflerdd toe Com- mlclte higher eduealtiiom, toe in 1858 erect¬ toiteisdiouerslliiip too Mr. Newton. IHe ac- ed ttoe maliln -buffll'dling off lOPozer ISemi- . oeptoeld toe posititon and fionitlinued to i| -hairy.. iTIhJils bu'illd'inig Was us-ed as a toos- (to'e offilee mmltSSl -toils Idleajtfli, June 19!to, J pitail during ititoe war., 1867, aged 67 years.- To (liiim f-efll toe jt fdr. Croz-eir l'aliid dOwn 'tolis 'work 'in Itlalsk of orlgjanM'ng to'e Work Wtolidto Itoas toraei'aisieid to toajporoaiau^amu emmenuy,, mmJM nlolw 3lt fe la dLielpiaintlmienJt) Of toe | Itiion wais neiald'y foir acftlon toe nexlt ciay -government amid) iittls Secretary a Oafbiinet A few days llaltar She salil-dd din to Boston officer. harbor, anld merer did a ship coralline NAVY. to bo am lAJraariildan piodt naceive such a hearlty amid Signilfldant waildoime. Har fWie_ are moldest, Ibfult me must laJsisieiitt Wald filled Am-erliloants Wilbh Joy out right's, amid this time we idlialiim toe alnld EJnrlopeans With asltionlilslhlment.. The Ifiathenhloiold of lanother bramldh idf our Amarlilaam maivy \was a tadt. UJaisIt Tuies- government—Itlhe Navy.. Jotelhula H'ulm- ™ JrL ^eia,m^ to Boston harbor , 'PWreysi was btoirh to Haverlfiorfd toWn- l ?Pe®dd ti5liea,r Itlhnoltitaies ainld - gave a felblto, June ITitlb, 1751, -amid Idliidd' there j w^owe to an old ship c'omling Jfanulairy 12to, 183-8. IAIt an early age be was laippbemlllicield to a ship clarpemlter to 1 ”ai?Tr-bay^ Mhe "Coinatiitotlibn,” niShr1^^63’ Isaiie! is no,w laffle'dtfflon- (Philadelphia. During Mis aPiPbanltice- alta^r oailll-ed, ooimto-g from toe navy yard islhip toils iitosltlritocjtoir dliie'd, add,' he iwiais H” it,C) of Front Jj.oj{ i5,«. tVar. Hill was one full wefek of battles, men were constantly in the sad' suporting batteries, scouting, pic ing and protecting the flanks of When Abraham Lincoln issued his army. On its retreat and most of fiist call for three-months men, among time the regiment was under fire. | the first to go and sign the: roll was Charlei City Cross Roads the regimen’ jone of our citizens, Edward Crowther, had a hand to hand fight with a North who died Saturday, March 26th. Com¬ Carolina regiment, in which the lat¬ rade Crowther was a charter member ter were roughly handled. of Wilde Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and In the retreat from Malvern Hill t! Third Pennsylvania were In the rear. i airy affcT prevented Stuart frbnOoini' They stayed some time at Harrison's ing General Lee until after the Battli Landing, afterward crossing the river of Gettysburg, a circumstance that Lee drove the enemy out, inarched down bitterly lamented in hi. reports. IS the Peninsula to Fortress Monroe; this campaign the marching wan very | thence to Alexandria; thence to Mary¬ severe and for eight days the men were I land. At the Battle of Antietam the kept in the saddle on an average of j Third was employed supporting bat¬ twenty hours out of every twenty-four, teries, keeping open the communica¬ with little to eat and no forage for their I tions, and was exposed to the heavy horses. The regiment arrived on the | fire of the enemy. The regiment camp¬ field of Gettysburg on the 2nd of July, I ed most of the time near St. James’ taking a position on the York and' College. Bonnaughtown roads, and was thrown | in front of the rebel cavalry, who werei " Late in October they crossed over to just advancing, and handsomely re¬ Virginia, covering the right flank of pulsed them on the morning of the 3rcJ the advance guard, Generals Stuart of July. After two hours’ hard fight¬ and Hampton with the rebel cavalry ing the rebel infantry moved out for being there. Collisions were frequent their last grand rally. Hampton’s: at Unionville, Piedmont, Ashby’s Gap, Division of rebel cavalry determined to Upperville, Corbin’s and Gaines’ Cross force their wav and net in the rear oJ Roads, where stubbornly contested en¬ the Union army. The Third met the gagements took place, the Union sol¬ first shock, Gregg’s supports being on diers finally driving the enemy into the hand, and a hand to hand fight took Blue Ridge Range. Colonel Averill place. The rebels were driven back being promoted to Brigadier General, with great loss. A more magnificent another officer came from the Fifth or triumphant sabre charge has been Regular Cavalry, to take command of rarely witnessed, the loss being severe. the Third, John B. McIntosh, being The Third lost twenty-four men killed just as good as the best. From War- and wounded. On the retreat from rentown the regiment moved to Fred¬ Gettysburg the Third followed. Two ericksburg, and went into* winter quar¬ days later they crossed the Potomac at ters at Potomac Creek, doing scouting Harper’s Ferry, then moved to Shep- duty around Hartwood Church. The herdtown.then back to Bolivar Heights, rebels had talked so much about the the Third being- kept busy scouting, Horse Cavalry, that our men doing picket duty, and fighting guer¬ much surprised because the rillas all summer around Warrentown; former were Virginia gentlemen, and On the 13th they had a running fight rode their own blooded horses. Fizt- all the way from the Rappahannock to hugh Lee, who commanded them, sent the Rapidan. At Culpepper Court to our General, Averill, a letter House the regiment was commended through the pickets, inviting him to by the corps commander on dress pa¬ bring a bag of coffee. Averill to oblige rade for bravery on the field. Their him, on the 16th of March made a sud¬ next engagement was at Bristow Sta¬ den dash in the direction of Culpepper, tion, the Third being given the post oi forced a passage of the Rappahan¬ honor. The rear guard next engaged nock at Kelly’s Ford, and after a hard at Occaguan Creek. The rebel Gen- fight, lasting several hours, whipped erel Gordon, with his entire division j both Lee and Stuart, and leaving the and two batteries, failed to break bag of coffee, returned in triumph, through their line, after fighting for j after inflicting severe loss on the ene¬ two hours, when support came. The my. This success surprised the coun¬ loss was nineteen killed and wounded try; the superiority of our cavalry was in the Third. Then the regiment was always after maintained. engaged in the Mine Run campaign. In April the regiment crossed the They engaged the rebels at Parker’s Rappahannock at Kelly’s Ford, joined Store, driving them back; then moved General Stoneman on his celebrated to the Orange Plank Roaa; then came raid, destroying railroads, bridges, New Hope Church, where they met the depots, factories, mills and everything famous Stonewall Brigade. The Third else. In fact, at this time Lee’s com¬ Pennsylvania and First Massachusetts munications with Richmond were cut repelled charge after charge, holding off. At Stevensburg the Third cut their own until supported by the Fif¬ through the rebel lines to go to the teenth New Jersey Cavalry, when they support of General Gregg, who was charged with a wild cheer, driving the in danger of being overpowered, and enemy off, and capturing a great many 1 turned the tide of battle. Two weeks prisoners. The loss of the Third in later the Third again met the enemy this engagement was twenty-five kill¬ at Aldie, and drove them to Upper¬ ed and wounded. The Third Pennsyl¬ ville and Ashby’s Gap, with severe loss, vania and First Massachusetts then the distance being about eight miles. moved to Parker’s Store, where they This engagement cut off the rebel cav- were surrounded by Wade Hampton's Division, but by skill and bravery’cut dames and daughte rs came from '-their way out, losing thirty killed and parts of th< 5 county to par-tie iipate. wounded, their mess tents, overcoats 'The room was There—Incidentally Alluding to years, from 1789 to 1851, the Co-urt House of Delaware county; for 15 the Spanish War ©I 1762 aud 1898. yeans, from 1851 to 1866, the Hall of 1 Chester borough; for 32 year, from 1866 the present, the 'Hall of Chester Keith] , a total public service of 171 years. as Lie ttenan t-Go vern or. Its life time reaches uack to wit'htn The jurisdiction of the court held; sixty years of the English occupation here extended to Philadelphia on the f America, unci within eighty years north, tto Delaware on the south, and the first settlements in the Province. westward to the undefined limits of the Second, its place in history. Province. A lai'ge immigration from In 1676 Governor Edmund Andross, the Old World was spreading to thq of “Charter Oak” fame, established westward and in 1729 Lancaster county the first English Courts on the Dela¬ was erected. If you will study the sit¬ ware. One of these was located at uation 'from 1724 to 1851 you will find Chester, the first permanent seat of justice within the present boundary of that for 127 years this building was Pennsylvania. For 124 years of the Chester; there were little else here, time since 1676 the courts were held in the Friends’ Meeting House, St. Paul’s this building. This fact defines its Church, three or four hotels and a few place in history. plain dwellings. Courts had been held prior to 1676 In 1707 there were one hundred at Tinicum an'd Upland, during the houses, five hundred people. In 1739, Swedish and Holland occupation, b-ut one hundred houses, five hundred peo¬ from this date they were held here 'con¬ ple. A century later, in 1840, there tinuously. When William Penn, in were one thousand people, relatively November, 1682, divided the Province to the population of the State smaller into three counties, Bucks, Chester than one hundred years before. and. Philadelphia, this place was fixed This building was the center, the as the county seat of Chester county, pride, the glory of the town. It was and he made no material change In the the reason for the existence of the constitution of the courts, nor was town, and it is only fair to suppose there much change until the adoption that when Chester county was divided of the second State Constitution in and Delaware county erected, one of 1790. the strongest reasons for the new county was the existence of this 'build¬ ' A court was composed of the jus¬ tices of the peace, laymen, from dif¬ ing and the associations ’clustering ferent parts of the county—from about it. six to twelve in number—one of whom When the War of the Revolution was chosen to preside. In addition to came Chester county, under the lead of this there was the (Provincial Court. General Anthony Wayne, entered with ~he beginning of our Supreme Court patriotic ardor into the straggle. Five s composed of five judges. They battalions of associations and Wayne’s sat in Philadelphia, but also visited regiment of Continental troops en¬ the different counties to hear appeals tered the service in ’76, gathered main¬ aird try criminal cases involving human ly from what is now Chester county. life, and other cases over which the Evidently that side of the county be¬ county counts had no jurisdiction. came the influential one during the It is said that William Penn the year straggle for independence. We are after he first came, presided over this not surprised therefore that after the court and conducted the trial of a Revolution, agitation arose for the re¬ woman living near Crum creek, who moval of the county seat 'to a more was accused of witchcraft. After ihis central location, especially when we charge -to the jury, however, they consider that from Oxford on the south¬ ■found that though “she had the com¬ west to the Welsh Mountains on the mon fame of being a witch, yet she northwest they were obliged to come was not guilty in manner and form ■here to Court. as indicated.” In 1780 an act was passed by the Up to 1724 the courts were held in Legislature under whioh Commission¬ different houses near second street ers were appointed to locate the 'Court and Edgmont avenue. The first one House at Turk’s Head, near West Ches¬ of which we have record was held in ter. 'The men appointed were opposed Laenson’s Inn, when the Block to the removal and took no action. In House, or House of Defense 'served the ’84 other Commissioners were appoint¬ purposes of justice. The third 'build¬ ed to build a Court House and they ing used stood on the east side of Edg¬ began the work. In ’85 this side of the mont avenue, above Second street, and county prevailed with the Legislature the fourth is still standing, on the to stop the work. In ’86, however, the west side of Edgmont avenue, above j Legislature authorized the completion Second street. of the buildings and the removal of the ■When this building was erected county seat to West Chester, and it was George I was King of England. Wit- done. This was a sad blow to th'e liam Penn had died in 1718, and lHan-, pride of old Chester, her glory had de¬ hah Penn, his wife, was managing the; parted, these halls were deserted and affairs of the Province, as executrix the doors closed. The county Ihad no use for this building and and sold it to William Kerim for £415. I ^ many --'ySiairs'^tKe popularity" oP* Chester had 'been on the wane. Its i There was too much of local pride,. ! people had given offense hy trying to among the people of this side of the , rule the county and only partially suc¬ county to accept the situation grace- • ceeded. Jurors, parties and witnesses fully, -a division was sued for and iby believed themselves to he imposed an act of the Legislature, Delaware upon by high charges and they kn county was erected in September, 1789, themselves to be sneered at and rid¬ with Chester as the county seat, and iculed by tavern idlers.” It was the shrewd William Kerim sold this build¬ town against the country, With the ing to the new county for £693, 3s, 8d, odds against the town. making a neat profit on his invest¬ In 1847, by an aot Of the Legislature, ment. When the first court assembled in the matter was submitted to a popular the new county of Delaware, in No¬ vote, which resulted, by a majority of vember, 1789, it was found that the 752 iu favor of (Media. This was re¬ commission off Henry Hale Graham as sisted, but in ’49 the Supreme Court de¬ President Judge was irregular and cided in favor of Media, and in May, Jjustice John Pearson presided. There 1851, the last session of the county " being no bar, William Tilghman, after¬ court was held in this building, Judge wards Judge here and then Chief Jus- Henry Chapman presiding, with As¬ sociates George Leiper and Joseph I titee of the Supreme Court, moved his ' own admission and that of other law-^ Engle. yens. With new quarters at Media th« county did not need this house and The second constitution of the State, it was sold to the Borough of Chester • adopted in 1790, made changes in the for £2601. judicial system. The Justices of the For 62 years it had been the Court Peace disappear and hence forward we House of Chester county, and then for have the learned law judge, appointed a second 62 years the Court Souse by the Governor, with two associates off Delaware county, and now lit drops j chosen from among the people. down to the minor place of a Borough This county was districted with Hall. Chester, Philadelphia, Bucks and Mont¬ gomery, under the constitution of 1790, After serving this purpose for fifteen the first judicial district. Judge Gra¬ years it, on the incorporation of the ham, who had been commisisonCd, died city in ’66, 'became what it now is, the in 1790. The men who held court here City Hall. as President Judges were James 'Bid¬ Observe the shrinkage of its jur: dle, John D. Coxe and William Til'gh- diction. At first 'it extended to i man. By the re-districting of 1806 this western limits of the 'Province. By < county was thrown into the seventh erection of Lancaster county in 1' district, with Chester, Bucks and Mont¬ it was confined to the western '1 gomery. dary of Chester county, in 1789 to it: The Hon. Bird Wilson, son of James western boundary of Delaware co Wilson, signer off the Declaration off in 1851 to 'the Sixth street station, Independence, presided here from 1806 yet the rule here to-day Is over anort 1 until 1817, wihen he resigned to enter people than ever before. Prior >to the Episcopal Ministry. After him 1851 the county had about 25,000 came John Ross, who was in 1830 pro¬ pie. The city of to-day has about 35,- moted to the Supreme 'bench. By a 000. re-districting in 1820, Chester and Del- If any one is 'disposed to value this i,i ! aware counties .became a district, with building in dollars and cents let him ! Isaac Darlington as Judge. He was reflect that the city is in debt to 'it. I I succeeded in ’39 by Thomas iS. Bell, Forty-seven years ago it cost the bor¬ i who in ’46 was promoted to the Su¬ ough $2,601. At the low rental of preme bench. The last to preside here $10 per month it paid that money hack 1 was Harry Chapman, a son-in-law of to the borough and city twenty-five .years ago. ITUTas earned its right to "( Governor F. R. Shunk, by whom he be kept just as it is, and where it is as was appointed. fully as has Independence Hall or While Chester was the county seat Westminster Abbey. I through all these years it did not grow It is 174 years old, and has rendered or improve. As late as 1840 it had but 171 years of public service. The oldest ! one thousand people. It is a law in public building in use, west of the Del¬ nature that the talent unused Will be aware, seventy-five years older than taken away. As early as 1820 there the capitol at Washington, ten years was agitation for the removal of the older thaa Independence Hall. Its county seat to a more central location. value is not in that it is composed of This was intensified 'by Radnor town-1 juslt so many good square stones, which ship suing to he set off to (Montgomery may be taken down and rebuilt else¬ county. The movement took definite where, but in the fact 'that it is our shape in 1845. Judge Broomall says: Independence Hall, which cannot ho . a replaced! war 'with 'Spain, impelled’ not by selV- , You klow, lhd'ies, that we-are just interest, but by sentiment—the senti¬ now having a/iifctle 'brush with Spain, ment of humanity. which is be'fotrfing quite interesting Patriotism is sentiment; you cannot and our soltfier boys are talking of go¬ see it; you cannot handle it; you can ing fo the West Indies. It recalls the feel it in your soul, and this old build¬ fact that in 1739, long before our great ing, which has come down to us Republic was thought of, half a cen¬ through the centuries with its story of tury before it had a constitution, Eng¬ kings, the 'colony, the province, the land 'declared war against Spain and proprietary, the Governor, the Revolu¬ soldiers were enlisted in this country tion, the State, the Constitution, and for an 'expedition against Spain in the general government, is a quiickener I Cuba, and these venerable walls looked of patriotic sentiment, and so a public 'down as serenely on the young recruits I benefactor. for war in Culba one hundred and sixty ‘May millennial light yet play around years ago as they do on the young re¬ its spire. cruits for th'e war iu Cuba toJday. The story of the expedition of Gen¬ eral Braddook in' 1755, of General Forbes in ’58, of Colonel Bouquet in ’64 sounds like ancient history, an'd yet within these walls assembled the sol¬ diers of Chester county to prepare for the march. Chester county always had soldiers for such expeditions. Here Anthony Wayne as Colonel of the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment rallied and drilled his troops in January, ’76, for the War for Independence. The assembling of the forces for quelling the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794, for the War of 1812, as well as •for the Mexican and Civils Wars are CROZER CELEBRATES HER THIRTIETH each associated with this building, and ANNIVERSARY. here each received the stimulus of pa¬ triotism. But its associations are ’especially John Price Crozer was born in Delaware county, those of peace and justice. Here sat ! Pennsylvania in 1793, and while yet a lad was bap¬ David Lloyd, father of the Pennsyl- tized into the fellowship of the First Baptist church ,nia Bar, who came with William an, as the first Attorney-General of of Philadelphia. In his business career he was l6 Province. He lived in the Conn- eminently successful, and amassed a large fortune. odore Porter house. It is said that Always a liberal giver, many a cause was cheered all the important laws of the Province | by his munificence. passed up to the date of his death were ‘ from his pen, or framed with the ben- In 1858 he decided to establish a school of acad- 1 efi't of his counsel and advice. He | emic grade with a normal department, and possibly ! served as Chief Justice from 1718 till later introduce manual training. The purpose was \ his death in 1731. to provide a practical education, free of cost, to the ‘J- 'Here sat in their turn all the early tj Justices of the ‘Supreme Court, the many bright boys and girls whose parents had but * latest of wihom we have record being little of this world’s goods. Accordingly on a beau¬ Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson. tiful hill in Upland, overlooking the Delaware river Here argued and pleaded all those and city of Chester, a large and substantial stone men of the earlier years, whose intri¬ cate distinctions and ‘constructions building was erected. Many difficulties and hind¬ made the 'fame of the “Philadelphia rances arose and from the first the enterprise was Llalwyer” proverbial. unsuccessful. I Notably, there was once the sound At the breaking out of the war, a large part of the | of midnight revelry in these walls. It !l was when Lafayette, in 1824, the, guest1 student body enlisted ,and Chester Academy closed of the Nation, came here to recall the its doors. Mr. Crozer then tendered the building to memory of his recovery in Chester, the U. S. government for a military hospital. Dur¬ from his wounds received at Brandy¬ ing the dark days that followed, Crozer had no lack wine. The ladies spread the feast here, and there was a royal welcome inmates. Other buildings were erected near by given to the returning hero. and these, too, were filled. After the battle of Gettys- To some persons all this reverence ! . burg, 1,700 confederate soldiers were cared for, and . for an old building seems only senti- j during Grant’s campaign in Virginia there were! ' ment—than which there is no stronger j bop'r We are just now engaged in and her union with Admiral Sampson’s squadron ii! ween. On Sunday morning Dr. Boardman, . the gulf; Admiral Dewey’s annihilation of characteristic exegetical way delivered tlie addt'v Spanish fleet at Manila and control of the city; an to the graduating class. In the evening Dr. Ker Spain’s other fleet imprisoned at Santiago, and al Boyce Tapper of the First Church, Philadelphia, de¬ without the loss of a man or ship on the Americai^H livered the annual sermon before the Missionary So¬ side, not to mention the number of valuable prizes ciety. With great eloquence and power he brought captured, has deservedly won the admiration of tin home the truth that “Jesus of Nazareth went about intrv find—what, is more—the applause of tin doing good.” On Tuesday evening Dr. J. C. Hiden, up memories of the past to so many. What tales of Richmond, Va., took as his theme “Biblical Crit¬ of the past they could tell! Of peace, or war' of dis¬ icism—Wise and Otherwise.” The address that fol¬ covery, of settlement, of progress! Over yonder on lowed sparkled with wit and pungent with truth. the broad Delaware a modest stone marks the land- The doctor has a way of his own that is very telling ing place of William Penn. Just there where Chester and he never fails to make his point. now lies in 1682, Penn met in council with the In¬ But Wednesday was the crowning literary feast ol dians, and later with all the colonists in General As¬ the series, and was itself a series. Theological sembly. After this meeting and a conference with seminaries, Alumni of Crozer, pastors of churches deacons and laymen mingled together while, ol I °r(i Baltimore as to boundaries, the city of “Broth- eily Love” was laid out. But Chester, or rather. course, the students gave tone to the whole. Upland, is honored with the oldest house in the Addresses were made by Samuel A. Crozer, presi¬ State. The bricks of which it is composed were dent of the board of trustees; John Humpstone, D. Li ought from England. In spite of over two hun- D., Brooklyn; Prof. J. B. Thomas, of Newton; Prof. Sylvester Burnham, of Hamilton; Prof. O. B. True j dred years of storm and sunshine it is in a remark¬ M able state of preservation. It is known the State of Rochester; Dr. J. C. Hiden, of Richmond, Va.; over as the “Penn House,” but the best evidence Prof. B. C. Taylor, of Crozer, and finally by Dr goes to show that it was erected by a friend of Wil¬ Weston. Pamphlet containing these addresses liam Penn. The latter, however, has slept beneath would prove interesting reading, but to summarize its roof. This is digressing, but digression is im¬ them is impossible. possible when one is surrounded by so many things The student body presented Dr. Weston with a that speak of the past. handsome cane in token of their appreciation. It did, at first sight, seem a little suggestive, but it At the close of the war, the buildings of the Acad¬ ‘should be remembered that in these days it is the emy were for a time used for a military school by young men that flourish the canes. In his own way Colonel Hyatt. The final destiny of this substantial m. ’the doctor acknowledged the gift with the words: structure remained undecided even at the death of I hope that like Jacob I may die leaning upon th< ; Mr. Crozer. When the estate was being settled the top of my staff.” So may it be, but may the da question arose among the children, how could their ;; et be far from us. I father’s desire best be carried out? In an hour of Charles L. Trawin. I happy inspiration it occurred to one of them: Why j not establish a Theological Seminary? To suggest was to accept and to enact. Better than they imag¬ ined have those children brought honor to their father and to themselves. At the time their decision was reached there was m New York city a man whose church was the ban-' nei church of the denomination in its contributions to home and foreign missions. Henry G. Weston even then was looked to for advice and counsel, for he had displayed marked capacity in organization, direction and leadership. Mr. Samuel Crozer, Dr.I Boardman, Dr. Griffith and Dr. James Wheaton tn agricultural relic of considerable Smith were accordingly sent to New York, and se¬ interest was unearthed recently on the cured the services of Crozer’s first and only presi¬ farm of Amos Buc-kman, in Springfield dent. | township, Delaware County. Beck¬ mans farm is known as tlie “Levis The present commencement marks the thirtieth Homestead,” and it is said +0 be the anniversary^ of the seminary, and likewise of he oldest place in the county, the title dat¬ ing back to William Penn’s time. The honored president. Appropriate and full of interes k°use» a solid, stone structure fiom first to last have been the exercises of i.!i about 250 years old, has begun to show [ signs of age, and last week steps were WBm-.- ■ ’• SHSi . tl evidence. were” male to reshingle Al usief was rendered at all services, in before this could ho cone n?C!i*~ charg^ of the chorister, S. E. Horner, ,.rv to tear down and rebuild the lar-e of Swdrthmore. chimney. The men engaged at this work In the morning, at 10.45 o’clock. Rev. I had razed the chimney to the level of John A. Cass, of Swarthmore, preached the roof, when they came to a large flat an appropriate sermon. His text was ' piece of iron which had been put in to James 4, 4, “What is your life?’’ brace the chimney against the stone In the afternoon, at 2.30 o’clock, a wall. This was torn out and thrown to platform sercise was held in charge of the ground, when one of the workmen noticed its odd shape. After the mortar the pastor, Rev. Vincent Nichols, who ‘ ad been cleaned off it- was examined proved to be fin old-fashioned “sod- cutter ” A name was sunk on it, of - • - ■ - three last JeUers^Jsis) can be made out, but the date, 1758, is fairly legible. At that time the plows were very primitive, yet they had in a, crude form the cutters still frequently used on modern plows to open a way for the share. Owing to the mortar the cutter is well preserved, but the worn edges attest that it had turned many a furrow in its palmy days before it was huilt into the chimney. i ■ jjg Fronv^JAidM... I IqJUI/Ma.^ Date, 2o /Ml REV. VINCENT NICHOLS, gave a short history of the work of the church during his pastorate. Speeches! were made by Rev. J. A. Cass, of: Swarthmore; Rev. G. T. Kerr, pastor ofi Kedron M. E. Church, Morton; Rev.* Important Event Yesterday at the Henry Sanderson, of the Wilmington! Conference; Rev. George' W. North,* Leiper Presbyterian Church. "pastor of the Upland M. E. Church, andj Rev. Charles C. Jorgensen. Special mu¬ sic was a feature, a pretty solo being! ORGANIZED EIGHTY YEARS sung by Miss Nellie Kenney, of Ridley , Park; also by Mrs. John H. Colquhoun, of Rutledge, and a duet by Miss Sadia 1 Rev. Vincent Nichols and His Congre- E. Nichols and Chorister S. E. Horner. J gallon Celebrate tbe Occasion Willr The closing prayer was offered by. Special Services During tbe Day--. Parry Lukens. j r Some Interesting History. In the evening at eight o clock. Rev, . P. H. Mowry, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Churrh, of Chester,: 1 The eightieth anniversary of Leiper preached an eloquent sermon. In tha i Presbyterian Church was celebrated course of this service George DeAr- j' c Tsterday in a fitting manner. In age it mond was installed as an elder. Luncheon was served in the littia \ t i.nks next to the Middletown Presby- school house across the way and many; / /erian Church, and that it is becoming people spent the entire day in the preJ j /both riper and stronger as the years cincts. The committee of arrangements j roll by, is evident and is a cause fot* were S. E. Horner, R. J. Ewig, Mrs. | devout thankfulness. John Hoffman, Miss Eliza S. Leiper and i The auditorium was beautifully dec¬ Miss Mary Jones. orated with flags and bunting, the flags of all nations except Spain being repre¬ HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. sented. Over the pulpit was the Ameri¬ [ When it Was Fonndeil and Some Inter¬ can eagle, and from eaqh flag was a esting Data. streamer, the end of which the eagie | held in his mouth, a beautiful emblem' The Leiper Church was founded in of unity and peace. A profusion of wild I igig by Thomas Leiper, the father or ' “ ■ HH { J&sfl USE the present Leiper family. He was of Scotch descent and -was a wealthy manufacturer at Avondale, which place he named. He was a lieutenant in the city troops during the Revolu¬ From tionary war and took part in the 'bat¬ j . j tles of the 'Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton and Princeton. The church so founded was known first as the Church .- I of Providence and Springfield, but since 1S36 it has been know as the Ridley Presbyterian Church. The ministers who have since been in: Datey wif.ML charge are Rev. John Smith, the first / y pastor, an early apostle of temperance, who died in Chester in 1839; Rev. Na¬ than Harnett, 1831-1832; Rev. A. H. Parker, 1833-1839; the next regular pastors were Rev. S. P. Helms, 1841- 1S42; Rev. W. L. McCalla, 1843-1844, ha was an army chaplain under President m Jackson and was a noted preacher and forceful debater; Dr. James W. Dale, 1846-1858. During his ministry in 1849, the church edifice was destroyed by firs “The Patron Saint of the after which the present Gothic struc- ! | ture was erected. The slates for the American Revolution,” roof were imported direct from Scot¬ land. During Dr. Dale’s ministry in 1850, evening services were held in t'ha City Hall, which resulted^* the or¬ ganization of the First Presbyterian AS PORTRAYED BY MRS- MOWRY Church of Chester, in January, 1853, with Dr. Steadman as pastor. From 1858 to 1865 Rev. Alexander Heberton In a Paper at a Recent Meet, ng of the • j was pastor and from 1871 to 1876 Rev. ; C. H. Ewing -vVas pastor. For the past Delaware Couniy Historical So- ten years Miss Eliza Leiper has kept the place open and at much self sacri¬ ciely, at Swarlhmore—An Inter- fice, and a good deal of expense has done the work nobly. esting and Inslrueli ve Address. Rev. Vincent Nichols, who supplied the pulpit from 189a to 1892 and was afterwards pastor of the M. E. Church At the mid-summer meeting of the : at Kddystone and also at Ridley Park, Delaware County Historical Society, at was again called to the work at the ; Leiper Church in April 1893 and is still Swiafithmore, on Thursday, Mrs. P. H. its pastor. Mowiry read the following paper,. en¬ Until 1832 the Leiper Church w-as one titled “The Patron Saint of the Araer- , charge with the Mount Gilead Church lean Re volution. ” Mrs. Mowry said: of Aston township. The organization Mr. ‘President, members of the His¬ I of the present Ridley Park Church I somewhat crippled the old Ridley torical Society, ladies and gentlemen :M, ! Church, but it is now in a flourishing It is a remarkable fact that the pic¬ condition and under its present pastor turesque 'North American Indian has is growing in all its branches. The at¬ 'been so seldom the theme of our liter¬ tendance and membership are increas¬ ary -men. We have “The Story of ing. The Sunday school has . six't- classes and the Christian Endeavor So-:» Hiawatha,’ in the exquisite verses of ciety is doing a good work. Whittier we 'find curious Indian le¬ The old shoot house near the church, gends, while James Femnimore Cooper j the date stone of which bears the date leads us through a romantic Indian 1819, was at one time the only school " avorld. Ini the field of history, 'the in the district. In 1870 the present forest life and Indian character are Thomas Leiper school supplied th° vividly portrayed 'by Francis Park- place and is now the public school of man and he tells us that he found the the neighborhood. 1 01 field uncultured and unreclaimed. His Prominent members of this church work serves to show What a vast world are the families of Messrs. Moorehead is here open to the imaginative 'writer McFarland, Worrall, Holmes, Noble’ or artist. flErskme, Riddle, Perkins ”Knowles,, ’ Crook, Cochran, Anderson and Our Delaware county 'artist, in whose liLeipers- honor we are gathered here to-day, has left us his historical impression of the intercourse of the red men with the Friends, ini his celebrated painting of “Penn’s Treaty,” under the great elm at Shackamaxon. James Reed, a nephew of James Logan, said that the portraits of the Friends in this paint- , ling were so admirable that he could r__— ,-ythem ~§TI. Benjamin Waits William *Wfatlh.er was one of 'the number. salage to C' "What mann'er of men were those who They were consequently mild and welcomed William Penn and his fol¬ peaceful and remained So until they lowers 'to 'the Mir woods 'now known realized, to use their own words, that aS ithe Ccmmoaiwealth of Peinn'sylva/nia? “the whites will not rest contented An early 'tradition tells us that the until they shall ih'ave destroyed the last first Indian to welcome the Quakers to of us, &nd made us 'disappear entirely ithe Shore of the Delaware was' the ■from the face of‘the earth.” o-reat chief, Temanend, whom we now These imi'id mannered Lenapes were call Tammany. His name is written to some extent an agricultural, hut not ,in ait least six ways, but there is higher a paStotal people. They preferred 'authority for the spelling Temanend open country >to ‘boundless forests. than any other form. Wil'l'iam Penn in his letter to the I There is no proof Whatever that Free 'Society of Traders, written Au¬ Temanend 'did extend the hand of fel¬ gust 16th, 1683, gives an interesting lowship 't'o the friendly 'leader alt the account of these native woods. “The time of hi's arrival. But some Indian fruit I find in the woods are the white -ptajed that- important pant in the and black mulberry, Chestnut, walnut, 'drama and it is rather pleasant to be¬ plum, strawberries, cranberries, whor¬ lieve the tradition and ito inquire more tleberries and grapes of divers sorts. carefully concerning him and his itiiibe. There are also very good peaches and Temanend was a sachem of the Leoni in 'great quantities; not an Indian plan¬ Lenape 'tribe of 'the great Algonquin tation without them. They make a family of 'North American Indians, pleasant 'drink. It is dispuitable with whose territory extended along the At¬ me whether it is best to fall to refin¬ lantic coast from 'the S't. Lawrence to ing the * fruits of ■ the country, es¬ Savannah. To the Algonquin family pecially the grape, by the care and skill belonged Pocahontas, King Philip, Pon¬ of art, or seibd for foreign stems al¬ tiac and Teman'end. Of all the clans ready good and approved. It seems i of the Algonquin the Leinni Leiuape reasonable to believe that not only a or Delaware Indians especially interest thing groweth best Where lit naturally us, who how occupy their native hunt¬ grows, but will hardly he equalled by ing grounds and enjoy their 'beautiful another species of 'the same kind that '.hills and valleys with 'a proud sense of doth not -naturally 'grow there. But to ownership in one of the fairest spots in solve the dloub't I intend, if God give ■the country. me life itto try both, and hope the con¬ The Lenini Denape or ‘'original peo¬ sequence will 'be as good wine as any I ple," as their name signifies, were the of the European countries of the same ‘ ancestral tribe, and it'll is claim was rec¬ latitude do give.” Alas for poor Tam- ognized' by other Algonquin tribes, by anend and his tribe! giving them the title of Grandfather. The Proprietor continues such an in¬ Their own story was that they toad teresting account of the Indians’ larder ; migrated from the westward hundreds that we cannot forbear from reading of years ago amid traveled by Hand and further. “Of living creatures: fish, | water until they 'discovered the Len- fowl and beasts of the woods, some for operrihiittack, or rapid stream of the fpold and profit, and some for profit I Lenape, re-name'd toy the 'English, the only. For food as well as for profit, ' Delaware. the elk as big as a small ox; deer, big¬ Those who have lived among the ger than curs; heaver, raccoon, rab- S more civilized tribes of 'aborigines bits and squirrels, and some eat young claim that their traditions are credible. bear and commend it. Of fowl, there La Bantam said: “These savages have is the turkey, forty and fifty pounds in ' the happiest im'emoiries in the world." weight, which is very great; pheasants, ’ Heckewekler, the Moravian missionary, heath-birds, pigeons and partridges. writes in his charming narrative: Of fowl of the water, the swan, goose, “There are men 'who have by heart the brants, ducks, teal, also the snipe and r whole history of What has taken place curlew.” Then follows an enumera¬ between the white men anld the In¬ tion of fikh and of divers plants, Which dians, abd relate it with ease and with the Indians -tell them and they have an eloquence not to be imitated. On good occasion to know are of great j ■the 'tablet of their memories they pre¬ virtue. serve this history for posterity.” “The woods are adorned with lovely I It was etiquette at their councils for flowers for color, greatness and va¬ each speaker to report verbatim all riety.” that his predecessors said and the In a historical description of Penn¬ whites 'were often astonished at the sylvania by Gabriel Thomas, printed in | verbal fidelity with which 'the natives London in 1698, we find 'this allusion recalled the transactions of long-past to the grape industry: j treaties. “There are excellent jgrapes, which The Lenni Denape, at the time of upon frequent experience have produc- j ’*'■ . At' ' 7 ed choice wines. They ivffil Ifiave' goocT. 3SfcrTftdiah cBajjEacfCr are nrhbrtioni.n>mjm^ liquor of their 'own and some to supply conceit, revenga, envy, but in”spite oil their neighbors to their great advan¬ ’his haughty spirit he is ia. devout hero-# tage. The brewing trade of sophisti¬ j worshipper. He admires the sages as' cating and adulterating of wines as in [ wtell as the warriors of his tribe, and England not being known here yet, nor j consequently the name of Tamanend in all probability will it in many years became a synonym for greatness and ■ through a natural probity so fixed and ' goodness. implanted in the inhabitants and (I When Colonel George Morgan, of hope) like to continue.” Princeton, in 1.776, was sent by Con¬ The innocent Gabriel with the same gress as an agent 'to the Western In¬ naivette tells us of “the curious and ex¬ dians, the Delawares, or Lenni Le- cellent herbs, roots, etc iwhidh make ; nape, conferred on him 'the name of ■the Indians by a right application of Tamanend, as the greatest mark of re¬ them as able doctors and surgeons as spect which they could Show to one any in Europe.” whom they considered worthy of the And now . that we have had a glimpse name. of the woods and fields of the Lenni ’’ ' . LJenape on the shores of their beloved “rapid stream,” and its beautiful trib¬ utaries, lei us learn what we can about the chief Tamanend. From, As fishing and the chase were the chief dependence of the tribe, they were necessarily scattered abroad among the forests and streams in search of sustenance. We hear of Tamanend ait Philadelphia in 1683, on Date, the 23rd day of the fourth month, when he and Metamequan conveyed to old. Proprietor Penn a tract of land lying between the Pennypack and Nesham- iny creeks. We hear of him again at a meeting held in Philadelphia with Governor Markham in 1694. We hear ACROSS THE SCHUYLKILL. of his wigwam upon the site of Prince¬ ton College, again in the northeastern SOME ANCIENT LANDMARKS IN THE VI¬ hills of Pennsylvania, ana if we may CINITY OF TRAPPE. %/ft believe local tradition be died in 1750 An Historic Account of Men Who Have Made whilst travelling in Bucks county, and That Locality famous—A Beautiful was there buried. Trolley Ride. The name Tamanend means “affa¬ ,rThe Rowing article was written by ble,” and it appears that Ihis character Mary T. Dunn for Delaware county was accurately described by this eog- chapter of the Daughters of the Re¬ nomem. volution : Heckewelder, who lived among the To the present generation the old I Indians after Tamanend’s death, gives landmarks will soon be no more than ■this summary of his virtues: 1 a tradition told in the newspapers. “The name of Tam'anienid is held in Every spot of American soil, red¬ , the highest veneration among the In- dened by the blood, of the Revolutlon- | dians. Of ail the chiefs of the L/enape ‘ ary patriots, is of Ihriiling interest to hie stands foremost. He was am ancient I all lovers of freedsin; so too should be Delaware chief, who never had his ■ the places of their birth and their equal. He was in the highest degree! tombs In a day’s journey through endowed with wisdom, virtue, pru¬ some of the loveliest of Pennsylvania’s beautiful scenery within a radius of dence, charity, affability, meekness, thirty miles of home many such spots hospitality, in short, with every good ■ may be found. About four miles east and noble qualification that a human of Norristown can be seen the old being may possess. He was supposed stone structure, old Norriton church. to have had an intercourse with the It is known as the mother of Presby¬ great and good spirit, for he was a terian churches in Montgomery stranger to everything that is bad.” county, and is one of the oldest in the Other accounts of the savage hero speak •state. It was used by both armies dur¬ of a deadly struggle with an evil spirit, ing the Revolution as a hospital, and ■but they are of such a fanciful and wa, very much abused. It was on the mythical character that I will net take direct line of patrol between Valley time to dwell upon them. A remarka¬ fiorge, Germantown and Trenton, and ble feature of the preceding eulogy of for montbs and months one army or the chief 'is this: It is his moral char¬ the other, was encamped near it. acter which Is thus held up for our ad-! Substantial repairs were made after miration. The conspicuous traits of the war, but the old building is the same in all material parts as when will speak later. ' A short drive brings erected. An act of assembly passed September, 1875, authorized the raising ustothe ancient village of Trappe. As early as 1762 a large tract of land of money by letters to repair the was bought and divided into lots, with church. In the little graveyard ad¬ the expectation of soon having a joining, with here Jand there a marble thriving town. It was called Landou, slab gleaming among the tall rank [ but like many modern towns it re¬ grass, have beeu found stones dated mained for years about the same, nor between 1689 and 1700 and a sandstone did the people take kindly to the new tablet, said to have fallen from the name, but adhered to Tranpe, which gable end of the building bears date seems to be of local origin.” 1679. Many heroes of the war find a resting place in this quaint old church¬ HOW TRAPPE WAS SO NAMED. yard, but few of the graves are known. From a quotation from the diary of Col. Arch. Thompson died Nov. 1,1779, the venerable and honorable Rev. in his 39th year. Lieut. George Dunn Henry Muhlenberg, the founder of died May 21, 1805. James Ourry, sol¬ the Lutheran church in America— dier and officer of the Revolutionary “John and Jacob Schrack came to War, born A. D. 1755, died 1833. Those this country in 1717. They built a are among those marked. cabin and a cave in which they cooked. AT EVANSBURG. They kept a small shop in a small way, About two miles from the old church and a tavern with beer and such is the country tavern called the things As once an England inhabi¬ Trooper, whose whole history is told tant who had been drinking in the in its suggestive name. At Evansburg, cave fell asleep, came home late and a small village on the Germantown was upbraided by his wife, he|excnsed pike, six miles northwest of Norris¬ himself, saying he had been at the i town, we find another venerable Trap; from that time the village was church, St. James’ Episcopal, and known as such in all America.” Rev. very similar to old St. David’s, of, Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg was born Radnor, Rev. Evan Evans officiating in Germany, September 6, 1711. He at both churches in 1708 During the was sent oat by the parent church to war this church was also used as a hos¬ take charge of the infant churches pital and after the battle of German¬ here, and arrived in Philadelphia in town many of the wonnded were 1742. He had charge of three churches, cared for here. About one hundred one in Philadelphia, one at Trappe, and fifty died and are buried here, but and another a few miles beyond at the no stone marks the spot. We see the Swamps, now New Hanover. He built grave of Colonel Bean, a patriot of the the Lutheran church at Trappe in 1743, Revolution, and another stone bears and moved there in 1745. In 1761 he thiB inscription, “In memory of Cap¬ was recalled to Philadelphia. In 1774, tain V D. Howard, of Maryland Light leaving his son Henry in charge of Dragoons, who departed this life the Philadelphia church, he returned March 15, 1778, aged 30 years, in de¬ to JTrappe, where he remained until fense of America and Liberty.” his death. When Washington was president he The old church is in a good state of rode up the pike from Philadelphia to preservation. The interior is still pre¬ this 'churchyard. Alighting at the served in its original state, and is quite -gate he asked the white-haired sexton in keeping with the outside in quaint¬ to show him the grave of Howard. ness. Every seat and pew has its With bead uncovered he stood beside number branded upon it with hot iron, the mound and said, “The grave of a and over the door is a tablet bearing a brave man, a brave man. I knew him Latin inscription. The large brick well.” What a noble tribute from church here was built in 1853, since su h a grand leader ! Two miles which time the old church has been above Evansburg is Perkiomen used for Sunday School purposes. bridge, a beautiful stone structure of Father Muhlenberg was an ardent six arches spanning the Perkiomen— patriot. He passed away uctooer, begun in 1798 and finished in. 1799. It 1787, and was laid to rest in the grave¬ is visited by bridge builders from all yard of the little church he reared and over the world, and voted a triumph loved. of mechanical skill. Crossing the Many ancient tombstones tell us of bridge you ente Gollegeville, one of the distinguished dead. Rev. Henry the most beautiful boroughs in Mont¬ M. Muhlenberg, Gen. Peter Muhlen¬ gomery county,thirty miles from Phil¬ berg, Hon. Fred. Muhlenberg, Gov¬ adelphia. It was at first oalled Perbio- ernor Francis R. Shunk and many men Bridge, then Freeland, after Free¬ others lie here. land Institute was built. But when GENERAL MUHL'ENBERG the railroad was completed to this Gen. Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, point in 1869, a bitter fight over the eldest son of Rev. Henry, was born name of the station ended in the at Trappe in 1746. He was educated choice of a new name, Oollegeville—a for the ministry in Germany and in¬ fitting name, for few villages could stalled as pastor of a church in Vir-. boast of thiee colleges, of which we ginia. Here he raised a company of I 147 volunteers and served throughout the college for women. But Prof. Sunder-1 war, rising by his own merit to the land was young and enthusiastic, and rank of Brigadier General. Let us perseverance lead to success In the fall - read his epitaph, “Sacred to the mem¬ of 1851 “The First.Penneylvania Female ory of General Peter Muhlenberg,born College” opened its doors to the pub¬ October 1, 1740, departed this life Oc¬ lic, with Prof. J. W. Sunderland and tober 1, 1807, aged 61 years. He was his accomplished wife as principals— brave in the field, faithful in the Cab¬ offering to young ladies a course equal inet, honorable in all his transactions, to that of any college for males. The a sincere friend and an honest man ” grounds beautifully arranged with A few years ago Gen. Peter Muhlen¬ rare trees, fine shrubbery and briliiant I berg’s statue was placed in the Na¬ flowers, with here and, there a marble 1 tional Gallery at Washington,as Penn¬ statue peeping through, while 130 feet sylvania’s most distinguished soldier. below the cliff on which the college His son Peter was a major in the war stands, the beautiful and historic of 1812. Perkiomen ripples and winds grace¬ & Francis R. Shunk was born at fully through the picturesque valley. Trappe, August 7, 1788 His grand¬ You may search this old world o'er and o’er father was one of the earliest settlers Yes, all its loveliest nooks|explore, of the place He was elected Governor And second to none you have seen before of Pennsylvania in 1844, and re elected Is the valley of Perkiomen. in 1847. He died July 20, 1848 The In 1875 the pioneer Female College monument that marks his grave was closed its doors forever, having edu¬ erected by the citizens of the sate in cated about 2000 ladies with a graduat¬ 1851. ing list of 105. For several years the college building was known as Glen- FREELAND SEMINARY. wood Hall, and became a most suc¬ The Lutherans were among the cessful summer resort under the man¬ leaders in promoting higher education. agement of the present Mrs. Sunder¬ w Washington Hall Collegiate Institute land. Now they reside quietly in $ was organized in Trappe in 1830, and Glen wood Cottage where the doctor extensively patronized by the youth has grown old gracefully, having of the neighborhood. In 1848 some passed his four score years, rich only disagreement in regard to the manage¬ in the knowledge of work well done, ment occurred, and Rev A. H Hun- and of an abidingplace in the hearts of sicker, with other trustees withdrew, i his pupils—the only real compensation and determined to establish another I the true teacher ever receives. institution of higher character and In these days of rapid transit the more progressive principles. A large trolley may be substituted for the building was erected and ODened as carriage, though the line does not pass Freeland Seminary. This school be¬ through Evansburg or very near old came quite prominent, and many of Norristown. Leaving Norristown you our eminent statesmen and politicians, pass Jeffersonville, Trooper and Skip- among them Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, pack Hill, where a huge sign invites refer with pride to Freeland as their you to “Stop, Look, etc.” Here seven i alma mater. counties may be seen—Montgomery, j In course of time Freeland desired Berks. Bucks, Lehigh, Chester, Phila¬ to increase its facilities. It was sold to delphia and.Delaware Going on down the corporation of Ursinus, and I the hill we come to Skippack creek, through the untiring efforts of J. W. winding through what another sign Sunderland one of the professors of tells us is “Never Punk Valley,” and Freeland, a charter was obtained in very soon Oollegeville, the terminus 1869. Another large and imposing of the road, is reached. The entire building was erected, and Ursinus to¬ ride is a grand panoramic view of high day is one of the standard colleges of hills, silvery streams, and peaceful the State. valleys, dotted with stately mansions While engaged in teaching young and cosy farm houses, and all who tal men Prof. Sunderland had long been it must exclaim: trying to solve the then unknown “There’s not in this wide world problem of higher education for A valley so sweet women The sturdy German yeo¬ As the vale in whose bosom manry agreed by this time that it was The bright waters meet, And the last ray of feeling proper to give their sons a college edu¬ And life shall depart, cation, if they so desired, bat the idea Ere the bloom of this valley of giving their daughters the slightest Shall fade from my heart.” chance for improvement beyond that afforded by a few months in an un¬ graded common schqol, was too absurd to think about. Housework and the duties of the model wife—the home— was woman’s sphere. It was no ordi¬ nary undertaking in the midst of local opposition and the general public but slightly interested, to (ry to establish a