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The programme been complete witho wasn’t poker-playing fresh, crisp greenbac the plans for the new city, which, being approved, he immediately laid out.' Yet to-day when his beloved city is making its preparations for the greatest From, jubilee of peace in its history, this man’s name is almost unknown, and this man’s grave remains without a flower, unswept, without one glance of honor in its direc¬ tion. On the other side of the little monu¬ ment are the words:— Date frUF /Sff “He became proprietor of 1646. acres of land in one tract by grant of William Penn in 16S4, named it his ‘Well Spring Plantation,’ of which this spot is part.’’ THE GRAVE OF THE MAN WHO • • * PLANNED OUR CITY OF f LIES NEGLECTED IN ITS VERY V * • . ' • • ; 1 j In the Jubilee Days It May Be Worth While Thought to the Memory of Thomas Holme : -.1 Made Penn’s “Wholesome City.” In a little resting place of colonial On the fourth side one reads: “Thi!" times, laid away in the comer of a field stone was erected in 1863 by the follow¬ covered with ferns and mosses, beaten ing named trustees of Lower Dublin down nearly to the earth, lies the grave Academy as a mark of respect to the originator of the school.” The men who of one of the men who created Philadel¬ phia. have, remembered this man have signed their names to the little granite These are the words which stand on column:— the stone that marks the grave:— Benjamin Crispin, Samuel C. Willits, Jonathan Enoch, Charles W. Harrison, George W. Holme, George Wagner, In memory of Isaac. Pearson, Alfred Enoch, THOMAS HOLME, George Fox, Thomas Shallcross, Died 1695, Henry Dewees, Firman D. Holme. Aged 71. Snrveyor General of It is pitiful that this stone dates only WILLIAM PENN. from the Civil War, because so import¬ He drafted the plan and laid out the city ant a grave in the city’s history should of have kept the original stone that mark¬ I PHILADELPHIA. ed the Surveyor General’s last resting- e- place. Mr. Willits, of Holmesburg, records The stone Is pitifully new, when one that a search was made recently for it, considers the age and honor of the man but no trace could be found. who lies underneath. The Lower Dublin Academy was This man, Holme, came over to founded by Thomas Holmes’ will. He left America from the English army. An four pounds to be given to such a school Irishman of strength and wit, he took that would instruct boys for a trade. upon himself the burden of the times Having left no provision for this clause ih arranging for the creation and loca¬ of his will, his heirs gave the ground tion of the city of Philadelphia. He upon which the Dublin Academy now made those amiable treaties with the Indians which every State has envied, stands. secured their good will, paid them their Holme’s work was no slight one in the dues, and finally, when his chief, Wil¬ development of this city, yet it is safe liam Penn, arrived, submitted to him to say chat few Philadelphians know eonhalkin—Indian sakamackers, and the where he is buried, or what he did. It rest concerned:— was probable but natural, as human na¬ Whereas, I have purchased and ture goes, that his greater friend, Wil¬ bought of you, the Indian kings and liam Penn, to whom he stood so close, sakamackers. for the use of Governor should have overshadowed forever his William Penn, all your land from lieutenant. Had this man been further Pemapecka Creek to Upland Creek, and away from Penn in the development of so backward to Chesapeake Bay and Philadelphia, things might have been Susquehanna, two. day’s journey.; .that different. Is td say, as far as a man can go In ' Holme was a civil engineer, born in two days, as under the hands and Waterford, Ireland, in 1625. It was in seals of you the said kings may ap¬ 1682 that William Penn requested him to pear; and to the end I may have a he Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. certain knowledge of the land back¬ Penn always spoke of him as “my loving ward, and that I may be enabled and friend, Captain Thomas Holme.” be provided against the time for run¬ Four days after William Penn asked ning the said two days’ journey, I do 1 him to assume the new responsibility he hereby appoint and authorize my lov¬ sailed for this country, and entered upon ing friend, Benjamin Chambers, of the duties of an onerous position which Philadelphia, with a convenient number he never relinquished until the day of of men to assist him, to mark out a his death. His one aim, his heart and westerly line from Philadelphia to Sus- j soul were for the development and the quehanna, that so the said line may be enrichment of this pleasant town. prepared and made ready for going the 1 It was his city. Although he was here said two days’ journey backward here¬ by right and charter of William Penn, after, when notice is given to you the Holme always felt that the city was part said kings, or some of you, at the time of his affection, part of his brain, the of going the said line; and I do hereby one thing that belonged to him, the life desire and require, in the name of our work of the man. said Governor Penn, that none of you, 1 His portraiture of the city, which has the said kings, sakamackers, or any made every student in Europe familiar Indians whatsoever, that have former¬ with the early history of Penn’s town, is ly been concerned In the said tracts of a claim for his remembrance, but Holme land, do presume to offer any interrup¬ was also one of the councilors of the tion or hindrance in making out the \ Ford Proprietor, and he held the first said line, but rather I expect your fur- j council in Philadelphia on the 10th of therance and assistance, if occasion be March, 1683. He was a member of the herein; and that you will be kind and council and a member of each Legisla¬ loving to my said friend, Benjamin ture that met up to the time of his Chambers, and his company, for which | death. I shall, on the Governor’s behalf, be Among the notable things that he did kind and loving to you hereafter, as was to prepare the charter of 1683, and occasion may require. Witness my he was the head of a committee to look hand and a seal, this 7th day of the into the actions of Lord Baltimore and 6th month, called July, being the fourth to draw up a declaration to hinder his year of our great king of England, and final proceedings. He also guided the eighth of our proprietary, William committee that drew up a charter for Penn’s Government. Philadelphia to be made a borough in THO. HOLME. 1684. The purchase of Philadelphia was one He was president of Penn’s council, and of the interesting financial treaties which upon all the absences of the great man could be classed with the sale of Louis¬ to Europe, Holme was acting Governor iana Territory to President Jackson by of Pennsylvania. ! Napoleon. Greater than all these things, he was ! Jefferson bought almost everything chosen confidante and interpreter be¬ west of the Mississippi for fifteen mil- tween Penn and the Indians. All the I lion dollars, but the itemized bill of suavity and much of the gentleness with Holme’s for the sale of Philadelphia and j which the State of Pennsylvania treated all outlying districts is more interesting, I originally with the Indians, was due in This is the exact copy of it:— great measure to this man’s ability, to "Two hundred fathoms of wampum, j this strategist and councilor and man 30 fathoms of duffells, 30 guns, 60 fathoms of affairs. of strawd waters, 30 kettles, 30 shirts, j The actual treaty for the lands of 20 gun belts, 12 pairs shoes, 30 pairs | Philadelphia and adjacent country was stockings, 30 pairs scissors, 30 combs, made by Holme when William Penn was 30 axes, 30 knives, 21 tobacco tongs, 30 j not in this country and when he had bars of lead, 30 pounds powder, 30 awls, ! gone to England for an indefinite stay. | 30 glasses, 30 tobacco boxes, 30 papers He wrote the Indian chief the follow¬ j of beads, 44 pounds red lead, 30 pairs of ing letter:— hawk’s bells, 6 drawing knives, 6 caps, To my very loving friends, Shakop- 12 hoes.” pah, Secaming, Malebore, Tangoras— But it satisfied the Indians, as all peo¬ Indian kings; and to Maskecasho, ple know, for the kings of the Indian Wawarrin, Tenoughan, Tarrecka, Ne- tribes, when signing their names to the 3 PHILADELPHIA AS LAID OUT BY HOLME.
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