EAR L Y C L ERG Y PENNSYLVANIAAND DELAWARE . RV F H TCHKIN M E S . A O . , u tho fM r o A THE ORNINGS OF THE B IBLE, HISTORY OF R &c GE MANTOWN , . Z L . CO . P W IEG ER , PUBLISHERS , N o 2 0 . 7 CHESTNUT STREET , P P P HILADEL HIA , A . 1 8 0 9 . THIS V OLUME I S RES P ECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE REV Z I w K D . O . D RI GHT WH ITA ER , . , S P P BI HO OF ENNSYLVANIA , AN D EV L L M R . O O THE RI GHT EI GHT N C E AN , L D L . , P OF BISHO DELAWARE . C O N T E N T S ' I SWED SH CLERGY, P BISHO S OF PENNSYLVANIA , CHRIST CHURCH , ’ 1 2 0 ST . PETER S CHURCH , ’ ST . JAMES S CHURCH , ’ ST . PAUL S CHURCH , OX TRINITY CHURCH ( FORD) , ERI P HAN Y CHURCH OF THE , P D BISHO S OF ELAWARE , D ELAWARE CLERGY , D X APPEN I . A JOHN NDREWS , F K REDERIC BEASLEY , O GEORGE B YD , GREGORY T . BEDELL, . A . K J A CL R , M JAMES ONTGOMERY, P R E F AC E . h f l T e writer o this vo um e thought it desirable to perpetuate the memories of the Philadelphia clergy of o n e de early times , and as no else un rto ok the pleasant e task he has performed it . The S arch led into the his l tory of the Swedish clergy , and, as Pennsy vania and f e the b o o k D laware were united in Provincial days , t h - naturally widened out o include both . It is oped that ~ these devoted men may by their example inspire others to continufe similar labors in the Church of Christ . Most o the articles here collected appeared in 7 716 S tand ard o T126 Crolvs a nd Clan/ck f , edited by the R e s e s s rs . French , and published in Philadelphia by ' h . ll d t e . a owe W E Hering . The publisher has kindly ’ o f f use a number o plates . L I S T O F I L L US TRATI ON S . -Acre liu s . ’ f The we e hu c an d o u s e o S v e n S e n e S d s C r h H r. ’ r ld we d e s C u c a e i a o a D e i O S . Gl i ( ) h r h , Phil d lph N . C o n D D lli , . ’ o n t Old S we e s C u c W m n to n D e aware H ly Tri i y ( d ) h r h , il i g , l . ’ S t . a M o rlatto n P a e s C u c . G bri l h r h , , r n t r m n n D e aware C u c W to . T i i y h h , il i g , l ’ " S t . o n s C u c W m n to n D e awa e J h h r h , il i g , l r . s o te n Bi h p S v e s . C s t C u c a e a hri h r h , Phil d lphi . C r s t C u c a e a h i h r h , Phil d lphi . ’ S t. e te r s C u c a e a P h r h , Phil d lphi . s o D av e s Bi h p i . ’ S t. am e s s C u ch a e a J h r , Phil d lphi . ’ S t . am e s s C u c a e a J h r h , Phil d lphi . Re v D r H . o to n . J . M r . s o N c o s Bi h p i h l . S t ’ . au s C u c a e a P l h r h, Phil d lphi . Re D v . r lm . os e F o e J ph i r . n t C u x c O o P h a e h a Tri i y h r h , f rd , il d lp i . Re v D r R . c a N e n i h rd wto . Bis h o p L e e s o C o e m an Bi h p l . Bis ho s te ad p . ERRATUM . a The m atte o n a e 86 e tc fh s o u ld r p g , h av e fo llo we d p age W I LERY S ED S H C G . ’ I CHAPTER . ’ ’ fd He s C s t s am as s a o t a m an O G o hri b d r, h t , ’ ”— ’ ‘ fo n m B zs lzo M am . S te ward o G d s o w ys te ri e s . p THE F IRST SETTLEMENT AT TINICUM . to u blis h re m in is HE secular press delights r p war cences . The religious press should perpetuate m s f o the me ory of the soldier Christ , who , in this than o u r - ro new land , wilder . distant West to day , p o f h O claimed the G spel , leaving posts learning and ome parishes for mission work . The early Swedish clergy o n e were founders of the Episcopal Church , for every of their parishes o n and near the D elaware River fell o u r into hands , and Bishops Whitaker , Coleman and - f Scarborough are to day reaping the fruit o the Swedish As . s missions D r . Clay remark , the James River Col o ny and the New England Puritans are commemorated and the Swedes deserve like notice . Some excellent families in Philadelphia trace descent from worthy Swed d ish ancestry , and may be prou of their origin for while “ - the Swedes were not a money making people , they were - f God earing and honorable , and maintained church ser vice under great discouragement , while faithful lay readers served vacant parishes that the flame of devotion might be kept burning . Let us , then , follow the faith of these Swedish teach “ e rs o f , considering the end their conversation , Jesus ” - Christ , the same yesterday , and to day and forever , . I : (Heb 3 7 , whether in Sweden or America . (7 ) 8 THE FIRST SETTLEMENT AT TINICUM . TINICUM . On a pleasant May morning , accompanied by Rev . ’ . o f D r . Chas . A Maison , rector St . James s Church , Kin s e s s in v i nv g g, I isited Big Tinicum Island to e s L tigate Swedish relics . The azaretto buildings (whose superintendent aided our search) now adorn the island - with their shady piazzas and well kept yards , but little remains to mark the Swedish rule, We saw on a bluff f ’ what is supposed to be the graveyard o Governor P ri n tz s O ld time , as an resident descended from Swedes , Charles - D . Johnson , told us that he once found a grave stone - there . A double house adj oining is said to contain a part of Printz Hall , erected by the Governor . A man working in Some alterations o n it had been a soldier in Z the ulu war in Africa , SO cosmopolitanism yet charac te ri z e s this country . The firsft burial in the yard was a O that Of Catharine , d ughter Andrew Hanson . The D elaware River still winds along as when Swedes o n paddled it , but the main cfurrent is beyond Little o Tinicum Island , and the tops vessels are seen gliding . along above that island Bow Creek is narrowed by . embankments . Tinicum is in D elaware County , as Bow - Creek is the city line of Philadelphia . Occasionally a Swedish brick is ploughed up among Indian darts . Mr . J . W . Jordan , at the Library of the f “ H o istorical Society Pennsylvania , showed m e a brick ’ P rintz s from Governor house , and another from Tinicum an d Cas i m e r Church , anothe r from Fort , New Castle , - D elaware . That from the fort may be sun dried , but the others are heavier and may have been burnefd . They r a e of a cream color like Milwaukee and Buf alo brick . re Sid e n t The church Site is doubtful , though an Old , , now George Horne , would place it where high water T HE FIRST SETTLEMENT AT TINICUM . 9 r . cove s the shore It was Offwood , and in the fort , so that the brick spoken o may have b een a part o f o . the foundati n Governo r Printz built the church 1 6 6 in 4 . The gardens o n the river bank are pleasant under the spring sun ; and the b lossoming trees and green box and growing vegetables adorn the spot where ‘ Printz had his orchard and gard ens and built his very h u ‘ v z o o I t handsome and large o s e o e r years ago . s 1 60 too d over years , an d was burned accidentally in “ th b in n in e e o f . g g this centu ry Here was his pleasure - ” ’ K u l b a .