p 3 to n ■ V. 1C- s § \ 1 I f i * \ 4 \ 1 3 ) > 3 i I . \ * « 4 : .• . \ / • a * - MARK T WAI UST’S Soiiar no ok. FATE NT S UNITED STATES. GREA T BRITAIN. FRANCE. June 24th, 1873. May 1 6th,''t&7 7. May i8th, 1877. TRADE MARKS UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. Registered No. 5,896. Registered No. 15,979. DIRECTIONS. Use but little moisture, and only on the gummed lines. Press the scrap on without wetting it. DANIEL SLOTE & COM: NY, SEW YORK. jg insrzDiEix: U V w 1f V D 11 i! w X Y Z From MOKE ABOUT BLOOKLLY. QL^FHITEHALL mansion BY MISS MARGARET B. HARVEY. A Pathetic Story of the Landmark from which that Section of Frankford Derives Its Name. An old decayed wooden mansion with pil- Read Before Merton fbajiler, Dangb- | 'ars *n front, which was considered impos¬ ters of tbe American Kevolnliou. ing1 and stately in its day, was an inter- - esting landmark of Frankford. It was lo- j cated in the Twenty-third Ward on the The first general tax-list for Philadelphia left of the railway near the track, looking eonnty was made in 1693. The origins! i toward Bridesburg. The old mansion was j called Whitehall. The neighborhood bears assessment list is in possession of the His- that name to this day and is supposed to : torical Society of Pennsylvania. It is have derived its title from the old land¬ mark. copied entire in the new “Memorial His¬ j _ Jesse Wain built the mansion and lived tory of Philadelphia,” by Howard M. Jen¬ in it for many years. As most of the old kins. See page 123. mansions of Philadelphia have their ro- j mances there was no exception in this '“FdrtOitiBg is-the assessment for the town¬ case. The old gossips used to tell a story of a widowed father and his daughter who ships “ Beyond Schoolkill.” The assessor lived there. The hero of this story was a was Tho : Pascall, Junr : young man from New York. lie pressed his suit and won the daughter’s heart, William Smith. £250—£1 Os. 10J. but the marriage was opposed by the fa- Paul Sanders, £100—8s 4d. ! t!ler- The love that laughs at locksmiths Jotyp Gardner, £20—2s. 6d. ! afld wiH of stern parents came to the Jonathan Duckett, £100—8s. 4d. | aid of the young couple. One evening dur¬ Thomas Duckett. £100—8s. 4d. ing the father’s absence they eloped. Re¬ v John Roads, £120—10s. turning the father found a letter telling William Powell, £100—8s. 4d. of the flight of the daughter who had been the comfort and solace of his declining John Albore, £-6s. years. At first he would not receive the William Wilkins, £50—49. 2d. bride and groom. He securely locked the James Keight, £40—3s. 4d. doors of the old home against the daugh¬ William Hamer. £120—10s- ter. His iron will remained unbroken for John Warner, £40—3t. 4d. a while, but with the sunshine of life John Boles, £150-12s 6d. away the house to him grew miserable I and desolate. Georg Scottson. £60—5s. At the approach of Christmas his heart John Scoolon, £120—109. i softened and he longed to have his child William Bedward. £30—2s. 6d. j with llim °nee more. He wrote a letter to Thomas Pascall, £150 -12s. 6d. | the couple, saying he forgave them and Georg Wiilcox, £170—14s. 2d. i begged them to return. But instead of a This tax was as-essed under ap Act of the j merry Christmas around the yule logs of Assembly in 1693, dn/jng the administra¬ home the old man spent a bitter and a cheeiless one. He received a telegram an- tion of Governor Fletcher. It was emit ed, nouncing his daughter’s death. All the “An Act for granting to King William ard sweet ties that bound him to this earth Mary the Tate of one penny per pound upon were snapped asunder by the cruel blow. the clear value of all real and personal After he received the message he would estates, and six shillings per head upon such walk the streets at night. His imagination tts are not otherwise rated by this Act, to be became so overwrought that in the vibra¬ employed by the Gover. or of this province tions of wind-swept telegraph wires he of Pennsylvania and territories thereof for thought he heard the mournful wail of his dead child, begging him to allow her to re¬ the time being towards the support of this turn with her husband to the dear old hall government.” near the State road. This lUt ought to be of priceless value to J those who claim that iheir early American ancestors seitied in Blockley. Thomas Duckett anl William and John H A RK fli Gainer are already known to us as first set before William Penn. tiers and prominent office holders. Imagine what Blockley wis like when I James Keight, whose name is abo spelled, whole township was parceled out among a in other old records, Keite and Kile, was a few principal landholders. Thanks to the son-in-law of William Warner, Also, an smiling fields and picturesque woods and early member of Schujlkill Fritnds’ Meet- grand old mansions, still remaining in the inf?. West Park, it is easy to do so. And it is no John Roads was an ancestor of the late le68 easy, thanks to similar Colonial remind¬ Professor James Rhoads, of the Boys’ Cen ers, in the neighboring counties of Mont¬ tral High School. Part of the Rhoads gomery and Delaware. property is still in possession of the family. Pennsylvania, from the beginning, was an It is near Haddington, not very far from the agricultural State. The great landholders Delaware county line. built solid, elegant, stooe mansions, and William Powell was an ancestor of the lived in the midst of their broad acres, cul¬ Powell family, who built tbe old “ Powell tivating their own “plantations.” The Mansion,” and gave the name to Powelton “ first purchasers” had city lots “ thrown in ” avenue. On there they built “ town houses,” not ‘‘ Powell’s Ferry” was near the site of the always for permanent homes, but usually for old mansion, a short distance below the pre¬ convenience. As a rule, they afterwards sent Spring Garden Sireet Bridge. The disposed of these, sometimes to the “ middle” name, Powell, is an abbreviation of the or “shop keeping class” of emigants, many Welsh ‘‘ap Howell.” We must remember of whom arrived later than the “first pur¬ that many of our Welsh forefathers had no chasers.” From early days, medicine and surnames, but took their father’s first names agriculture were the two occupations pre¬ as their own last names, with the prefix eminently suitable for gentlemen. Penn, “ap,” meaning “son of.” In case of a girl, sy 1 vania never had the ignorant class of “ ap ” meant “daughter of.” stupid, groveling, tenant farmers, of which “William Bidwavd” is nanred in the we hear so much in stories and novels, and above list. This name is abbreviated from 1 which may exist in s >me States. The old “William ap Edward.” We have already families of Pennsylvania are ail able to point heard of this man as living at the pre-ent to some old stone farmhouse, in soon old Overbiook. He was an extensive land- county, as the cradle of their American owner, and a Quaker preacher, one of cltns, for the very good, historic reason that the Welsh who crossed <over into Rlocklev the first purchasers took up large tracts of from Meri'OD, and an ancestor of Jesse md land and laid out plantations. Crowding Rebecca George. Possibly the assessor is into towns is a modern disease. responsible for this spelling. In examining Among the old mansionsof Blockley, still old records it is best not to be deceived by standing, and outside the Park, mas be men¬ any sort of spelling, no matter how pecu¬ tioned the JoDes’mansion, near Sixty-third liar. It is only within tbe present century and Lancaster avenue ; the Wynne mansion, tfaatifixed rules for spelling have come into at “ Wvnnstay,” near Bala; the Joseph iase If we de-ire to trace any proper name, George mansion, at Overbrook; the Jesse we may b“ satisfied if we comeany where near George mansion, Dear George’s Hill; the the sound. See what' conlusioti would re- David George and the Euinund George shit'if phonetic spelling should be revived! mansions, in the same neighborhood, and Whole families would disown each other. the Amos George mansion, on the Christ Think of “ Wiliam Bedward” hiving a ’ Church Hospital property. Another old' uson named Eduard Wiliams! Yet such was mansion, on the same property, is now occu¬ 1 the case. William ap Edward signed him pied by the Rabbit Club. self “ Wm. Ed ” His son, Edwaid hearing The Georges were quite numerous, and all his father's paternal name for his own first lived to be very old “Christ Church Hos¬ name, added his father’s given name, Will¬ pital,” a home tor old ladies, is built on a iam, for his own family name, thus, accord portion of the G orge property. The lofty ing to Welsh custom for the oldest son, re¬ steeple of the magnificent building can be versing bis father’s name; or, as we would seen from many points in Blockley and s<y now, William Elwardhada son named ferion. Possibly ihis is the oldest institu¬ Edward William.