Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and Its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania, for the Days of the Founders ... Embellished with Engravings by T.H. Mumford, Том 2Whiting & Thomas, 1857 |
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... ordered to the Recorder's office in Philadelphia , by an act of the General As- sembly in 1769. From those records I have extracted the following primitive and " simple annals " of that beginning era 28 Pennsylvania Inland .-- Germantown .
... ordered to the Recorder's office in Philadelphia , by an act of the General As- sembly in 1769. From those records I have extracted the following primitive and " simple annals " of that beginning era 28 Pennsylvania Inland .-- Germantown .
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... ordered Stenton house to be included : two men came to execute it , they told the housekeeper there , to take out her private things - while they went to the barn for straw to fire it . A British officer rode up , inquiring for ...
... ordered Stenton house to be included : two men came to execute it , they told the housekeeper there , to take out her private things - while they went to the barn for straw to fire it . A British officer rode up , inquiring for ...
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... ordered off to head - quarters . One of the boys of that day has told me how he used to go to mill , to bring flour to an individual in Germantown , who used to de- liver it out to women coming from Philadelphia , at high prices , and ...
... ordered off to head - quarters . One of the boys of that day has told me how he used to go to mill , to bring flour to an individual in Germantown , who used to de- liver it out to women coming from Philadelphia , at high prices , and ...
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... ordered them all up stairs before him , whilst he should search for his money . When he had got up stairs , he , thinking he was safe , began to arrange his shoe buckle on the edge of the bed , when McPhee ( McAfee ) signing to the girl ...
... ordered them all up stairs before him , whilst he should search for his money . When he had got up stairs , he , thinking he was safe , began to arrange his shoe buckle on the edge of the bed , when McPhee ( McAfee ) signing to the girl ...
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... ordered that , for defraying the public charges , there be a levy upon land of 2s . 6d . per hundred acres , and a poll tax of 2s . 6d . The same may be paid in wheat at 4s . 6d . , rye at 3s . 6d . , and corn at 2s . 8d . David Lewis ...
... ordered that , for defraying the public charges , there be a levy upon land of 2s . 6d . per hundred acres , and a poll tax of 2s . 6d . The same may be paid in wheat at 4s . 6d . , rye at 3s . 6d . , and corn at 2s . 8d . David Lewis ...
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Стр. 500 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Стр. 479 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor...
Стр. 579 - But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me...
Стр. 88 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Стр. 86 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Стр. 513 - Christians ; for we hear that the most part of such negers are brought hither against their will and consent, and that many of them are stolen. Now, though they are black...
Стр. 513 - This is to the monthly meeting held at Richard Worrell's: These are the reasons why we are against the traffic of men-body, as followeth: Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner?
Стр. 154 - ... nothing is too good for their friend: give them a fine gun, coat, or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks: light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent: the most merry creatures that live...
Стр. 151 - There is, indeed, in the fate of these unfortunate beings, much to awaken our sympathy, and much to disturb the sobriety of our judgment ; much, which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy than their history ? By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a slow, but sure extinction.
Стр. 336 - The rebels — more's the pity, Without a boat are all afloat, And ranged before the city. • " The motley crew, in vessels new, With Satan for their guide, sir, Pack'd up in bags, or wooden kegs, Come driving down the tide, sir. " Therefore prepare for bloody war, — These kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be, And British courage doubted.