Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . rly a centuryafter the coming of the Swedes. Swedish speechand custom long outlived both was still a mere hamlet when in1735 William Shipley, an educated and wealthyQuaker of Philadelphia, settled in the place,led thither, it is said, by his vision-seeing wife,the Quakeress preacher, Elizabeth Shipleys house, a hip-roofed, four-story brick structure with corniced gable, stillstood at the South-west corner of Shipley andFourth within the memory of many liv-ing men
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . rly a centuryafter the coming of the Swedes. Swedish speechand custom long outlived both was still a mere hamlet when in1735 William Shipley, an educated and wealthyQuaker of Philadelphia, settled in the place,led thither, it is said, by his vision-seeing wife,the Quakeress preacher, Elizabeth Shipleys house, a hip-roofed, four-story brick structure with corniced gable, stillstood at the South-west corner of Shipley andFourth within the memory of many liv-ing men His presence was so stimulating thatthe hamlet grew in four years into a village of600 inhabitants. Next year it was chartered bythe Penns under its present name. A block Eastof the Shipley dwelling William built at the cor-ner of Market and Fourth Streets a new markethouse, rival to the older one two blocks burgesses met for years at taverns, where Patriotic women have marked the spot with an engravedatone made from part of the actual rock upon which theEwedeg landed. 158. WILMINGTON no doubt their dry deliberations were suitablymoistened, but later a Town Hall was builton arches over one end of the Second Streetmarket house. Wilmington outgrew that TownHall and its successor, which still stands witha sort of gaunt distinction, and the city fathersnow share a beautiful new marble palace withthe courts and the county authorities. Eighteenth Century Wilmington had itsfairs, to which town folk and country folk camein their best to dance to the music of the fiddle,flute, bagpipe and trombone. Under Quakerinfluence Wilmington was growing into a sortof tiny red-brick Philadelphia, with neat little,houses, scrupulously swept door-steps, shadedstreets, and green rear gardens. Quaker influ-ence, or some other of like austerity, broughtabout abolition of the fairs by act of Legis-lature in 1785 as nurseries of vice and ascandal to virtue. Such fairs were common inthe larger vi
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