Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . ar 1790. Nathan Bunker often visited 1806 Ann Morgan, Robert Wain and others sold it. Thomas Armat livedthere. He was generous and kind. In A. D. 1742 Zinzendorf began the first Moravian school in this country inGermantown. (See Annals of Early Moravian Settlements in Georgia andPennsylvania, p. 83.) He rented 4792, belonging to an Ashmead. TwoChurch Synods were held there. Zinzendorfs fair daughter, the CountessBenigna, was a pupil. While in this house Zinzendorf gave up his school opened in May and was moved to
Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . ar 1790. Nathan Bunker often visited 1806 Ann Morgan, Robert Wain and others sold it. Thomas Armat livedthere. He was generous and kind. In A. D. 1742 Zinzendorf began the first Moravian school in this country inGermantown. (See Annals of Early Moravian Settlements in Georgia andPennsylvania, p. 83.) He rented 4792, belonging to an Ashmead. TwoChurch Synods were held there. Zinzendorfs fair daughter, the CountessBenigna, was a pupil. While in this house Zinzendorf gave up his school opened in May and was moved to Bethlehem in June, where it yetflourishes. No. 4792 was the residence of James Ashmead, Johns brother. The Ash-meads came from Chelteham, England, in 1682. The first marriage in thefamily here was with a Sellers at Darby. They went to Cheltenham andthence to Germantown. A Jno. Ashmead built at 4790. The rear of thehouse stands, but the front was replaced about 1790. At present the occupantof Nos. 4790 and 4792 is a great-great-granddaughter of John VILLI AKERJHA PR GERriANTOWM GERMANTOWN. 75 No. 4794, at the southern corner of School House Lane, was the site of ahouse pulled down by Dr. Bensell. In the old low frame house, lined withbrick, Penn preached. It was built for Jacob Tellner, one of the town magis-trates. Dr. George Bensell built the building that stood here before theSaving Fund built its handsome home, about 1795. Charles W. Churchmanand Dr. George Malin and the Workingmens Club have at various timesoccupied it. School House Lane was called Bensells Lane. Green street Ward attributes to the green sward before it was fully opened,and not to Green, the hatter, nor Gen. Greene. THE GERMANTOWN ACADEMY Was organized in 1760. Hilarius Becker was German teacher in 1761, andDavid James Dove, English teacher. Col. Graydon, in his Memoirs, relateshow Dove, in Philadelphia, used to send boys with lighted lantern and bell inthe day-time after late scholars. Pelatiah W
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