. The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800. said it was in an unbroken wilderness, inhabitedchiefly by bears and wolves. There in a log hutwithout windows or doors, guarded by two dogs,this whilom keeper of a fashionable French cafeundertook to make a clearing himself, and thussecure a farm and livelihood for his family. It isnot surprising that even French enthusiasm sooncooled under such circumstances, and that the pio-neer returned to the settlement It has beenerroneously said of him that he was licensed tokeep the first inn in Asylum in August, Stevens say
. The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800. said it was in an unbroken wilderness, inhabitedchiefly by bears and wolves. There in a log hutwithout windows or doors, guarded by two dogs,this whilom keeper of a fashionable French cafeundertook to make a clearing himself, and thussecure a farm and livelihood for his family. It isnot surprising that even French enthusiasm sooncooled under such circumstances, and that the pio-neer returned to the settlement It has beenerroneously said of him that he was licensed tokeep the first inn in Asylum in August, Stevens says this first license was graot-ed to Louis Lefevre, who afterwards removed toPhiladelphia, became insane and drowned himselfin the Schuylkill river. These two names,Antoine and Louis, are found in the lists of taxa-bles with different spelling of the surnames, andin one of the old accounts kept by Talon Le-fevre is entered as a servant. Antoine must havebeen a man of education as is shown by his finepenmanship. After Asylum was abandoned, hepurchased a property
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