. Bulletin. Major Josiah CofRn Elihu Coleman House. to go forward and build as fast as wo can, hut nostatement is made on whose land the Meeting House wasplaced. In 1716 the town voted that noti(^e of its meet-ings should be given by posting the same on the door ofthe Meeting House and Town House and in 1725 anotherorder was adopted that the notice should be posted on thedoor of both Meeting Houses. Taken in connection withthe foregoing facts it seems evident that in 1716 therewas a Town House and a Friends Meeting House and thatbefore 1725 the Presbyterians had built theirs. But theex


. Bulletin. Major Josiah CofRn Elihu Coleman House. to go forward and build as fast as wo can, hut nostatement is made on whose land the Meeting House wasplaced. In 1716 the town voted that noti(^e of its meet-ings should be given by posting the same on the door ofthe Meeting House and Town House and in 1725 anotherorder was adopted that the notice should be posted on thedoor of both Meeting Houses. Taken in connection withthe foregoing facts it seems evident that in 1716 therewas a Town House and a Friends Meeting House and thatbefore 1725 the Presbyterians had built theirs. But theexasperating feature is that not a vestige of evidence ap-pears about the location of either. In 1716 the town voted to build a town house 34 feetlong and 24 wide, on the hill between William Strattonsand George Bunkers, near William Strattons. Then forthe first time appears a description definite enough to beidentified. West of No. Bottom Pond is a winding pass-wayconnecting Duke and West Chester streets, and in theearly records known


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