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 ... . y Saturday from 4 to 8 P. m. (Kalms Travels,1748-49, vol. i. p. 45.) Feb. 20, 1735-36, an act was passed vesting the State House intrustees. (Col. Recs., vol. iv. p. 46; Smiths Laws, i. xxi.) Itwas repealed Feb. 17, 1762, by act of that date. (See Smith, 242, at length.) See message from Council to Assembly, al-luding to above act, Feb. 20, in which the State House lot
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 ... . y Saturday from 4 to 8 P. m. (Kalms Travels,1748-49, vol. i. p. 45.) Feb. 20, 1735-36, an act was passed vesting the State House intrustees. (Col. Recs., vol. iv. p. 46; Smiths Laws, i. xxi.) Itwas repealed Feb. 17, 1762, by act of that date. (See Smith, 242, at length.) See message from Council to Assembly, al-luding to above act, Feb. 20, in which the State House lot notbuilt on should remain a public green and walk for ever, andrecommending attention to it, September 17, 1783. (Col. Rec-ords, vol. xiv. 692.) State House Yard, as originally purchased, extended fromFifth to Sixth street on Chestnut, and was about three hundredand thirty-seven feet deep. It consisted of eight lots granted byPenn in 1683 to private individuals. The Walnut street fronthad likewise been granted in 1683, 84, 92, and 1715. TheChestnut street lots were all purchased by William Allen andAndrew Hamilton for the State House, and the remaining halfby the Province, which appropriated five thousand pounds in. The Stale House. 207 May, 1762, and the deeds were finally passed in 1769—not in1760, as Watson states. A brick wall seven feet high waserected, with a very high brick arch on Walnut street support-ing two large solid doors. Though before the Revolution it hadbeen ordered to prepare a plan for laying out the Square inproper walks, and to be planted with suitable trees, etc.,nothing was done in the way of improvement, but in Septem-ber, 1783, President John Dickinson urged the attention of theAssembly to it. Still, nothing was done until February 28,1785, when a few trees were planted; and in April SamuelYaughan took hold of its improvement. Public walks werelaid out, one hundred elm trees planted, and in 1791 the heightof the wall was reduced on Fifth and Sixth st
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