Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . and four years old. This new churchnow building is to have no spire, and as a relic this old vane is placed uponthis mill. Journeymen who worked at this building: Millwrights—JohnSheldrake, William Hartranft, William Coward. Masons—Philip Ditchy, JohnShubert, George Fry, John Ruch, William Tuston; Laborers—Samuel Dove,John Harmon, William Kephart, David Charles, Peter Stroup, George Stroup,Jacob Stroup, Jr. Thomas Heap, plasterer; Charles Cox, lumberman; JohnClark, burr builder. Wheat flour, |8 per barrel; rye flour, $; corn, pe
Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . and four years old. This new churchnow building is to have no spire, and as a relic this old vane is placed uponthis mill. Journeymen who worked at this building: Millwrights—JohnSheldrake, William Hartranft, William Coward. Masons—Philip Ditchy, JohnShubert, George Fry, John Ruch, William Tuston; Laborers—Samuel Dove,John Harmon, William Kephart, David Charles, Peter Stroup, George Stroup,Jacob Stroup, Jr. Thomas Heap, plasterer; Charles Cox, lumberman; JohnClark, burr builder. Wheat flour, |8 per barrel; rye flour, $; corn, perbushel, 80 cents; oats, 45; wheat, $; rye, 85; beef, 9 cents; mutton, 6c.;veal, 8c. Farm land in the immediate neighborhood |200 per acre. Supposedcost of mill, when finished $6,000. Anthracite coal, per ton, $6; building lotson the lanes, 50c. per foot; on the Main street, $1; averagedepth, 200 officers, are: Daniel Snyder, John Seibert, Jacob Peaver, BenjaminF. Topham. Justices of the Peace; William Sommers and Chas. Donat, Super-. CHAPELOF MARKET SQUARE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. GERMANTOWN. 85 visors; Benj. Lehman, Jr., Wm. Grout, Samuel Keyser, Charles Bonsall, JacobDerr and Joseph Dickinson. Overseer of the Poor, G. F. Stuckert; John Smith,Daniel Billmeyer, Street Commissioners; Geo. Sommers, Jacob Haas, Con-stables. Population of the Township, five thousand five huiidred. There istwo Lutheran, one Episcopalian, one German Reformed, one Presbyterian, oneMethodist, one Baptist, one Dunkard, one Orthodox and one Hicksite Church,a bank and four incorporated academies, seventeen taverns, four lines of stagesdaily, and railroad cars five times a day to and from the city. Fare inthe stages twenty-five cents, in the cars twenty-five cents. Wages for laboringmen, one dollar per day; carpenters, $; masons, $; millwrights, $ ;burr builders, $; millers, $25 per month; farm hands, $12 per month. There is quite a mania for raising silk in the townsh
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