. 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. passed away, and when newmen and manners reign, they may have an equal opportunity todisplay their own times in contrast with the present. To such awork, they will receive readier helps than we possessed. Theywill find abundance of public journals, but too scandalously minute,wherein daily incidents of every kind are amply disclosed;—someto our credit, and some sufficiently rep
. 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. passed away, and when newmen and manners reign, they may have an equal opportunity todisplay their own times in contrast with the present. To such awork, they will receive readier helps than we possessed. Theywill find abundance of public journals, but too scandalously minute,wherein daily incidents of every kind are amply disclosed;—someto our credit, and some sufficiently repulsive to our moral will have, too, abundance of pictorial representations of dress,fashions, equipages, houses, edifices, public works, public men, andpicturesque views of scenes and places,—such as never existed toaid us, in our researches into the past. We advertise the reader, that this work having been written outand concluded in July^ 1S42, as signified at the preface, it is to beconsidered that all references to any given past time, as so manyyears ago, are all to be regarded as referring backward from theyear 1842, and not from the date of the imprint, on the present orfuture title APPENDIX. Having on hand sundry facts further illustrative of our early hislory, and sundry articles of places, in which we, of Philadelphia andPennsylvania, are sufficiently interested as occasional visiters, orlookers on, tending to describe things as they were, and from whichthey are now yearly changing, we herein connect them as an ap-pendix to this work, viz.: Landing day of William Pe?iJi, at New Castle. On the 27th day of October^ 1682, arrived before ye towne ofNew Castle, in Delawar, from England, Wm. Peun, Esq., proprie-tary of Pennsylvania, who produced Iwoo certain deeds of feofmentfrom ye illustrious Jaiues, Duke of Yorke and Albany, etc.: for thistowne of New Castle, and twelve myles about itt, and also for yetwo lower counties, ye Whorekills and St. Jones
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