. 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. tely embedded inthe soil, thus evincing that the course of the river has been changedfrom its original channel.—See Poulsons Gazette, of Nov. 26, 1832. I have in my possession, a copy of a curious old deed of the 2dof May, 1681, from Peter Peterson Yocum,a Swede, to Niels Jonason,for two hundred acres of land to begin at a creek on the west side ofSchuylkill above Arromink, cal
. 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. tely embedded inthe soil, thus evincing that the course of the river has been changedfrom its original channel.—See Poulsons Gazette, of Nov. 26, 1832. I have in my possession, a copy of a curious old deed of the 2dof May, 1681, from Peter Peterson Yocum,a Swede, to Niels Jonason,for two hundred acres of land to begin at a creek on the west side ofSchuylkill above Arromink, called the little Quarnes fall, andthence, up along the river side to the Qreat-hill, being part of theoriginal tract of 1100 acres granted by patent of Governor Lovelaceat New York to Captain Flans Modens, i. e. Moens. [The Greathill, may be understood to be Conshohockin now—and the Q,uarnes,(Quarries,) the Little falls.] The place called Swedesford, had a work of defence cast uponits margin by the Americans, in the time of the Revolution. It wasthe crossing place then of the army. Near there was the Swedjes church, since rebuilt by the Episcopa-lians; the grave ground is well filled with Swedes, who very much. Country Seats. 477 settled along the Schuylkill. The Swedes used to go to the oldchurch in considerable numbers,- in antiquated and rude style ofdress. The men went on foot, or in canoes, the women on horse-back, ofien ridmg double, and always with coarse outside petticoats,which could be seen hung along the fences in dozens, while theowners were in church—their descendant daughters since scarcelyknow it. COUNTRY SEATS. It is intended herein to revive the recollection of sundry countryseats nigh the city, once known to all, and now no longer arrestingattention, to wit: Bednmister was a neat country place, having a fine collection offruit trees, at the N. E. corner of Brewers alley and Fourth same house, now an inn there, v/ilh a new gable-end, havingcut of
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