. The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography . r HH J 1! «V •,.--:;> -> :,;:r- 3r-* in [A:pnp I III ;^Mi-^ 3M , 1 £lHMMHii«;<llH^VOrr J nflU L. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Vol. XXIIL 1899. No. 4. A DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE-HOUSE, PHILA-DELPHIA, IN 1774. BY JOHN W. JORDA \L Between the years 1774 and 1780 a number of newspapers andmagazines were issued in manuscript by scholars of Robert ProudsLatin school, for circulation among their schoolmates. Some wereephemeral and others had a life of a year or more. Of these literaryventures the
. The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography . r HH J 1! «V •,.--:;> -> :,;:r- 3r-* in [A:pnp I III ;^Mi-^ 3M , 1 £lHMMHii«;<llH^VOrr J nflU L. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Vol. XXIIL 1899. No. 4. A DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE-HOUSE, PHILA-DELPHIA, IN 1774. BY JOHN W. JORDA \L Between the years 1774 and 1780 a number of newspapers andmagazines were issued in manuscript by scholars of Robert ProudsLatin school, for circulation among their schoolmates. Some wereephemeral and others had a life of a year or more. Of these literaryventures the most successful were The Students Gazette, edited in 1777by S. M. Fox, and The Universal Magazine and Literary Museum, a duo-decimo of 14 pp., edited in 1774 by Samuel L. Wharton. It is fromthe latter monthly that the following interesting and valuable detaileddescription of the exterior and interior of the State-House in 1774 istaken. A Description of the State House. The Stale House is situated on the one side of the CitySquares, the front of which lies to the North is bounded hvChestnut Street; the wall on the South by Walnut Street;the wing on the East by Fifth Street an
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