Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . always before him, the voyage endedat last and the little com[»any of faithful people, wornby nine weeks of battling, not oidy witliwind and wave,but with the small-pox—which had l)roken out directlyafter starting, killed thirty and left many others weak,depressed and unlit for the lal)or awaiting them—sailedup the Delaware, and the Welcome drojiped anchor atthe little Swedish town of Upland, or ()i)tland, then thechief town of the i>rovince. A single i)ine marked thespot at which Penn stepped on shore, and as
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . always before him, the voyage endedat last and the little com[»any of faithful people, wornby nine weeks of battling, not oidy witliwind and wave,but with the small-pox—which had l)roken out directlyafter starting, killed thirty and left many others weak,depressed and unlit for the lal)or awaiting them—sailedup the Delaware, and the Welcome drojiped anchor atthe little Swedish town of Upland, or ()i)tland, then thechief town of the i>rovince. A single i)ine marked thespot at which Penn stepped on shore, and as he touchedthe new soil he turned to Pearson, who had l)een his com-panion and requested from him a name thatshould commemorate this first moment of modest to give his own name, Pearson suggested,Chester, in reinembrance of the city whence I came,and Chester it remains to-day, a quaint and curi-ous town, which for some time hoped and expected (obecome the city Penn bad planned. Here, in theFriendsMeeting House, a jtlain l»rick building opi)osite. THE CITY OF A DREAM. 47 sembly was called, and the Frame of Government andthe Provisional Laws already published in Englandwere discussed. Delaware sent her representatives ;the two provinces were declared united ; twenty-onenew laws were added to the forty already formed, andat the end of a three days session the colonists, havingfounded a state and secured for themselves and theirposterity both civil and religious freedom, returned totheir plows and the quiet round of every-day life. Penn\s first step was to visit the various seats of gov-ernment in New York, the Jerseys and Maryland, and,at the last point. Lord Baltimore came out to meet himwith a retinue of all the principal persons of the pro-vince. No amicable arrangement as to boundary seemedpossible, and, giving up the hope of adjusting conflict-ing opinions, Penn first settled all questions as to thepurchase and division of land and turned then
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