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It is against the rules of good cooking to cleanse the steaks by washing off the exuding juices before they are committed to the grid- iron, or to puncture them with a fork in turning instead of using
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the tongs, or to butter the chosen fat beef, or sprinkle it with high seasoning in the process; nor are the steaks taken off the hot coals until the "Ho! steaks ready !" note of preparation is given, the fishermen's palates relishing them best in a very heated and not overdone state. The fish are fried in the best butter to a brown color, and never broken by turning; but in regularly-laid rows and adhering to each other, and not to the pan, they are, with a little practice, dexterously tossed.
Besides those in the City Troop the following served in the Revolution : Major Samuel Nicholas of the marine corps ; Lieu- tenant Anthony Morris of the militia, killed at the battle of Princeton ; Lieutenant-Colonel William Bradford, Captains John Graff and John Wharton of the militia; Captain Tench Francis of the rifle corps, etc. Several others appeared in the ranks of the Quaker and Silk-Stocking companies, so designated on account of the wealth or high standing of the spirited gentle- men composing those corps raised in the city, and in other vol- unteer corps of infantry, at a crisis in affairs when neutrality was treason. In the war of 1812 many served or marched to the field.
MEMBERS OF THE SCHUYLKILL FISHING COMPANY, INSTI- TUTED A. D. 1732.
1732. 1. Thomas Stretch, first gov.
2. Enoch Flower.
3. Charles Jones.
4. Isaac Snowden.
5. John Howard.
6. Joseph Stiles, treas. and sec'y.
7. James Coultas, sheriff.
8. William Hopkins, coroner.
9. William Warner, baron.
10. John Leacock, coroner.
11. Thomas Tillbury.
12. Caleb Cash.
13. Philip Syng.
14. William Plumstead.
15, Peter Reeve.
16. William Ball.
17. Daniel Williams.
18. Isaac Garrigues.
19. Isaac Stretch, sheriff in 1759.
20. Hugh Roberts.
21. Samuel Neave.
22. Joseph Wharton.
23. Joseph Stretch.
24. Cadwallader Evans.
25. William Parr.
26. James Logan.
27. Samuel Garrigues.
28. Samuel Burge.
The above twenty-eight were members of the original association, or founders of the Colony in Schuylkill.
The original associates assembled fre-
quently on the banks of the river for fishing, fowling, and feasting, previous to the regular establishment of a com- pany governed by laws and officers, whenever convenience permitted or pleasure suggested an excursion from the city.
1748. 29. Luke Morris.
30. James Wharton.
31. Robert Greenway.
32. John Jones.
33. Jacob Lewis.
34. Isaac Warner, sheriff.
35. William Fisher.
36. Samuel Mifflin.
37. George Gray.
38. Joshua Howell.
39. Joseph Redman.
40. Edward Pennington.
41. Joseph Saunders.
42. Samuel Shoemaker.
43. Thomas Wharton, Jr.
44. Thomas Wharton.
45. Jacob Cooper.
46. Henry Harrison.
47. Samuel Wharton.
48. Robert Greenway.
49. Henry Elwes.
50. Joseph Shoemaker.
51. John Lawrence.
Members of the association admitted
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viva voce this year or previously by the | the first election of membership hy founders-i. e. since 1732. ballot on October 4.
1754. 52. Samuel Morris, Jr.
53. William Dowell.
54. John Sibbald, coroner.
55. Gurney Wall.
56. Thomas Lawrence.
57. Evan Morgan.
58. Thomas Harper.
59. William Bingham.
60. James Hamm.
61. Judah Foulke.
62. Charles Jones.
Associates admitted to the privileges of the Colony since 1748.
1759. 63. James James.
64. Jonathan Evans.
65. Anthony Morris.
113. William Govett, 12.
66. Joseph Galloway.
114. William Gray, 12.
67. Jacob Cooper.
115. George Roberts, 12.
68. John Jones.
1767. 116. Abraham Bickley,
29.
69. John Edwards.
70. Thomas Richardson.
71. Joseph Stamper.
72. William Thorne.
73. Jacob Lewis.
74. Josiah Hewes.
122. Thomas Bond, Jr., 23.
123. Joseph Rakestraw, 23. 124. John I'atton, July 23.
125. William Hall,* " 23.
First election under the new law of 11th Oct., 1782, after the Declaration of Independence :
1785. 126. Steph. Paschall, Jr., Mar. 28. 127. Israel Whelan, June 23.
1786. 128. Hugh Roberts, March 29. 129. Francis Johnston, 29.
130. Peter Browne, 29.
131. Adam Clampffer, 29.
86. Thomas Mifflin.
87. Nathaniel Falconer.
88. James Budden.
89. Samuel Howell, Jr.
90. Tench Francis.
91. Thomas Peters. 92. Peter Kuhn.
93. Gustavus Risburg.
94. James White.
95. Benjamin G. Eyres.
96. Robert Roberts.
Received as associates, and registered as such, this year, including No. 96.
ELECTION BY BALLOT.
Under the provisions of the 7th sect. of the act of the General Assembly, passed 29th March this year, was held
1760. 97. John Nixon, Oct. 4. 98. Isaac Hopkins, " 4. 99. Francis Holton, 4.
100. William Morris, Jr., Oct. 7. 101. Samuel Hassell, 7.
102. Enoch Story, 7.
103. William Ranstead, 7.
104. Thomas Cash, ¥
7.
105. James Eddy, 7.
106. Israel Morris, Jr., 7.
107. William Sword, 7.
108. William Ibeson, 7.
109. George Dillwyn, 7.
110. Stephen Shewell, 7.
1765. 111. John Wharton, gent., Sept. 12. 112. John Wharton, shipt., 12
29. 117. John Howard, 118. William Jackson, Oct. 5.
75. Israel Morris. 76. Anthony Morris, Jr.
Admissions since 1754 to the Colony.
1760. 77. Zebulon Rudulph. 78. William Bradford.
79. Joseph Jones.
80. Samuel Hudson.
81. Eden Haydock.
82. Samuel Nicholas.
83. Levi Hollingsworth.
84. Peter Stretch.
85. Clement Biddle.
1787. 132. John Baker, June 8. 133. Jeremiah Fisher, June 8.
1789. 134. Anthony J. Morris, Mar. 26. 1790. 135. John Donnaldson, 22.
136. Thomas Forrest, 22.
137. Robert Wharton, 22. 138. John Morrell, Oct. 11.
1791. 139. Joseph Donaldson, Oct. 5. 140. John Graff, 5.
1796. 141. Thomas Greaves, March 23. 142. Thomas Hiltzheimer, " 23. 143. John Harrison, 23.
1798. 144. Spafford Drury, ; March 3. 1800. 145. Thomas Morris, March 18. 146. George Ludlam, May 22. 147. John J. Parry, 22.
148. John W. Morrell, June 12.
1803. 149. Joseph S. Lewis, May 12.
# The senior of three old ex-members-viz. Hall, Donnaldson, and Wharton-living on the 4th of July, 1830, in or near Philadelphia.
This admission made the full complement of twenty-five members this century.
1781. 119. Benjamin Scull, March 3. 120. Andrew Tybout, 3.
1782. 121. John D. Mercier, 23.
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1804. 150. Richard C. Jones, April 14. 1805. 151. Curtis Clay, Jr., Oct. 14. 152. Thomas Shoemaker, Oct 14. 1806. 153. Joseph Smith, May 29.
1807. 154. Jeremiah Peirsol, May 29. 155. William Gerhard, Oct. 1.
1808. 156. Robert Morrell, May 2. 157. Reeve Lewis, July 21. 158. Henry Graff, 21.
1810. 159. Richard Rundle, May 16.
160. Isaac Milnor, June 24.
161. Joseph S. Morris, July 7.
162. John R. Coates, " 21.
1811. 163. William W. Fisher, Oct. 2. 164. Robert M. Lewis, 2.
1812. 165. Eli Canby, Oct. 2.
1813. 166. Charles Ross, Oct. 6. 167. Thomas P. Roberts, Oct. 6. 6.
168. Casper W. Morris,
169. James L. Cuthbert, 6.
1814. 170. Samuel N. Lewis, Oct. 5.
1816. 171. Anthony M. Buckley, Oct. 2. 172. William Milnor, Jr., 2. 1817. 173. Richard Willing, Jr., Oct. 1. 1.
174. Josiah Starkey,
1818. 175. Charles Watson, Oct. 7.
1819. 176. William E. Howell, Oct. 4. 4. 177. William Lippincott,
1822. 178. Samuel N. Gray, March 30. 179. William Strickland, Oct. 2.
180. John Swift, 2.
181. Cornelius Stevenson, 2.
182. William H. Hart, 2.
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183. John S. Phillips, 2
1823. 184. Samuel P. Wetherill, Oct. 1.
185. Benjamin S. Bonsall, 1. 186. William A. Peddle, 1. 240. John Wagner, 29.
1824. 187. William V. Anderson, " 16.
1825. 188. Henry Lentz, Oct. 7. 189. Sansom Perot, “ 7.
1826. 190. Joseph S. Snowden, Oct. 4. 191. John P. Wetherill, 4. 1827. 192. Robert T. Potts, Oct. 3. 193. Joseph Donaldson, ' 3. 1828. 194. Charles Wetherill, Oct. 1.
1829. 195. William Wetherill, " 7.
1830. 196. William Weaver, Oct. 6.
1831. 197. Robert G. Herring, April 30.
1834. 198. Richard Paxon, May 1. 199. Henry Huber, Sr., "" 1. 200. Thomas Hart, Nov. 6.
1835. 201. Thomas Hayes, Dec. 12. 202. Frederick A. Huber, Dec. 12.
1838. 203. Jas. Glentworth, Jr., Mar. 22.
1839. 204. Daniel Deal, Oct. 2. 205. James C. Fisher, H. M., Oct. 2.
206. Peter L. Laguerenne, ¥
2. 207. William Jackson, 2. 208. Philip Physick, 2. 1840. 209. John J. Werner, Oct. 7. 210. William Harmer, " 7. '7. 211. Robert Adams, 66 212. Thomas C. James, " 7.
1841. 213. Stephen G. Fotterall, Oct. 6. 214. Francis Peters, 6.
1842. 215. William Stevenson, Mar. 30. 216. Edmond Wilcox, Oct. 5. 1843. 217. Robert E. Gray, Oct. 4. 218. George R. Justice, " 4.
219. George C. Carson, " 4. 220. Henry Bohlen, 4.
1844. 221. Samuel F. Fisher, Oct. 2.
1845. 222. William W. Fisher, Mar. 28. 28. 223. Samuel B. Thomas,
1846. 224. Thomas H. Craige, Dec. 30. 225. James Tams, 30.
1847. 226. William T. Lowber, Oct. 12. 1848. 227. J. Ringgold Wilmer, Mar. 30. 228. Frederick S. Pepper, 30. 1850. 229. Henry Carson, Feb. 4. 1851. 230. Daniel Smith, Jr., Jan. 8.
1854. 231. Harry C. Hart, Mar. 30.
1856. 232. Charles Harmar, Mar. 28.
1857. 233. Alexander E. Harvey,Oct.12.
1858. 234. George Cuthbert, Apr. 15. 235. Samuel I. Christian, " 15.
1859. 236. William Camac, Mar. 24. 237. Henry Fling, Oct. 10.
1860. 238. Samuel Pleasants, Mar. 29. 239. Thomas Smith, 29.
1861. 241. R. Rundle Smith, Oct. 1.
1862. 242. Clement S. Philips, Mar. 29. 1863. 243. T. Wharton Fisher, Oct. 6. 1864. 244. Henry Carson, Oct. 5. 245. Josiah W. Harmar, Oct. 5. “ 5. 246. Galloway C. Morris, 247. M. E. Rogers, 5.
1865. 248. John A. Brown, Jr., Apr. 5.
1866. 249. Joseph T. Thomas, Mar. 28. 250. Edward Wharton, Oct. 2.
1867. 251. Frederick Klett, Mar. 26. 252. Edwin L. Reakirt, Oct. 15.
1868. 253. T. Somers Smith, May 6. 1869. 254. Fred'k W. Fotterall, Mar. 25.
1870. 255. Morris Hacker, Mar. 25. 256. Chas. S. Pancoast, 25. 257. John P. Bankson, " 25.
Mount Regale Fishing Company .- This company was composed of wealthy and fashionable gentlemen, the leaders of society in that day, as may be seen from the names of Shippen, Chew, Ham- ilton, Francis, McCall, Lawrence, Swift, Tilghman, Allen, Hop- kinson, Willing, Morris, Nixon, and others. They met at Rob- inson's Tavern, at the Falls of Schuylkill, every other Thurs-
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day from June to October. Of course the name of the company indicates they met more to have a good time than for any love of Izaak Walton's art.
Whitpain's Great House, p. 428 .- July 26, 1701, " Ordered, that for the next session of the Assembly the great front room in Whitpain's house, now in the tenure of Joseph Shippen, be pre- pared and put in order, and that the said Joseph Shippen be allowed for it by the government." (Col. Recs., vol. ii. 26.)
The custom-house occupied the stores built, it is believed, on the site of this " great house" by John Ross; it was so occupied in 1800 and earlier, George Latimer being then collector and John Graeff deputy collector. As in April 1, 1802, the custom-house was in Carpenters' Hall, it was probably removed there then from the first building, and continued there, with the exception of a few months in 1811, to January 1, 1817, about fourteen years three months and nineteen days.
Offley's Forge, p. 430 .- Previous to this there was established in 1747, at the north-west corner of Eighth and Walnut streets, Stephen Paschall's steel-furnace, where blistered steel was made. Another steel-furnace in the city was owned by William Branson. John Hall had a plating tilt-hammer forge at Byberry.
But England was even at this early day pursuing her jealous policy of discouraging manufacturing except in her own establish- ments. She therefore in 1749 passed "an act to encourage the importation of pig and bar iron from His Majesty's colonies in America, and to prevent the erection of any mill or other engine for slitting or rolling iron, or any plating-forge to work with a tilt-hammer, or any furnace for making steel in any of said col- onies." Those in operation previous to June 24th, 1750, were excepted from the prohibition.
This feeling was strongly carried out in a work entitled Gee on Trade, published in London in 1750, which declared " manufac- turing in our American colonies should be discouraged and pro- hibited. . . Any such attempts should be crushed in the be- ginning. . . It is proposed that no weaver have liberty to set up any looms without first registering at an office kept for the purpose. That all slitting-mills and engines for drawing wire or weaving stockings be put down. That all negroes be prohibited from weaving either linen or woollen, or spinning or combing wool, or working at any manufacture of iron, further than mak- ing it into pig or bar iron. That they also be prohibited from manufacturing hats, stockings, or leather of any kind."
Bachelors' Hall, p. 432 .- This building was not used only as a festive place, but in the grounds surrounding was started a botanic garden, most probably the first in America, and before that of John Bartram below Gray's Ferry, though he might have been interested in this garden. This place was thoroughly de- scribed in a long poem by George Webbe in 1729. Rev. John
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Murray (the well-known preacher of universal salvation) in his Autobiography, gives an account of a visit to Philadelphia in 1770. In referring to the opposition to Universalism a century ago, he says (page 227) : " The combined efforts of the clergy in Philadel- phia barred against me the door of every house of public worship in the city. Bachelors' Hall was in Kensington, but at Bach- elors' Hall the people attended, and a few were enabled to believe the good word of their God." The street now called Beach street, then nearest the Delaware and north of Gunner's Run, was for- merly called Hall street; and we conjecture that Bachelors' Hall was situated on the square now bounded south by Poplar street, north by Shackamaxon street, east by Beach street, and west by Allen street.
FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS.
The Duck-Pond, p. 433 .- Some years since, a sewer being ren- dered necessary, owing to water accumulating at this point, it was dug under the market-house (then standing) down to the Del- aware. It was tunnelled, the workmen being at work entirely under ground day and night, the business of the market going on as usual, without any suspension on account of the operations all the time below.
The Origin of the above-named Sewer, p. 434 .- John Sharp, who in 1852 was building in Fourth street on the site of the old Indian Queen Hotel, told my father that the route of Dock Creek was distinctly traceable in the rear of his buildings, and that Peter Thompson, his conveyancer, who died several years before this, saw a young woman drowned in a boat loaded with pumpkins in the creek at the end of the market-house on Franklin court, back of his buildings. This market-house-or what tradition says was one-was standing in 1852 in the rear of the old Indian Queen Tavern, and was soon after that pulled down. It was a long building, with a cupola upon it. An old man aged eighty-nine has told him (John Sharp) that he has attended market there in his day, and another person confirms it. William J. Duane, who formerly lived in Brock's house, near Market and Fourth streets, and a relative of Dr. Franklin's, said it was always in his recol- lection considered a market-house. Dr. Franklin's garden was in the rear of the Indian Queen.
This question, of its having been a market-house, was revived, and the fact flatly denied by the Evening Bulletin and Sunday Dispatch of April, 1857, but no facts are adduced to contradict the tradition. (See ante, p. 182, note to Vol. I. p. 363.)
When the long range, p. 435 .- Daniel Suter was an old Ger- man grocer who then lived opposite to this " long range," which was afterward the property of William Chancellor, at the north-
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west corner of Fourth and High. Mrs. Yohe kept a hotel north of the "range." She afterward purchased the property forming a part of "Jones's Hotel " on Chestnut street above Sixtli, and which was the site of O'Eller's hotel till it was burned down with Pritchett's circus, next below O'Eller's. Above Mrs. Yohe's, in Fourth street, lived Pierrie, a barber, who used to shave General Washington, and who boasted that he had often taken the general by the nose. He had preserved some of the general's hair, and distributed it to his friends and customers. He promised my father some, but he never got it. Mrs. Spencer, a relative of the Sergeant family, kept an excellent and genteel boarding-house in a dwelling that then stood north of the " range." George Sheaff' then kept a wine-store at the north-east corner.
PEGG'S RUN.
P. 436 .- Pegg's Run, formerly the Cohoquinoque, was the site of the present Willow street. The reason why so many leather- dressers are located on it, and near it, is, that before Pegg's Run was culverted tanners and leather-dressers sought that neighbor- hood in order to discharge their dyes and other liquids into the creek ; and subsequently, when the culvert was built, they ob- tained entrances into it. In consequence of this advantage the ground in that neighborhood was sought by leather-dressers; and when a fashion in some lines of business is established, it is very hard to break it. The same thing exists in New York, where in old times the leather-dressers collected in the neighborhood of what is called " the Swamp," the lower part of the city on the East River ; and to this day the establishments of that trade are centred there, the neighborhood still being called by old New Yorkers " the Swamp," although no swamp is visible.
Willow street (formerly Pegg's Run) was opened by order of the Court of Quarter Sessions by proceedings which commenced in June, 1828, and by which there was an assessment for damages, which was confirmed in September, 1829. The surface of Wil- low street is sustained by a culvert, which was built over the course of the stream called by the Indians " Colloquinoque," and is in modern times known as Pegg's Run. It empties into the Delaware at Willow street wharf.
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THE FIRST POWDER-HOUSE.
P. 449 .- See manuscript law at Harrisburg in favor of Wil- liam Chancellor, passed August 14th, 1724-25, vol. A, No. 2, 1710-35, p. 323: " At this time the city of Philadelphia is desti- tute of any magazine or other suitable repository for the safe- keeping of gunpowder." May 8, 1747, another law is passed, continuing the law of 1724 in force for another year, in favor of Elizabeth, widow of William Chancellor, or till the Assembly order otherwise. (See MS. law A, 1731-1757, p. 181.) This continued thus till 1783. Captain William Chancellor died in 1742; he was a sailmaker. In 1747 a petition is presented from a number of residents in the Northern Liberties against a con- tinuance of the powder-house, apprehending danger to their dwell- ings and preventing improvements, and the erection of a market- house in the place laid out for it. (See Penna. Archives, i. 676.) On December 6, 1784, another law is passed, referring to those of 1724 and 1727, which says: " And whereas another powder- house hath been erected in said city in the public square on the south side of Vine street, between the Sixth and Seventh streets from Del- aware, at the public expense," etc. (A, 2, p. 206.) Joseph Stiles is appointed superintendent of it. (See end of this article.) This powder-house in Franklin Square was built during the Revolu- tionary War, and was used after 1791 for storing oil for public lamps.
March 28, 1787, a new law was passed, repealing former laws; this magazine continued in use till the following was built, under resolution of Assembly April 6, 1790, when the governor was authorized to purchase a lot and erect thereon a powder-magazine (Min. of Ass., 1789-90, p. 260-261) ; and supplement April 13, 1791, speaks of a new magazine on the banks of Schuylkill, north side of Walnut street.
April 16, 1790, a lot of Colonel Patton was agreed to be pur- chased for five hundred and sixty-five pounds specie, or its value in paper, for a powder-magazine; and on May 22d the form and dimensions were agreed upon-on Walnut and west side of Ash- ton street, forty feet east and west and sixty north and south, and house for the keeper at the south-east corner of Front and Wal- nut on Schuylkill. (See Col. Recs., xvi. 337, 367, 327, 329.) This is probably what was afterward Wetherill's vitriol-factory, the stone walls then standing. (See Smith's Laws, vol. ii., p. 406, note ; also Penna. Archives, xi. 276.)
April 4, 1807, an act passed appointing commissioners to sell " present magazine and the lot on which it is erected, and with the proceeds purchase ground and erect others," not less than one mile from the city, nor of capacity to contain more than ten tons of powder, and one or more magazines to store on deposit powder
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in large quantities, not less than four miles from the city ; when erected all powder to be removed there. Five thousand dollars were granted by act February 25, 1808, to complete the new magazine. (Smith's Laws (note), vol. ii., p. 406 ; iii. 240, 498.)
Mem. from Book M, p. 79, "Titles to City Property :" " On this square-North-Eastern or Franklin Square-the old powder- magazine is erected, the possession of which, by a resolution of the Legislature of 30th of September, 1791 (3d vol. p. 171), was delivered to the corporation for the purpose of storing oil for the public lamps until the Legislature shall otherwise dispose there- of." (In City Solicitor's Office.)
The Schuylkill Arsenal was established about the year 1800; the Frankford Arsenal was commenced about the year 1814. The Schuylkill Arsenal has for fifty years been devoted to the storage of clothing, camp-equipage, and quartermaster's stores for the use of the army. The Frankford Arsenal was intended from the first to be devoted to the purposes of a magazine of arms and munitions of war.
Gibbs' House, p. 444 .- The main building still exists on Arch street. It was built by the Keppele family-a back building with fine garden, with summer-houses, extending nearly to the Lutheran church, which, I believe, purchased it. A row of houses and stores now occupies the garden-space on Fourth street.
Markoe's house, p. 444 .- My father remembered when the whole square from Market to Chestnut and Ninth to Tenth was a post-and-rail grass-lot, except what was occupied by this house, its stables and garden. He used frequently to visit there with his mother, who was related to Mrs. Markoe; they used then to speak of these visits as " out to Mr. Markoe's," and would start early after dinner, as from their house in Arch street between Fourth and Fifth was thought quite a walk. Markoe's at this time was the only house, except "Dunlap's," corner of Twelfth and Market streets, between Ninth street and the Schuylkill, and there was nothing to intercept the view from Market to Spruce, where Bellamy's house stood.
P. 444 .- Pennington's sugar-house is advertised in Penna. Journal, Oct. 27, 1763, as "at the upper end of Market street." The later one was at the north-east corner of Crown and Race streets.
After Edward Pennington, the sugar-refiner, and probably son of the one mentioned in the text, this house was purchased by Mr. Hertzog, a wealthy German and a very large man, who died about 1850. His widow occupied the house, and gave it to the Reformed Dutch Church-of which they were members under Dr. Bethune-at the corner of Filbert and Tenth streets, toward the erection of a theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., under charge of Rev. Dr. John Ludlow, late provost of our
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university here. The Peningtons in this country, descendants of the Kent stock, spell their name with one n.
P. 446 .- Another collection extends on Chestnut street, north side. These are every one pulled down, and their sites are now occupied by fine stores. One of them was the old Khouli Khan Tavern. On Walnut street below Dock two or three of the original houses remain to this date (1879). The house built by David Rittenhouse about 1786-87 at the north-west corner of Seventh and Arch streets was till a recent date a very fine speci- men of houses of that time.
Military Hall, p. 446 .- The old-fashioned building on Library street, opposite the rear of the Custom-House, was built in the year 1810, and since that time has been used for a variety of pur- poses-as a coach-factory, military armory, concert saloon, lager- beer saloon, and by the present proprietors. It was erected by Matthew Carey for a printing-office. After he gave up that busi- ness it went to other uses. It was occupied as a tavern by Joseph H. Fennimore in 1832-33, and was called the Union House. The upper portion, being the original printing-office room, was fitted up in the second story as a ball-room and concert-room. It afterward became the resort of military companies for a drill- room, and was used by the State Fencibles, Captain James Page; Washington Blues, Colonel William C. Patterson; and by others. The name of the building about 1834 or 1835 was changed to Military Hall. It was afterward for many years in the tenure of John Vasey, and was fitted up in great splendor with mirrors, paintings, etc., and called Our House. It subsequently went into various uses. The second story was at one time used as a gymnasium by W. S Mann. The Independent Board of Brokers began and ended there a few years ago. Since G. Bergner has been in possession of it the old name-Military Hall-has been restored.
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