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Sheriffs, i. 65, 92, 97, 99, 238.
Shettle, Robert, mayor, i. 66.
Shift-marriage, ii. 418.
Shingass, ii. 129. Ship-John Shoal, iii. 490. " Amity," iii. 83. " Welcome," iii. 37.
Shippen, Dr. William, i. 209, 210, 540; ii. 376.
Edward, first mayor, etc., i. 25, 39, 56, 66, 72, 285, 522, 523, 540; iii. 69, 437, 483. house, i. 39, 368. Joseph, i. 89; iii. 91.
Ships and shipbuilding, i. 228 ; ii. 404-410, 438-441.
Ships "Kent " and "Shield," i. 10.
Shipyards, i. 154, 228, 575. Shively the cutler, i. 104.
Shoemaker family, i. 598; ii. 23, 29, 33, 47, 64, 66. B., mayor, i. 66; iii. 87. S., mayor, i. 66 ; iii. 140.
Shrunk, Godfrey, i. 432; ii. 476. Shute, A., mayor, i. 66. Sideboards, i. 203.
Signs, i. 467; iii. 368. Silk-culture, ii. 437, 438; iii. 285. Silk, strange durability of, ii. 424. Simcoe, Col., protects Treaty Tree, i. 137. Singing, i. 293, 386. Six Nations, iii. 466. Skating, i. 103, 280, 495 ; ii. 610. Skinner, Mrs. Esther, ii. 126. Skippack, ii. 59, 60.
Slate-roof House, i. 39, 52, 163-166; iii. 65, 119. Slaughter-house, i. 59, 96.
Slaves, freed, i. 406; ii. 23, 66, 261-264, 512 ; iii. 56, 433, 469. Sleds, sleighs, and skates, ii. 610. Sleighing, ii. 33, 610. Smallpox, i. 15, 51, 98; ii. 371, 372. Smiley, William, iii. 149. Smith, Adam, i. 533.
Dr. William, i. 416; iii. 275, 276. John, i. 376, 460, 538, 539; ii. 373.
Lieut., of Virginia, ii. 55, 60. Parson, tomb at the Falls, i. 104. Seba, ii. 24.
Smith's Island, ii. 470 ; iii. 489, 490. Smith's New Jersey quoted, i. 31.
Smuggling, ii. 421.
Snow seven feet deep, i. 101; iii. 474. Snyder, Jacob, ii. 19.
Society Hill, i. 38, 52, 98, 131, 232, 325, 337, 472, 482, 537.
Society of Fort St. David's, iii. 292.
of Free Traders, i. 12, 93, 94, 484 ; iii. 33, 91. Society, progress of, i. 32, 34, 172-174, 243, 248.
state of Germantown, etc., ii. 19, 20, 33, 34, 40, 55, 63, 64, 252, 306.
Soldiers, i. 406; ii. 331.
Solebury, Bucks county, ii. 520.
Song for Tradesmen, ii. 345.
Sound transmitted, ii. 492.
Southbe, William, asks for freedom of ne- groes, i. 97.
South End, i. 283, 482; iii. 389. River or Delaware, ii. 474.
Southwark, a pleasant place, i. 148, 483. Theatre, iii. 369.
Sower family, i. 532; ii. 34, 36, 256, 399 iii. 132.
Sowles, Andrew, i. 543.
Speakman, Mrs., i. 598; ii. 328. Specie payments, i. 250; iii. 385, 386. Spectacles, i. 193, 197. public, ii. 494.
Speculations, i. 250; ii. 415.
Spinning-wheels and looms, ii. 553. Spires in Philadelphia, iii. 202.
Sports and amusements, i. 104, 276, 310; iii. 154.
Spotted Cat Tavern, iii. 350.
Spring and summer, facts, ii. 361, 362. Springettsbury, i. 78, 487 ; ii. 478 ; iii. 400. Spring Garden, i. 486, 491; iii. 499. Springs, i. 132, 425, 489-492. mineral, ii. 463. Sprogel, Edward, iii. 364. John Henry, ii. 47. Squares, dimensions of public, iii. 229. Squirrels very plenty, i. 99.
St. Augustine's Romish church, iii. 322.
St. George's Methodist church, iii. 326.
St. John, Hector, ii. 261.
St. Joseph's Romish church, iii. 318, 319. St. Mary's Romish church, iii. 319-322. St. Michael's Lutheran church, iii. 312.
St. Nicholas, i. 281.
St. Paul's church lottery, i. 455 ; ii. 444.
St. Paul's Episcopal church, i. 455 ; iii. 325. St. Peter's church, i. 413; iii. 266-268. Stacey, John, i. 477.
Stages and packets, i. 218; ii. 28; iii. 134. Stamp Act, i. 535. resisted, ii. 269-271, 280.
Stamper, John, mayor, i. 66. Stanley, William, i. 484.
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Index.
Stansberry, poet, ii. 303.
Stansbury, Nathan, alderman and mayor, i. 60, 66.
State House, i. 50, 65, 98, 99, 101, 351, 396, 529; ii. 163, 274, 284, 287, 303 ; iii. 204, 235; sold to city, 216; clock, 210; yard, 206, 221. Inn, i. 403. State in Schuylkill, i. 431; iii. 293.
Statistic facts, ii. 402-410; iii. 480, 481.
Steamboats, ii. 145, 446-456 ; on Atlantio, iii. 483, 484.
Steam-carriages, iii. 485.
Steam-engines, i. 255, 585, 586 ; iii. 426-430.
Steel furnace, ii. 426; iii. 300.
Steelyards forbidden, i. 65.
Steeples, i. 381-383; ii. 614; iii. 483.
Stenton, i. 525, 594. Place, ii. 480.
Stevens, Gen., ii. 37, 48.
Stiegel, William, iii. 503; mansion at Man- heim, iii. 259. Still, Isaac, Indian, ii. 171.
Stille, Olof, ii. 171, 233, 237, 243, 247, 248. Provost, address, iii. 113-116.
Stockings and shirts, ii. 608.
Stocks, i. 300.
Stoddart, John, iii. 450.
Stoddartsville, ii. 460.
Stoke Pogis, i. 89, 125.
Stokes, James, iii. 135.
Stone prison, i. 360; iii. 178.
Stores, etc. altered, i. 221, 241. great country, ii. 67.
Store signs, i. 467 ; iii. 368. Storey, Thomas, i. 23, 85, 369, 522. first recorder, i. 25.
Storms, ii. 368, 481; iii. 492.
Stoves, i. 206, 218, 386; ii. 34, 296; iii. 132, 133, 201.
Strahan's Garden, iii. 395.
Streets, i. 49, 51, 61, 65, 67, 93, 101, 213, 216, 225, 226, 230, 233, 234; ii. 615.
names changed, ii. 492, 493; iii. 148, 499-501. Strettle, Alderman, i. 64.
Stuart, Gilbert, ii. 64; portrait of Wash- ington, iii. 272, 464.
Sturgeons, i. 40; ii. 412, 470.
Stuyvesant, Gov., i. 3, 9, 86; iii. 22-24.
Subterrane remains, ii. 422-426.
Sufferings of the Revolution, ii. 300, 306- 309, 321, 328.
Sullivan, Gen., ii. 55, 199.
Summers, hot, ii. 353, 361. Sunday-school, first, ii. 110. Sunderland, or Sutherland, Earl, i. 85, 137. Superstitions, i. 265. Surrender to the Crown, i. 27, 28, 84.
Susquehanna grape, ii. 431. Suter, Daniel, iii. 301.
oven family, i. 8, 10, 143, 146-149 ; ii. 609. Sven Shute, ii. 250. Swaim's Buildings, iii. 396.
Swansons or Swensons, i. 147-150; iii. 112.
Swatara, Pottsville, and Mauch Chunk, ii. 528. Sweating gold coins, ii. 419. Swedenborgian Church, iii. 328.
Swedes and Finns settle at Lewes, i. 4; va- rious settlements, 7, 8 ; contests with the Dutch, 8; iii. 22; take Fort Casimir, i 8; iii. 23; settlement at Philadelphia, iii. 24, 79, 113; subsequent history, i. 10, 13, 17, 50, 67, 72, 90, 91, 146, 151; ii. 73, 80, 159, 227-253, 278, 615; iii. 20-25.
Swedes at Swedesford, 11. 476.
Swedes' Church, i. 39, 146; iii. 106-110. Swedish houses and dress, ii. 252, 477.
settlements, Prof. Stillé's address, iii. 113.
West India Company, iii. 20.
Swenson, grant of land to, iii. 24.
Swift, John, i. 474.
Swimmers, i. 469.
Swords and cocked hate, i. 185.
Syng, John, strange death, ii. 465.
T.
Tacony, title to, i. 10.
Tailors, mercers, and drapers, iii. 124.
Talbot, Col., i. 93.
Tamanend, St., ii. 172.
Tan-yards, i. 227, 339.
Tar and feathers, ii. 421.
Tariff, i. 247.
Tavern expressions for drunkenness, il. 418.
Tavern-keepers in 1758, iii. 345. signs, iii. 345-356.
Taverns, i. 62, 93, 98, 101, 132, 154, 394, 403, 463; iii. 344-367.
Taxables in the city, i. 99.
Taylor, Alderman, refuses mayoralty, i. 63.
Taylor's dock, above Vine street, i. 170.
Tea Act resisted, ii. 271-273.
Tea a rarity, i. 174.
Teachers, i. 288, 290, 294, 507, 563.
Tedyuscung, ii. 127, 170.
Teeth, transplanting, i. 179.
Tenecum, i. 8, 9. See TINICUM ISLAND.
Tennent family, i. 288, 326, 450, 539. Gilbert, i. 540; iii. 277, 309. Rev. William, i. 173; ii. 96.
Tenth Presbyterian Church, iii. 310.
Theatres, i. 101, 102, 104, 471, 486; iii. 369-380.
Thomas, Gabriel, i. 66, 378; ii. 156; his description of the Province of Pennsyl- vania, i. 66-73, 172; iii. 88.
Thomas, Gov., ii. 274.
Thomson, Charles, i. 53, 132, 342, 384, 421, 567, 597; ii. 280, 326; iii. 442, 443.
Three Crowns Tavern, iii. 349.
Three Jolly Irishmen Tavern, ii. 549.
Tides of the Delaware, ii. 471.
Tilghman, Judge, mansion, i. 377; iii. 193. Till, Mrs. Hannah, i. 601. William, mayor, i. 66.
Tinicum Island, i. 8, 9; ii. 177, 233, 241, 246, 251; iii. 21, 79, 468. Tivoli Theatre in Prune street, iii. 373.
Tobacco, i. 78; ii. 245-247, 485.
Todd, John, school-teacher, i. 290.
Tomatoes, first introduced, i. 223; iii. 135. Tom Bell, i. 552.
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Index.
Tombstones, old, ii. 36, 73, 74. Tourists and their notices, i. 244. Town bulls, i. 59. Town-house, i. 50, 350-352.
Town-meeting ballad, ii. 304. Townsend, Richard, i. 128, 141, 390; ii. 511; iii. 104. Grace, i. 598.
Town's Evening Post, ii. 294-296, 398.
Tradesmen, i. 70, 175, 246; iii. 145.
Travelling in Pensylvania, ii. 561.
Treaty for Philadelphia lands, ii. 175, 176; iii. 104, 105. of peace, i. 534; ii. 332.
Treaty Tree, i. 134-146; ii. 237, 247, 420, 491, 604; iii. 43. Birch's picture of, i. 138.
monument, i. 138. when destroyed, i. 137. Trees, i. 51, 69, 103, 168, 222, 369, 397, 408, 558. great ones, ii. 491.
Trent, William, buys Norriton, i. 34, 97, 165, 309.
Trenton and falls, i. 74, 165.
Treveskin, country-seat, ii. 478.
Truffles at Laurel Hill, iii. 140.
Tucker's Beach, ii. 463.
Tulpehocken, i. 100; ii. 164, 207, 254. Tumanaxamaming Creek, ii. 35.
Tunkards, ii. 23, 42, 60, 111, 258 ; iii. 461. Turkeys, i. 17, 41, 45 ; wild, ii. 35, 82, 113. Turner, Robert, i. 11, 13, 20, 21, 49, 82, 167, 338, 365, 391, 392 ; iii. 52, 202. Joseph, refuses to be mayor, i. 63 ; his country-seat, i. 494; ii. 478. Turnpikes, i. 257; ii. 67, 468 ; iii. 152. Tyng, Rev. Dudley A., iii. 325. Rev. Stephen H., iii. 325.
U.
Umbrellas and parasols, i. 193. Uncle Sam, ii. 335.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, iii. 379.
Undertakers for funerals, ii. 616. Unitarian Church, account of, iii. 326-328. United States Hotel, iii. 193. United States offices, i. 227, 375.
Union Canal, ii. 468.
Union Fire Company, iii. 407.
Union Library Company, iii. 335. University, i. 416; iii. 276, 277. School, iii. 277. Unpublished papers, ii. 505-509. Upland, i. 14, 42, 142; ii. 94, 234, 250. Penn's court at, i. 16. courts, ii. 234-249. Upshur, Abel P., iii. 95, 96. Usselinx, William, ii. 230.
V.
Valley Forge, i. 275 ; ii. 62, 83, 320. Van Campen, Lieutenant, ii. 193. Vaughan, John, i. 397. Vaux, George, i. 511. Richard, address, iii. 415-423. Roberts, iii. 414. Vauxhall Garden, iii. 403, 404.
Vauxhall Theatre, iii. 373. Vegetables, ii. 486, 487.
Venables, Robert, a black, i. 101, 103 ; anf Treaty Tree, 141; 159, 354; ii. 176. Vendues, i. 102, 354.
Vernon, Admiral, i. 327.
Vessels cleared the port, i. 99.
Vine street landing, i. 155.
Vineyard, The, i. 483, 488, 519; iii. 437.
Virgil and wife, i. 103, 557; ii. 479.
Virginia line, ii. 46, 53, 306.
Visits and visiting, i. 174.
Volunteers, i. 325-327, 329, 400.
W.
Wade, Robert, i. 10, 127; ii. 94. Wager family, i. 479.
Wagons, first, ii. 122, 146.
Wakefield, birthplace of Washington, i. 581. Waldy, Henry, first postmaster, ii. 391.
Wallace, Andrew, i. 577.
Waln, Nicholas, i. 507; iii. 435. Waln's house, i. 486; iii. 396. Row, i. 39, 370. Walnut street, i. 485.
Walnut Street Prison and sufferers, i. 361; ii. 300, 302, 341; iii. 179.
Walton settles Byberry, ii. 75. Warder, John, i. 158, 174, 481. Mrs. Lydia, i. 599.
Wardrobe of Franklin, iii. 121.
Wards, original division of, iii. 71, 235. Warminster, residence of Fitch, i. 586. Warner at Willow Grove in 1658, i. 11. George, i. 51, 601. Joseph, iii. 414. William, iii. 291, 294. War of Independence, i. 406, 510, 534; ii. 278-337.
Wasey, Capt. Joseph, i. 518.
Washington, Gen., i. 189, 209, house, 227; 286, 327, 422, 578, 596 ; ii. 8, 24, 37, 41, 44, 60-64, 85, 128, 142, 165, 287, 320, 453 ; iii. 272. and La Fayette, iii. 498.
Washington Grays, iii. 173.
Washington Hose Company, iii. 425. Washington Monument in Square, iii. 230. relics, iii. 495-497. Retreat, iii. 494.
Square, i. 405; iii. 229, 230; Potters' Field in, iii. 71.
Washington's arms, iii. 495. coach, i. 581; iii. 128. Washington's house, i. 583 ; ii. 498 ; iii. 445. library, iii. 495. Watches and clocks, i. 194, 204, 218; iii. 122.
Watch-house, i. 59, 65, 211, 324; iii. 131. Watering-places, ii. 462-465, 538. Watermelons, i. 103. Waterspout at Kensington, ii. 415
Water street, i. 225, 227.
Waterworks, i. 457; iii. 357. Watson, i. 91, 124, 182. John, surveyor-general, i. 124; ii. 97, 100, 519.
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Index.
Watson, John F., memoir, iii. 13-16. Luke, i. 93, 94.
Watts, Rev. John, i. 447.
Wayman, Rev. Dr., i. 381.
Weaders, Michael, the idiot, i. 175; ii. 548. Wearing apparel, early, iii. 122.
Weather prognostics, ii. 363, 364.
Weddings and marriages, i. 178, 503.
Weeds, noxious, ii. 413.
Weems' Life of Penn, i. 123.
Weiser, Conrad, ii. 109, 116, 117, 120, 143, 149, 178, 207, 255, 258.
Weiss, Col. Jacob, of Weissport, ii. 480. George Michael, iii. 315, 316.
"Welcome," ship, arrives, i. 15; iii. 37-39. Wellfare, Michael, i. 551.
Wells and pumps, i. 104, 211, 392, 441; iii. 96.
Welsh, first settlement, i. 11, 19, 381; iii. 432.
preaching, i. 381; ii. 417.
Wesley, Rev. John, i. 455, 459; ii. 268.
West, Benjamin, i. 135, 136, 469, 575 ; iii. 444 ; his painting of Penn's Treaty, iii.43. Westchester, gems found, ii. 427.
deer and game in, ii. 434.
Western commons, i. 485 ; iii. 389. pioneers, ii. 562. settlements, ii. 566.
West Philadelphia, iii. 481.
Wetherill, Samuel, iii. 431.
Whalebone alley, i. 103.
Whales and whaling, ii. 428, 429.
Wharton, Thomas, ii. 397.
House, haunted, ii. 290, 477; iii. 153, 471. Walter, ii. 242-244.
Wharves, i. 71, 93, 103, 236, 395; iii. 88. Wheelbarrow-men, i. 437; ii. 480.
Whig Quakers, i. 510.
Whipping-post, pillory, and stocks, i. 361 ; iii. 182.
Whiskers, how worn, i. 194. White & Hazard, ii. 460, 461.
Bishop, i. 381, 387, 413, 421; iii. 195.
John, cutting hay, i. 93, 95. Major, ii. 59, 60.
Whitefield, George, i. 173, 346-352, 385, 411, 450, 484, 537-541; ii. 264, 378; iii. 121, 274, 308. Whitemarsh camp, ii. 316-320.
Whitpain's house, i. 57, 94, 428; iii. 300. Wiccaco, i. 55, 146, 152 ; ii. 246, 250 ; iii. 24. Fort, i. 8. Wigglesworth, i. 237, 428.
Wigs, i. 185, 190, 197. Wilcox, B., mayor, ropewalk, i. 49, 66. Wilkesbarre, ii. 125.
Wilkeson, Judge S., ii. 145.
Wilkinson, Jemima, i. 553. Gen., ii. 38, 554. William IV., king, ii. 41.
Willing, Charles, mayor, i. 64, 66; iii. 86, 448. House, ii. 619; iii. 270, 448.
Willing & Morris, sell shares, ii. 264. T., mayor, i. 66; iii. 87, 448. Willow planted by Franklin, i. 408; il. 487. street, i. 436.
Wilson, James, i. 597; iii. 286.
Judge J., i. 320, 425-427. Fort, i. 425; iii. 286.
Wilton Place, i. 494; ii. 478.
Windmill Island, i. 132; ii. 470; ili. 489, 490.
Window-panes, i. 217, 386.
Wingohocking Creek, ii. 35, 72.
Winn, Thomas, orders fines, i. 95.
Winters, hard, ii. 347, 349, 357; mild, ii. 350, 351, 358 ; irregular, 352, 353 ; notices from 1681 to 1800, 354-359 ; less severe, iii. 474.
Wise, Capt., ii. 270.
Wissahickon, i. 94; ii. 27, 35, 42, 577.
Wistar, Daniel, house, i. 532.
parties, ii. 497.
Witchcraft, ii. 32.
Witches, i. 265, 266, 274, 275.
Witherspoon, Major, ii. 59.
Witt, Dr. C., i. 267; ii. 22.
Wolves, i. 94, 96; ii. 35, 92, 252, 433, 481
Womelsdorf, ii. 194.
Women, frail ones, i. 257.
Woodlands, iii. 493. Cemetery, iii. 139.
Woods, i. 231; ii. 34, 40, 80, 104, 146, 392, 485.
Woodwork of old mansions, iif. 134.
Worms on trees, ii. 413.
Worrell, William, ii. 82.
Wounded and dead soldiers, ii. 38, 48, 52, 58, 60.
Wrightstown, ii. 99, 245.
Wright, Susannah, i. 560.
Wyalusing, ii. 169, 170.
Wyoming and massacre, ii. 123-127, 150.
Y.
Yankee Doodle, ii. 333.
Yarnall, Eli, second sight, i. 273.
Yates, Jasper, house, at Chester, i. 128, 129; ii. 94. Yellow Cottage Tavern, iii. 364.
Yellow fever, i. 23; ii. 41, 63, 94, 361, 370, 389; iii. 65.
Yellow Springs, ii. 463.
York county, i. 99, 100. York road, ii. 99.
Young America steam fire-engine, iii. 427. Young ladies' academy, i. 292.
Youth, i. 103, 172, 180, 282, 292, 310, 418, 603.
Z. Zane, Isaac, house, i. 232. Zimmerman, John Jacob, iii. 459. Zinzendorf, Count, and daughter, i. 539, 541; ii. 127, 149 ; iii. 324. Zion Lutheran Church, iii. 313.
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