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In another letter, dated 6th mo. 5th [August], a little before Penn's departure, he says to a friend in Ireland : ".I may hereafter send thee a map of Pennsylvania, and Wm. Penn's book about it."
It is probable the commissioners had selected the spot and sent over the necessary information. Under warrant dated 5th mo. [July], 1682, Thomas Holme, surveyor-general, says: "I have caused to be surveyed and set out unto David Haman, in right of Amos Mythol's purchase of 250 acres, his city-lot between the 5th and 6th streets from Delaware River, and on the south side of the street called as yet Pool [on account of a pool there, afterward Walnut] street in the City of Philadelphia, containing in length 220 feet, bounded on the west with Robert Hart's lot, on the east with John Kirk's lot, on the north with Pool street, and on the south with vacant lots, and containing in breadth 50 feet ; and was surveyed the 6th inst, and accordingly entered and recorded in my office, and hereby returned into the governor's secretary's office, Philadelphia, this 10th of the 5th month, 1682 .*
THOMAS HOLME, Surveyor-General."
Thomas Holme was commissioned by Penn April 18th, 1682, in England ; he sailed thence about the 23d of April in the ship " Amity," and probably arrived in June, but a short time before the above survey. Penn was yet in England.
The above record is from "The Book of Records of Warrants and Surveys No. 14," which is one of the books made in pur- suance of the act of - " for recording warrants and surveys, and for rendering real estate and propertys within the Province more secure," page 15. This is copied from a copy compared with the book by J. H. Castle, Esq.
On page 1 of the same book is the following: "Second street lots from the river as drawn by lot are numbered 1 to 54, with the names ; at foot of 54 is this entry: 'These lots were drawn before us this 19th of 7th month, 1682.'
" WILLIAM MARKHAM, THOMAS HOLME,
" WILLIAM HAIG, GRIFFITH JONES."
* This is correctly from the record, but on comparing it with the original at Harrisburg, I find it should be 1683.
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(See the purchasers' names in Hazard's Annals Penna., Ap- pendix.)
So at the end of each of the other drawings-viz., Broad street lots, Fourth street lots, Bank street lots. Penn had not yet arrived in Pennsylvania, and did not till 28th of October [10th mo.].
Instructions to Commissioners of the 14th of October, 1681, p. 13. -30th Sept., 1681. (See these instructions at length in Memoirs Hist. Socy., vol. ii. p. 215, etc .; also Hazard's Annals, p. 527.)
Crispin died in England, etc., p. 13 .- In the drawing of city lots Sept. 19, 1682, Crispin's name occurs several times. How is it then that he died in England ? Though this is no proof that he was present ; and it may have been drawn for his estate, he being one of the original purchasers. He was appointed a commissioner both on Sept. 30th and Oct. 14th, 1681. (See Hazard's Annals.)
Penn's Workmen, etc., p. 15 .- Ralph Smith, Penn's gardener, died 3d mo. 5th, 1685, and was buried at the burying-place on the point. James Harrison was one of the executors. (Bucks Co. Records, Carr.) Henry Gibbs, the governor's carpenter, died 9th mo., 1685, and was buried on the point. (Ibid.)
Proud had assigned the 24th of October, p. 15 .- Proud may have followed a letter of William Penn, in which he says he arrived on the 24th, but this was probably the date of his arrival in the bay. His landing at New Castle was Oct. 28th, and he arrived off there on the 27th, as the records show.
Nicholas Moore, a lawyer, etc., p. 16 .- He was a doctor of medicine. (Claypoole.)
A man like Penn, etc., p. 21 .- See Colonial Records, vol. i. p. 317, for his request to Council to pay six hundred pounds for building a city house and stocking three plantations.
Till his death, in 1694, p. 23 .- Markham died in 1704. (See Boston Trans.)
William Markham was twenty-one years of age when he arrived. He is frequently mentioned by Watson, and was an important man in the earliest days of the Province. He was deputy governor from April 10, 1681, to Oct. 27, 1682, and from April 26, 1693, to Dec. 3, 1699; secretary to the governor and Council from May 28, 1686, to April 26, 1693. He was cousin to Penn, his first representative, and a soldier by profession. He died June 11, 1704, and was buried with military honors. A wife and two married daughters survived him. He lived in Front street, east side, between Walnut and Spruce streets, in formerly Jasper Yates's house.
There formerly stood at the north-east corner of Grindstone ulley and Market street a quaint old house which was supposed to have been a residence of Markham. This old-time building was for some time the store and dwelling of the late Peter Shade,
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a well-known brushmaker, who carried on an extensive retail and wholesale business at that locality sixty years ago. Mr. Shade was originally from the old district of Southwark. For many years he had a large brush-factory on the north side of Spruce street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, nearly opposite to the present Baptist meeting-house. He removed from Spruce street to Second and Callowhill, and then to the Governor Mark- ham house. Whilst residing at the corner of Market street and Grindstone alley Mr. Shade's daughter was married, in the old mansion, to Captain John L. Ferguson, a citizen of Southwark, who was well known in the Laguayra trade. Why was this narrow passage between Church alley and Market street called Grindstone alley ? The Commercial Bank was built about half a century ago on the site of the old Markham house. This bank commenced business at No. 102 (old number) Chestnut street, near its present banking-house. Its first president was Andrew Bayard (father of Charles P. Bayard, Esq.), who continued in that office for many years. Among those who were at an early day in the board of directors were Commodore Richard Dale, Henry Pratt, John McCrea, Charles N. Bancker, Samuel Archer, James S. Duval, and William Newbold ; all these are deceased.
In 1763, John Penn, etc., p. 31 .- See Colonial Records, vol. ix. p. 72; his arrival as governor and honors paid to him.
Their first prison, etc., p. 39 .- See Colonial Records, vol. i. p. 408, June, 1694.
Contemporaneous with the structures, etc., p. 39 .- See History of Christ Church, by Dr. Dorr, its pastor, 1853, and Annals of the Swedes' Church, by Rev. J. C. Clay, its pastor, 1853- now an Episcopal church.
Penn's instructions, etc., p. 42 .- See these at length in Annals Penna., p. 531.
Penn in his letter, p. 43 .- See it at full length in Hazard's Annals Penna., p. 522. It is dated Sept. 4, '81.
Such as Edward Drinker's, p. 44 .- Should be John.
Minutes of Council, p. 58 .- These minutes were published by Councils in one large volume in - There are many chasms in them, and they do not begin till 1704, whereas the city was chartered in 1701; the previous ones are therefore missing. Where are they ? The extracts published in Register of Penna. were copied by S. Hazard from the original minutes.
C. Willing, p. 64 .- Died Nov. 30, 1751, aged forty-five, and was buried in Christ Church ground, Fifth and Arch streets.
Mayors of Philadelphia, p. 66 .- Oct. 25, 1701 : " And I do nominate Edward Shippen to be the present mayor, who shall continue until another be chosen, as is hereinafter directed." (Penn's Charter.)
On pp. 336, 337 of Vol. I. of this work a petition is alluded to as signed by "Humphrey Murrey, mayor ;" and also proceed-
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ings of a meeting of governor and Council 3d of 6th mo., 1691, where the application of Hugh Murrey, mayor, is considered. Where does Watson find them ? They are not printed in Colo- nial Records. If they are correct, the city was incorporated before 1691. A committee was appointed 20th of 5th mo., 1684, to bring in "a charter for Philada. as a borough." (See Col. Records, vol. i. p. 117.)
Anthony Morris, October, 1704, p. 66 .- Should be "12th Oc- tober, 1703." Anthony Morris, mayor elect of this city, in pur- suance of the charter, for the following year, presented himself, with the aldermen and Common Council, made a solemn promise of fidelity to the queen, took the declaration of his abhorrence of popery, and the test for his qualification, etc. (Colonial Records, vol. ii. p. 104.)
B. Shoemaker (p. 66) died June, 1767, aged sixty-three, and was buried in Quaker grounds. He had been one of the Su- preme Executive Council and treasurer of the city, as well as mayor. (See Penna. Chron., June 22 to 29, 1767.)
T. Willing, 1763, p. 66 .- He died 19th January, 1821, aged eighty-nine ; born Dec. 19, 1731, O. S .; and was buried in Christ Church ground, Fifth and Arch streets. He was secre- tary of congress of delegates at Albany; mayor of Philadel- phia, 1763; member of Assembly; president of Provincial Congress ; delegate to Congress of Confederation ; president of Bank of North America and of first Bank of the United States.
MAYORS OF PHILADELPHIA.
We give a correct list of the mayors of the city, to take the place of the one as given by Watson, Vol. I. p. 66 :
1701. Edward Shippen. 1726. Charles Read.
1703. Anthony Morris.
1727. Thomas Lawrence.
1704. Griffith Jones.
1729. Thomas Griffitts.
1705. Joseph Wilcocks.
1731. Samuel Hassel.
1706. Nathan Stanbury.
1733. Thomas Griffitts.
1707. Thomas Masters.
1734. Thomas Lawrence.
1709. Richard Hill.
1735. William Allen.
1710. William Carter.
1736. Clement Plumsted.
1711. Samuel Preston.
1737. Thomas Griffitts.
1712. Jonathan Dickinson.
1738. Anthony M. Morris.
1713. George Roch.
1740. Samuel Hassel.
1717. Jonathan Dickinson.
1741. Clement Plumsted.
1719. William Fishbourne.
1742. William Till.
1743. Benjamin Shoemaker.
1723. Clement Plumsted.
1724. Isaac Norris.
1725. William Hudson.
1744. Edward Shippen.
1745. James Hamilton.
1746. William Atwood.
1722. James Logan.
1739. Edward Roberts.
1714. Richard Hill.
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1748. Charles Willing. 1801. Matthew Lawler.
1749. Thomas Lawrence. 1805. John Inskeep.
1750. William Plumsted. 1806. Robert Wharton.
1751. Robert Strettell. 1808. John Barker.
1752. Benjamin Shoemaker.
1810. Robert Wharton.
1753. Thomas Lawrence.
1811. Michael Keppele
1754. Charles Willing.
1812. John Barker.
1755. William Plumsted.
1813. John Geyer.
1756. Atwood Shute.
1814. Robert Wharton.
1758. Thomas Lawrence.
1819. James N. Barker.
1759. John Stamper.
1820. Robert Wharton.
1760. Benjamin Shoemaker.
1824. Joseph Watson.
1761. Jacob Duché.
1828. George M. Dallas.
1762. Henry Harrison.
1829. Benjamin W. Richards.
1763. Thomas Willing.
1830. William Milnor.
1764. Thomas Lawrence.
1831. Benjamin W. Richards
1765. John Lawrence.
1832. John Swift.
1767. Isaac Jones.
1838. Isaac Roach.
1769. Samuel Shoemaker.
1839. John Swift, first mayor
1773. William Fisher.
1841. John M. Scott.
1774. Samuel Rhoads.
1844. Peter McCall.
1775. Samuel Powel.
1845. John Swift.
1789. Samuel Powel.
1849. Joel Jones.
1790. Samuel Miles.
1850. Charles Gilpin.
1791. John Barclay, when the 1854. Robert T. Conrad, first mayors commenced to mayor of the consoli- occupy the new City dated city.
Hall, Fifth and Chest- 1856. Richard Vaux. nut streets.
1792. Matthew Clarkson.
1865. Morton McMichael.
1796. Hilary Baker.
1868. Daniel M. Fox.
1798. Robert Wharton.
1871-1879. William S. Stokley.
1800. John Inskeep.
1858. Alexander Henry.
Gabriel Thomas's Account, p. 66 .- A facsimile of this work was published by J. W. Moore of this city in 185 -; a small thin volume which sold at first for $1.50, the original having become very rare, and the reprint is now also scarce.
And there are other wharfs, p. 72 .- See Col. Records, vol. i. p. 267, where permission is asked by Humphrey Murrey, Philip Richards, Philip James, and William Lee "to build a wharf on the side of Delaware River against the end of Chestnut street," 26th 1st mo., 1689.
For some time without inhabitants, p. 74 .- This is not correct ; he found several settlements near Chester, New Castle, Burling- ton were all settled before his arrival, and many persons had set- tled on the Schuylkill, and in Bucks, at Shakamaxon, Wiccacoe
1771. John Gibson.
elected by the people.
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etc. Several churches had been built. The population was about two thousand. (Gordon's Penna., p. 59.)
Note, p. 74 .- This MSS. History of Pennsylvania was pub- lished in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. i. This first volume is in possession of the New Jersey Historical Society.
James Logan's letter to the Proprietaries, p. 79 .- See Colonial Records, vol. iii. p. 372, etc.
Heylin's Cosmography (p. 86) is also in the library of the Athenæum,
P. 86. The duke's deed of sale is dated the 24th of August- not the 20th.
Note, p. 86 .- The records at Albany were carefully examined by Samuel Hazard when preparing his Annals of Pennsylvania. Of them he says: "I have examined them pretty thoroughly ; there are twenty-six or twenty-seven volumes, translated by Van- derkemp, besides proceedings of courts, etc. ; to these have been added the fruit of J. R. Brodhead's special mission, sixteen vol- umes of Holland documents, and volumes of London and French documents, now being translated by Mr. O'Callaghan, and about to be printed by the Legislature. They contain a great deal about Pennsylvania, much of which I have introduced into my Annals." (S. H., 1849.)
R. G. Johnson (p. 88) died while on a journey at New Haven, in 1850, aged eighty.
THE BOARD OF TRADE.
The Commerce of the City, p. 88 .- The vast increase of the commerce of the city has led to the formation of various boards and organizations of merchants interested in commerce, who have supervision of it generally and of the various branches of it. Amongst the most prominent and important is the Board of Trade, who hold quarterly meetings of the members and monthly meetings of the executive council. The latter have the constant and active supervision of all matters of commercial interest, and are appointed monthly from the members. Among some of the advantages derived from the actions and suggestions of this board we will only mention-
" The committee of this Board on Foreign and Coastwise Com- merce has for the five years last past given special attention to the improvement of the Delaware River and Bay, for the purposes of navigation, and has at all times been ready to co-operate with committees of other associations for that object ; and the purpose of this report is to show what has hitherto been done in the premises and to indicate further requirements.
"The results hitherto obtained are as follows : The depth of water in the lower Schuylkill, and especially at its mouth, has beer
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increased by dredging there, as has also been the channel across Fort Mifflin bar and near the upper end of the Bulkhead Shoal.
" A substantial lighthouse has been built and lighted on the Cross-Ledge Shoal, in the lower bay, and another higher up, on the Ship John Shoal.
" Two lighthouses, forming a range, have been erected on the Delaware shore below New Castle, and two on the Jersey shore at or near Deepwater Point. These lights serve as guides to the navigator to considerable distances up and down the river, and when the lights on both shores are in range at the same time they indicate the turning-point for ships at the upper part of the Bulk- head Shoal, above Fort Delaware.
" Other range lights are in course of construction farther down the river-two on the Delaware shore, below Port Penn, and two on the Jersey shore, at Finn's Point-intended for guides to ships around Dan Baker Shoal.
" A fog-whistle has been' placed at Reedy Island, and another at Cape Henlopen, and assurance has been given by the Light- house Board that the lightboat now in use on the Five-Fathom Bank, outside the capes of the Delaware, shall soon be replaced by a larger one having on board a powerful fog-whistle. Such a whistle there would be of great service to vessels coming into and departing from the Delaware in thick weather, and also to ves- sels plying to and fro between New York and Southern ports.
" Range lights have also been placed to guide vessels out and in over the bar at the mouth of the Schuylkill.
"The works already completed, as above named, have greatly facilitated navigation in our waters, but others are needed to make the facilities complete-viz. :
" A lighthouse in the Delaware on the Joe Flogger Shoal ;
" Range lights to guide around the Cherry Island Shoal ;
"A lighthouse on the lower end of Tinicum Island, above Chester ;
" And range lights on the shore below Gloucester to guide ships through the Horseshoe.
" When these additional lights have been obtained the navi- gable waters between our city and the sea can be traversed by ships at night with less difficulty than they were a few years ago by day."
Our own archives at Harrisburg, etc., p. 89 .- After this was written the late Samuel Hazard was employed by the State to select such documents as were worthy of preservation and pub- lication, which were published in the Colonial Records, 16 vols. 8vo, and the Pennsylvania Archives, 10 vols .- monuments of his industry and perseverance and of the State's liberality.
When the " Wilcox " store in Water street above Walnut was pulled down in 18-, an immense number of old records and papers were thrown into the street, which was then very muddy:
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as it was raining at the time. From many which were collected it would appear they were relating either to the Land or the Sec- retary's office. My father collected several-one a letter from Hannah Penn to her son William. It was an immense and un- pardonable destruction of old papers which cannot be recovered, and might have been preserved if known in season .- W. P. H.
Joseph Shippen, p. 89 .- He was the son of Edward Shippen, the first mayor, and resided in Germantown for many years in what was afterward known as the Buttonwood Tavern. He was a scientific man and a member of the Junto. He died in 1741, aged sixty-two.
P. 91. The Narrative by John Watson; Dutch records from 1630 to 1656 ; MSS. copies of Swedish records ; Minutes of Coun- cil, 1748 to 1758. The above were all republished in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, 16 vols. 8vo. Clay's Annals of the Swedes, Ferris's Original Settlements on the Delaware, Montgomery's Reminiscences of Wilmington, Hazard's Annals of Pennsylvania, and the History of New Sweden, by Thomas Campanius Holm, usually called Campanius's History, printed in Memoirs of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. iii., are the principal books which have been published in relation to our early Swedish history. They will all be found in the Philadelphia Library.
Province of Pennsylvania, p. 92 .- A portion of this is pub- lished by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in their Memoirs.
Holm's New Swedeland, p. 92 .- The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in vol. iii., pp. 1-166, have published the entire work of T. Campanius Holm, translated by P. S. Duponceau.
P. 92. Graydon's Memoirs has been republished several times- once in 184-, with notes by John S. Littell.
Minutes of Council, p 92 .- Mr. Watson was mistaken about the valuable and interesting contents of these minutes. They were from 1683 to 1790, and were reprinted by the Legislature at the suggestion of the Pennsylvania Historical Society by acts of 1850-52, under the supervision of Samuel Hazard, as mentioned in a previous note.
The London Society of Free Traders, p. 94 .- This society in the course of a few years ceased to actively pursue its franchises as a corporation. In 1722 an act of Assembly was passed vesting all the rights of the society in Charles Reed, Job Goodson, Evan Owen, George Fitzwater, and Joseph Pidgeon, merchants, of Philadelphia, in trust for the use of the persons interested in the said society on the 24th of March, 1681, or at any time since, with power to dispose of all lands, etc. Under this authority the whole tract of ground lying between Spruce and Pine streets, from the Delaware to the Schuylkill, three hundred and sixty-six feet in width, was disposed of. It had been originally granted to them in 1684, and the patent was dated August 3, 1692. The eastern front of this ground was called Society Hill. (See Vol. I., p. 484.)
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Deaths in the City, p. 99 .- Watson does not exactly state the number of deaths for 1731 correctly. A committee of the House in 1752, presenting statistics to show the necessity for more paper currency, said : "In the year 1722 the burials in Philadelphia of all ages, sexes, and colors amounted to no more than 188, an exact account for that year being published monthly. Of the preceding and next following years we find no account; but from November 20, 1729, to November 20, 1730, the burials were 244; and from November 18, 1731, to November 16, 1732, they were 254, not- withstanding that in the intermediate year the small-pox, then rag- ing in the town, had alone carried off nearly 240 persons, and swelled the bill for that year to 490. From thence to 1738 no ac- count is come to our hands ; but from December 25, 1738, to De- cember 25, 1744, the burials amounted to 3179, which, being at a medium of 454 per annum, shows the great increase of inhab- itants to that time ; and since 1744 the increase is thought rather to have exceeded that proportion."
Poor Richard's Almanac for 1750, speaking of the above statis- tics, says : "Excluding the Dutch Palatines, who, crowded on shipboard, contracted many diseases, the deaths for the seven years is about 2100, which is 300 per annum; by which we should have had nearly 10,500 inhabitants during these seven years at a medium; for in a healthy country (as this is) political arith- meticians compute those who die yearly at one in thirty-five. But in these last five years, from 1744, the town is greatly in- creased. . . .. In 1748-9 the dwelling-houses in Philadelphia were 2076. The following summer there arrived twenty-four or twenty-five sail of ships with German families, supposed to bring near twelve thousand souls;" which was adding to the material for increasing the population very fast.
" Filthy-dirty," p. 101 .- In the early history of the city, even to 1750, the condition of the streets was deplorable. Diseases were engendered and increased by the quantities of stuff allowed to accumulate in them, and the records show how fatal and fre- quent the pestilences of those days were. Dirt and filth were thrown into the gutters until the passage of the water in them would be stopped. Tradesmen would throw refuse into the streets, and it was a common practice for hatters and shoemakers "to cast pelts, tails, and offelts of the fur into the principal streets and al- leys, the ends of leather, etc., so that they bred vermin." In 1750, Mayor Lawrence issued his proclamation ordering that each citizen should collect the dirt before his premises for removal. Hogs were allowed to run at large in the streets, even within my time, until some thirty years ago.
The One-penny Bills of Bank of North America, p. 104 .- I nave two, obtained when the old building was being removed. The office was temporarily removed to Chestnut street above Fourth, between the Custom-House and the Philadelphia Bank.
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The ground of Dr. Rittenhouse, etc., p. 104 .- The name of the celebrated self-taught mathematician and astronomer, David Rit- tenhouse of Philadelphia, was lately prominently mentioned in connection with the erection of a statue in the government Pan- theon which Congress has ordered to be formed by the presenta- tion from each State of the figures of two of its illustrious men. At the same time the old house in which Rittenhouse dwelt for so many years is undergoing a partial tearing-out, in order that it may be extended and reconstructed for the purpose of being an- nexed to a hotel adjoining. Situated at the north-west corner of Seventh and Arch streets, erected about the year 1787, and bear- ing a quiet, solid, old-fashioned appearance, it has been long known to Philadelphians of a past generation by the belligerent name of "Fort Rittenhouse." It was here, in the year 1809, that the governments of the United States and State of Pennsylvania came into a conflict that at one time threatened to be bloody and de- structive. Rittenhouse, who during the Revolution occupied the office of treasurer of the State, had deposited with him funds in a prize-money case which were claimed by both governments, and in which so mischievous a man as Benedict Arnold was originally interested. Some years subsequent to the death of Rittenhouse, in 1796, the United States, having obtained judgment from the courts in its favor, demanded a reimbursement from his execu- trices, Mrs. Elizabeth Sergeant and Mrs. Esther Waters. Those ladies, daughters of Rittenhouse, were ordered by the State to re- tain the money ; and to prevent service of a writ, Pennsylvania troops were stationed around the mansion at Seventh and Arch streets for five weeks during the months of March and April, 1809. Finally, United States Marshal John Smith, eluding the vigilance of the soldiers, succeeded by a strategical movement in entering the house and serving his writ. The warlike conflict was over, but the claim was settled only after an additional period of litigation. Mr. Rittenhouse, who was director of the United States Mint from 1792 to 1795, resided, it will be seen, within quite a short distance of that institution, it then being located in a building which still stands on Seventh street above Filbert. His astronomical observatory was in the garden attached to his residence, and under that observatory his body was originally buried. Some years afterward it was taken up and reinterred in the ground of the Third Presbyterian Church, at Fourth and Pine streets.
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