OF OLDEN TIME, CONCERNING THE EARLY SETTLEMENT AND PROGRESS OF Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. BY JOHN F. WATSON, "Oh! dear is a tale of the olden time." PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY E. LITTELL AND BY THOMAS HOLDEN. •--•-• THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 8139 Astor, Lenox and Twden Foundations. 1896 ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by E. LITTELL and by THOMAS HOLDEN, in the clerk's office of the district for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. ADVERTISEMENT. TO PARENTS, GUARDIANS, AND PRECEPTORS. The first contemplations and feelings of youth should be drawn out and fixed upon country and home. These strongest natural affections of the heart-soonest and readiest possessed, and longest and most fondly retained-should be sedulously cherished concerning the land of our birth. To this end, whatever can multiply those local associations of idea which bind us to the paternal soil, must benefit the youth, and at the same time win the countenance and support of judicious parents and guardians. "Such topics," says Washington Irving,"call up scenes and affections which nothing can efface from the heart." There is a natural and useful curiosity, in all, to know |