OF PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA, IN THE OLDEN TIME; BEING A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS, ANECDOTES, AND INCIDENTS OF THE CITY AND ITS INHABITANTS, AND OF THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS OF THE INLAND PART OF PENNSYLVANIA, FROM THE DAYS OF THE FOUNDERS. INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE RECOLLECTIONS OF OLDEN TIME, AND TO EXHIBIT EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS, BY T. H. MUMFORD. BY JOHN F. WATSON, MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, AND MASSACHUSETTS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. "Oh dear is a tale of the olden time!" "Where peep'd the hut, the palace towers; And cultured thousands throng the solitude." PARRY AND M'MILLAN, SUCCESSORS TO A. HART (LATE CAREY AND HART). |