CONTENTS OF VOL. I CHIEFLY CONCERNING PHILADELPHIA CITY Epitome of Primitive Colonial and Philadelphia History, The Primitive Settlement and its incidents, The Old Court House, and Friends' Meeting, High Street Prison and Market Shambles, The Stone Prison, S. W. corner of Third and High streets, IN VOLUME I. And Directions to the Binder. Portrait of Penn. (Frontispiece.) The "Shield" passing the Site of Philadelphia in 1678, Two Portraits of Penn-as Governor and Young Cavalier, Penn landing at Blue Anchor, The Treaty Tree and Fairman's Mansion, The Swedes' Church and House of Sven Sener, Penny Pot-House and Landing, Sloop of War wintering in Pegg's Run, Penn's Cottage in Letitia Court, Slate-Roof House, Penn's Residence, Head-dress Fashions for 1800, The Drawbridge and Dock Creek, The Caves and their Inhabitants, 10 - 111 127 - 127 134 - 134 153 - 156 158 - 158 171 - 183 336 - 350 Old Court House and Friends' Meeting House, High Street Prison and Market Shambles, Walnut Street Prison, Stone Prison, Southwest Corner of Third and High Streets, Friends' Bank Meeting House, The Arch Street Bridge at Front Street, 350 - 350 360 - 360 Shippen's House, South Second Street, Benezet's House and Chestnut Street, Clarke's Hall on Chestnut Street, Carpenter's Mansion, Christ Church, The London Coffee House, State House and Congress Hall, Robert Morris' Mansion, Chestnut Street, Loxley's House, South Second Street, Washington's House, High Street, Bathsheba's Bath and Bower, Duché's House, South Third Street, British Barracks, Northern Liberties, Carpenter's Hall, the Place of First Congress, Office of Secretary of Foreign Affairs, South Sixth Street, Friends' Almshouse, Walnut Street, First Presbyterian Church, High Street, Baptisterion on the Schuylkill, Fort St. David, Duck Pond, Corner of Fourth and High Streets, Pegg's Run, Northern Liberties, Nicholas Waln, Logan's and Franklin's Busts, John S. Hutton and James Pemberton, (xvi) 411 ANNALS OF PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA. GENERAL INTRODUCTORY HISTORY. "My soul, revolving periods past, looks back, With recollected interest on all The former darings of our venturous race." BEFORE proceeding to the proper object of the present work, ("The Annals of Philadelphia, &c.,") it may be profitable to occupy a few lines in a preliminary and brief survey of the successive efforts made by kings, discoverers, and founders, to settle colonies in our hemisphere. The earliest English claim to sovereignty in America was based upon the discoveries of John Cabot, accompanied by his son Sebastian. These, acting under the commission and for the service of Henry VII., in the year 1497, ran along the line of our coast, from the 38th to the 67th degree of north latitude;-thus making their discoveries only five years later than those by Columbus himself in lower latitudes. But great as were such discoveries, and important as have been their consequences, since developed, they then excited no effectual spirit of adventure and colonization. It was not till upwards of a century, that any nation of Europe made any effective establishments in our country. In 1608 the French, conducted by Samuel Champlain, founded their colony in Canada;-about the same time, the Dutch planted New York, and the British, Virginia. The few earlier attempts at colonization made by England and France, were virtually nothing, as they were abandoned almost as soon as begun. When we contemplate the present wealth and resources of our country, once open to the aggrandizement of any respectable adventurer who had energies sufficient to avail himself of its advantages, it is matter of surprise, that a period of eighty years should have elapsed in England, before any of her subjects should have made any effort to possess themselves of the benefits of their proper discovery! France with less pretension, did more; for Cartiers, in 1534, made some ineffectual attempts at plantation in Canada. This was under the discoveries imputed to Verranza, who, only ten years before, (1) VOL. I.-A 1 |