Identifier: annalsofphilad01wats (find matches)
Title: Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time;
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Watson, John Fanning, 1779-1860. (from old catalog) Hazard, Willis Pope, 1825-1913, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History Pennsylvania -- History Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Philadelphia, E.S. Stuart
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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er day—made the talk and dependence of the town in the days of the Pax-tang boys. His intended defence of the city against those outlawslias been facetiously told by Graydon in his Memoirs. He hadbeen made a lieutenant of artillery in 1756, on the occasion of Brad-docks defeat. His father, before him, owned these premises; andthe family mansion near there, now shut in and concealed fromSpruce street, was once at the base of a rural and beautiful hill, dis-playing there a charming hanging garden, and the choicest fruitsand grapes. The Loxley house is deserving of some further dis-tinction, as the residence, in the time of the Revolution, of LydiaDarrach, who so generously and patriotically undertook to walkbeyond the lines to give our arniy timely information of the medi-tated attack. Under her roof the Adjutant General of the Britisharmy had his office; and upon a particular occasion she there over-heard the plan of attack, and started off, beforehand, to reveal it toher countrymen.
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