Identifier: annalsofphiladelp02wats (find matches)
Title: Annals 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913
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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scallopped out soas to fit the head. Some have also said thai they remembered tohave seen, near to the house, small pits and hillocks which indicateda former burial place, since turned into cultivation. With such traditionary data for a starting point, it lias becomematter of interest to many, who are curious in the hisioiy of thepast, to learn what fuither facts we can produce, concerning the pre-mises. If the house should have been built as early as 1708—whenKelpius, the hermit, died at the Ridge, it may have been con-structed by the forty students from Germany—the Pietists who cameout in 1694, with Kelpius, to live a single life in the wilderness; butif it was built, as is most piobable, and as has been said, by JosephGorgas, a Tunker-Baptist, who intended it as a branch of the brother-hood established at Ephrata near Lancaster, and to whom he after-wards moved and joined himself,—then he must have built it beforeihe year 1745, when Conrad Matthias, the last of the Ridge hev^
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J Pemisylvania Jiilind.—Germaniown. 43 mils died. It is known, by the Chronica Ephrata,—a folio,that there was a brotherly affinity between the Ridge hermits (ofRoxborough) and those of Ephrata. After Joseph Gorgas had goneto Epluata, tbe premises, with a farm of seventy acres and a gristmill, fell to his son John Gorgas; from him it was sold about thetime of the Revolution, to Edward Miller;—thence to Peter Care,fifty years ago, who held it till about the year ISOO. Then it wasbought by John Livezey, miller; next by Longslreth, who made ita paper mill; and lately and lastly, by Joshua Garsed & Co. Sincetlieir possession of the premises, they have considerably increasedthe numbers and size of the buildings along the creek; and theMonastery House they have converted into an vtgreeable dwelling,changing and modernizing the internal forms of the rooms—takingout all the corner chimneys, &c. The scenery from this house, and from the dell below, is veryromantic, rugged, and

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