Identifier: ancientmodernger01hotc (find matches)
Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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l in theparlor upstairs. William Gerhard de Braham, Surveyor General of HisMajesty, dwelt here. He wrote the American Military Pocket Atlas, andthe Atlantic Pilot. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 ThomasJefferson and Edmund Randolph, Attorney General, occupied the house.Afterward Richard Baylej^, an Englishman, owned and dwelt in it. Mr.Bayley was a fine singer. Watson did most of his difficult work in this house.He could not locate places as well as now, since the late -Jno. McAllister, Jr.s,system of numbering houses has been adopted. Ward reminds us that Lieutenant Danenhower, of Arctic fame, was of theGermantown family. On the site of No. 4677, southeast corner of Shoemakers Lane, stood theresidence of Miss Molly Donaldson, and her nieces, Sally Donaldson andRosanna Roe. Miss Donaldson was the hospitable daughter of a Rev.olutionaryofficer. Her colored girl, Lize, would often give the pleasant summons:Missis Donaldson sends her spects to Mr. Wister, and wants him to please
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SHOEMAKERS FIRST FARM, FROM WATSONS ANNALS, BY PER-MISSION OF EDWIN S. STUART, PUBLISHER. GERMANTOWN. 77 come in and smoke a cigar with Dr. Bensell. Messrs. Charles J. and JohnWister, Richard Bayley and William Chancellor used to be invited to hersuppers. Sarah Schumacher, a widow, with several children, from Kresheim, in thePalatinate, came to Philadelphia on the 20th of March, 1686. She lived inGermantown, where her relatives were already settled. Her son, Isaac, marriedGerhard Hendricks only child, named Sarah. She was born in 1678. Hen-dricks drew Lot No. 8, east side of the road, and David Sherkger the adjoin-ing lot to the north, which for some reason bore the same number. In 1714Isaac Shoemaker owned both lots. It is probable that Gerhard Hendricks built the first house here, called RockHouse, or Rock Hall, on the north side of Shoemakers Lane, ju,st to theeast of the railroad. It is seen in passing Wingohocking station. In thathouse, or on the Iock near by, William Penn preach

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