Identifier: annalsofphiladel03inwats (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: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.M. Stoddart & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ith railes, and ye river end of the sdpassage to make a ffree and publick wharf of twenty ffoot inbreadth on each side thereoff. Council consenting to this, the cut was made and a bridge archedover it, and thus did the name of Arch street gradually sup-plant Mulberry street, though the writer well remembers thedirection-boards at the corners bearing the name of Mulberry street,the official designation long remaining after Arch was the popu-lar one. At the same meeting the counties were authorized to dividetheir boundaries into hundreds or such other divisions as theyshould think most convenient for collecting taxes. They laidthem out in townships. At the same meeting it was requested a bill might be preparedto prevent hogs running at large in Philadelphia and New Castle.But such a bill was inoperative even within my recollection, ashogs were allowed to run at large in the best streets. In September a county seal was ordered for Philadelphia; also,that the watch should be strengthened.
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Thomas Lloyd, President of Council. 59 In this year a number of the inhabitants formed a companyand erected the first American paper-mill, on the Wissahickonnear Germantown. Among them were William Bradford andWilliam Rittenhouse. The latter, with his son Nicholas, becameowner of the mill in 1704; it remained in the family from sonto son till 1811; Nicholas was succeeded by his son William, andhe by his son Jacob, who died in 1811. It was afterward a cot-ton-factory. At this Rittenhouse paper-mill was made the paperused by William Bradford even after he settled in New York, andalso that for the Weekly Mercury, the first paper in Pennsylvania,and published by Andrew Bradford. While the colony was progressing in peace and prospering,notwithstanding the war between the mother-country andFrance, only a little of which was felt by them—viz., inthe fears of the French families on the Schuylkill, and of theIndians joining them—the Proprietary was having much troublefrom the persecutions

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