Identifier: pennsgreenecount00hotc (find matches)
Title: Penn's greene country towne; pen and pencil sketches of early Philadelphia and its prominent characters
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hotchkin, S(amuel) F(itch), 1833- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Penn, William, 1644-1718
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and devoutresignation of her soul to Almighty God. Ihope I may say she was a public as well as aprivate loss; for she was not only an excellentwife and mother, but an entire and constantfriend; of a more than common capacity, andgreat modesty and humility, yet most equaland undaunted in danger; religious, as wellas ingenuous, without affectation; an easymistress and a good neighbor, especially to the poor; neither lavish nor penurious, butan example of industry as well as of othervirtues; therefore our great loss, though herown eternal gain. This lovely woman, whom her husbandcalls one of ten thousand, left two sonsand a daughter. These were Springett,Lsetitia and William the yoimger. Mary andHannah, the other children, had died in in-fancy. Gulielmas health w^as broken by trou-bles, and the strain of the absence of herloved husband in the strange and distantland. She died at Hoddesden, away from herloved home. Her body was carried thence to the sweet and quiet graveyard at rustic Jor-
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Sormw and Joy 57 dans, where her husband in after days wasburied at her side, and the picture has oftenmet the eyes of Americans. The greengraves are not far from Chalfont, where be-gan the young dreams of a pure love whichare now renewed in Paradise. With God there are no trifles, but whatlooked to man to be a slight occurrenceaffected forever the destinies of Pennsyl-vania by turning the mind of its illustriousfounder westward, Avhither Bishop Berkeley,in his day, saw the star of empire gliding. In A.D. 1664, Charles the Secondclaimed New England and the country south-ward; and, with the old English propensityfor colonization, looked enviously on theDutch community at Xew ISTetherlands.Charles gave a patent to his brother James,Duke of York and Albany, to Americanlands, including the New Netherlands. The^High Mightinesses of New Amsterdam re-sisted the aggression; the old story of forcefollowed, and the weaker party, as usual,went to the wall. New Amsterdam wascalled New York, after

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