Identifier: guidebooktohisto01jenk (find matches)
Title: The guide book to historic Germantown
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 Site and Relic Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Publisher: Germantown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ttle, having discovered that theChew mansion was occupied by the British. At that time therewas no house between this and the Chew house. The tradi-tion is that Washington stood on a horse block, telescope inhand, trying in vain to penetrate the smoke and fog and discoverthe force of the enemy entrenched in the Chew mansion. Thestone cap of the horse block on which he stood is still preserved,and the telescope, is now in possession of the GermantownAcademy. The house later suffered greatly at the hands of the Britishsoldiers who were quartered here. Its woodwork yet bears themarks of bullets and of attempts made by the soldiers to set it onfire. About 1788 it was bought by Michael Billmyer, a cele-brated German printer, who here carried on his trade. Theupper portion is still in possession of his family. Note the tableterected by the Site and Relic Society. The odd building adjoining the Meeting House, No. 6611Main Street, was used as the parsonage, and parts of it are 1 22 Wfriu. / (
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123 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN said to be two hundred years old. Near it, in the Main Street,at the Battle of Germantown General Nash was mortally-wounded and Major Witherspoon was killed by the same can-non ball. Major Witherspoon was buried in the yard adjoining.In later years his brother and sister came on from Princeton tosecure his remains, but they were in such a condition that theattempts were abandoned and the body was again buried inthe graveyard of the Lutheran Church, a short distanceabove. . The Church of the Brethern, or Dunkards, 66ij MainStreet, above Sharpnack Street, is the mother congregation ofthis sect in America. The Dunkards came to this country in1719 and were gathered into a church organization in 1723 byPeter Becker, who was their first elder and pastor. Theyworshipped for many years in the homes of their members untilabout 1760, when they occupied a log building which stoodin front of the meeting house. The front portion of thepresent building was erected in 1770 an

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