The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 42

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1918
 

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Halaman 131 - A further supplement to the act, entitled an act to enable the Governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company for making an artificial road...
Halaman 132 - ... president and managers might increase the width of the same to the same extent, provided it should not exceed sixty-eight feet; and by section 2, that, in such other places as shall be deemed necessary and the owners were willing to sell the ground, the width of the road might be increased to not exceeding sixty-eight feet. Section 3 contained a proviso that it should not be lawful for the turnpike company to ask of any persons passing along the road east of the creek known as the Five Mile or...
Halaman 198 - THOMAS PENN, and RICHARD PENN, Esquires, true and absolute Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Representatives of the Freemen of the said Province, in General Assembly met, and by the Authority of the same, That...
Halaman 103 - ... o'clock, and that we might easily arrive at Trenton by five in the morning, the distance being about nine miles. But the quantity of ice, made that night, impeded the passage of the boats so much, that it was...
Halaman 133 - An act to enable the governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company, for making ^ an artificial road from the city of Philadelphia to the borough of Lancaster.
Halaman 222 - Few of their children in the Country learn English; they import many Books from Germany; and of the six printing houses in the Province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English; They have one German News-paper, and one half German.
Halaman 248 - Certain Conditions or Concessions, Agreed upon by William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and those who are the adventurers and purchasers in the same province the Eleventh of July, one thousand six hundred and eighty-one.
Halaman 222 - Dutch [sic] and English. The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German. They begin of late to make all their bonds and other legal instruments in their own language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in our courts, where the German business so increases, that there is continual need of interpreters...
Halaman 208 - Tea-Table was remov'd we were going to take leave, but it appear'd we must first view his Library, which was Customary with him, to any Persons of Account. He had really a very fine Collection of Books, both Ancient and Modern ; he seem'd to Regrate that none of his Sons knew how to Use them, and that he design'd them as a Legacy to the City when he Died. After the Old Gentleman had been Complimented on his fine Taste we Departed.
Halaman 209 - England, he sent it to me out of his own library, telling me it was scarce, that neither prayers nor price could purchase it. Besides, there are many of the most valuable Latin authors, and a great number of modern mathematicians, with all the three editions of Newton, Dr.

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