The Description of the Borough of Reading: Containing Its Population, Institutions, Trade, Manufactures, &c. &c., with a Notice of Its First Settlement, and Many Curious Historical Matters

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Halaman 9 - Finne^ and 450 acres of land surveyed under their sanction, which are now entirely embraced within the limits of Reading. Whether the inducements to this selection were other than its general beauty and fertility, it is now difficult to say, though it is asserted that when the proprietaries, John and Richard Penn, became aware of its advantages, and proposed to repurchase it for the location of a town, the Messrs. Finney long and firmly resisted all the efforts of negotiation. This produced a momentary...
Halaman 63 - ... to the said demand, or to any and what part thereof; and hereof you are not to fail at your peril. Given under my hand the day of in the year of our Lord . (Signed) JK Commissioner.
Halaman 10 - Hockley plot" to be abandoned, and in the fall of the year 1748, that of Reading to be laid out. The difficulty in obtaining water, even at great depths through the limestone, was the specious reason generally assigned for the sudden vacation of the former site, as the new one was remarkable for the numerous and copious springs existing within its limits.
Halaman 10 - The difficulty in obtaining water even at great depths through the limestone, was the specious reason generally assigned for the sudden vacation of the former site, as the new one was remarkable for the numerous large and copious springs existing within its limits.
Halaman 9 - Garland, in Feb., 1839. As early as 1733, warrants were taken out by John and Samuel Finne^ and 450 acres of land surveyed under their sanction, which are now entirely embraced within the limits of Reading. Whether the inducements to this selection were other than its general beauty and fertility, it is now difficult to say, though it is asserted that when the proprietaries, John and Richard Penn, became aware of its advantages, and proposed to repurchase it for the location of a town, the Messrs....
Halaman 63 - CD of whom you shall have [* 12] notice, to answer to all such matters* and things, as, on his majesty's behalf, shall be objected against him by AB &c.
Halaman 10 - ... out the plan of a town on the margin of the Schuylkill, opposite its confluence with the Tulpehocken. This survey is still to be found on record, though divested of any date or name by which the precise period in which it was made can be ascertained. It is now only known as an appended portion of Reading, under the designation of the Hockley out-lots The importance, as well as reality of the design now appears to have subdued...
Halaman 11 - Franklin, Washington, Chesnut, and Walnut streets. In 1751, Reading contained 130 dwelling houses, besides stables and other buildings, 106 families, and 378 inhabitants, though about two years before it had not above one house in it. The original population was principally Germans, who emigrated from Wirtemburg and the Palatinate though the administration of public affairs was chiefly in the hands of the Friends. The former, by their preponderance of numbers, gave the decided character in habits...
Halaman 10 - Penn, proprietaries and governors-m-chief of the province of Pennsylvania, became private owners of the ground plot of Reading, the lots of which they carefully subjected in their titles to an annual quit or ground rent. Singular as it may seem, this claim became almost forgotten, through neglect and the circumstances that resulted from the change in the old order of things produced by the revolution ; indeed, when recurred to at all, it was generally believed to have become forfeit to the state,...
Halaman 11 - HamiltonTtreet, from James Hamilton, Esq., who was deputy governor of the province at that period. The names now substituted, " as more compatible with the republican simplicity of our present form of government," are similar to those of Philadelphia, as the streets running north and south commence at Water street, on the Schuylkill, and extend to Twelfth street, while those running east and west are called renn, Franklin, Washington, Chesnut, and Walnut streets.

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