Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...built before the Revolution, extended from Third street certainly to Second, and most probably to Front, in that neighborhood. The old Commission-el's' Hall, on Third street above Tammany, was the officers' quarters. Camptown, or Campington.--This name was at one time applied to the whole of the district of the Northern Liberties, because the British barracks were there. The four plots of ground at the intersection of Callowhill and New Market streets were reserved, when the Penns laid out the town of Callowhill, for market purposes. They afterward became the property of a Norwich market company, which was composed of farmers. In time the company ceased to take any interest in them, and the market-houses remained for several years nuisances to the neighborhood. Finally, the title of the owners was vested in the Northern Liberties, and by law permission was given to sell the ground. Vol. III.--S THE OLD ACADEMY. The Academy was formally opened January 8, 1751, by the trustees, the governor, the teachers, and others. Rev. Mr. Peters preached the sermon. The price of tuition was four pounds per annum and twenty shillings entrance. David Martin was the first rector; Theophilus Grew, mathematical master; Paul Jackson, professor of languages; and David James Dove, teacher of the English school. This property, on Fourth street below Arch, was originally built, under a religious excitement produced by Rev. George AVhitefield, " for public worship and a charity-school," in which any preacher might deliver his doctrines to the people of Philadelphia. Nov. 14, 1740, it was conveyed for this purpose to George Whitefield, William Seward, John Stephen Benezet, Thomas Noble, Samuel Hazard, Robert Eastburne, James Read, Edward Evans, and Charles...
