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Title: Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ...
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.M. Stoddart & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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there. A minstrelconcert was given in the old Masonic Hall Theatre by CollinssNew Orleans Serenaders in 1846. There was negro singing bysolo performers long before that. One of the pioneers in thisbusiness was William Kelly of the Northern Liberties. He sangat Fogg & Stickneys Washington Amphitheatre and Circus, OldYork road above Buttonwood, as early as 1829 or 1830. Custom-Houses, p. 474.—John Bewly was collector in 1704;John Moore in 1806. The custom-house was in Rosss buildingsin 1800; George Latimer was collector, and John Graff deputy.The custom-house built by the government stood on Second streetbelow Dock, west side. The first story of the building was mar-ble, rusticated, a door in the centre, ascended by steps in form ofa truncated pyramid. There was a blind window or window-re-cess on each side of the door, filled in with marble. The upperpart of the building was of brick, the gable was toward the street.Near the roof was a niche in which was the statue of Commerce. t
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Banks. 381 There were three windows with circular heads. The statue wasabove all the windows and near the roof. The government bought the marble building, formerly theBank of the United States, in Chestnut above Fourth, in 1848,for §270,000. BANKS. The first notice we have of an application for a bank charteris on the 7th of 12th month, ) 688-9. At a council in the Coun-cil-Room, Gov. Blackwell presiding, The petition of RobertTurner, John Tissic, Thomas Budd, Robert Ewer, Samuel Car-penter, and John Fuller was read, setting forth their design ofsetting up a Bank for Money; and requesting encouragementfrom the governor and Council for their proceeding therein. The governor acquainted them that some things of that na-ture had been proposed and dedicated to the Proprietor (Penn)by himself, out of New England, to winch he believed that heshould receive his answer by the first shipping hither out ofEngland. Yet withall acquainting them that he did know noreason why they might not give th

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