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Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.)
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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lenyarn, while those at Wallingford manufacture cotton goods.Beattys edge tool manufactory is also located in Springfield. The old Springfield Friends Meeting-house, taken down someyears since, though built in 1738, presented a venerable appear-ance. An eflbrt has been made to preserve its general aspectand contrast it with the present edifice in the annexed lithograph. It docs not appear that Springfield was fully organized as atownship prior to 1686, though Robert Taylor, one of the firstsettlers, had received the appointment of supervisor fromChester Creeke to Croome Creeke, early in 1684. Remarkable phenomena are frequently connected with thedischarge of the electric fluid in the shape of lightning, but itrarely occurs that a case is surrounded with so many singularcircumstances as the one I am about to notice, which happenedon the 3d of November, 1768, and which is copied, with someabridgment, from the Peyinsylvania Chronich. At about seven oclock in the morning Mr. Samuel Leviss
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^ VrIlSdS meeting houses,SPRINGFIELD, 1738,1851.

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