File:Poole's bridge built over the Cohoquinoque Creek at Front Street. bef. 1747 (14783947013).jpg

Identifier: annalsofphilad01wats (find matches)
Title: Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time;
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Watson, John Fanning, 1779-1860. (from old catalog) Hazard, Willis Pope, 1825-1913, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History Pennsylvania -- History Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Philadelphia, E.S. Stuart
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ta Street, went off(down the hill) westward, so as to pass over Peggs marsh meadow, 150 feet further westward than the present Front Street, which was itself a cause-way of late years. It may serve in corroboration of some of the preceding facts to state, that by the Minutes of Friends, it appears that one Nathaniel Poole passed Meeting with Ann Till in the year 1714. In the year 1701, his name appeared on a jury list in my possession, and in 1708-9, William Poole appears as part owner of a vessel and sea-adventure. In the year 1754, a Mr. Carpenter advertises in the Gazette, that he has then for sale, boards and staves on Pooles Hill, at the upper end of Front Street. This intimates, I presume, that before the building of Pooles Bridge, and making the causeway from it, northward, the hill ended the then town; and as the ship yard was probably then discontinued, the place was converted into a northern landing place for lumber, (fcc. In the year 1713, the Grand Jury recommend a tax of one penny
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W V Pooles Bridge. 157 ;)ei- pound to be assessed, to pay for repair of road at Pooles Hill,and at the new bridge at Governors Mill—Cohocks inc. Mr. John Brown informed me that when Pooles Bridge was built, the Philadelphia masons would not undertake it, and Israel Roberts, from Maryland, was sent for to construct it. This was done about 85 years ago. The same year a northeast September gale beat it down. It was soon rebuilt again—say in 1755. The time is probably more accurately fixed by Secretary Peiers; he, writing to Penn in 1747, says, A new bridge made on the present line of Front Street over Peggs Run, whereby the street now makes a fine view by a north entry of the town. The former low wooden bridge was further west. The causeway from Front Street, which was formed in connection with the bridge in 1755, has been described to me by Mr.Thomas Bradford and J. Brown, to the following effect, to wit: The road was formed with sluices made under it, so that tide-water flowed into the pon

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