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Title: An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Etting, Frank M. (Frank Marx)
Subjects: Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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elphia. The wide spreading branches of the Treaty Elm would form aninviting shelter, but the season of the year forbids that inference,besides which it was rather remote from the place where the Councilwas sitting, and from the landing. The caves along the banks of theriver in which the settlers were living were too small to hold an as-sembly of fifty-four men ; thus we are feign to believe that as theSwedes Church was not very far off at Wicaco,.it had the honor of af-fording shelter to the first Assembly of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Its proceedings belong to general history. The building familiarly known as Penns Cottage, in LsetitiaCourt, near Market Street,^ appears to have been finished in the Fallof 1683, and was occupied by the Proprietary during the remainderof his stay in Pennsylvania. In it met the next following ProvincialCouncil, and its successors for many years. The precedent seems thus ^ This cottage, though somewhat changed in its exterior, is still (1875) standing
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EARLY MEETINGS OF COUNCIL AND ASSEMBLY. 5 to have been established for the Council to meet at the Governorsresidence, since they unquestionably continued the practice till theerection of the State House, to which, as will be seen, they removedin 1747. The Assembly was even more peripatetic from force of circum-stances. A Friends Meeting House, of however rough a construction, wasprepared, shortly after Penns arrival, and undoubtedly served forholding sessions of the Legislature. It and its successor —built withinthe same vicinity, Front Street, above Arch, and known as the Bank

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  • bookpublisher:Boston__J__R__Osgood_and_company
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