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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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He is buried in the Lutheran churchyard. JohnRoset, his eldest son, was a merchant in Philadelphia. His wife was MissMary Laning, a granddaughter of Judge Matthias Hollenback, of Wilkes-barre; one of his daughters married Dr. Justice L. Ludlow, another, JusticeBroadhead, and a third, Anthony J. Drexel. Dr. Samuel Betton came to Germantown from the Island of Jamaica, whenDr. Bensell was growing old. He married the daughter of Col. Thomas Forrest, a Revolutionary character. He bought the rather striking, but agreeablelooking house, WHITE COTTAGE, wbich yet stands on the north side of Manheim street, west of Greene, and isoccupied by Theodore Justice. He added the octagon room. The Bettons wereof the Bethune family, as was the Duke of Sully, the minister of Henry IV.His son, the late Dr. Thomas Forrest Betton, married Elizabeth, a daughter ofAlbanus Logan, of Stenton. These are now represented by Mr. Samuel Betton.Opposite this cottage is Taggarts Field. A part of the house on it is said
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GERMANTOWN. 57 to be prerevolutionary. Here the British infantry bad huts. After they de-parted young Miller saw on the field Count Pulaskis Legion of Cavalry, fourhundred men in their uniform of nearly white. He said the Legion wasformed mostly of prisoners of Burgoynes Army, Germans and others. Beyond Bettons is Thomas A. Newhalls place, originally Robert Tolands.In 1860 the Marquess of Chandos, afterward Duke of Buckingham, was a guesthere. The Marquess saw William Penns.portrait in the Hall of the HistoricalSociety, which had been presented by Granville Penn, his great-grandson.He told Ward that he remembered it, having seen it at Stoke-Poges, theEnglish seat of the Penns. No. 4558—This large double stone house was occupied by CommodoreJames Barron, forty or fifty years ago, when he v^as in command of the Phila-delphia Navy Yard. This gentleman painted one of James Gowens fine cat-tle ; the painting is in Mr. Blakes parlor in London. The Commodoresgrandson, Capt. James Barron Ho

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