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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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ound will be allowed, and theyare authorized to draw on this Board for the same. This is dated July8th, 1776. At the battle of Germantown John Ashmead, as a boy, was, with the otherchildren, placed by their father in the cellar of their house with a view tosafety. John got the others to push him out. He went to Main street, andSquire Ferree saw him and took him to the cellar of his house, where he waskept till the battle closed. After Squire Ferrees time the house was owned by aFromberger. In his occupancy tea was handed to a cook f6r preparation, andshe sent it to the table as boiled greens. James Stokes bought the place for aresidence. He paid John Fromberger $6000 for the buildings and about threeacres of ground, in 1799. In 1807 more purchases were made of joining lands.One entry in James Stokess account shows that he sold Lorains house and lotin 1803, to John Lorain, Sr., for $4000. o 1- D „ t—1 C/) w m o51 > c« •D n y M n fyj > < M izl O Z H
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GERMANTOWN. 97 John Stokes was born at Bexley, Kent, in England, on Michaelmas Day,1724. He came to America in 1776, and to Philadelphia in 1780. He boughtthe Old London Coffee House, still standing at the southwest corner of Frontand Market streets. He became rich and retired to the Germantown houseand died in 1781. North of the Stokes house there was a small stone houseback from the street, with three hemlocks before it. Thomas Megargee, of theBank of Germantown, lived in it. Then some ladies of the Stokes family,who owned it, resided there. Joseph and Jacob Green, hatters, bought theproperty next to the north from Jacob Roset. William Meredith, a baker,succeeded his father in the house next north, and then adjoining it, cameRobert Thomas, a shoemaker. Here, in front of No. 4813, stood the old six-mile stone, planted in the year 1801, which, by reason of the city growingtoward Germantown, was changed somewhere about the year 1840 to fivemiles. James Mcllvaine, a well digger, and who

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