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Title: Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ...
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.M. Stoddart & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Watson died Sunday, December 23d, 1860, in the eighty-second year of his age. The Historical Society at a meeting on the 14th of Januarypassed a series of resolutions expressing their deep regret at the 16 Annals of Philadelphia. loss of one of its most distinguished members, and requestingKev. Benjamin Dorr, D. D., to prepare a memoir, which wasread in public. From this memoir, with facts added by mem-bers of his family, this sketch of Mr. Watson has been prepared.This memoir was supplemented by a touching eulogy of thedeceased by Hon. Horatio Gates Jones. In New York, Benson J. Lossing, the historian, and a friendof Watson, announced his death to the New York HistoricalSociety in some appropriate remarks, and the society adopted aseries of resolutions. Mr. Lossing also prepared a memoir ofhim, and published it in his Eminent Americans. Only two months after Mr. Watsons decease another annalist,and one of his friends, passed away—Dr. John W. Francis, thehistorian of New York City.
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ANNALS PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA FROM HUDSONS DISCOVERY OF THE DELAWARE TO THE DEATHOF PENN. CHAPTER I. SETTLEMENTS BY THE DUTCH ON THE DELAWARE, 1609-1638. The originator of these Annals having already given an out-line of the Colonial History of Philadelphia (Vol. I. p. 6, et seq.),it only remains for us to add a few details. Those who see the great city in our time can form but littleconception of its appearance in 1609, when Hudson entered thebay, hesitating to pursue his way farther up the stream on ac-count of shoals. But its site was a trackless wild, and coveredwith hills where now all is so level, and these again intersectedby creeks. The inhabitants were numerous, principally of theLenni Lenape Indian tribe. Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch East IndiaCompany, sailed north and discovered the river which bears hisname, though sometimes called the North River, while the Del-aware was known as the South River. It received its presentname, soon after Hudsons

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