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Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, George, 1804-1882 Delaware County Institute of Science (Media, Pa.)
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed by H.B. Ashmead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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-ing his children to read, 121. Willcox, Thomas, establishes a papermill, 383 ; first Catholic mission athis dwelling, 241. Winter, a severe one, 73. Winter, John and Walter, kill threeIndians, their trial and execution,238. Witchcraft, trial for, 153. Wolves, 108, 111, 116; number of, in-crease, 121. Year, the period of its commencement,261. Zetzcoven, Rev. Albelius, preachesat Tinicum, 87. ERRATA. Page 43, line 5, for forbidded, read forbid. • 113, the names from that of Peter Nealson to Arian Andries inclusive, belong to the Tacony District. 208, line 15, for Bounty, read County. 209, line 15 and 32, for Okekocking, read Okehocking. 408, line 8 from the bottom, for up the river, read up from the river 421, for Carota, read Carota. 429, for botrvoides, read botryoides, and for Rhy7ichospora, read Rhynchos- PORA. 466, for as 1685, read as early as 1685. 499, line 2 from the bottom, for 1696 and 1699, read 1796 and 1799. 542, line 22, for authoratively, read authoritatively. z~ —*
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NOTES AND MEMORANDA. (The following notes and memoranda were made by Dr. Smithsubsequent to the publication of his History of Delaware Countyin 1862. They are now (1907) printed for distribution with thecopies of that work which then remained unbound.) Page 27. For a more full account of the founding of New Sweden, seePenna. Magazine, Vol. Ill, p. 269. Page 43, line 39, iorforbidded, r&ad forbid. Page 114, line 13, perhaps John hayles should read John Bayles,or Beal. See p. 445. Page 134, line 9, for the Chester read Che Chester. In the Bur-lington monthly meeting records is the following minute : At a monthlymeeting held at Upland in the house of Robert Wade, the 15th of 9thmonth, 1681. See Mitcheners Retrospect of Early Quakerism, p. 36. Page 137, line 17. It has been said that the monthly meeting recordswere altered by Thos. Chalkley in copying them, and that the word Chester was Upland in the original. Delaware County Republi-can, Dec. 19, 1873. Page 146, line 4, for timbers r

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