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Title: The guide book to historic Germantown
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 Site and Relic Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Publisher: Germantown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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was burning, and at the same time saw that Polly waslaughing, he shook his finger at her, upbraided her for not tell-ing him and called her a little rebel. From this family are descended, through Sophia Ashmead,who married, in 1843, Ellis Bartlett, an American merchant,the late Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, a member of the EnglishParliament, and his brother, William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett,the husband of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. They were bothborn in America but were educated in England and becameBritish subjects. William Penn once preached in the house of Jacob Tellner,which stood where the Savings Fund Building now stands, on thesouthwest corner of School Lane and Main Street. Dr. GeorgeBensell pulled this house down to erect a handsome residenceabout 1795. This stood until 1880, when it was torn downto make way for the present building. The old doorway whichstood in the Bensell house was removed through the efforts ofDr. William R. Dunton and placed in the house southeast cor- 70
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7i HISTORIC GERMANrOJVN ner of Main Street and Walnut Lane. There is a tradition thatJacob Tellners house was the first stone house built in German-town, and that William Penn was present at the raising of theroof. The Womans Christian Association building, fronting onthe square, corner of Mill Street, was at one time occupied byone of the banks from Philadelphia, when the latter was drivenout of Philadelphia by the yellow fever epidemic. Massivevaults had been constructed in the cellar to which the moneywas conveyed. This house was used for five years by theEpiscopalians as a place of worship until the erection of St.Lukes Church. Market Square Presbyterian Church is the third churchbuilding erected on this site. Originally built by the GermanReformed Church in 1733, it was enlarged in 1762 and asteeple added. This building made way for a larger structurein 1839, which in turn was replaced by the present structure.Its first bell, cast in 1725, is still preserved in the church.Its wea

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