CHAPTER XXVIII THE TOWNSHIP OF TINICUM The island of Tinicum, now comprising the township of the same name, is located in the Delaware River, about two-miles from the eastern limit…

CHAPTER XXVII CIVIL LISTS PROTHONOTARY, CLERKS OF COURT, RECORDER OF DEEDS, AND REGISTER OF WILLS Thomas Revell, Sept. 13, 1681, to Aug. 22, 1683; Robert Eyre, Oct. 17, 1683, to…

CHAPTER XXVI PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SOCIETIES It is very likely that the Swedish home authorities in preparing for the colonization of the Delaware, fully aware of the necessity which might…

CHAPTER XXV THE COURT, BENCH, AND BAR OF DELAWARE COUNTY Beyond the possibility of refutation, it can be asserted that at Tinicum, in the present county of Delaware, justice was…

CHAPTER XXIV DELAWARE COUNTY CLIMATE, TOGETHER WITH NOTICES OF REMARKABLE WEATHER In 1633 it is recorded that De Vries was frozen up in Wyngaert’s Kill from January 17th to February…

CHAPTER XXIII WILD ANIMALS, FISH, ETC., OF DELAWARE COUNTY When the first European settlers located in Delaware County the territory abounded with wild game, and for more than a hundred…

CHAPTER XXII AGRICULTURE, WITH A BRIEF MENTION OF OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS Gabriel Thomas, the first historian of our State, in his quaint volume published in 1698, in describing the productions,…

CHAPTER XXI REDEMPTIONERS AND SLAVERY IN DELAWARE COUNTY When the system of redemptive servitude first appeared in our history I fail to ascertain, but certain it is that it related…

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