CHAPTER XIX MANNERS AND CUSTOMS – HOW INHABITANTS OF DELAWARE COUNTY LIVED IN FORMER YEARS Houses. The progress of a nation is traced not in the life of an individual,…

CHAPTER XVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS We have little or no information as to the criminal code which maintained among the early Swedish and Dutch settlers on the Delaware.* The fragmentary…

CHAPTER XVII THE CIVIL WAR The war of sections, which had overhung the country for over forty years, burst upon the nation on Saturday, April 18, 1861, when the American…

CHAPTER XVI THE REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY-SEAT TO MEDIA In considering the history of the removal of the county-seat from the ancient borough of Chester to Media, the present location,…

CHAPTER XV THE TEN-HOUR MOVEMENT One of the most important movements, and, in the results which have flowed from it, of great moment to the people of Delaware County, the…

CHAPTER XIV STORMS, FRESHETS, AND EARTHQUAKES We have little save tradition respecting storms, freshets, and earthquakes in the olden times. It is only within the last half-century that any circumstantial…

CHAPTER XIII FROM THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND TO 1850 The second war with England had almost wholly severed communication with the Old World, particularly with Great Britain, and the…

CHAPTER XII THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND In a work such as this it is not to be expected that space can be given to a discussion of the causes…

CHAPTER XI FROM THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY OF DELAWARE TO THE SECOND WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN The sparsely-peopled territory, which in the anger of defeat at the removal of…

CHAPTER X FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO THE ERECTION OF DELAWARE COUNTY When the storm of war had subsided, Chester County, with the whole country, suffered severely in the process…