INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE RECOLLECTIONS OF OLDEN TIME, AND TO EXHIBIT SOCIETY
IN ITS CHANGES OF MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND THE CITY AND COUNTRY
IN THEIR LOCAL CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS.

BY JOHN F. WATSON,

MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, AND MASSACHUSETTS.

ENLARGED, WITH MANY REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS, BY

WILLIS P. HAZARD.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"Oh! dear is a tale of the olden time!"
Sequari vestigia rerum.

"Where peep'd the hut, the palace towers;
Where skimm'd the bark, the war-ship lowers;
Joy gaily carols where was silence rude,
And cultured thousands throng the solitude."

PHILADELPHIA:

J. M. STODDART & CO.

LIBRARY

OF THE

LELAND STANT056 JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY.

A.3754

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

ELIJAH THOMAS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Copyright, 1877, J. M. STODDART & Co.