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Philadelphia,
Popularly known as the City of brotherly love ; founded by William Penn in 1682, between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.
He bought the land of the Swedes; with the assistance of Thomas Holme, the surveyor of his colony, laid out the city at the close of 1682.
He caused the boundaries of the streets to be marked on the trunks of chestnut, walnut, locust, spruce, pine, and other forest trees, and many of the streets still bear the names of those trees.
The new city grew rapidly.
Within a year after the surveyor had finished his work almost 100 houses were erected there, and Indians came almost daily with the spoils of the forest as gifts for Father Penn, as they delighted to call the founder.
In March following (1683), the city was honored as the gatheringplace of the representatives of the people to consider a constitution of government which Penn had prepared.
It constituted a representative republican government, with free religious toleration and justice
Red Bank,
The site of Fort Mercer, on the New Jersey shore of the Delaware River.
See Mercer, Fort.
Roach, John 1815-1887
Ship-builder; born in Mitchellstown, Ireland, in 1815; came to the United States in 1829 and secured employment in the Howell Ironworks of New Jersey; later founded the Aetna Iron-works in New York City, where he built the first compound engines made in the United States.
He purchased the shipyards in Chester, Pa., in 1871, and under the name of the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works enlarged then till their value was estimated at $2,000,000. Here he built about 114 iron vessels, including the cruisers Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, and other vessels for the United States navy.
He died in New York City, Jan. 10, 1887.
South River,
The name applied by the Dutch of New Netherland (q. v.) to the Delaware River, the name North River being applied to the Hudson River.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stevens , John 1749 -1838 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stryker , William Scudder 1838 - (search)
Stryker, William Scudder 1838-
Historian; born in Trenton, N. J., June 6, 1838; graduated at Princeton College in 1858; entered the National army in 1863 as major under Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore; participated in the capture of Morris Island and in the night assault on Fort Wagner; received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel; was adjutant-general of New Jersey from 1867 till his death, and president of the New Jersey Historical Society.
His publications include Officers and men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War; Officers and men of New Jersey in the Civil War; The battles of Trenton and Princeton; Washington's reception by the people of New Jersey in 1789; General Maxwell's brigade of the New Jersey Continental line; The New Jersey volunteers; The Continental army at the crossing of the Delaware River, etc. He died in Trenton, N. J., Oct. 29, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Swaanendael colony. (search)
Swaanendael colony.
In anticipation of the establishment of patroonships (see patroons), a partnership was formed by directors of the Dutch West India Company for making settlements on the Delaware River.
Godyn, Bloemart, Van Renssclaer, and others were the partners.
They sent (Dec. 16, 1630) a ship and yacht, under the command of Pieter Heyes, with some colonists, and in the spring purchases of land were made from the Indians on both shores of Delaware Bay.
Near the site of the present town of Lewes, Del., a colony was planted, and the spot was called Swaanendael.
In 1632 this little colony was destroyed by the Indians.
Swaanendael was sold to the West India Company in 1633.