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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Philadelphia, (search)
y in the colony caused a great influx of emigrants, and in the space of two years Philadelphia had grown so rapidly that there were 600 houses. There had arrived in 1682 twenty-eight ships. A large emigration, chiefly of Friends, arrived there from Holland, Germany, England, and Wales in 1683-84; and the population was estimated, at the close of the latter year, at 2,500. Schools were established; and in 1687 William Bradford set up a printing-press. A city charter was given by Penn, Oct. 28, 1701, and a court-house was built in 1707. During the whole colonial period Philadelphia was the most important city in the country, and remained so for more than a quarter of a century after the establishment of State government in Pennsylvania in 1776. Writing to Lord Halifax from Philadelphia, Penn said, with righteous exultation, I must, without vanity, say I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon private credit, and the most prosperous beginnings that ever
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
ears......Dec. 1, 1699 Yellow fever in Philadelphia......1699 Discontent of the inhabitants leads Penn to summon an Assembly to prepare a new frame of government......Sept. 16, 1701 New charter, or charter of privileges, adopted......Oct. 28, 1701 [It gave the Delaware counties option of a separate administration, of which they availed themselves soon after, though under the same governor and council as Pennsylvania until 1776.] Philadelphia incorporated as a city......Oct. 28, 1Oct. 28, 1701 Anticipating that the British ministry were about to abolish the proprietary governments in America, Penn, to oppose this, sails for England and never visits America again......Nov. 1, 1701 Thomas Rutter establishes the first iron works in Pennsylvania, near Pottstown, 30 miles from Philadelphia......1716 Penn dies at Rushcombe, Buckinghamshire, England, aged seventy-four years......July 30, 1718 Andrew S. Bradford establishes the American weekly mercury at Philadelphia......D