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Identifier: annalsofphilad01wats (find matches)
Title: Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time;
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Watson, John Fanning, 1779-1860. (from old catalog) Hazard, Willis Pope, 1825-1913, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History Pennsylvania -- History Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Philadelphia, E.S. Stuart
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ood living,but highly genteel and select, situated in Kensington on the mainriver street, a little above the present market house. It was a squarebuilding of considerable beauty, with pilasters, &c., and was burntbefore the Revolution. It was built for a few city gentlemen, andthe last survivor was to take the premises. It fell into the hands ofthe Norris family; many dancing parties were given there. It hada fine open view to the scenery on the Delaware, and at the time ofits institution was deemed retired; tea parties were made there fre-quently for the ladies of their acquaintance, and once it was lent tothe use of Murray, the Universalist preacher, keeping then the doc-trine cannon shot distance from the city. Among the members of the joint tenantry were Robert Charles,William Masters, John Sober, P. Graeme, Isaac Norris; the wholespace was in one room. The few partners that remained in 1745,induced Isaac Norris to buy them out, and the premises afterwardsvested solely in him.
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The Duck Pond. 433 While the place was in vogue it received the flattery of the musein the following lines, published in the Gazette of 1730, and styled an Invitation to the Hall, to wit: Phoebus, wit-inspiring lord,Attic maid for arts adord,Bacchus with full clusters come,Come rich from harvest home.Joys and smiles and loves and graces,Genrous hearts and cheerful faces,With evry hospitable god,Come and bless this sweet abode! The mysteries of the place, however, were all unknown to thevulgar, and for that very reason they gave loose to many conjectures,which finally passed for current tales, as a bachelors place, wheremaidens were inveigled and deceived. I had myself heard storiesof it when a boy, which thrilled my soul with horror, without oneword of truth for its foundation! It was burnt in 1776, and a smiths shop was built on its ruins.Hopkinsons Old Bachelor has some verses on its burning. THE DUCK POND, CORNER OF FOURTH AND HIGH STREETS. It will hardly be credited that there sho

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