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A54140 A further account of the province of Pennsylvania and its improvements for the satisfaction of those that are adventurers, and enclined to be so. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1685 (1685) Wing P1294; ESTC R218868 13,005 21

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A Further Account Of the Province of PENNSYLVANIA AND ITS IMPROVEMENTS For the Satisfaction of those that are Adventurers and enclined to be so IT has I know been much expected from me that I should give some farther Narrative of those parts of America where I am chiefly interested and have lately been having continued there above a Year after my former Relation and receiving since my return the freshest and fullest Advices of its Progress and Improvement But as the reason of my coming back was a Difference between the Lord Baltamore and my self about the Lands of Delaware in consequence reputed of mighty moment to us so I wav'd publishing any thing that might look in favour of the Country or inviting to it whilst it lay under the Discouragement and Disreputation of that Lord's claim and pretences But since they are after many fair and full hearings before the Lords of the Committee for Plantations justly and happily Dismist and the things agreed and that the Letters which daily press me from all Pa●●s on the subject of America are so many and voluminous that to answer them severally were a Task too heavy and repeated to perform I have thought it most easie to the Enquirer as well as my self to make this Account Publick lest my silence or a more private intimation of things should disoblige the just inclinations of any to America and at a time too when an extraordinary Providence seems to favour its Plantation and open a Door to Europeans to pass thither That then which is my part to do in this Advertisement is First To Relate our Progress especially since my last of the Month called August 83. Secondly The Capacity of the Place for farther Improvement in order to Trade and Commerce Lastly Which Way those that are Adventurers or incline to be so may imploy their Money to a fair and secure Profit such as shall equally encourage Poor and Rich which cannot fail of Advancing the Country in consequence I. We have had about NINETY SAYL of Ships with PASSENGERS since the beginning of 82. and not one Vessel designed to the Province through Gods mercy hitherto miscarried The Estimate of the People may be thus made Eighty to each Ship which comes to SEVEN THOUSAND TWO-HUNDRED PERSONS At least a Thousand there before with such as from other Places in our neighbourhood are since come to reside among us And I presume the Births at least equal to the Burials For having made our first Settlement high in the Freshes of the Rivers we do not finde our selves subject to those Seasonings that affect some other Countries upon the same Coast The People are a Collection of divers Nations in Europe As French Dutch Germans Sweeds Danes Finns Scotch ' Irish and English and of the last equal to all the rest And which is admirable not a Reflection on that Account But as they are of one kind and in one Place and under One Allegiance so they live like People of One County which Civil Union has had a considerable influence towards the prosperity of that Place II. Philadelphia and our intended Metropolis as I formerly Writ is two Miles long and a Mile broad and at each end it lies thot mile upon a Navigable River The scituation high and dry yet replenished with running streams Besides the High-Street that runs in the midle from River to River and is an hundred foot broad it has Eight Streets more that run the same course the least of which is fifty foot in breath And besides Broad-Street which crosseth the Town in the middle and is also an hundred foot wide there are twenty streets more that run the same course and are also fifty foot broad The names of those Streets are mostly taken from the things that Spontaneously grow in the Country As Vine-Street Mulbery-Street Chesnut-Srteet Wallnut-Street Strawbery-Street Cranbery-Street Plumb-Street Hickery-Street Pine-Street Oake-Street Beach-Street Ash-Street Popler-Street Sassafrax-Street and the like III. I mentioned in my last Account that from my Arival in Eighty two to the Date thereof being ten Moneths we had got up Four-score Houses at our Town and that some Villages were setled about it From that time to my coming away which was a Year within a few Weeks the Town advanced to Three hundred and fifty seven Houses divers of them large well built with good Cellars three stories and some with Belconies IV. There is also a fair Key of about three hundred foot square Built by Samuel Carpenter to which a Ship of five hundred Tuns may lay her broade side and others intend to follow his example We have also a Rope-walk made by B. Wilcox and cordage for shipping already spun at it V. There inhabits most sorts of useful Trades-men As Carpenters Joyners Bricklayers Masons Plasterers Plumers Smiths Glasiers Taylers Shoemakers Butchers Bakers Brewers Glovers Tanners Felmongers Wheelrights Millrights Shiprights Boatrights Ropemakers Saylmakers Blockmakers Turners c. VI. There are Two Markets every Week and Two Fairs every Year In other places Markets also as at Chester and New-Castle VII Seven Ordinaries for the Intertainment of Strangers and Work-Men that are not House-keepers and a good Meal to be had for sixpence sterl VIII The hours for Work and Meals to Labourers are fixt and known by Ring of Bell. IX After nine at Night the Officers go the Rounds and no Person without very good cause suffered to be at any Publick-House that is not a Lodger X. Tho this Town seemed at first contrived for the Purchasers of the first hundred shares each share consisting of 5000 Acres yet few going and that their absence might not Check the Improvement of the Place and Strangers that flockt to us be thereby Excluded I added that half of the Town which lies on the Skulkill that we might have Room for present and after Commers that were not of that number and it hath already had great success to the Improvement of the Place XI Some Vessels have been here Built and many Boats and by that means a ready Conveniency for Passage of People and Goods XII Divers Brickerys going on many Cellars already Ston'd or Brick'd and some Brick Houses going up XIII The Town is well furnish'd with convenient Mills and what with their Garden Plats the least half an Acre the Fish of the River and their labour to the Country-man who begins to pay with the provisions of his own growth they live Comfortably XIV The Improvement of the place is best measur'd by the advance of Value upon every mans Lot I will venture to say that the worst Lot in the Town without any Improvement upon it is worth four times more then it was when it was lay'd out and the best forty And though it seems unequal that the Absent should be thus benefited by the Improvments of those that are upon the place especially when they have serv'd no Office run no hazard nor as yet defray'd any Publick charge yet this advantage does certainly redound to