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A54171	A letter from William Penn, poprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province residing in London containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons, and produce ... of the natives, or, aborigines, their language, customs, and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch &c. ... to which is added an account of the city of Philadelphia ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1319; ESTC R24455	18,105	16

I might entirely refer you to the Letters of the President of the Society but this I will venture to say Your Provincial Settlements both within without the Town for Scituation and Soil are without Exception Your City-Lot is an whole Street and one side of a Street from River to River containing near one hundred Acers not easily valued which is besides your four hundred Acres in the City Liberties part of your twenty thousand Acers in the Countery Your Tannery hath such plenty of Bark the Saw-Mill for Timber the place of the Glass house so conveniently posted for Water-carriage the City-Lot for a Dock and the Whalery for a sound and fruitful Bank and the Town Lewis by it to help your People that by Gods blessing the Affairs of the Society will naturally grow in their Reputation and Profit I am sure I have not turned my back upon any Offer that tended to its Prosperity and though I am ill at Projects I have sometimes put in for a Share with her Officers to countenance and advance her Interest You are already informed what is fit for you further to do whatsoever tends to the Promotion of Wine and to the Manufacture of Linnen in these parts I cannot but wish you to promote it and the French People are most likely in both respects to answer that design To that end I would advise you to send for some Thousands of Plants out of France with some able Vinerons and People of the other Vocation But because I believe you have been entertained with this and some other profitable Subjects by your President I shall add no more but to assure you that I am heartily inclined to advance your just Interest and that you will always find me Philadelphia the 16th of the 6th Moneth call'd August 1683. Your Kind Cordial Friend William Penn. A short Advertisement Upon the Scituation and Extent of the CITY of PHILADELPHIA And the Ensuing PLAT-FORM thereof By the Surveyor General THe City of Philadelphia now extends in Length from River to River two Miles and in Breadth near a Mile and the Governour as a further manifestation of his Kindness to the Purchasers hath freely given them their respective Lots in the City without defalcation of any their Quantities of purchased Lands and as it s now placed and modelled between two Navigable Rivers upon a Neck of Land and that Ships may ride in good Anchorage in six or eight Fathom Water in both Rivers close to to the City and the Land of the City level dry and wholsom such a Scituation is scarce to be parallel'd The Model of the City appears by a small Draught now made and may hereafter when time permits be augmented and because there is not room to express the Purchasers Names in the Draught I have therefore drawn Directions of Reference by way of Numbers whereby may be known each mans Lot and Place in the City The City is so ordered now by the Governour 's Care and Prudence that it hath a Front to each River one half at Delaware the other at Skulkill and though all this cannot make way for small Purchasers to be in the Fronts yet they are placed in the next Streets contiguous to each Front viz. all Purchasers of One Thousand Acres and upwards have the Fronts and the High-street and to every five Thousand Acres Purchase in the Front about an Acre and the smaller Purchasers about half an Acre in the backward Streets by which means the least hath room enough for House Garden and small Orchard to the great Content and Satisfaction of all here concerned The City as the Model shews consists of a large Front-street to each River and a High-street near the middle from Front or River to Front of one hundred Foot broad and a Broad-street in the middle of the City from side to side of the like breadth In the Center of the City is a Square of ten Acres at each Angle are to be Houses for publick Affairs as a Meeting-House Assembly or State-House Market-House School-House and several other Buildings for Publick Concerns There are also in each Quarter of the City a Square of eight Acres to be for the like Uses as the Moore-fields in London and eight Streets besides the High-street that run from Front to Front and twenty Streets besides the Broad-street that run cross the City from side to side all these Streets are of fifty Foot breadth In each Number in the Draught in the Fronts and High-street are placed the Purchasers of One Thousand Acres and upwards to make up five Thousand Acres Lot both in the said Fronts and Hightstreet and the Numbers direct to each Lot and where in the City so that thereby they may know where their Concerns are therein The Front Lots begin at the South-ends of the Fronts by the Numbers and so reach to the North-ends and end at Number 43. The High-street Lots begin towards the Fronts at Number 44. and so reach to the Center The lesser Purchasers begin at Number 1. in the second Streets and so proceed by the Numbers as in the Draught the biggest of them being first placed nearest to the Fronts Directions of Reference in the City-Draught of Philadelphia to the Lots of the Purchasors c. by way of Numbers being too small to insert their Names so that by the Numbers the Lots may be known The Purchasors from a 1000 Acres and upwards are placed in the Fronts and High-Streets and begin on Delaware-Front at the South-end with Number 1. and so proceed with the Front to the North end to Number 43. Names Number WIlliam Penn jun. 1. W. Lowther 2. Laurence Growdon 3. Philip Ford 4. The Society 5. Nicholas Moor Presid 6. John Marsh 7. James Harrison 8 Thomas Farmborrow 9. James Boyden N. N. 10. Francis Burrough Robert Knight 11. John Reynolds Nathaniel Bromley Enoch Flower 12. John Moor Humphry South Thomas Barker Sabian Cole Samuel Jobson 13. James Claypoole 14. N. N. Alexander Parker Robert Greenway 15. Samuel Carpenter 16. Christopher Taylor 17. William Shardlow 18. John Love Nathaniel Allen Edward Jefferson 19. John Sweetaple Thomas Bond Richard Corslet Robert Taylor Thomas Rowland 20. Thomas Herriot 21. Charles Pickering Thomas Bourne John Williard 22. Edward Blardman Richard Webb John Boy Daniel Smith 23. Letitia Penn 24. William Bowman 25. Griffith Jones 26. Thomas Callowhill 27.   28. William Stanley 29. Joseph Fisher 30. Robert Turner 31. Thomas Holme 32. Clement Milward Richard Davis 33. Abraham Pask William Smith 34. John Blakelin Allen Foster 35. William Wade Benjamin Chambers Samuel Fox Francis Burrough 36. George Palmer John Barber 37. John Sharpless Henry Maddock Thomas Rowland 38. John B●zer Richard Crosby Josiah Ellis Thomas Woolrich John Alsop John Day 39. Francis Plumstead William Taylor 40. Thomas Brassey 41. John Simcock 42. William Crispin 43. The High-Street-Lots begin at Number 44. and so proceed on both sides of the High-street upwards to the Center-Square Names Number N.

A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of PENNSYLVANIA in America by Thomas Holme Surveyor General Sold by Iohn Thornton in the Minories and Andrew Sowle in Shoreditch London A LETTER FROM William Penn Poprietary and Governour of PENNSYLVANIA In America TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE Free Society of Traders of that Province residing in London CONTAINING A General Description of the said Province its Soil Air Water Seasons and Produce both Natural and Artificial and the good Encrease thereof Of the Natives or Aborigines their Language Customs and Manners Diet Houses or Wigwams Liberality easie way of Living Physick Burial Religion Sacrifices and Cantico Festivals Government and their order in Council upon Treaties for Land c. their Justice upon Evil Doers Of the first Planters the Dutch c. and the present Condition and Settlement of the said Province and Courts of Justice c. To which is added An Account of the CITY of PHILADELPHIA Newly laid out It s Scituation between two Navigable Rivers Delaware and Skulkill WITH A Portraiture or Plat-form thereof Wherein the Purchasers Lots are distinguished by certain Numbers inserted directing to a Catalogue of the said Purchasors Names And the Prosperous and Advantagious Settlements of the Society aforesaid within the said City and Country c. Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch and at several Stationers in London 1683. A Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governour of PENNSYLVANIA c. My Kind Friends THE Kindness of yours by the Ship Thomas and Anne doth much oblige me for by it I perceive the Interest you take in my Health and Reputation and the prosperous Beginnings of this Province which you are so kind as to think may much depend upon them In return of which I have sent you a long Letter and yet containing as brief an Account of My self and the Affairs of this Province as I have been able to make In the first place I take notice of the News you sent me whereby I find some Persons have had so little Wit and so much Malice as to report my Death and to mend the matter dead a Jesuit too One might have reasonably hop'd that this Distance like Death would have been a protection against Spite and Envy and indeed Absence being a kind of Death ought alike to secure the Name of the Absent as the Dead because they are equally unable as such to defend themselves But they that intend Mischief do not use to follow good Rules to effect it However to the great Sorrow and Shame of the Inventors I am still Alive and No Jesuit and I thank God very well And without Injustice to the Authors of this I may venture to infer That they that wilfully and falsly Report would have been glad it had been So. But I perceive many frivolous and Idle Stories have been Invented since my Departure from England which perhaps at this time are no more Alive than I am Dead But if I have been Vnkindly used by some I left behind me I found Love and Respect enough where I came an universal kind Welcome every sort in their way For here are some of several Nations as well as divers Judgments Nor were the Natives wanting in this for their Kings Queens and Great Men both visited and presented me to whom I made suitable Returns c. For the PROVINCE the general Condition of it take as followeth I. The Country it self in its Soyl Air Water Seasons and Produce both Natural and Artificial is not to be despised The Land containeth divers sorts of Earth as Sand Yellow and Black Poor and Rich also Gravel both Loomy and Dusty and in some places a fast fat Earth like to our best Vales in England especially by Inland Brooks and Rivers God in his Wisdom having ordered it so that the Advantages of the Country are divided the Back-Lands being generally three to one Richer than those that lie by Navigable Waters We have much of another Soyl and that is a black Hasel Mould upon a Stony or Rocky bottom II. The Air is sweet and clear the Heavens serene like the South-parts of France rarely Overcast and as the Woods come by numbers of People to be more clear'd that it self will Refine III. The Waters are generally good for the Rivers and Brooks have mostly Gravel and Stony Bottoms and in Number hardly credible We have also Mineral Waters that operate in the same manner with Barnet and North-hall not two Miles from Philadelphia IV. For the Seasons of the Year having by God's goodness now lived over the Coldest and Hottest that the Oldest Liver in the Province can remember I can say something to an English Understanding 1 st Of the Fall for then I came in I found it from the 24th of October to the beginning of December as we have it usually in England in September or rather like an English mild Spring From December to the beginning of the Moneth called March we had sharp Frosty Weather not foul thick black Weather as our North-East Winds bring with them in England but a Skie as clear as in Summer and the Air dry cold piercing and hungry yet I remember not that I wore more Clothes than in England The reason of this Cold is given from the great Lakes that are fed by the Fountains of Canada The Winter before was as mild scarce any Ice at all while this for a few dayes Froze up our great River Delaware From that Moneth to the Moneth called June we enjoy'd a sweet Spring no Gusts but gentle Showers and a fine Skie Yet this I observe that the Winds here as there are more Inconstant Spring and Fall upon that turn of Nature than in Summer or Winter From thence to this present Moneth which endeth the Summer commonly speaking we have had extraordinary Heats yet mitigated sometimes by Cool Breezese The Wind that ruleth the Summer-season is the South-West but Spring Fall and Winter 't is rare to want the wholesome North Wester seven dayes together And what-ever Mists Fogs or Vapours foul the Heavens by Easterly or Southerly Winds in two Hours time are blown away the one is alwayes followed by the other A Remedy that seems to have a peculiar Providence in it to the Inhabitants the multitude of Trees yet standing being-liable to retain Mists and Vapours and yet not one quarter so thick as I expected V. The Natural Produce of the Country of Vegetables is Trees Fruits Plants Flowers The Trees of most note are the black Walnut Cedar Cyprus Chestnut Poplar Gumwood Hickery Sassafrax Ash Beech and Oak of divers sorts as Red White and Black Spanish Chestnut and Swamp the most durable of all of All which there is plenty for the use of man The Fruits that I find in the Woods are the White and Black Mulbery Chestnut W●●lnut Plumbs Strawberries Cranberries Hurtleberries and Grapes of divers sorts The great Red Grape now ripe called by