Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early Philadelphia: Its People, Life and Progress
Much must be said about the Quakers. The province was theirs and they controlled, for nearly/ one hundred years, down to the summer of 1776, its policy and legis lation. They were a solid lot, slow but sure, and in any account of the early city obviously become the most con spicuous of the diversified elements of the people. The other groups were for the first seventy years fewer in num bers. Many of the settlers, the Germans and scotch-irish particularly, went off into the wilderness of the frontier to live by themselves, leaving the Quakers in undisturbed control of politics.
This book aims to bring together under one cover many fragmentary and scattered accounts of important and peculiar customs and institutions which live in Philadelphia to-day, serving as useful a purpose in the complexity of modern life as they did when they started. Most of them were original here, and though now perhaps less conspicu ous than similar endeavours in other parts of the nation.
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