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In Tinicum, he met with members of the local historical society.  He noted the rebuilding of the house in which Governor Printz resided.  (It had burned in 1822.)                     While on the New York City trip, Watson took notice of many changes en route.  He found that \"former towns had grown into cities.\"  He mentioned that Long Island had always seemed little visited until the railroad made transportation easier.  After recalling memories from his youth, Watson noted that the New York of his old age was a busy, pushy, noisy, vainglorious show where there were abundant riches and palatial expenditures.  \"I felt,\" Watson confided,\" that New York was a place to visit & see wonder, but not to abide.\"      \nWatson was born in Batsto, New Jersey, the son of William and Lucy Fanning Watson.  In 1806 he opened a mercantile house in Philadelphia and was later listed as a bookseller and stationer.  In 1814, Watson accepted a position as cashier of the Bank of Germantown and received a notary public commission.  He remained with the bank until 1848.  He then became secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, where he remained until 1859.  Watson was also an amateur historian and a pioneer in the use of oral histories and public opinion questionnaires.  He published, among other works, Annals of Philadelphia, Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Settlement and Advancement of New York City and State, and Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Early Settlement  and Progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.  In 1812 he married Phebe Barron Crowell and had 7 children."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1839 - D:00 M:00 Y:1855"},{"label":"Creator","value":"John Fanning Watson (1779-1860)"},{"label":"Place","value":"Cape Island, New Jersey; Long Beach, New Jersey; Tinicum Island, New Jersey; New York, New York"},{"label":"Format","value":["Manuscript"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Diaries","Men-Diaries","New Jersey-Description and travel","New York (N.Y.)-Description and travel"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Collection 189\n83x174.8"},{"label":"Finding Aid","value":"http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0189.htm"},{"label":"Rights","value":["No Copyright - United States"]},{"label":"Source Collection","value":["Watson Family Papers (Col. 189)"]}],"description":"Excursions & Notes by the Way by John F. Watson.  Trip to Cape Island 1 to 10 Augt 18390 Trip to Mansion of Health, Long Beach 1844.  A Drive through the Neck to Penrose's ferry '45.  Visit to Tinicum Island 1852.  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Trip to Cape Island 1 to 10 Augt – 1839 -    Trip to Mansion of Health, Long Beach 1844.    A Drive through the Neck to Penrose’s ferry – ‘45    Visit to Tinicum Island 1852.    Trip to New York & Long Island May ’55."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/192b93ea-f78f-4c93-b271-b14e605c6b64/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"0 title page","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/72e4472e-1d75-46d5-8b44-a96ec591238a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/72e4472e-1d75-46d5-8b44-a96ec591238a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_2","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Excursions & Notes by the Way   by John F Watson –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/72e4472e-1d75-46d5-8b44-a96ec591238a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"1","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c829f97-c63a-4f89-a4c6-31d39e01e696/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c829f97-c63a-4f89-a4c6-31d39e01e696","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Notes by the Way, at Cape Island.     1 to 10 Augt 1839 –    Having before experienced the benefits of  preserving recollections of incidents seen  and noticed in travel, I still incline to   continue the practice –       What incidents do Cape Island visits offer for reflection & contemplation.  We   come and go just like our entrances into, and exits from life.  We meet company and   seem cordial in our interchange of sentiments and civilities, and quickly the union of   hearts is dissolved.  Closer unions are occasionally formed which eventuate in pledges for   life.  One seems pained to consider that other attachments formed in hearts of congenial   mould should have no further future chance for perpetual friendship.  Life itself is just   such a scene of unions formed & unions dissolved.  Just when our hopes are highest and   our prospects most promising for lasting good, there comes a blight!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c829f97-c63a-4f89-a4c6-31d39e01e696/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":2125,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/894b146f-8fb6-4c1e-b93a-d4028b6331d7/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/894b146f-8fb6-4c1e-b93a-d4028b6331d7","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2125,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"till called up in the morning at 7 O’Clock to go over the bay – in two hours, to the desired   Mansion of Health, well kept there by David Church, at a board of 5 Ds a week – Found   few boarders left – had been 120 in number – but in lieu of company, had the table and   the choice of rooms & of recreations to our own command.  Find there our friend Mr   Richd C Allan, who has been there in 19 years in successn.  There he had his own boat   for pleasure excursions & took us out daily in water excursions along the bay – fishing,   sailg & gunning – The daughters – Selina and Almira & the wife were delighted with   such excursions – My son too, was charmed with his chances of shooting, and catching   fish – The place abounds with birds & fishes – Our sea bathing was healthful,   invigorating, and agreeable – In these we were joined by Mr Jamason of Philada – At   night we could see Wigivassing parties off in the bay alluring sheep-heads with their   flambeaux – Their glare of"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/894b146f-8fb6-4c1e-b93a-d4028b6331d7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":2125,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c347a5f-d143-4dda-a0f0-016865d5e888/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c347a5f-d143-4dda-a0f0-016865d5e888","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2125,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"light looks like light houses set on the waters – Good oysters & clams abound & my   daughters could catch crabs in abundance – No Sea shore pleases me better than this   Long beach – We visited by boat, Inmans & Perines houses – the last has a fine kitchen   garden on the beach.  He catches numerous fish & Eals & takes them by floating cars to   the New York market - He lives not far from the Barnagat light house which we can see   every night by its lights.  This place must some day become great, where ever they can   provide for more certain & moderately charges conveyances to the shore –    We spent there delightfully & usefully eight days & set out to return on Tuesday the 20   Augt – Came over to the main lad in Allens boat early in the morning & there found   Jennings’ carriage with 4 horses to convey us to Burlington, for 12 Ds –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c347a5f-d143-4dda-a0f0-016865d5e888/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":2125,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ccc1c9c2-4cdb-432b-8fb3-c82a6b13b6fb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ccc1c9c2-4cdb-432b-8fb3-c82a6b13b6fb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2125,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Went forward to Cedar Bridge, to a German man’s Inn where we had a superior breakfast   of many good things for 31 cts each.  My daughters this day delighted in the wilderness   wildness of the Pines – Came to a village of Log houses in the pine woods, the homes of   the wood choppers, making pines into charcoal and was much surprised to find that they   were all french – They looked so like our own country men, that we could not believe our   eyes until we heard them talk with us - They no doubt came from Canada, annually, &   come & go by the facilities of Steam boats on the Hudson –     Inman, at the beach, told me that his father came there from New Port before the   Revolution to settle there, and to catch Whales – Says companies used to come from   Nantucket with Indian assistants – says the sea has since invaded the places where they   then had their camps –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ccc1c9c2-4cdb-432b-8fb3-c82a6b13b6fb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2125,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c28441e9-b510-4a03-a977-deac75a3035c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c28441e9-b510-4a03-a977-deac75a3035c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2125,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The trees still remaining on this Beach seem very old & much hung with moss – The   most of them are Holly – overhung with Grape vines – Between the hills formed of Sand   are fresh water swamps much filled with bushes and grass – Inman said that the Great   Sept gale of 1821 – destroyed the trees, of Holly, Oak, & Cedar which once stood thick   around & about the Mansion of health, now left a dessolate looking sandy waste – The   surf went entirely over the Beach to the Bay side – filling up with sand, all the former   grass & all the fresh water ponds, breaking off near the ground the largest trunks &   leaving the remaining trees, from the dryness of the new sand, to die, - when they were   cut off & sold – especially the large Cedars – Foxes came over to these grounds on the   Ice in the winter & forgot to get away before the Ice breaks up & spoils their passage   back to the main – Then they burrow & conceal themselves for a time – Inman still keeps   his whale boats & boilers for whale oil &c – fishing for whales in the winter – He is now   84 Yrs of age & goes out fishing in the Bay –     The distance from the boarding house to the bathing houses on the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c28441e9-b510-4a03-a977-deac75a3035c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":2125,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c6d3df6f-aa73-475f-a04f-b426d52dd194/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c6d3df6f-aa73-475f-a04f-b426d52dd194","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2125,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Strand is ¼ miles – being just 600 of my steps in ordinary walking & so counted by me.     We used the ox cart, drawn by two oxen in going to bathe & in going up & down   along the beach – We drove them ourselves, by the words haw & gee – and gee boo – A   house was formerly nearer to the Surf owned & dwelt in by Barton – who owned of   Cranmer a former large owner – The snapping mackarel afford much amusement &   success in fishing them with floating bates & lines – along the bay, while sailing in the   boat.     The season was delightful – had no cool mornings & evenings as was said – and   while the days were unusually hot at home, we had only cool agreeable sea breeses or   bay winds –     We all noticed the people as gentle & intelligent – not educated, but no fools –   Naturally smart – A kind of brotherhood & hospitality among them all –     We all exercised the art of suiting ourselves to every thing & allowed of nothing   to operate as discomforts – We really enjoyed ourselves – We had flute music and   singing –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c6d3df6f-aa73-475f-a04f-b426d52dd194/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":2125,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9eea6d2e-11be-49d4-863c-7d8a7d3c25b2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9eea6d2e-11be-49d4-863c-7d8a7d3c25b2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Such scenes so pleased my son Barron that he desired to remain behind us another week   & to come home, if he could by sea –     We came as far as Mt Horry on our return the same day at Evening – There took   our suppers & lodgings at Stryckers hotel – next morning rode to Burlington - & started   in the Trenton Steam boat at 7 ½ ‘O’Clock – arrived at City at 9 ¼ O’Clock – took a two   horse Cab & soon got home safe & sound to a late breakfast -     Spent in the excursion 55 Ds – and the Season was exactly right.      In our passage down we met unexpectedly a scene of great sublimity – one of terror and   beauty, - the woods on fire, as we supposed – It was night, when before us as if a mile or   two distant we saw light spring up in the horizon, & continue to enlarge & brighten – We   thought of its possible approach to us & to our hurt, of not destruction – Finally as we   neared it, we gladly perceived it to lay more on the side of us, as giving us a means of   escape – In a moment suddenly in turning a point in the road, we broke in full view upon   an extended scene of fire, as 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up from the ground among the trees – It was admirably brilliant, & the trees   standg out in relief - & their tops filled with light – as we passd along our road, crowded   with trees on both sides, they seemed filled with glorious light, as if Heaven descended –   We could almost have looked abroad for angels! – Before us & around us, the Pine trees,   as loaded with light & their own shades, took every possible form of architectural &   edificial beauty – It was all like enchantment – And like it the imagery soon dissolved, by   showing us abruptly an open field, along the back margin of which was a long train of   gathered brushwood, purposely set on fire, and watched, by the passing to & fro watchers   – who seemd like so many Hebrew children walking unhurt, in the fiery furnace of   Nebuchadnezer! – The scene lay close to Cedar Bridge, where we stopped for a while –   and still enjoyed the gorgeous imagery which the fine light got up for our enjoyment – It   was all a surpassing Pyrotecnic display of wonder & beauty – Not to be soon 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Drive along the Schuylkill  to Penrose’s ferry – 1845       On the 29 April – with a fine sunny day – and the air redolent with floral sweets, I   sent with a friend, in a drive, through parts of the neck & along the eastern shore of the   Schuylkl – The vegetable gardens were numerous, and the cultivators busy in producing   for the Philada market – It was cheering to see the hand of industry producing so many   excellencies for the table – The country is all level & low – our roads were zig zag and   meandering – At last we came out upon the Schl. at the Swan Tavern, and soon after   abruptly upon a sudden turn, which really startled me, being so close upon a steep bank   upon the riverside, well faced with primitive trees & shrubbery of nature’s planting – It   was the neighborhood of the Hamburg hotel, where we stopped and refreshed with mine   Host Lafferty – There I looked abroad and ruminated – This place now visited by many   carriages with families seeking country air 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the same position & scenery, as was before once enjoyed by the primitive Swedes   and the Indians – Here their canoes my have been seen in many places upon the placid   surface of the river – then the fish regale was abundant – how much more wild & lofty   must have been the then numerous trees, since removed – In this bend, most probably   was the Techohe Rassi, spoken of by Lindstrom where Olofe Stille, the freeman Swede,   had his residence – and by reason of the two creeks letting in above & below it, nearly   surrounded by water – There by reason of his black beard, and hairy vest, he was called   by the Indians the black bear – He probably lived in a block house – (ie made of logs)   having loop holes for defence if needful – How little thought any inhabitant then, of the   gay & splendid vehicles which now visit the place, or of the Great & gay city grown up   to such magnificence – They scarcely ever forecasted, so as to conceive of the scenes   around them as ever loosing its 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thought nothing of vapour vessels & coal carriers thronging the river, nor of rail   roads traversing fields – many of which were still in woods even in the time of the   Revolution – They did not even foresee a city market for their vegetables – They then   lived each for themselves – Schools & fashionable cloathing were unknown – This   Hamburg hotel, was an enterprise of a Hollander, in 1799 – who hoped to draw many of   his countrymen from Philada to quaff his Rhenish wine – Then there were many Dutch   merchts at Philada engaged in shipping coffee &c to Holland, as Carriers, while France &   Engld were at war –     We proceeded thence, by lanes & roads leading through great grass meadows –   with water ditches – feeding many cattle & looking like paradisaical gardens to them, -   until we came to Penrose’s ferry at the mouth of the Schl – I saw nothing as I proceeded   like remains of any ancient houses – none of logs such as the Swedes might have   constructd – They all looked modern & small – We passed one indeed – the oldest   looking near the Hambg hotel, which because it was the homestead now of the 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little our forefathers ever thought of such a conveyance for the Sea shore, as   I now experience in the Steamer - - - Captn Whilder – and still less of ever making Cape   Island a place of summer indulgence & sea bathing.     Set off at 7 O’Clock A M. & reach Delaware City at 11, O,Clock – Looks now   quite a Town of brick.  Fine breezes & cooling all day –     Soon are off Reedy Island & Port Penn.  How much is this the home of arriving &   departing marriners – Several sea vessels present.     Have many passengers with us – Yet how awkard to be mixed into one family,   with whom you may not speak     Arrive at the Cape at 4 PM.  There we see a dozen of Sea Vessels coming in – all   bearing so many loads to minister to the artificial wants of society –     My chief conversation to day was with James Y. Humphreys of Philada & with   Richardson a pilot & with Captn Davis.     If the passengers in Steam vessels to Europe should be as distant as ours for 14 to   16 days, it would be intolerable.  In a ship, all make a common acquaintance.     It was quite a novelty to make our landing at a regular wharf on the Bayside.  The   county across had stout corn & green pastures –     I put up at Captn Humphry Hughes house & see a table set for sixty persons –   board at 9 Ds per week – A quiet family house –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a93dcc7a-67c4-4915-a95c-000bca902789/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":2113,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dddb92b-131e-488e-8cbb-c767df77a19d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dddb92b-131e-488e-8cbb-c767df77a19d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2113,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"family – and therefore of a Swedish descent I have here copied as it stood near the road   along the River.  It was of brick & must have had substantial owners, when erected –    (Note:  here follows a pencil drawing of said house.)      Arrived at Penrose’s ferry, the scow or bridge was sent over to meet us & convey us   across – which they did cheaply – carriage, horse & our slaves for a shilling – The ferry   house is on the west side of the Schuylkill on moderately rising ground, - on what is   called Province Island – so called because it was originally purchased by the Province as   a place on which to build a Lazaretto, for sick immigrants arriving from abroad – Here it   is all grass land – intersected by water ditches – At the river side where we landed was   somewhat of an elevation jutting out into the river, and there as we were told were many   Indian remains as a place of immemorial Sepulture – I examined the broken banks   crumbling on the river shore & soon picked up a few of their small bones & sundry of   their clay burnt pottery – We were told that the people still found good fishing here with   hook & line -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dddb92b-131e-488e-8cbb-c767df77a19d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":2113,"width":1400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffaa655f-517d-46b5-909a-f6370933d4d9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffaa655f-517d-46b5-909a-f6370933d4d9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2113,"width":1400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Inquiring of the landlord for wonders, or any thing traditional relating to the past, - he   showed us at half a mile distance, along the ferry road a large brick house, upon rising   ground, which he said was generally regarded as the most ancient of all the Country, &   that some said it was a Swedes house & probably had loop holes for defence – We went   to it, and found it tenanted by the family of Casper Trites and to belong to the Blakely   family in England – He called his premises an Island of 300 acres, & called it Blakely   Island – The water which may have surrounded it (part of Mingo Creek) was not visible   to our eyes, except a range of water, 12 or 14 feet wide along the Eastn front of the house,   like a broad ditch – There was near the house a good brick enclosure as a family burying   ground, in which was a vault having of the Blakelys a husband & wife & two children –   Perhaps early settlers, early killed off by agues & fevers – once probably prevalent there   – I can’t imagine that any Swede, save one like Govr Printz, could have ever constructed   in that day so substantial a house – and that of bricks too – The"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffaa655f-517d-46b5-909a-f6370933d4d9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":2113,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/634af329-6106-4740-8312-d2e0ff55af93/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/634af329-6106-4740-8312-d2e0ff55af93","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2113,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"bricks look of the character of a century ago – because the eastern front, presents the   intervening glazed bricks, used for ornament –    (Note:  here follows a drawing titled, Blakely house &c)    many windows once in the house have been closed up – where I have marked  I – The   side along the road having little dots .... in the 2d story look like scaffolding marks – but   they have been called loop holes, as if against Indians!  There is one mark in the wall,   being from a cannon ball from Fort Mifflin in the time of the Revolution, when it passed   quite through the walls! – The tower like appearance on the roof is the range of two   chimnies united – & having a stair passage to the top, for a look out & where they once   had a bell – and the people now call it the balcony house –     There was nothing very remarkable in the interior of the house – the rooms were   large & few – The inmates seem to know nothing of its history & perhaps wondered at   my curiosity when they had never had any!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/634af329-6106-4740-8312-d2e0ff55af93/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"23","height":2113,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ff93741d-7c13-468a-866a-4e2434d5c5a1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ff93741d-7c13-468a-866a-4e2434d5c5a1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2113,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"From thence, we came home by the way of the Blue bell on Darby road – At about half a   mile from the aforesaid house we came to the stump remains of the biggest tree, I had   ever seen, - the stump & roots as they laid visible above ground, seemed to form a circle   of 30 feet!  It had been hewn down close to the road side – The houses & people along   this road looked like happy cultivators -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ff93741d-7c13-468a-866a-4e2434d5c5a1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"24","height":2150,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/06df6dfa-d9d3-47b1-8e82-2cb08a95e2b3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/06df6dfa-d9d3-47b1-8e82-2cb08a95e2b3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Visit to Tinicum  Sept 3, 1852.      Present 8 members of the Historical Society to wit: Edwd Armstrong, Townd   Ward, Doctr Coates, Mr Northrop, Jno Jordan, Aubrey Smith – Mr Hazard – J F Watson.     We made a picnic party to visit this place – there to “note & observe” what we   could as connected with its primitive history as the home of Gov Jno Printz – dwelling in   house called Printz Hall – and protected by the “Fortress” of New Gottenberg – All was   gone!  We were a merry, gay party, above ground; - and they – the Swedes were all   below!  It was melancholy to think, that we walked about where they were once to do the   same – and were now all – Nonest Inventus.     The big Tinicum, is 9 miles round – has 3 miles of length along the Delaware   river front – and is about 1 ½ miles wide – has about 26 houses.     It is the mysterious Island; because, altho an island in fact, it is not at all obvious   to the eye of the visitor."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/06df6dfa-d9d3-47b1-8e82-2cb08a95e2b3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"25","height":2150,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/368199af-ab06-410d-9289-c35b7754d6f9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/368199af-ab06-410d-9289-c35b7754d6f9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"In 1696 the Island sold for 500 ₤ and was estimated at but 500 acres; but now, by   draining, reclaiming & embankments it is 2700 acres, and is worth from 300000 to   350,000 Ds – and has been higher – Now lessened because cattle can be raised in the   West and sent to market by the Railroads.     We visited the place, by going by the Railroad Cars – an enterprise never dreamed   of by the Swedish settlers.  We get out at the house of Alexr H Smith (brother of Aubrey   S.) where we also made our outdoor dinner, under the trees – With Alexr~ we walked   about the lands and heard the traditions &c.     Now it was all cleared fields and grass lots, with here & there a primitive tree of   the forest left – It was originally, all in woods in the dry places of the land, and had   swamps surrounding it in which were Cedars.  The Waters which surrounded it was made   from Darby Creek on the South"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/368199af-ab06-410d-9289-c35b7754d6f9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"26","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b9b382f-e59e-4983-8bf9-4f3bd3231cb9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b9b382f-e59e-4983-8bf9-4f3bd3231cb9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"incling to and eventually joining to Longhook water, on the No east side.     We found the site of the place where once stood Printz Hall – which had been   consumed by fire in 1822 – and was now rebuilt by a three storied brick house – plastered   over white – with a double front.  There we found laying about some of the original small   yellow brick – imported from Sweden, and also some of rather thicker sise& red –   probably made here – We brought off some as specimens – as the only relics.  The house   stands close to the front of the River bank – some 3 or 400 feet Southwd from the   Lazaretto premises – The Lazaretto buildings are now the best landmarks whereby to   know the locality of the Swedes, in passing along the Delaware, in vessels &c.     Mrs Morris, a widow of 76 Yrs of age – living near there, who had seen the Printz   Hall, described it as 1 ½ Story high – having a high double hipped roof"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b9b382f-e59e-4983-8bf9-4f3bd3231cb9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"27","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7217ef32-dfef-4297-bc2f-aa9c4337250b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7217ef32-dfef-4297-bc2f-aa9c4337250b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the house of brick – with a long Piazza in front and a ground floor of a big hall in the   middle – running through with two good rooms on one side, and one big room, and the   stair way on the other side.    (Note:  here follows an ink drawing of the described house.)      In the front of this house, as says the tradition, – was a Fort or Fortress, - and near   by a church & a grave ground – the River invasioned all along the banks (very visible   now) have long since, washed away all remains of the same – For very heavy swells set   on the shore in So East storms.  At the site where is now “the Hotel”, were seen formerly   some bones of the dead, sticking out of the River bank – as if showing that there had been   probably the site of the burial place.  This was related by Mr Smith, the father of Alexr &   Aubrey Smith –      None of the population seem to have preserved any traditions of any value as   illustrating former times."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7217ef32-dfef-4297-bc2f-aa9c4337250b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"28","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f42ee3cd-b33e-48f9-a296-95ee80a814ab/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f42ee3cd-b33e-48f9-a296-95ee80a814ab","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The Smith family, only know that the woods nearest to them, some few years ago, were   much visited as the safe home of the bitterns and cranes – for roosting; - and by   consequence, they greatly enriched the land, under them, by their guano deposits.  They   now congregate in another woods in sight, not far off.     We visited the largest oak tree, left, and nearest to the walks of Govr Printz – a   large one doubtless of his day as it now girths 16 to 17 feet.  We may safely say he   visited it often, because of its having at its base a very fine spring of pure water – and   laying between Printz Hall & Printz Farm – near the River front.  We all drank of this   water, and felt no doubt that we were doing there what Govr Printz & all the Swedes   must have done in their day –     ‘Twill soothe to have been where they have been    And please to have seen what they have seen.       Even the Indians refreshed at the same fount."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f42ee3cd-b33e-48f9-a296-95ee80a814ab/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_24","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"29","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5a161bf-39cf-49f4-86fc-bab629280427/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5a161bf-39cf-49f4-86fc-bab629280427","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_24","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We sat about upon the enormous roots and imagined the Companies of Swedes and   Indians who had preceded us – and wondered what they then thought of their position –   surrounded with things rough & crude – This big tree is about 250 Yds No Eastd of the   Lazaretto burial ground – In that Ground are marked sundry graves of sickened & dead   emigrants – The Emigrants final resting place – What frustration to their purposes &   aims!     There being no present sick at the Lazaretto, - and of course no Quarantine   vessels in view, - makes the whole settlemt of the Lazaretto ground – a perfectly Sleepy   quiet – one feels queerly to see so many extended buildings and garden grounds – and no   people to be seen stirring about.  One cannot but feel the stillness.  No business seems to   be moving, except seeing three different men, in their several sheds, making Cedar   clinker boats – to be used by gentlemen for pushing among Reeds for birds – They"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5a161bf-39cf-49f4-86fc-bab629280427/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_25","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":2150,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/88b55ef0-f1df-4e21-80c7-5282ea1a9c1e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/88b55ef0-f1df-4e21-80c7-5282ea1a9c1e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_25","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Ingoing round to Congress Hall, the Mansion House, Saints &c, I feel surprised to see so   few faces known to me – they are generally young people –     At night we have fine fire works, for two hours at a subcn of 100 Ds, done by the   compy at Congress Hall.  It gathered much of the Country population - & the whole   people seemed 1000. –     I bathed the same night, much by myself.            Friday, 2 Augt.  rise at Sun rise to see its ascent on the Ocean, like a great fire   balloon.                 I like my house & company – genteel people and quiet.  Make acquaintance with   Judge Jones of New Castle & family.     I’ve picked up the Life of Wilberforce – itself a wonder – that of a great public   man, being a religious character.  I see many thoughts in it in my spirit, which causes my   eyes to flow – with emotions of joy & gratitude. – “He would think of sins of long past   occurence, and saying, that specific objects shame him in the recollection”. – Like   Washington, loving and seeking retirement & quiet, and yet always in public.  “He   enjoyed music & sang like a black bird in the field, & lawns – he having always the   spirits of a boy” –     Saw a ball at Ludlams – much compy there, but few faces known to me –     Board of some other houses – vizt.  Stimson’s house, westd at 7 Ds – Swains   house, eastd 5 Ds – Whildins house uproad 5 Ds.  I shall be glad to hear of many houses   for the middle class – They need equally, a chance for Sea air & repose."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/88b55ef0-f1df-4e21-80c7-5282ea1a9c1e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_26","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"30","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6e73b606-7fde-4c2e-885c-71a8443e5fb4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6e73b606-7fde-4c2e-885c-71a8443e5fb4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_26","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"They are very neat – weigh but 70 lb – and sell for 25 Ds – Saw half a dozen on hand for   Sale –     We were shown a two storied white frame house – near to Alexr H Smith (across   the Railroad) in neat and good present condition, which we were told had been an early   house there and had long gone into apparent decay & worthlessness – and was therefore   ordd by Mr Smiths’ father to be pulled down, - but when the Carpenter’s came to the   works, and had broken off the wasted outside boards, they found it wholly constructed of   Cedar frame in excellent state, and which they said had been constructed from the   original Cedars found in the marshy grounds primarily behind the house – along the   watery lands of Darby Creek.  Looking from that house across the open grass fields – it   seemed as one continuous spread of grass verdure - & no Creek visible to"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6e73b606-7fde-4c2e-885c-71a8443e5fb4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_27","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"31","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9080f676-98b7-45ea-b4b4-4a7ab424dc3f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9080f676-98b7-45ea-b4b4-4a7ab424dc3f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_27","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to intervene – But while we looked, we saw the white sails of a Sloop marking its   progress along the line of the invisible Creek – Thus showing us, that we were indeed on   an Island.  None of the Passengers, passing here daily by the Railroad Cars, have any   conception that they are travelling upon an island – the waters being so narrow & shallow   where they pass over Long hook, stream.     The island of Little Tinicum is obvious enough as a Reedy Island out in mid   Delaware – It once had some dry land of 40 acres banked in – and dwelt upon by a tenant   family there – who occupied for a Mr Morton.  It is said to have been laid open to water   invasion by the Americans in the time of the Revolty War, to prevent the British from   using it for its approaches on Mud Fort.  The part embanked was only the highest part of   the island"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9080f676-98b7-45ea-b4b4-4a7ab424dc3f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_28","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"32","height":2150,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a639ef15-db9f-4bee-b36c-e3ac25e7edc8/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a639ef15-db9f-4bee-b36c-e3ac25e7edc8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_28","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"At one period – probably after the War – the family there were flooded in a great storm &   had to seek refuge on the roof From thence they were taken off, and in passing them over   to the Main land at Tinicum, Mr Morton, who lived at Printz Farm, was drowned.     It is to be remembered in connection with the foregoing, that the Swedes, of   whom we have been speaking came out here in 1637 – and Govr Printz arrived in 1642.     The house in which Mrs Morris was living as owner, was built of logs upwards of   100 Yrs ago – This verified because a big buttonwood, before it, is known to have been   planted there in 1750 –     People now wonder that such a site, (so tame of appearance as Tinicum) was   originally chosen, - when they had the whole County open before them.  The same   remarks might equally"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a639ef15-db9f-4bee-b36c-e3ac25e7edc8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_29","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"33","height":2188,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/78ffe56b-ecf5-47e6-8991-cf9398798316/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/78ffe56b-ecf5-47e6-8991-cf9398798316","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2188,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_29","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"apply to the tame appearance of Penns first choice up at Pennsbury – I apprehend that the   same reason is equally true of both places, to wit:  a place secure for retaining Cattle   without the use & expense & labour of fencing; - and also, to give a safe harbour for their   vessels and water craft in times of driving ice in the Winter – The same reasons may be   equally said of Burlington as an Island – We may quote Germantown, as an illustration of   what the first settlers considered the operation of fencing – There they made, by a   common labour of the whole Community – an outside boundary fence for the whole   Township –and left the afterwork of individual fences to the time & convenience of land   holders severally –    The People too of Tinicum, like those at Pennsby & Burlington, had a great concern to   find low land, for natural grass"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/78ffe56b-ecf5-47e6-8991-cf9398798316/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_30","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"34","height":2150,"width":1400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/85e9bae6-381d-4ec3-b90d-7c50caa14f55/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/85e9bae6-381d-4ec3-b90d-7c50caa14f55","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_30","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"as upland grass, - was then not understood or known –     Who can stand on the Soil of Tinicum now – such gentlemen as ourselves, of the   present day, reflecting on the elegancies & refinements of our present life – and look   abroad, upon the large ships & steamers passing to & fro, - and then revert back to the   times of the Swedes, on the same soil 200 years ago, - and not exclaim behold the mighty   change!     Here the Swedes dwelt in Log houses – dressed in skins & homemade wool &   flax, - abounded in game & fish – had every where behind them, interminable wild   woods, & prowling beasts of prey – Indians too, every where for neighbours – Now, -   every where, there are fine mansions – cultivated farms – good roads – numerous   manufactories, and a dense & energetic population"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/85e9bae6-381d-4ec3-b90d-7c50caa14f55/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_31","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"35","height":2150,"width":1400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d50f8b9f-fcf6-4d67-bf27-a06a2c608e0c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d50f8b9f-fcf6-4d67-bf27-a06a2c608e0c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2150,"width":1400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_31","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"In these are intermixt the descendants of the first Swedes – All anglicised into one whole   united Mass –     Farewell to the Swedes and Farewell to the Dutch, of the earliest days – long   since lost as a separate race, - and amalgamated into one American Society of Citizens –   Free & Independent too!           John F. 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May 1855."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dcd40b1a-ae5e-42dc-a20f-b31c924cfa83/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_33","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"37","height":2125,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/caa61131-ca67-4a06-a882-3060d63660d1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/caa61131-ca67-4a06-a882-3060d63660d1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_33","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Trip to New York City & Long Island.   May 14 to 18th 1855.    ________________________________     After an interval of five years, I again visit New York City, there to note &   observe, and to see my Son Doctr B.C. Watson, in his establishmt as a mercht. – on the   same occasion, I make an excursion over on Long Island, going by the Rail road 41 miles   to Thompson’s Station & returning the same day – back to Brooklyn.     We left Philada on Monday 14th May at 10 AM. by Rail road, going via Camden,   Trenton, and Jersey City – where we arrived at 2 P.M. –     The intermediate Country, how improved and changed!  The former towns, had   grown into Cities, with their new streets filled up with houses, & loosing to the eye their   former charms of rural rusticity & picturesqueness.  Changing too, Country men &   manners, to City life & fashion.  As well coursed along the line of the road, laid side by   side along the great Canal, how impressive was the thought of the immense amount in   money disbursed for the two objects.  What a"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/caa61131-ca67-4a06-a882-3060d63660d1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_34","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"38","height":2125,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/94c3804f-c10d-4ad0-ac24-9a3cdda56bd4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/94c3804f-c10d-4ad0-ac24-9a3cdda56bd4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_34","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"scheme for drawing surplus capitals from the two great Cities, to enrich the Country   owners along the two tracts.  The result was shown in the improvements of the farms &   houses: - by such operations casting treasure into the laps of the Country proprietors.    How strange to consider that Sea vessels, could thus be brought inland to traverse   through the Sandy & pine lands of Jersey.  How different all the region of Country laying   between the Raritan River (from Brunswick & Amboy) to Trenton, from what it was in   the time of the Public friends George Fox & Edmundson, when in 1677, they could not   find their way across the Woodland waste altho’ assisted by an Indian guide, and had to   go back again, & get a new departure and new instructions!  “Trade has changed the   scene”, indeed.     How very different too, was the morass flats, far extending towards Jersey City,   from New Ark – once a narrow muddy cast up road with water-ditches on each side, -   now a dry"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/94c3804f-c10d-4ad0-ac24-9a3cdda56bd4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_35","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"39","height":2125,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/043c62f5-87e8-4f5a-a18c-e5248282e17d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/043c62f5-87e8-4f5a-a18c-e5248282e17d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_35","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Railroad, and lands on each side, ditched & drained, and turned into nursery gardens &c.    Jersey City too, turned from its former Ferry house premises, on a little knoll, -   surrounded every where with water lots & waste, - now filled up, and made the   foundation of Streets & houses, - even enlarged to a prosperous City, within the term of   my own life. -     Even Camden City, from which I started, now large, & extending down to   Gloucester point, had been within my own recollection, a vacant place, laying in open   grass commons, which had been before occupied – as seen by its hillocks, in common   Corn fields - & having for its only population the families of the three coopers, at the   three ferries! –     In extension of these same views of changes made since my boyhood, I may refer   to the present City of Brooklyn, now so large & affluent, & City like in men and manners   but when I was a boy, having only one ferry house"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/043c62f5-87e8-4f5a-a18c-e5248282e17d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_36","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/70e92034-973d-4424-9337-509c0a5dadc4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/70e92034-973d-4424-9337-509c0a5dadc4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_36","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The departure of company from 8 ½ to 9’ O’Clock, each morning brings out many   lookers on – I hear nothing of gamblers & blag leg gentry here – I make most   acquaintance here with Mr Jas Imbrie Jun of Baltre & his friend Miss Louisa Cole & her   mother –     I feel the want of cordial companionship even amidst the crowd – Some of my   own family if here would be most grateful “to enjoy with him who shares his pleasures &   his heart sweet converse”, or “with his books well chosen and not sullenly perused in   selfish silence, but imparted oft, as ought occurs that she may smile to hear”.     Here is Wm Craigs family - Josiah Randalls  J Wisters family – Saml Masons –   Robt Earps – Canby of Wilmington – one lady a Mrs Hansen, seems bent to make   reprisals on her land lord, by her gross eating & calling so often “more oysters”!     Some of the company must be real parvenus; yet how readily they pass for current   coin with most.  “Well dressed, well equipaged is ticket good enough to pass them   readily through every door”!     The streets at night, are very full of walkers and seem so like “the City full”.     Several good stores & groceries – also a new Church –     The advance of refinements here is not so pleasant here as it was formerly – They   cant now amalgamate; and now pleasure parties for specific objects, can now no longer   embrace the whole – They are also divided now by the seperate amounts, found severally   in the seperate houses –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/70e92034-973d-4424-9337-509c0a5dadc4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_37","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"40","height":2125,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d46eda9b-a33c-4c1d-a527-86d4da38fca1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d46eda9b-a33c-4c1d-a527-86d4da38fca1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_37","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and its out house accompaniaments, such as I had sketched it, & as it is seen engraved in   Harpers Magze of July last – Then its front along the East river was a beautiful &   towering acclivity of many trees & shrubs in their native character & state. – The whole   place then presenting only a Country aspect. – Even now; that same high bank front   presents a beautiful grass-bank slope, to the roofs of houses, below it.     I had long before been desirous of seeing the inland state & productions of Long   Island.  I had before, only travelled as far as Flushing & Flat Bush – It had seemed to me,   as all beyond to be a kind of Terra incognita, little visited – before the opening of the   Railroad, through its whole length. – It had been conjectured by me, as a region of   Country, to be someday redeemed from Scrub pine barrens, and made into vegetable   gardens (like New Jersey) for the supply of New York"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d46eda9b-a33c-4c1d-a527-86d4da38fca1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_38","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"41","height":2125,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f9f5f5ad-9436-4b1b-ba5c-0a3f026d68c1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f9f5f5ad-9436-4b1b-ba5c-0a3f026d68c1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_38","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"markets – as being in fact a providential adjustmt to the requirements of a Great City.    How appropriate, such a vicinity.  While thinking over the actions & doings of the past,   the mind reverted back to first settlers – the Walloons, Hugonots, and New Englanders: -   So primitive & comfortable in their possessions, until the discomfitures of War and its   calamities in the Revolution. – The imagination, drove off the Indians, - “wasted &   peeled”, and then peopled the country with hostile armies fighting in various localities &   jeopardising the fate of the future. – How many fell in the various struggles! – The whole   population of a once peaceful people made to take sides in their several anticipations of   the future, and families arrayed against each other. – The mind reverted back to the   terrible scenes and operations at the Wallabout, and the dead prisoners whelm’d in Pits -;   There minggled in undistinguished mass, my own  maternal Grd father John Fanning,   from his sick bunk in the Strombolo – At the same time, his cousin Col Edmd Fanning,   was"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f9f5f5ad-9436-4b1b-ba5c-0a3f026d68c1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_39","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"42","height":2125,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e57b8d3-4f58-4276-943a-cc814393c2c9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e57b8d3-4f58-4276-943a-cc814393c2c9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2125,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_39","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"commanding a Regt of Royal Amcns on the British side, in the pride & elevation of   Conqurors.  Such losses – my own family, (losing besides the Father John Fanning, his   three Sons, officers in the Amcn Navy, by untimely deaths therein) paid as their   contribution, to the establishment of the Self-government, which we all now so richly   enjoy.     I took the Railroad at 10 A.M. and went thereon 41 miles to Thompson’s Station   – and returned the same day, by 2 P.M. – For 31 miles of the Rout, as far as Farmington,   the Country on both sides of the Road, was in fine cultivation, & cheered with numerous   well built residences of prosperous cultivators.  They did not much use the soil for   vegetables just because grass & hay was more remunerative – for hay was paying 1 to 1   ¼ Dolls p {  }.  What I saw as far as Farmington, showed me how the land, throughout   the length of the Island could be done in the future; - And from Farmington to   Thompson’s Station – 10 miles,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e57b8d3-4f58-4276-943a-cc814393c2c9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_40","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"43","height":2100,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6219ba80-ff72-4b0a-b07b-4c66545d905f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6219ba80-ff72-4b0a-b07b-4c66545d905f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2100,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_40","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"presented a fair specimen, in primitive scrub oaks & small pines, of the kind of land,   which is hereafter to be redeemed.  The Freight Cars, I noticed, were carrying supplies of   city manure & ashes for the lands; - and other Cars, were taking back loads of pressed   hay for the City supply – Every thing is progressive – one sees it every where, and in   every thing.  The Passenger & Freight Cars, one can foresee, are destined to bring every   thing nigh, and to cast riches, broadcast, over all the land!  Those lands, was once the   roving fields of Deer and grouse; but the sportsmen are destroying all – Fish & Oysters,   from the Sea side, in abundance are destined to supply their place – “Watering places”,   will be established to the pleasure & recreation & health of many of the City people.    How wise & beneficient the Providence which forecasted for such results.  “How happy   the people where God is the Lord”!  Est tu perpetua!     In returning back, I got out of the Cars at Cypress-Hill station, a part of East New   York, there to visit the family of Doctr Edmunds, who had married the daughter (Mary)   of my early friend and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6219ba80-ff72-4b0a-b07b-4c66545d905f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_41","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"44","height":2100,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9fc34ff5-d17b-4338-822a-890199045306/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9fc34ff5-d17b-4338-822a-890199045306","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2100,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_41","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"associate Joseph Delaplaine, once of Philada – It was a grateful visit for its many   associations bringing up many images of the past, when he & I were companions in many   youthful transactions.  They have three daughters – just rising into womanhood. (Mary,   JuneL, & Josephine) From there, I accompanied to New York City the daughter Mary &   Miss Gerard of 23d Street – and being again back to New York – I thus chronicle some of   my observations & doings in New York City.     New York City, - what a metropolis!  how vastly grown, since I saw it in its   lowliness, when a boy; - When many of the old dutch houses were still remaining; - when   many boarded houses, painted red, were still on every street; - When all expenses of   living were moderate; and hospitality and friendly greetings were every where   abounding.  A wholly different population, now everywhere occupy their places – Riches   have become abundant – palatial expenditure is every where seen – All is now a busy,   pushg scene."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9fc34ff5-d17b-4338-822a-890199045306/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_42","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"45","height":2100,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d86c62cf-2a90-4df2-a6ea-3075e5f89f98/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d86c62cf-2a90-4df2-a6ea-3075e5f89f98","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2100,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_42","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The crowd & din of omnibuses is every where disturbing – It is indeed a noisy place to   sicken & die in – A hard place for such unavoidable destinies – Steam boats, Packet   steamers, and Hotels. are all of sumptuous order – as if all were destined to absorb & use   up the Gold of California.  Really, it constrains me to forecaste, what may be the future   results & operations of our Nation, as a people – subject to God’s purposes in the future!    He will not fail to govern & rule, I know.  I cannot say that I have ample satisfaction in   the contemplation of the future.  It is surrounded like His throne “in clouds & darkness”.     The vainglorious show of New York in expensive decorations in buildings,   furniture &c was so manifest, that I could not but feel a sense of satisfaction in our   Philada City, in all points of comparison; in which we had not arrived as imitators – How   incongruous for men once humble in occupation & state, to thus show out.  New York   was once a place of grateful fellowship; but now in a long walk out 5th Avenue, I could   not but feel myself an alien – They were all exalted out of my sphere – holding a place I   did not envy and could not enjoy – They seemed not to belong to my state of humanity –   I had no sympathies in common"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d86c62cf-2a90-4df2-a6ea-3075e5f89f98/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_43","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"46","height":2100,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9c73cccc-7775-4ecf-b534-af68d730bf82/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9c73cccc-7775-4ecf-b534-af68d730bf82","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2100,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_43","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"with their indwellers, and they, I was sure, had nothing in common with me.  Such life, I   felt was not to my taste.  In opposition to these, was a sordid suffering poor, from whom I   was equally exempt.  “Moderation in all things” seemed best to please my convictions &   associations.  I felt that New York was a place to visit & to see wonders, but not to abide.     I rode out to Harlem & to Harlem River, & returned by Fort Washington,   Claremont, Bloomingdale-Observatory &c.  Saw the Great & elevated Bridge, leading   over the River, the water of the Croton supply.  A strange opposition of science in itself,   as a waste of money in making a viaduct, where none was needed, as the same volume of   Water, could have passed on the River bed below – Thus going back in science to what   the Romans so expensively practised in Spain.  It is said to be done by stratagem, by   means of an injunction, - and done so by a scheme of speculation.     The Country part of the Island, out of New York, still showed verge & room for   enlargemnt of growth – They will be ambitious to fill it up – and thus diminish their   household comforts, and become their own tormentors.  Republicans can’t find enough of   the needed “hewers of wood and drawers of water” to minister to all their artificial wants   & extravacancies – We can’t raise a servile population."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9c73cccc-7775-4ecf-b534-af68d730bf82/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_44","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"47","height":2100,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/41c26fd1-48f3-4683-8b01-46781642bad6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/41c26fd1-48f3-4683-8b01-46781642bad6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2100,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_44","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"And I, for one, am glad – very glad of it.  “I would not have a slave to tremble when I   call”!     Even the very churches & their ministers, founded upon the humble teachings of their   avowed Lord & Master, have gone with the multitude, instead of resisting & damming   the current of worldly mindedness – How can the Gospel be said to be preached to the   poor, when so splendidly occupied by the Exclusives!  Times & things seem out of joint!   Vale!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/41c26fd1-48f3-4683-8b01-46781642bad6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_45","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9f7f7102-c0bc-480b-9f6c-4c4fa39b5055/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9f7f7102-c0bc-480b-9f6c-4c4fa39b5055","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_45","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"On Sunday afternoon had a sermon at Congress Hall, by Mr Prescott – Thom &   Wainwright preached also –     I love to sit quietly & ruminate beholding the world of waters stretching o’er the   distant sight.  “Man gives his praise, but thinks not on its author”.     In the midst of revelling company here, how many strive to forget themselves, by   a lethean leave of all their cares – “In the midst of laughter, compunctions are still   sincere”.  How differently I can feel – I can see and admire all the great objects of nature   which surround me – I want not riot to drown my thoughts and to forget myself     Recd while here a letter of invitation for myself & family to the military   entertainment to be given by my kinsman Colo Fanning of the UStates military encamped   near Trenton –     I have gathered here many Christals of quarts & other fine stones – good enough   for jewelry –     I have made up my mind to prefer the 1 Augt to begin with Sea shore – To begin   sooner returns you too soon to city heat –     I think that all look as if they did not fully satisfy their hopes & expectations    They can’t carry out all their wishes – Dancing for instance gives little chance – Several   are neglected – Ladies too must sit still in one place, until called, if ever –      Affable & accessible manners must be the life & soul of “good society” at a"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9f7f7102-c0bc-480b-9f6c-4c4fa39b5055/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_46","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/384154cd-656b-499e-abbe-ee3ce5730629/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/384154cd-656b-499e-abbe-ee3ce5730629","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_46","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"watering place like Cape May.  We are so mutually dependent for our enjoyments, that it   behooves all to become equal contributors to the friendly interchange of the amities of   social life – In such mixt society, how preeminently it presents the fitting occasion for   female kindness & gentleness to shine – “All constraint except what wisdom lays on evil   men, is evil, - hurts the faculties and tends to form a sordid man”.     Wednesday 7 Augt.  This morning I recd unexpectedly a letter from Lavinia –   quite grateful to hear from home.     Tis excitingly interesting to see the Whale boat go off & on in the surf – used in   landing or delivering the Pilots – It seems full of risk and yet not so, to the instructed   managers –     I made a record on Saints books of the encroachment of the Sea on the shore – say   of about 650 feet, as I had preserved the facts –     Captn Whilden joins me in saying this is the best time for Sea visits – Says the   water grows warmer till Septr –     Friday Augt 9 – comes to my last day here and then will close this brief career of   pleasant life – How many are my thoughts at parting – To go home tomorrow is much   like going home today., because the mind is so much impressed with its nearness to hand.    Yet I shall bathe again to night, & tomorrow"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/384154cd-656b-499e-abbe-ee3ce5730629/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_47","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8230072-207f-416a-b4c9-c99f87eaa985/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8230072-207f-416a-b4c9-c99f87eaa985","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_47","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"morning also & thus making it also a day begun and used on the Cape Sea shore.     At Congress Hall they go to meals by a flourish from a band of music – who cares   for that at that time, - save for its needless expense – It savours more of pretention to   luxury & pleasure, than it realises to any – I could wish that many minds could find more   means of enjoyment in themselves & in the society in which they are mixed.     Saturday morning 10 Augt leave this place of enjoyment at 8 O’Clock PM – and   got off in the Steamer at 9 – See several Ships & brigs going down before the wind,   under full sail – a pleasing tranquil sight.     We have onboard 100 passengers – seem tranquil by exhaustion, or by home   thoughts and cares – Stop at Penn’s Grove N.J. at 3’O’Clock PM, to take in there a large   company of forlorn looking people from a Camp Meeting – nearly all of them pale faced   young women, worn down with excitement & fatigue, and all of sullied garments – a   sorry sight.  I never felt so scandalized – Shame on men to drag them so far from home   and from their proper feminine seclusion from the public gazes!     We arrived at the City by 6, O’Clock, then soon got to my home & found all well   – spent 17 ½ Ds –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8230072-207f-416a-b4c9-c99f87eaa985/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_48","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":2138,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a5d9ed29-f58f-439c-995e-eb0bba517943/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a5d9ed29-f58f-439c-995e-eb0bba517943","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2138,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_48","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Myself & family trip  to the Mansion of Health  on Long Beach – the 12 to 22 Augt 1844            We begin a new enterprise in the way of family happiness, by making an   expedition to the Sea shore of Long beach with a family of grown children – being with   Parents, five in number – the daughter Lavinia, being at the time absent on a visit to   Comdre Barron’s family at Norfolk.  There is something gratifyg in contemplating   Parents & children equally participating in the same enjoyments with the same zest – Let   us therefore notice the incidents and results.     We take early breakfast at home on Monday morning the 12 Augt. and start in a   two horse vehicle at 6, O’Clock to arrive at the new Philada Steam boat and to be off for   Burlington at 7 ½ O’Clock – We had our son John for a driver – Beheld us then set off   from the wharf in Philad – with a large company, and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a5d9ed29-f58f-439c-995e-eb0bba517943/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_49","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":2138,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/538275fa-da98-45e8-aae6-5314f8a86603/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/538275fa-da98-45e8-aae6-5314f8a86603","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2138,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ee9423a-3a64-44c2-a6cc-71aa7cd61382/canvas/_49","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"a distinguished Brass band, making the air sweet with music on the way – We notice the   Country Seats by the way and a fleet of shipping at the newly made town of Richmond –   expensively erected for the reception of Coal – and showing there a new scene of   enterprise destined no doubt to great encrease –     We arrive at Burlington by 9 ½ O’Clock & engage Dobbins two horse carriage to   take us five to Manhawkin ferry – Pass through Mt Holly & see Mrs Shivas’ family –   then go to Vincent Town & make an early dinner of meagre eatables – Then enter the   Pines for a long days journey – using the same good horses for the whole journey – Find   some heavy and dry Sandy roads – See millions of huckleberries & gather them by the   way, as well as wild flowers – My son Barron is expert at springing out and in, as we go   along – We stopt to drink swamp water & to gather pond lilies – arrive at Wilkins’ ferry   late at night – at the end of Manahawkin town – go to bed there & sleep"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/538275fa-da98-45e8-aae6-5314f8a86603/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/192b93ea-f78f-4c93-b271-b14e605c6b64/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}