Annals Of Philadelphia And Pennsylvania In The Olden Time Volume 3

Author : John F. Watson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331696261
Total Pages : 550 pages
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Download or read book Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time, 1879, Vol. 3 of 3 written by John F. Watson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time, 1879, Vol. 3 of 3: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and Its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania Man, drifting with the tide of life, oft fancies he is carving out his own fortune, and yet perhaps at his most fortuitous moments he may be, and often is, the creature of circumstances, or perchance of destiny. That is, his destiny, all unknown to himself, may be already marked out. Or the Law of Inheritance - that which proves that like begets like - quietly but surely outlines his every thought, and leads him to shape his actions, his destiny, to carry out the fixed law. Surely, when the author of this volume, as it lies before him, reflects that circumstances over which he exercised no guiding hand have caused him to be the creator of its existence, he may believe some unseen power, whether it be that of Destiny or of Inheritance, has controlled his actions. For he is the third generation of his family in a direct line that has gathered materials for History, and, according to rule, in a descending scale. The first of the three generations collected materials for the history of the States; the second, of the State; and the third of the City. The publishers of this volume, having purchased the plates and copyrights of John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, requested the compiler to prepare an additional volume of similar character, which, in the light of later research, would eliminate certain facts, and by additions bring some portions down to a recent period; also make necessary corrections of various things that either escaped Mr. Watson's notice, or which documents that were not then accessible have since proved to have been different. It would have been far more easy to write an entirely independent work, and certainly a much more pleasant book might have been produced by thus doing; or it would have been better, perhaps, in many cases to have inserted this later matter in the form of foot-notes in the original volumes or as addenda to the various chapters. But the desire was to leave Mr. Watson's work just as he made it - a work sui generis - so that they who possessed it should be able to add this volume to those, and that they who now obtain the whole work for the first time shall know what is Mr. Watson's and what that of the present Editor. There seemed, then, no other feasible method than to follow Mr. Watson's arrangement, and introduce our facts and articles seriatim and corresponding to his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.