History of Franconia TownshipB.L. Gehman, 1886 - 102 |
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Abraham acres Allentown road Barndt Bergey building burying ground Christian Funk colony congregation conia Conrad Creek Reformed church Cressman denominations district Dunkards early election erected established farm feet wash forefathers Franconia Square Franconia township Frederick George George Bilger German Godshall gomery county Goschenhoppen grave graveyard Hackman Hanover township Harley Harleysville Hartzell Herrite houses of worship hundred Hunsberger I. G. Gerhart Indian Creek Reformed Indianfield John John Alt Lancaster county Landis living located log church meeting house Menno Mennonites ment Michael Shoemaker miles ministers Montgomery county names nites North Pennsylvania railroad Oberholtzer organization overseers pastor pence Penn Philadelphia pipe organ poor house post office pounds present day private burying railroad religious residing Salford school house Sellers settled settlement settlers shillings ship Souder Souderton steam Sunday school Telford tion tombstones Towamencin township town township of Franconia tract of land village votes Wile yard
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Strona 99 - ... walk was, a hundred and sixty years ago, so dark after sunset that he would not have been able to see his hand, so ill paved that he would have run constant risk of breaking his neck, and so ill watched that he would have been in imminent danger of being knocked down and plundered of his small earnings.
Strona 99 - Every bricklayer who falls from a scaffold, every sweeper of a crossing who is run over by a carriage, may now have his wounds dressed and his limbs set with a skill such as, a hundred and sixty years ago, all the wealth of a great lord like Ormond, or of a merchant prince like Clayton, could not have purchased.
Strona 99 - But the more we study the annals of the past the more shall we rejoice that we live in a merciful age, in an age in which cruelty is abhorred, and in which pain, even when deserved, is inflicted reluctantly and from a sense of duty. Every class doubtless has gained largely by this great moral change : but the class which has gained most is the poorest, the most dependent, and the most defenceless.
Strona 99 - ... to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavoured to save the life even of the murderer. It is true that compassion ought, like all other feelings, to be under the government of reason, and has, for want of such government, produced some ridiculous and some deplorable effects. But the more we study the annals of the past, the more shall we rejoice that we live in a merciful age, in an age in which cruelty is abhorred, and in which pain, even when deserved, is inflicted reluctantly...
Strona 10 - An Act to Establish a General System of Education by Common Schools...
Strona 98 - The market-place which the rustic can now reach with his cart in an hour was, a hundred and sixty years ago, a day's journey from him. The street which now affords to the artisan, during the whole night, a secure, a convenient...
Strona 99 - It is pleasing to reflect that the public mind of England has softened while it has ripened, and that we have, in the course of ages, become, not only a wiser, but also a kinder people. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher. Masters,...
Strona 37 - A few of these graveyards are maintained in this township, others are neglected and overgrown with brambles and bushes and still others have relapsed into their former uses as fields for farming, and traces of them are lost.
Strona 99 - Some frightful diseases have been extirpated by science, and some have been banished by police. The term of human life has been lengthened over the whole kingdom, and especially in the towns. The year 1685 was not accounted sickly; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died.* At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty dies annually.
Strona 94 - Quit-rent is a reserved rent in the grant of land by the Proprietary, by the payment of which the landholder was to be freed from other taxes. Quit-rents were not uniform; they varied from one shilling sterling per hundred acres to six shillings per annum, and in other instances more."3 Jacob Hiestandt is listed with 150 acres in Hanover township.