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made the principal street sixty feet wide, with a cross 

 street forty feet in width. "The space or lot for each 

 house and garden I made three acres in size: for my 

 own dwelling, however, six acres." 



Thomas Budd's description of the land from six 

 miles above New Castle to the falls of the Delaware, 

 written in 1685, savs "The land is in vines, some good 

 and some bad, but the greatest part will bear good 

 corn. . . . Garden Fruits groweth well, as Cab- 

 bage, Coleworts, Colliflowers . . . Potatoes, Cur- 

 rants, Gooseberries, Roses, Carnations, Tulips, Garden- 

 Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, Fruits, &c for such as grow in 

 England will certainly grow here . . . Orchards 

 of Apples, Pears, Quinces, Peaches, Aprecocks, Plums, 

 Cherries, and other sorts of the fruits of England may 

 be soon raised to good advantage, the Trees growing 

 faster than in England, whereof great quantities of 

 Sider may be made . . . There are some vine- 

 yards already planted in Pennsylvania and more in- 

 tended to be planted by some French Protestants and 

 others that are gone to settle tliere . . . Several 

 other commodities may be raised here, as Rice which 

 is known to have been sown for a tryal and it grew very 

 well and yielded good increase. Also Annis seed I 

 have been informed . . . Liquorish would doubt- 

 less grow very well." 



An account of Salam, in Pennsylvania, in 1698 tells 



