RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



Samuel Carpenter, having been lately 

 there, declares they had gathered one 

 crop of flax, and had sowed for the 

 second and saw it come up well." 



This Samuel Carpenter was a busy 

 resident of Philadelphia, and the hold- 

 er of 500 acres of ground in the vicin- 

 ity of present Branchtown. 



Very early in the growth of the new 

 colony the importance of Germantown 

 was recognized, and although its foun- 

 ders were disappointed, desiring 

 ground upon a "navigable stream," 

 they made the best of what they con- 

 sidered a poor bargain, and losing no 

 time, they, under the direction of 

 Pastorius, gave life and vigor to the 

 new "town," planted, and eight years 

 after the settlement, Oldmixon stated, 

 "the whole street about one mile in 

 length was lined with blooming peach 

 trees." Soon the hastily constructed 

 log cabins gave way to substantial 

 buildings of stone, and much of the 

 stone, I doubt not, came from the 

 quarry of Godfried Lehman, located at 

 what is now Main and Price streets, 

 where the old round-house once stood. 

 Those who remember the Heivert 

 Papen or Jansen house, built in 1698, 

 and which about 25^ years ago was 



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