RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



was located on the Delaware river, 

 where the town of Lewes now is. Ward 

 records: "In 1694 there came to Ger- 

 mantown an old man and his wife. He 

 was blind and poor, and his name was 

 Cornells Plockhoy, the founder and 

 last survivor of the Mennonite colony 

 broken up 30 years before at the 

 Hoorn Kill by Sir Robert Carr. The 

 good people of Germantown took pity 

 on him;" and continuing with Judge 

 Pennypacker, "they gave him the cit- 

 izenship free of charge." They set 

 apart for him at the end street of the 

 village by Peter Klever's corner a lot 

 12 rods long and one rod broad where- 

 on to build a little house and make a 

 garden; in front of it they planted a 

 tree. Jan Doeden and William Ritten- 

 "hiouse were appointed to take up "a 

 Iree will offering" and to have the 

 iouse built. 



I refer to this because Plockhoy, 

 more than he is, should be identified 

 with Germantown, because a tree in 

 this early life of the colony was 

 considered of sufficient importance to 

 name, and also because this house and 

 tree stood upon Kyser's lane within 

 sight of the homestead owned and oc- 

 cupied by Miss Elizabeth R. Johnson, 



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