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the Cassin homestead was and but little question as to where 

 the ornithologist was born. 



On the Ash map, already referred to, the name of Daniel 

 James appears as the owner of the tract, in 1848, after his pur- 

 chase from Cassin four years before; and the present "oldest 

 inhabitant" of that immediate neighborhood, Mr. E. E. Wor- 

 rall, — a man now in his eighties, clear-headed, with faculties 

 unimpaired — stated to the writer during this inquiry, that he 

 had as a youngster often called at the James place, and knew it 

 then as having shortly before been the Cassin place. 



The house on it, as shown in the accompanying picture, 

 taken November, 1918, is a frame structure, in contrast to the 

 usual stone building of the early days. It is of no especial 

 characteristic or feature; has evidently been somewhat altered 

 and added to and ornamented with scroll-saw trims sometime 

 in its life, and at present is in rather run-down condition. The 

 fact that it, the house itself, is not marked on Ash's map, where 

 other houses are, is quite clearlj^ explained by the fact that the 

 name "Upper Providence" in large letters appears across the 

 face of the map on this township, and the " i " in " Provi- 

 dence" occurs where the house mark would be, and obliterates 

 or covers it. 



The location of the Cassin tract is on a main highway and 

 much-traveled road and a post with suitable marking tablet 

 thereon, reciting that this is the birth spot of the eminent early 

 ornithologist, John Cassin, might with propriety be erected, 

 and if so would be seen by many; and this number will steadily 

 increase as this district becomes more populated. 



F. H. Shelton. 



Philadelphia, November f5th, 1918. 



