Program of Friends' Historical Association Summer Meeting

SUMMER MEETING OF ASSOCIATION51 for good upon its history, more lasting perhaps than his dwelling house. " The bright spot among the vanishing monuments of past days is the old Town Hall of Chester, built in 1724, and still standing to remind us that Colonial Pennsylvania had good taste and built worthily more than two hundred years ago. The venerable building stands in the center of the business district of the city, and has been very skilfully restored within recent years, so that it now appears much as it did when it was first built, and remains one of the oldest if not the oldest public building continuously in use, on the American continent. James G. A. Campbell, one of the best informed of the men of Chester, told us something of this old building , and how, a few years ago, the ' more progressive ' citizens wanted to demolish the old Hall, and build something more worthy of an ambitious city. Fortunately such vandalism was blocked, and under the leadership of the late Governor Sproul, the ancient structure was saved and restored to its present interesting condition . Its colonial design, fine lines and the beautiful masonry of its walls, speak eloquently of the good taste of its builders. " All history is not of the distant past. Each day and each hour, new chapters are written in the archives of time—and of Friends' Historical Association, and when those of us who were present on this memorable occasion shall peruse again the chapters which record the events of the day, not the least interesting will be those which tell of the delightful gathering in the late afternoon sunshine , beneath the great trees which shade the meeting-house on Chestnut Street. From many places Friends were assembled, and many not Friends, and together broke bread in that fellowship which grows only out of a common appreciation of a noble past and a common purpose for a noble future. " Perhaps this social opportunity was the most profitable part of the day for many of us, but every part of the meeting was remarkably well-planned and carried through." Program of FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Summer Meeting In observance of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first arrival of William Penn in America, 1682-1932. Held at the place of his first landing in Pennsylvania, Upland, now Chester, Seventh Day, Fifth Month 21, 1932, at 2.30 P.M., Daylight-Saving Time, at Friends' Meeting House, 24th and Chestnut Streets, Chester. 52 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Charles Francis Jenkins, President of Friends' Historical Association , Presiding: Part I (At the Meeting House) William Penn and His First American Host, 1682, Robert Wade, the Earliest Quaker Settler on the West Side of the Delaware River, 1676.—By Albert Cook Myers, of Moylan, Pennsylvania. Embarkation, Voyage and Arrival of William Penn on the Ship "Welcome," Robert Greenaway, Master, 1682.—By George Vaux, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Lydia Wade, the First American Hostess of William Penn.— By Lydia Sharpless Hawkins, of Moylan, Pennsylvania. Friends' Meetings and Meeting Houses at Chester.—By Walter F. Price, of Moylan, Pennsylvania. Site of the House of Defence, Meeting Place of the First Pennsylvania Assembly, 1682.—By Harry E. Sprogell, of Lansdale, Pennsylvania. David Lloyd, His House and Grave.—By Burton Alva Konkle, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Caleb Pusey and His House, Built 1683, the Oldest Dwelling in Pennsylvania.—By Mary E. Williamson, of Media, Pennsylvania . Map of Chester as William Penn Knew It.—By Chester F. Baker, of Chester, Pennsylvania. Part II Visit to Penn's Landing Place and other points of interest, under guidance. Part III (In the old Court House) The Old Chester County Court House, Built 1724.—By Colonel James G. A. Campbell, of Chester, Pennsylvania. The Old Washington Inn.—By Evangeline L. Harvey, Regent of the Delaware County Chapter of the D. A. R., of Moylan, Pennsylvania. John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and His Grave.—By Amandus Johnson, Secretary of the Swedish Colonial Society, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interior of the Church of All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London, in which William Penn was baptized. ROBERT WADE53 James Sandelands and His Mural Gravestone.—By George...