History Of The Townships Of Byberry And Moreland PDF Download

Excerpt from A History of the Townships of Byberry and Moreland: In Philadelphia, Pa;, From Their Earliest Settlement by the Whites to the Present Time Byberry and Moreland have from time to time been made the subjects of various historical sketches. The pioneer in this work seems to have been Isaac Comly. He spent a large part of his time in collecting such material. In 1827, in the memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, appeared one of his first productions in this line. This being a short sketch and wishing to bring the subject more comprehensively before the public, he began working on a more complete account of his native home. In 1847, had the work in manuscript form. Owing to death soon after, the work was never published. The good work was next taken up by Isaac Martindale, a relative of Isaac Comly. In an historical sketch of Moreland and Byberry written for the Germantown Telegraph by that untiring student of local history, Rev. S. F. Hotchkin, appeared a letter of Isaac Martindale. In it he says: "I early imbibed a love for 'early times' by direct inheritance from my mother, who was Phebe Comly, daughter of Joseph Comly and granddaughter of Isaac Comly, who married Asenath Hampton of Wrightstown, Bucks County. Joseph Comly, my grandfather, and Isaac Comly, a noted writer of his day, became quite conspicuous in the affairs of the vicinity; and it is to these we are solely indebted for the preservation of the early records of Byberry and Moreland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.