THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME XCII THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA 19107 1968
CONTENTS ARTICLES Page The Planting of Philadelphia, A Seventeenth-Century Real Estate Development Hannah Benner Roach 3, 143 Memoir of Bishop White by James Taylor John D. Kilbourne 48 Dr. Physick and His House George B. Roberts 67 Jefferson and Kosciuszko: Friends of Liberty and of Man Edward P. Alexander 87 The Relationship of Robert Walsh, Jr., to the Port Folio and the Dennie Circle: 1803-1812 Guy R. Woodall 195 John Adams' Opinion of Benjamin Franklin William B. Evans 220 John Buchanan McCormick, Ballad Singer of Many Talents Horace Montgomery 239 The Keith-Lloyd Alliance: Factional and Coalition Politics in Colonial Pennsylvania Thomas Wendel 289 The Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 Norman S. Cohen 306 The Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia Joseph A. Boromé 320 The Force Act in Pennsylvania Julius Yanuck 352 Andrew Johnson and the Philadelphia Election of 1866 Charles D. Cashdollar 365 Difficulties of a Diplomat: George Mifflin Dallas in London Sister Therese A. Donovan 421 "Not Made Out of Levity" Evolution of Divorce in Early Pennsylvania Thomas R. Meehan 441 A Philadelphia Surgeon on a Slaving Voyage to Africa 1749-1751 Darold D. Wax 465 Robert Proud: A Chronicle of Scholarly Failure John A. Neuenschwander 494 Levi Woodburfs "Intimate Memoranda" of the Jackson Administration Ari Hoogenboom and Herbert Ershkowitz 507 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS The Pennsylvania Academy's Early Days: A Letter of George Clymer to Robert Fulton Thomas B. Brumbaugh 384 BOOK REVIEWS 104, 248, 387, 516 INDEX 547 iii
ILLUSTRATIONS Page Pre-Penn Settlements on the Delaware and Schuylkill 15 Bishop White's Study, 1836 57 Bishop William White 58 Doorway to Physick House 69 Physick House 77 Thaddeus Kosciuszko 95 Thomas Holme's "Portraiture" of Philadelphia, 1683 153 Robert Longshore's Map of Philadelphia 173 John B. McCormick House near Smicksburg 243 John B. McCormick 244 George Mifflin Dallas facing page 421
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS President BOIES PENROSB RICHMOND P. MILLER ROY F. NICHOLS Vice-Presidents ERNEST C. SAVAOB HAROLD D. SAYLOR Secretary PENROSE R. HOOPES Treasurer GEORGE E. NEHRBAS Counsel R. STURGIS INGERSOLL Councilors THOMAS C. COCHRAN J. WELLES HENDERSON MRS. BARTON H. LIPPINCOTT JOSEPH W. LIPPINCOTT, JR. ROBERT L. MCNEIL, JR. HENRY R. PEMBERTON THOMAS E. WYNNB EDGAR P. RICHARDSON MRS. LAWRENCE M. C. SMITH MARTIN P. SNYDER FREDERICK B. TOLLES DAVID VAN PELT H. JUSTICE WILLIAMS The Board of the Society is composed of the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and fourteen Councilors. v
STANDING COMMITTEES Committee on Finance HENRY R. PEMBERTON, Chairman ERNEST C. SAVAGE GEORGE E. NEHRBAS FLOYD T. STARR Committee on Library and Collections PENROSE R. HOOPES, Chairman ERNEST C. SAVAGE THOMAS E. WYNNE MRS. BARTON H. LIPPINCOTT EDGAR P. RICHARDSON Committee on Hall and Buildings HAROLD D. SAYLOR, Chairman MRS. LAWRENCE M. C. SMITH H. JUSTICE WILLIAMS Committee on Membership and Activities RICHMOND P. MILLER, Chairman MRS. BARTON H. LIPPINCOTT THOMAS E. WYNNE ROBERT L. MCNEIL, JR. Committee on Nominations ERNEST C. SAVAGE, Chairman H. JUSTICE WILLIAMS DAVID VAN PELT Committee on Publications ROY F. NICHOLS, Chairman FREDERICK B. TOLLES THOMAS C. COCHRAN JOSEPH W. LIPPINCOTT, JR. NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT vi
STAFF NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIOHT, Director and Editor JOHN D. KILBOURNE, Curator OSEA MCDONALD, Secretary FRANK W. BOBB, Librarian Reading Room JOSEPH R. SIMMONS ANTHONY A. ROTH CONRAD WILSON, Head Manuscript Department JANE BUTTERFIELD VlLMA J. HOLCOMBB JOHN H. PLATT, JR., Head Catalogue Department MARLENE L. CICCONI Photo-reproduction Department ZUVLON ZELIKOWSKY Repair Department JESSIE H. MCKEOWN Treasurer's Office SARAH B. POMERANTZ, Assistant to the Treasurer ELLEN WORRALL Membership and Museum DARTHE C. HAUCK DAVID T. MCKEE, Superintendent Maintenance Staff CATHERINE K. MCKEE MARGARET FREELAND vii
THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY JANUARY I968 THE PLANTING OF PHILADELPHIA, A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT Hannah Benner Roach 3 MEMOIR OF BISHOP WHITE BY JAMES TAYLOR John D. Kilbourne 48 DR. PHYSICK AND HIS HOUSE George B. Roberts 67 JEFFERSON AND KOSCIUSZKO: FRIENDS OF LIBERTY AND OF MAN Edward P. Alexander 87 REVIEWS 104 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME XCII NUMBER 1
BOOK REVIEWS PAGE WAINWRIGHT, ed., A Philadelphia Perspective: The Diary of Sidney George Fisher Covering the Years 1834-1871, by L. H. Butterfield 104 MORRIS, The American Revolution Reconsidered by David L. Jacobson no BAILYN, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Trevor Colbourn 112 HUTCHINSON and RACHAL, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Vol. 5 (August-December, 1782), by Stuart Gerry Brown 113 DEPAUW, The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution, by John J. Reed 115 MCCLOSKEY, ed., The Works of James Wilson, Vols. 1-2, by Thomas R. Meehan 117 PRINCE, New Jersey's Jeffersonian Republicans: The Genesis of an Early Party Machine 1789-1817, by Donald J. D'Elia 120 LANGLEY, Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798-1862, by John Cadwalader 121 DOHERTY, The Hicksite Separation: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Schism in Early Nineteenth Century America, by Henry J. Cadbury 123 MILLER, Jacksonian Aristocracy: Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860, by Alvin Kass 124 ZILVERSMIT, The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North, by Ira V. Brown 127 KLEIN, Slavery in the Americas: A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba, by Joseph George, Jr. 128 SILBEY, The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852, by Roy F. Nichols 129 BRAUER, Cotton versus Conscience: Massachusetts Whig Politics and Southwestern Expansion, 1843-1848, by Frank Otto Gatell 130 TYACK, George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins, by Nathaniel Burt 131 ABRAHAMS, Extinct Medical Schools of Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, by Charles Rosenberg 133 SWINT, ed., Dear Ones at Home; Letters from Contraband Camps, by Norman B. Wilkinson 134 WHITEHILL, Dumbarton Oaks, The History of a Georgetown House and Garden, 1800-1966, by Elden E. Billings 136 ZIEROLD, Little Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom, by Wallace Evan Davies 137 FORMAN, Old Buildings, Gardens and Furniture in Tidewater Maryland, by Bertram K. Little 138 GIFFORD, Father Against the Devil, by E. Digby Baltzell 139 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINB OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY is published each quarter in January, April, July and October by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Yearly subscription, $5.00; single numbers $1.50. Communications should be addressed to the Editor. The Editor does not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa.
THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME XCII January, 1968 NO. 1 NINETY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION Publications Committee ROY F. NICHOLS FREDERICK B. TOLLES THOMAS C. COCHRAN R. N. WILLIAMS, 2D NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT
Contributors HANNAH BENNER ROACH, a former contributor, is the Editor of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. JOHN D. KILBOURNE, former Director of the Historical Society of York County and, subsequently, Librarian of the Maryland Historical Society, joined the staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania as Curator in December, 1966. GEORGE B. ROBERTS, prominent Philadelphia architect, furnished the introduction to Dr. Frederick Fraley's poems, which appeared in our January, 1966 issue. He and his wife Mary are the authors of Triumph on Fairmount: Fiske Kimball and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. EDWARD P. ALEXANDER has held a number of distinguished positions in historical work and since 1946 has been with Colonial Williamsburg, currently as Director of Interpretation and Vice President. PRINTED IN U. S. A. by The Winchell Company, PHILADELPHIA, PA