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This drawing by Peter Cooper ca. 1720 is the first known picture of the Philadelpha riverfront in the area of Penn's Landing. (2)


Penn's Landing, 2007 Sep 22

Immigrants Peter Good (GC) and Samuel Good arrived here in 1727 on the Molly, and Peter's son Jacob arrived here in 1732 on the Samuel. Penn's Landing is the little white dot near the foot of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.


Notes

1. Lillian Ione Rhoades, The Story of Philadelphia (American Book Company, 1900). Available online at books.google.com/boo...ladelphia%22+rhoades (Accessed 2007 Nov 7).

2. Barra Foundation, Philadelphia: A 300 Year History (W. W. Norton & Co., 1982).

3. "Ushistory.org," www.ushistory.org (Independence Hall Assoc., 2007; accessed 2007 Nov 9).

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