Excerpt from Celebration of the Two Hundred and Thirtieth Anniversary of the Landing of William Penn in Pennsylvania: Held at the Washington House Chester, Pa, Saturday, October 26th 1912

The twenty-sixth of October proved to be a delightful Autumn day. A large number of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania members, as well as those of the Swedish Colonial Society, who had been invited to participate in the ceremonial Observances of Penn's Landing, gathered in the Washington House, comprising a representative body Whose proceedings on that occasion will enter into and find a prominent place in the annals of Chester. The ancient hostelry was tastefully decorated with the red and white colors of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania and with the blue and gold colors of the Swedish Colonial Society. The room in which Washington wrote his report of the Battle of Brandywine, Where the guests gathered, presented the same color scheme, with Old Glory here and there appropriately displayed. The dining room, similarly decor ated, was divided by four tables running lengthwise of the apartment, with a table at the head, at which, during the exercises, sat Hon. Davis Page, President of the Colonial Society, with Hon. William Ward, Jr., Mayor of Chester, at his right, and Garnett Pendleton, Esq., at his left. Hon. William Cameron Sproul, State Senator from Delaware County, and brigadier-general Davis, United States Army, retired, a descendant of John Morton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, who had come from Syracuse, New York, to attend the exercises, were among others who were given places at this table.

In addition to the large number of members of the Swedish Colonial Society who are also members of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, the following members of the former Society were present on this occasion by invitation: brigadier-general Charles L. Davis, U. S. A., (retired), Count Adam de Trampe, Hon. William C. Sproul, Hon. William B. Broomall, Col. Charles A. Converse, Col. Frank G. Sweeney, Captain Alfred J. Erikson, Hon. David M. Johnson, Howard Edwards, Douglas R. Faith, Samuel Garrett, leroy Harvey, Harold Perot Keen, Edward W. Keene, Charles P. Keith, Josiah Marvel, Levi Mattson, Henry D. Paxson, Dr. Francis J. Roth, Ewing Stille and Isaac C. Paxson, Dr. Francis J. Roth, Ewing Stille and Isaac C. Yocum, Hiram Hathaway, Sr John B. Hannum, Sr., guests of Hiram Hathaway, Jr Dr. Frank E. Johnson, James Hanna, guests of Dr. John Welsh Croskey, and William A. Irving, guest of Col. T. Edward Clyde.

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