Smyrna times., 1875-12-01


batch OF Revolutionary soldiers is inferred
III the graveyard. This exquisite agricul
turaI country reaches from the Delaware
TO the Chesapeake, nearly as far southwark
as Dover, which is the centre of the State
although the worst land is found on the
railway. The bottOm-lands on the Della.
ware are, if possible, better than the mano,
land OF the Maryland necks. Quakerism
Is almost extinct south of the Christina
river l saw the old church at Odessa or
Cantwells Bridge, one story high and not
more than twenty feet square, where the
congregation was composed of four persons.
who came from the northward every
Sabbath, sitting together in melancholy
silence for an hour or two, and then Quietly
departing to their FARMS The town of
Camden, four miles from Dover. is one of
the staunchest Quaker settlements in the
State, and was the birthplace of John NJ
Clayton's wife and of Anna Dickinson. the
lecturess. An old man pointed out to me
the site of the Quaker church near Magno-
lla' where, he said he remembered, when q
ooy, seeing two Quakers coming from oppo.
site directions every Sunday to go through
their silent performance, until they died or
moved away, and then the building went
to decay.
Wilmington, the important town of the
peninsula, never published n daily unti1
about the time of the civil war. and now
there are five daily sheets there-at least
three too many for the population. The
modern town is about one hundred and
forty years old, and the basis of its onulanoo
is largely derived from Chester county
Quakers, who saw an opportunity TO mako
miniature Philadelphia. The founder
was named Willing, and the proper name
OF the place was Willing Town. The orini.
nal English title dates back to 1851. from
Fort Amsterdam, or New York Fort,, |
years before the Revolution there were
thirty-three houses in Willing Town, and
IN l'93 but twenty-five hundred
The Bank of Delaware at this place dates |
back to 1896 and the City Hall to l7o8 A
cotton factory was set up in 1904, and the
bridge and common road to New Castle |
were erected in 1907. Five turnpike roads |
led out OF Wilmington in 1915. 1t became
a city IN 1882, with Richard Bayard for the
hrst mayor. The old Swedish church in
Wilmington, seen from the railroad. dates
back to l7l2, and it appears to be well
that the first clergyman and tho
nrst Governor on the Delaware peninsula,
Orrus IOriculus and Peter NIinuit. were
buried there in 164l-3. 1t is probably the
oldest continuous site of interment and
worship in the Middle States. The Bavord
family has always resided in and about
wilmington since they became residents of
Delaware. Their original family seat is on
the Bohemia Manor, in Maryland. a few
miles from the Delaware line. Their nrir.
'ipal progenitor was Richard Bassett. who
vas OF an adopted branch of the family of
native OF Bohemia, by the name of Her.
nan, who took up eighteen thousand acres
II land along and across the subsequent
Mason and Dixon's line. This Herman
'ame to America as merchants clerk. and
lrst settled at New York and afterward on
he Delaware. Old Peter Stuyvesant. the
ncestor of Secretary Fish, sent Herman
o Maryland in 1859 on an embassy to the {
4ords Baltimore. ,
The first of the Bayards, as we may call
'assett' was Senator in the First Congress.
1883. This family has served fortv.seyen /
ears in the Senate, all told. 1t is a pecu. c
arty OF the Bayards that an uncle of the !
resent Senator, Hon. Thomas A. Bavard c
'as Whig in the Senate while his father Z
ames A., was Democrat trying to get to ]
ne Senate. People in Wilmington saw I
hat Tom Bayard was considered so obtuse {
y his still living father, James A.. Jr.. that
e was sent to Philadelphia to be mer. I
hant, while brother, Dick, now deceased b
as selected to wear the political honors' L
hex died, and Tom, who had returned to
ne law, was taken up as Hobson's choice @
nd made Senator. Old James A. Bavard o
still residing at an Old-fashioned house. &
n a prominent corner of Wilmington il
here he leads recluse life, studying and /
linking, entirely Indifferent to society il
xcept when at periodical times he runs @
yer to New York to play poker. He is an b
bier man than his son, and very excel. n
mt lawyer. He has an independence of n
laracter which commends him to the old
I'd new generation, and his political sue.
sss has derived very little advantage from il
is manners or artifce. John NJ. Clayton. O
is Whig senior, admired his talents, and Y
Democrat to be his colleague "
lther than Wing gave him his support. d
layton had infinitely more genius. He n
ways entertained Bayard at Dover, and IL Il
related that on one occasion Clayton said /
village friend: Here's Jim Bayard 9
ome down here to make me drunk and Il
ct me to tell him all know, but III Law l.
Inn out" Report says that Bayard was tc
Kissing next day and Clayton appeared ON I,
ne street with his two hundred and forty al