The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-10-06
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/ near Worthwhile b, Tunysown, known as
psnn's Manor William Penn erected build
Tugs and resided there FOR some years. had
desire to visit the place, aud an opportunity
70 do sosdcourfefila fSwlda ago through the
Kindness OF "a friend who lives near the tract
Frsfsrred rsoss We passsd tArough the whole
district. 1t is very fertile Rland aud the set
tiers there think it the carden-spot of the
world.
We entered into It al Tullytown. This is
a thriving sillagein the southern part Of the
Manor, and we soon saw the crops of corn
growing, and such heavy crops as have sell
dom seen. Considerable Of Ii will doubtless
yield seventy Ave Or eighty bushels Of shelled
corn o'thc acre. The farms are III excellent
cedar fence, post and rail, the road fence be-
ing five-rail, with white oak posts, each
panel costing one dollar at least. The roads
are very. fine indeed, seldom needing any re-
pairs whatever. Timber is very scarce ON the
tract. The buildings are mostly of frame aud
are excellent and the houses are kept beauti.
/ fully painted and other buildings all white
washed, and make fine appearance in the
distance. Nearly every farm in the Manor
has Q large barn Ffor curing aud storing to-
'bacco exclusively, some of them 100 feet in
length by 40 in breadth--many Of them new.
The farmers there have become extensive
| raisers of that staple article, and think /
| saw several hundred acres of it, all very large
and fine, nearly every farm having tea to
twenty-five acres of tobacco. TLey are now
! engaged harvesting the crop, and tits decided
| ly tho best crop they raise. One man sold
last year $1,000 worth, from about eleven
acres, as 1t stands A No. 1 In the market.
They do not SOW much oats for the reason
that the last years corn ground usually sown
with that crop is the very best adapted to
raising tobacco. The crop this year in the
Manor will doubtless reach many thousand
sand the farmers do not think it impov.
elishes the land any more than other CROPS.
Fruit is quite abundant there this year.
l was upon the land and near where the
Penn hose stood. My friend remembered
the old Penn house, but it has been gone
twenty years or more.
saw three farms near together which had
no tobacco growing upon them, although the
barns for curing it were there. as usual. l
inquired the reason why they did not plant it.
and was told that the owners rented them out
to farmers, but did not allow them to plant
any tobacco, FOR the reason that 1t was not
available as yfood for man or beast, and there
fore WAS orong % raiss ~ The Hon. Caleb
Taylor was one Of the owners, and others OF
the family owned the other two.
stranger passing over this part of the
country is struck with ono popularity which
sets him against ever going there TO reside.
IL is this: The whole or nearly the whole Is
subject to overflow from the Delaware river,
which breaks over IL 10 great food whenever
we have raise here Of 10 to n feet Of water.
The banks along t" Vanhart's Island " and
Greek are not more than cA,5 feet high at
this time, for q considerable distance, and the
water PUSHES over thousands of acres and not
unfrequently carries away the fencing and
sbuildngs, and Frequently drowns their live
stock. II the raise happens in The night, time,
boats are often found necessary Many ponds
Of water are to be seen there now, and nearly
every family has one or more cases of chills
and fever, and some whole families are down
with it o.day.
Many of those farms were left to sons clear
Of all membranes, and with thousands Of
dollars besides, and now but few of them own
an acre of the land or dollar in money but
many Of them are owned By thrifty foreign.
ers, who have bought and paid for them, aud
are rich and independent to- day. One Of
those old settlers owned Bys. Or six hundred
acres few years ago, but since his death Il
has been divided up and sold to strangers,
mostly, He and his family died on the farm
Tor most Of tben,) and are buried 10 the mid
die OF one Of the fields, without fence or even
a rough stone to tell who is buried there. Hi,
name was James Calbreth. But in few
years those graves win be ploughed over and
lost foresight. This is rough sketch Of
PENIS Manor, Mr.. Editor. but true one.
Lam5crfpiiie, Sept. "a, 1880, d.
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