Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-23
GATH IN ENG LAND.
The American Cotton narket-tteIics
of Americans ia -Iienedirt
Arnold. General Gage, &c.

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer
BRIGHroN, ENGLAND, August > While !
rambling over Sussex county, England, /
amused the people by giving them the
following local points they had never
heard of
Sir would say your county is
named Sussex, and its shire place is called
Lewes. | was born in Sussex county in
America. of which the county seat for
more than hundred years was L9wes."
very, very curious,' was the general
exclamation .-
More than that, my friend, this county
of Sussex, america, stands at the mouth
of the river Delaware or De lie War, and
III Sussex, England, the De Ia War; family
were given estates by Henry VII and
here are their magnificent tombs. Their
family name here, AZ youder in Mary
land, III West. Their ancestor, in the
fifteenth century married the heress of
Csutllupe, and IA Sussex, Delaware, the
nant{tale is the principal product, and
may have been named for the family :"
'Loike enough OF that, sir /; kind of
melon, perhaps, nGw?"
Further, MY friend, the County of
Leges, or American Sussex, was named
by William Fem, who altered its name
and bounds He lived here in Elglish
Sussex, on one Of lis estates called Wor-
miIghurst, much Of tne time before he
organized Pennsylvania and Delaware,
and he took two hundred OF your people
from this country 10 his new possessions
I with him
So We may be cousins, somewhere,
sir"
Il might 50 further, my friend and
i tell You that i'll Delaware, America the
/ largest town is called Wilmington, and
that Il was ngusd for Sussex English
man, tue Earl Of Wilmington
Him MS WAS Sir Spencer Compton ~
The same, first Earl Of Wilmington
created 50 ~ l13l, AL places called
Wilmington IN America, Of wl.ich there are
several, are Named fof tlia Spencer
Compton. lis title passed Gwsy with
woman who married Lord Cavendish,
ane SiOr Of the living puke OF Drvoushire
rhi' Engli h Wilmr gton, giving the word
of lie ;!t!e was the property OF the Saxon
King Harold father a mere manor, who's,
- slaves and their pow4 were
pr seuted with the land to lot of
lormuu mCttkS Who founded the priory
Ii It called Wuritou the kurmsns ctlIed
Wilmington Your W,imiugtou Ga- 95u
-up t.. ~ ~ less tAnn l. had Early ia tuls
'.rtury Oar ~luu gtUu only alitti-
aver hundrrd years old. To lArCrr than
4ny town ~ S.,eex except Brighton it
uto ups ard Of TO- 900 peopl-, and think
1t -4tr 10 say hat u manufactures more
aud 'nore varl,u4 articles than all EupL,l
,u4-t with it, 300 ulO p,upIe."
How does thee account for that. now 2"
"Par.l, by thr loss Of your fuel. Once
rhtse NeGld- aud downs we're rich with
forests, out Of which YOUR ancestor.
builed ships auG nude charcoal to smell
ard work tn, abUud.ut iron ores here
The Years that H.. Paul Vgs breach, no
the novel leuets Of Jesus, iron vas b4lnG
made Ia Sussex. aud in saxon time,
more pns made in tli. southern county al
f gland than in thu Whole kinpdor
besides. Being without coal and vou
timber all cut of Won lost all YOUR lro,
manufacture. and also in limo con
mechanical craft At the yery lin,
} William Penn wa gatn.rinp the c3louiat.
, here. YOUR grandfather, were growing an,
/ spinning helnp and flax. Every cottoo
n had IT, swnniny-whpel every m.nsion
, too. Ia almost every VILLAGE was
g weaver. wLC ,aajlg the Max Won grew mt
g linen. A fuller IN every town whitere
p the cloth. IIemp. e. veil A. FAX and iro
}, and wood, was large production here /
a British SUSSEX When William pom