Cazenove Journal, 1794; A Record of the Journey of Theophile Cazenove Through New Jersey and Pennsylvania (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...of Reading and the whole country. The stone-house is very good and well built. On the ground-floor, there is a large kitchen, with a rich and never-failing spring of excellent water; next a dining-room with a small pantry, further on, the hall, which is a room with a fire-place, and a small room with a fire-place; a good stairway leads to the second floor where there are 7 bed-rooms, and many ward-robes and closets, --very large attic divided in 2, and a large and excellent cellar. The piazza, is in bad order, no carpeting, but very clean--an icehouse--very large barn, and a stable for about 12 horses and 48 cows--a cider-press, an orchard of old trees, and a second one of young pear-trees. There is a saw-mill, and water for another mill, for flour, a little but bad house for a workman; a spring that can bring water all over the house and to the stables. The garden, not well taken care of, but might be nicely arranged. 40 No trace of Cazenove's printed blanks has been found, in America or Holland. 41 Undoubtedly Collinson Read, an eminent attorney of Reading at that time.--Montgomery, Hist, of Berks Co. (1886), 558. Mr. Read is also mentioned prominently by La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Travels through the U. S. (2 vols. London, 1799), I, 26, 29. 42 Perhaps Benjamin Morris, brother of Cadwalader Morris.--Montgomery, Hist, of Berks County (1886), p. 549. 4s The reference is probably to Joseph Hiester, later Governor of Penna. 44 Governor Thomas Mifflin sold the farm to John Nicholson, of Phila. The latter was Controller, State of Penna., 1782-1794, and a great speculator in lands. Brief biographical sketch in H. Simpson, Lives of Eminent PhiladelphiaTM (1859), 743-744.--Also Deed Book, XIV, 342, Berks Co. Records, Reading, Pa. The nature of this land...