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Philadelphia Timeline, 1600s

1600s

1646

First church built by the Swedes consecrated on Tinicum Island.

1677

Second Swedes church dedicated, in Southwark, below the present Christian Street.

1681

March 4. Charter of Pennsylvania granted by Charles II.

1682

October 24. Landing of Wm. Penn at New Castle, Delaware.
November. Penn's Treaty with the Indians at Shackamaxon.

1684

August 12. Wm. Penn left Philadelphia, and returned to England.

1690

First paper mill established by William Rittenhouse, on Wissahickon Creek.

1698

Quaker meeting House built, S. W. Corner Second and High (Market) Streets, which was pulled down in 1755, and another erected, which was demolished in 1808.
First school book published in America by Francis Pastorius.

Excerpted from "Happenings in ye Olde Philadelphia 1680-1900" by Rudolph J. Walther, 1925, Walther Printing House, Philadelphia, PA

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