Jellett, Edwin C. (Edwin Costley), 1860-1929. · Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann · leaf 110
originally being grown for decorative pur-poses, it being a member of the Night Shade Family, andsupposed to be deadly poisonous. At this same place it isalso recorded, that melons or canteloupes were first inAmerica grown, the seed being brought from Tripoli, byCommodore James Barron, who lived… … 67 but now its interests are chiefly historic. The mansion waserected after the Revolutionary War, and its most con-spicuous owner since the days of Henry Hill, was CorneliusSmith. Returning to Main Street, immediately above ManheimStreet, appears the garden of Joseph Shippen, after of CasparHeft.…
