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259, [1] pages. Illustrations. Contributors. Index. Signed by author on fep. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Some pencil notes on Memoranda page (217). Chester County Cookery is a vintage church cookbook from 1950. Recipes were compiled by Virginia Penrose on behalf of members of the St. Paul's Church in West Whiteland, Pennsylvania. Each recipe contains the initials of its respective church member of member of the community that contributed the recipe. Over two centuries ago, this fox-hunting countryside was the pride of William Penn, Lord Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Over two centuries ago, Chester County found a taste for cookery. The beasts of the field and the fruits of the soil provided every happy opportunity. Many of these cooking recipes so developed have been handed down from mother to daughter to grand-daughter: cherished family possessions. Chester County Cookery became a legend! This book, paying tribute to good cooking and gracious living, is intended to bring both satisfaction and usefulness to you, its new owner. Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester were the three Pennsylvania counties initially created by William Penn on August 24, 1682. At that time, Chester County's borders were Philadelphia County to the north, the ill-defined western edge of the colony (approximately the Susquehanna River) to the west, the Delaware River to the east, and Delaware and Maryland to the south. Chester County replaced the Pennsylvania portion of New Netherland/New York's "Upland", which was officially eliminated when Pennsylvania was chartered on March 4, 1681, but did not cease to exist until June of that year. The original Chester County seat was the city of Chester, a center of naval shipbuilding, at the eastern edge of the county. In an effort to accommodate the increased population of the western part of the county, the county seat was moved to a more central location in 1788; in order to mollify the eastern portion of the county, the village, known as Turk's Head, was renamed West Chester. St. Paul's Church was opened on St. Paul's Day, 1702, the building having been completed in July of that year. The original church was small, containing only 24 pews, and of a "primitive style". One of it's gables was occupied by a large window, and it had a tower with a belfry. This was the church of those first church wardens and vestrymen. In 1835 this church underwent substantial repairs, and the number of pews was increased, the north entrance closed, a new chancel built, a gallery erected across the western end of the building, an entrance door was cut out of the western wall, a new belfry put upon the west gable, and the high backs of the old pews were cut down. In 1850 the congregation of St. Paul's erected the second church on the north side of 3rd Street, and it was a large edifice, 44 ft X 84 ft, with a steeple and belfry.it was again altered in 1872 and 1873 Then The present St. Paul's was relocated soon after 1900 and built in it's present gothic style, at 9th and Madison Sts. A portion of the burying ground is still maintained in it's original location, including John Morton, PA Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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