Note 16 — THE WILLIAM PENN HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA JOHN F. WATSON

“On their arrival at Philadelphia, he (Logan) and Penn, with Mrs. Penn and Penn’s daughter, Letitia, lived for a month at the house of Edward Shippen. After that they moved to the slate-roof house, as it was called, on the east side of Second Street, north of Walnut. Penn rented it for two years, and used it for his town residence. His son, John, was born there, always known as John the American, and it was afterwards used by Logan as an office for the proprietary business. It should have been preserved as a relic, for in later years it had many interesting associations.”—Sidney George Fisher, The True William Penn (Philadelphia, 1900).