were no fancy, gaudy store fronts in those days; no company, department or corporation stores, but familiar family stores conducted by people well-known to their fellow townsmen. A doorway to the side of these central stores led to the fam- ily quarters on the top floors. On summer days the family

1788, by direction of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, Major Ellicott made a survey of the islands in the rivers Allegheny and Ohio, within the bounds of that state. In the following year, he moved with his family to Philadelphia, residing at 16 North Sixth Street, and also during the