Map redrawn from a 1799 original. Courtesy Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

The Springers lived next to J. Stroud's mill on Mill Creek. Thomas Springer's land was more highly valued than his neighbors, for a variety of reasons: its location along a waterway, its poximity to the marketplace in Wilmington, and the improvements made on the farm by the Springers and their slaves.   What about you? Click here . . . What would future historians learn about your life by studying your family's tax returns?

 
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