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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114John Ladd was one of the Quaker immigrants who came to West New Jersey in 1678. He was also on hand when William Penn was designing the layout of his new town of Philadelphia. Family tradition says that Penn offered him a choice of one of the best squares in the city or \u00ac\u00a330, and that Ladd chose the money, whereupon Penn said: \u201a\u00c4\u00faJohn thou art a ladd by name and a lad by nature, doesn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t thee know that Philadelphia will be a great city?\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 (Ah, Penn\u201a\u00c4\u00eesuch a joker.)<\/p>\n
Apparently John Ladd managed to prosper anyway, for he died about 1740 in Deptford, Gloucester, NJ with \u00ac\u00a3432.6.8 worth of goods and hundreds of acres to leave to his three surviving children. Ladd wrote his will in 1731, leaving to his daughter Catharine, \u201a\u00c4\u00fathe 300 acres called Raven Rock above the falls on or near the Delaware River in Amwell Township\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 [paraphrased]. This gift included the entire island that we know as Bull\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s Island.<\/p>\n
Catharine (sometimes spelled Katherine) Ladd had married John Howell in 1734. Neither she nor her father had any interest in residing on the Raven Rock plantation. In 1743, three years after her father\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s death, Catharine Ladd Howell sold the property to Isaiah Quinby. She and her husband then took the proceeds of the sale and moved to Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n