The Story Of Kennett
by Bayard Taylor
Around noon, on the first Saturday of March 1796, as Barton's former farmhouse left Kenneth Square near the Philadelphia stage road, there was an unusual mess just across the creek to the east. The rarest phenomenon of any human gathering in Barton's house; but on that day and at that hour, he who stood on the porch of the corner house in the village could see the horsemen approaching all four paths that met there."
