The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… the Pennsylvania Gazette (Mar. 5, 1730); Hackett’s in Pennsylvania Gazette in August 1738. 5 . HSP Sword Family Papers, Letters, 18 Aug. 1753. Even pleasure in the Quaker City would be rationally regulated. Founders moderated the … Washington’, Library of Congress, Popular and applied graphic art prints, PAGA 7, no. 3431, 1904. 11 . For example, a letter from Major Samuel Shaw to his friend Winthrop Sargeant indicates the passage of letters at such Dancing Assemblies during the Revolution (HSP Society Miscellaneous Collection, Shaw letter, 3 May 1780). …
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