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Mouns Jones House, brief paragraph re: general history & datestone (1886) Text from page 945 of the book ”History of Berks County” by Morton Montgomery, copyright 1886 by Everts and Peck, Philadelphia. Page begins by giving background information on Swedish settlement in Amity. Paragraph beginning ”Old Swede Building” talks briefly about the history of
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Black and white photographic print of a drawing pictured in the book "Berks County History" by Morton Montgomery, copyright 1886. Drawing shows southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House. Details include: northern gable-end chimney; SE corner chimney; stone tablet [exaggerated scale] with initials of Mouns and Ingeborg Jones and date [1716]; 19th-ce
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Digital image of a perspective view of Mouns Jones House from woodcut engraving published on page 945 of “History of Berks County, Pennsylvania” by Morton Montgomery, pub. by Everts & Peck, Philadelphia. Montgomery describes the building as in a “good state of preservation”, of dimensions 36 by 21 feet. This is the earliest known image of Mouns Jones House,
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