Seventeenth Century Building Trivia

I'm reaching for a pretty obscure one here.  What and where? 

I'm guessing it's not making this one too easy by saying that I wrote about the person who once owned this house, back in the day when I was working on Quaker thought.  So did Jon Butler, I think -- it's been a while since I've thought about this.  Butler wrote also about a witchraft prosecution that took place very near here.

In case any of my friends from the world of Quaker thought are reading this, as best as I can tell, I'm on the other side of most theological disputes from this house's owner.  I understand that usual readers of the faculty lounge aren't too steeped in the cross-currents of the Keithian controversy, but I probably ought to point this out least anyone think that by virtue of having a picture of the house that I endorse the owner's views.

Also, was his twentieth-century descendant president of Harvard?  I wonder.  Ok -- enough hints.

I see from the Philadelphia Inquirer that today is the 330th anniversary of the arrival of Francis Daniel Pastorius in Pennsylvania.  Maybe it's time to celebrate with some beer from the Penn Brewery.

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[Calvin Massey]

Caleb Pusey

[Alfred Brophy]

You got it, Calvin! Wow, that didn't take you long -- I figured this one was obscure enough that it was going to take a long time.