fairbands

Updated: May 27, 2025

In Chestnut-street wreathes were cast into the barouche, as it passed, and many of them were from the fairbands of Quakeresses. After the procession had passed through the principal streets, the front halted at the old State-House, which contains the hall in which the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.

Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo) Knapp - Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824.