Eckman - NC CHAP

The large letters of this nme painted across the Delaware Street
front of the building could be read from ships coming up the river,
and some letters of the name are still to be read from the street.
Hoffman and his wife Lisette sold to John Feln in 1911 and the
house was continued as a hotel until Prohibition.
Later owners were David and Adolph aangle, 1921-25, who sold
it to the New Castle-Pennsville Ferry Company - vrhich became the
Delaware-New Jersey Ferry Company.
The date of James Riddle's coming to New Castle - or the
time of his birth - if he was a native, have not been found in
this search. He was a soldier in the Revolution in the same
company with John Stockton, John VanLeuvenigh, George Read,
Benjamin VanGezell, Stephen McWilliams Thomas and Richard Janvier,
Thomas Tatlow, and other well-known New Castle men. He had a
store in New Castle in 1786, and advertised for sale in the Dela-
ware Gazette, April 12, of that year, a pamphlet on the financial
conditions of the period.
George Read Riddle, U. S. representative, and U. S. senator
from Delaware, was the grandson of James Riddle, born in New
Caetle in 1817.