Jr., Isaac Craft, Daniel Satterthwaite, and Watson Newbold.

The declaration of trust was signed by all the abovenamed trustees on the 29th day of Eighth month, 1837.

On the 27th day of Fifth month, 1890, Isaac Craft, being the only surviving trustee of the above, conveyed the premises, defining lines and distances, to Rowland J. Dutton, Richard Mott, Thomas Lee Haines, William Bishop, George Wood, Samuel P. Bartlett, Merritt W. Pharo, Charles Wright, Jr., John B. Comfort, and John Dalziel, and the declaration of trust was signed by all of them at that date.

The portion of the ground that was laid off for a burial ground contains about an acre. It was formerly enclosed by a paling fence on the east end and by a close board fence along the driveway to the carriage-sheds on the south side. About forty years ago the old fence was removed.

It is to be regretted that there was no careful record kept of the interments there until about the year 1828, at which time Robert Thomas and Thomas Dutton, with the assistance of a former aged sexton, Joseph Pearce, and of John Weaver (acting in that capacity at that time), prepared the first map of the ground, and made a record of the interments, so far as the sextons could locate them.

The removing of the old fence took away some of the landmarks, which were guides in locating the graves and spaces upon the map, and it became necessary to make another plan, which was done principally by William F. Newbold in the year 1870.

In the new map the plot is laid out in twenty-eight sections, thirteen sections being on the north side of the cement walk and the remaining fifteen on the south side of said walk.

The numbering of the sections commences at the west end on the north side and ends at the west end on the south side.

Most of the corners of the sections on the south side have been marked by marble posts with section numbers upon

them. The sections of the north side are designated by the panels of the brick wall, which extends the whole distance on that side from High to Wood Streets, excepting the eastern section, No. 13, which takes in one and a half panels.

The large buttonwood-trees at the eastern end of the yard are supposed by many to be original forest trees. Henry Armitt Brown, in his oration on the occasion of the bi-centennial of the settlement of Burlington, referred to them as follows: "The twin sycamores by yonder meeting-house stand guard above a soil enriched with the bones of six generations of your kindred."

It is believed that a portion of this ground was used for burials from the earliest settlement of the town,-1678,-although the first deed is dated 1692. There has been a tradition that the ground occupied by a portion of this and where Broad and Wood Streets are was an Indian burialground; but the only evidence of burials has been the finding of portions of skeletons on the south side of Broad Street east of Wood Street when digging the trenches for the water-pipes.

The first record of interment in Burlington is the following extract from "Smith's History of New Jersey" (see note foot of page 93):

"John Kinsey was one of the Commission sent in 1677 by the Proprietors of West Jersey to buy the lands of the natives, &c.; he died at Shackamaxon soon after his landing; his remains were interred in Burlington in ground appointed for a burying ground but now a street."

It is reasonable to suppose that this interment was in the street at the western end of the present burial ground, and that the street referred to is Wood Street, as Broad Street and High Street were laid out immediately by the settlers.

From the time of this interment up to that within the memory of the old sextons consulted in 1828,-a period of considerably over a century, there must have been buried in this ground many persons who were actively and usefully prominent in the affairs of the Province and State, such as

Governors Samuel Jennings and Thomas Olive, and other leading men, as William Peachy, Thomas Gardiner, Robert Stacye, and many others.

The Indian king, "Ockanickon," died about 1681. "Smith the Historian" states "he was attended to his grave in the Quakers' burial place in Burlington with solemnity by the Indians in their manner, and with great respect by many of the English settlers, to whom he had been a sure friend."

For an interesting interview with his nephew shortly before his death, see "Smith's History," pages 148 to 150.

By reference to the memoir of John Smith, who married the daughter of James Logan, of Stenton, it appears that he was interred in this burial ground, but there is no record of the locality of his grave.

In the early minutes of the meeting there is an entry,— "Peter Woolcott is willing to make Graves-and Friends are willing to see him paid an Old English Shilling for such mens and womens graves yt may not be paid for by yo persons yt employ him."

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Bernard Davendish was sexton in 1689. James Satterthwaite succeeded him in 1695.

John Jay Smith, in his "Recollections" (page 356), states that his great-grandfather, Richard Smith (No. 4), died at Amboy 11 mo. 9th, 1751, and was interred in Burlington, New Jersey.

The Pennsylvania Gazette of 11 mo. 21, 1751, records,— "Last week died Richard Smith Esq of Burlington West New Jersey, and was buried in Friends burial ground in that city; in whom the character of a generous, good natured, hospitable man, of a true patriot, and a good Christian were so truly blended, that he lived beloved and esteemed by all that knew him, and his death is lamented as a public loss by the people of that province."

1 Spelled in some old documents "Devonish."

(To be continued.)

PENNSYLVANIA AND THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT, 1699-1704.

BY HERMAN V. AMES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

[THE following transcripts of manuscript documents in the British Record Office, London, were made by the undersigned during the past summer. These extracts are typical of the valuable unpublished material relating to the Colonial History of Pennsylvania, which is contained in two series of Colonial Entry Books, entitled "Proprieties" and "Plantations General" respectively. A half a century ago the Historical Society of Pennsylvania published in its series of Memoirs (Vol. IV., Part II., pp. 225-385) "A Catalogue of Papers relating to Pennsylvania and Delaware, deposited at the State Paper Office," covering the period 1670-1718. This catalogue is not complete, and the references cited have been to a considerable extent superseded, owing to the fact that a few years after its publication all the papers were removed to the new Record Office, where they have been rearranged and reclassified.

An excellent description of the number and classification of the documentary material relative to America, preserved in the Record Office, is given by the late W. Noel Sainsbury, formerly Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, in an article entitled "The British Record Office, and Materials in it for Early American History," in American Antiquarian Society Publications, meeting held in Boston, April 26, 1893; Worcester, 1893; as also in a paper by Professor Charles M. Andrews on American Colonial History, 1690-1750, in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1898, pp. 55-57. No more important contribution could be made to the Colonial History of this State than the publication of all the important documents calendared in the abovementioned catalogue, as well as others now in the Record Office collections, relating to Pennsylvania. By so doing this State would be following the example of several of the other original States.

The following documents fall into two groups, the first comprising a selection of Letters of Colonel Robert Quary, the second Letters and Reports of the Board of Trade. The author of these letters, Colonel Robert Quary, after having been Governor of South Carolina in 1684 and 1690, and, at one period intervening, Secretary of the Province, was appointed Judge of the Admiralty in New York and Pennsylvania, where he is first met with about 1697. In 1704 he was promoted to the office of Surveyor-General of the Customs of America to succeed Edward Ran

dolph. In addition to filling these offices, he was a member of the Council of at least four of the Colonies at the same time. (New York Col. Doc., V. 471.) From the character of his voluminous correspondence it is apparent that he was an enemy of proprietary governments in general, and that of Pennsylvania in particular, and in consequence was very zealous in presenting accusations against both Penn and the people of Pennsylvania. His own character was not above suspicion, as he had been charged, at two different times, with complicity with pirates. Penn describes him as "the greatest of villains and God will I believe, confound him in this world for his lies, falsehood and supreme knavery." (Penn-Logan Corresp., II. 289.) The Board of Trade, however, seem to have relied quite fully upon his reports of the condition of the different colonies, as they frequently cite his letters in their reports to the Crown or to Parliament. His death occurred about the year 1712. New York Col. Doc., V. 199, note; New Jersey Arch., II. 280, note Shepherd, Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania, 399, 502, note, 503, ff.; Bolles, Pennsylvania, I. 177-179.

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In the catalogue published in Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Vol. IV. Part II.) forty letters and memorials (between 1697-1709) of Colonel Quary are calendared. Six of these have been published, in whole or in part, as follows:

1699, June 1.

Arch., II. 277.

1699, June 6.

Cited Mem. IV., Part II. 289; published N. J.

Ibid., 289, 290; N. J. Arch., II. 280.

1703, October 15.

1704, May 30.

Arch., III. 52.

1707, June 28.

Ibid., 344; N. J. Arch., III. 7.

Ibid., 348; N. Y. Col. Doc., IV. 1082; N. J.

Ibid., 363; N. Y. Col. Doc., V. 17.

1709, December 2. Ibid., 372; N. Y. Col. Doc., V. 114.

Five other letters of his, not cited in the above-mentioned catalogue, are in print, as follows:

1702, June 17. To the Lords of Trade, opposing appointment of Andrew Hamilton as Governor of West New Jersey, N. J. Arch., II. 479.

1703, June 16. To the Lords of Trade. An Account of the Condition of the Colonies, N. Y. Col. Doc., IV. 1045. 1707/8, January 10. To the Lords of Trade. Defences of the Colonies, N. Y. Col. Doc., V. III. 271.

An Account of the 30; N. J. Arch.,

1709/10, February 10. To the Lords of Trade. An Account of the Maryland Assembly, N. Y. Col. Doc., V. 161.

1710, July 5. Letter to Mr. Pulteney. An Account of Governor Hunter's Administration in New Jersey and New York, N. Y. Col. Doc., V. 165; N. J. Arch., IV. 6.