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Mr. Tunis resided on this property till his death, 20. 5mo. 1762. He married at the Merion Meeting, 5 Dec. 1718, Mary, daughter of John Williams, and had nine childr .. }, whose births are recorded at this meeting. (For an as- count of some of his descendants, see Jordan's "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," p. 1556).
Mr. Tunis' second son, Joseph Tunis, 1736-1773, inher- ited land from his father, and conveyed, by deed of 1 April, 1768, some of it, adjoining the Merion Meeting land, to Rob- ert Holland, a tanner, who by deed dated 25 Oct. 1785, con- veyed 40 acres of the same to Joseph Price, a carpenter, which was bounded :- Beginning at a stone by a black oak tree on the south side of the Lancaster road, and on the west side of a road leading to Darby, thence by side of said Darby road So. 8°, W. 23344 per., to a corner stone by said road; thence by land now of John Dickinson, So. 70°, W. 226 per., to a corner stone; thence by land of John Price, N.W. 14 4/10 perches, to a corner stone; thence No. 70°, East,
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1411/9 per., to another corner stone; thence by same No. 2 W. 31 per., to a stone in middle of the r. : d leading Haverford; ience along said road No. 72°, East 76 p to a stone; thence by Meeting House land, so called, No. 1 8 per., to a side of Lancaster road, and thence by said ro So. 54°, 41 per. to beginning .*
The next transfer of the property of the Merion Me ing from its old trustees to the new ones, was by deed da 26 Jan. 1786. (Recorded 2 May, 1786, in Phila. Deed Bo G. X, fo. 334). By this deed, "Edward Jones, of Philad phia, James Jones, of Lower Merion tp., Edward Price, Lower Merion tp., and David George, of Blockley t transferred the three small, adjoining lots, [that of the graveyard, (Rees' gift), the one the meeting house stai on, and the lot presented by Mr. Tunes,] "to James Jon Jr., Thomas George, and Amos George, all of Philadelph and Jehu Roberts, of Montgomery county." The descr tions of these lots in this deed differ from former outlines
1. "Beginning and running Westward by the Land Hugh Roberts, 111/2 perches, Southward, by the land Edward Rees, 7 perches and 12 feet, and Eastward, by land of the same, 71/2 perches." "Containing 1/2 acre and perches." "By deed dated 20, 6mo. 1695. Record in Deed Book E. III. vol. 5, page 5." (This deed book in the Philadelphia Recorder's office, but this deed is copied into it. It is given in the office index as on "pa 115," but it is not there. It was found in Exemplificat. Book No. 7, p. 156). "This land was conveyed by this de by said Edward Rees, unto Robert Owen, Edward Jon Cadwalader Morgan, and Thomas Jones, trustees of
*John Price, aforesaid, dev; by will, 16 May, 1792, to his th daughters each one acre of la. on the end of his plantation, and the Lancaster Road, and to his son, Edward Price, he devised i acres on the Lancaster Road, and to his brother-in-law, Rob Holland, he gave a life interest in two acres, on the west end of plantation, and the balance of his estate he left to Joseph and Jo Price.
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Merion Meeting, in fee. All being decease: and the title being in Jonathan Jones, (son and heir to said Edward Jones, the survivor of the said trustees of 1695), and the said Jonathan Jones also being deceased, and his estate being vested in his son and heir, Edward Jones, the first named party to this current deed."
2. "Beginning at the Northward corner o" the graveyard, thence South 79°, West 141/ perches, to a stone; thence South 57°, East 28 perches, to a corner; thence North 14°, West 11 perches and 2 fect; thence South 85°, 51% perches; hence North 15°, West 7 perches and 13 feet, to beginning." "Containing 3/4, of an acre nd 24 perches." "Which lot, by deed dated 18. 3mo. 1747, (recorded in Book G. 10., fo. 334), was conveyed by Robert Roberts to the said James Jones, (a party to this 1786 deed), Robert Jones, and John Roberts, in fee. The said Robert Jones and John Roberts being deceased, and the estate hath survived in th said James Jones."
3. And of the other, remaining small lot :- "Beginning at the Northward corner of the grave yard wall, thence by the said wall, South 17°, East 734, perches, to the South East corner of the same wall; thence by Joseph Tunes's land," &c, being the conveyance f 23 perches of land from Joseph Tunis, by deed 1 Dec. 1763.
These three parcels of land were resur jed 28. 10mo. 1783, and found together as follows :- "Beginning at the North corner of the land conveyed by Joseph Tunis for use of a grave yard, thence along the Road from a ford in the Schuylkill to the Lancaster Road, by the grave yard and the Meeting House ground, South 76°, 15', West 28 85/100 perches to a stone in said Lancaster Road; thence down said Road, Sout: 52°, East 28 8/10 perches, to a stone in the Road; thence North 18°, West 11 7/10 perches, to a stone marked in the grave yard wall; thence along said wall, and the land conveyed as above by Joseph Tunis, North 77º,
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East 8 9/10 perches, to corner thereof; thence along the line of John Dickinson, North 19°, West 7 75/100 perches to beginning." "Containing 134 acres and 16 perelies."
John Dickinson, of Wilmington, Delaware, conveyed, in trust to Messrs. Paul Jones and David Roberts, of Lover Merion tp., and Edward George and Joseph George, of Blockley tp., for the use of the Meri . Preparative Meet- ing, by deed of gift dated 21. 11mo. 1801, about one acre, bounded as follows :- "Beginning at a stone in the old Lan- caster road, in the line of Mary Streaper's land, thence by her land N. 19°, W. 153/: perches to the S.E. corner of the wall of the old grave yard; thence by a lot of ground, con- weyed for the use of a burying place by Joseph Tunis, deceased, N. 71º, E. 3 perches, to a stone being a corner thereof ; thence by said ground N. 19º, W. 734 perches, to a stone on South side of a road leading to a ford in river Schuylkill; thence by said road N. 76°, E. 3 8/10 perches, to a stake in said road, being a corner of other land of the said John Dickinson; thence by his land S. 19º. 31 perches, to a stake in Lancaster road, and thence up said road N. 58°, W. 11 perches to place of beginning."
By deed, dated 4. 10mo. 1804, and recorded 10 Sep. 1807, John Dickinson conveyed to the aforesaid trustees, about one acre of land, adjoining the above land, described :- "Beginning at a stone in Lancaster Road, a corner of the land lately conveyed to the Merion Meeting by the said John Dickinson, thence by said ground N. 19°, W. 31 perches, to a stake on south side of a public road leading to a ford in the river Schuylkill; thence down said road N. 76°, E. 4 7/10 perches, to a stone, the corner of other land of said J. D., thence S. 19°, East by said land 3734 perches, to a stone in Lancaster road; thence up said road N. 58°, W. 8 5/10 per. to beginning."
The next transfer between trustees was in 1817, when James Jones, Jr., and John Roberts conveyed the property of the Merion preparative meeting to Paul Jones, David Roberts, Edward George, and Joseph George. Deed proved
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16 June. 1877, recorded at Norristown, (Decd Book, 238, fo. 186). This deed mentions the change of jurisdiction over this meeting from Haverford Mo. Mtg. to Radnor Mo. Mtg.
There was no other transfer of the Merion Meeting prop- erty till 28, Smo. 1340, when the retiring and surviving trustees conveyed the property as held in 1786, to the new trustees. It was forty years after this when the property was next transferred between trustees.
By deed dated 7 April, 1886, Arthin Moore, and the sur- viving trustees, Edward R. Price, John M. George, and James L. Paiste, to new trustees, viz. Edward R. Price, John M. George, Robert M. Janney, Alfred Moore, Edmund Webster, J. Roberts Foulke, George W. Hancock, and How- ard W. Lippiucott. The two lots of land received from John Dickinson are each described in this deed, and land adjoining as follows :- "Beginning at the North West cor- nur of the land conveyed to the Meeting by Joseph Tunis for a grave yard, thence along the Road to the ford in Schuyl- kill; thence to the Lancaster Road, (by the grave yard and the Meeting House ground), South 76°, West 28 perches and a little more, to a stone in the Lancaster Road; thence down this Road South 62°, East 28 perches, and a little more, to a stone in the Lancaster Road; thence North 18°, West 11 perches, and a fraction, to a stone in the Grave Yard Wall; thence along said wall, and the land conveyed by Joseph Tunis, North 77°, East 8 perches and a fraction, to the cor- ner thereof, and thence along the line of John Dickinson, North 19°, West 7 perches, and a little more, to the begin- ning." "13/4 acre and 16 perches of land." Recorded 4 Sep. 1886.
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MIMI NI THISAOH ONILYEN MANHINH NOIN'IN
MERION, HAVERFORD, RADNOR
There have been some changes at the Merion Meeting House since its early days. The stable used by the first settlers has long ago been done away with. It may be seen by the deed of Edward Ree: to Robert Jones, dated 23. 2mo. 1709, conveying to him the lot where he built his residence and where the Gen. Wayne Inn now stands, that this stabla stood at the southeast corner of the ground Edward Rees gave to the meeting in 1695, exclusively for a graveyard. According to a deed mentioned elsewhere, this "meeting lojase stable" was in existence as late as 1768. It may be that the first meeting house for Merion Friends stood near this stable, in and before 1695, rather than "just to the east of the present stone meeting house." This latter impression arose from the discovery that at some early period there was a wic gateway in the north wall of the oldest part of the graveyard, east of, and near the meeting house. It may be, that here was a driveway through the graveyard to the stable, and the presumed log-built meet- ing hou: 3.
The roof and chimney of a house which appear beyond the horse-st ', in Sutcliffe's picture of the Merion meeting house, belonged to the school house of the Merion Friends, which has also disappeared. For many years it was the only school house in Lower Merion tp., and stood in a field, back of the meeting house, and across Meeting House Lane, the "road to the Ford." Some old desks and benches are stored on the upper floor of the meeting house, which for sometime was also used as a school room. On some of the desks may be seen their initials cut by pupils of long ago, as "W N 1711," and "D R IV 1802." For years, it is notorious that "schooling" was the simplest, elemental, and that there were no "school books," and all instruction was oral, and this prevailed till after the Revolutionary War.
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As to this old school house, there is a deed of gift dated 1 Dec. 1747, acknowledged 12 Jan. 1765, and recorded 10 Feb. 1740, which tells that Rees Price and his son, Edward Price, conveyed to Richard George, Evan Jones, and John Roberts, for five shillings, a lot, 50 by 40 feet, or 2000 square feet, located "by estimate thirty feet North from the Meeting House land." This Isit was to be "used only to erect thereon a house, or houses for a school, for such as shall contribute towards building the same, and to such others as the contributors shall approve of." Witnesses to this deed were Hugh Evans and John Price.
A memorandum attached says :- That the master, with the scholars that shall from time to time, and at all times forever, belong to the school intended to be kept on the above granted premises, have privilege of ingress and egress from said land to a spring of water, near said granted ground, on the land of the s id Rees and Edward Price, and thereof to satisfy and quench their thirst. Provided always, that if r .id Rees and Edward Price shall have occasion to build a house over the said spring, then the said master and scholars are hereby privileged and allowed of going lower down the streams issuing from the said spring. to quench their thirst, but never more than fifty perches from the said spring.
Filed with this deed is the following "List of the Con- tributors towards Erecting a School House on the witl. n Granted piece of Ground, with their respective Subscrip- tiens." The largest contribution was from Evan Jones, whose legacy and subscription amounted to seven pounds. John Price, Gerrard Jones, David Davis, and John Roberts, the miller, each gave five pounds. John Roberts, the car- penter, "surveyed the ground, and writing ye deed, with hi :. subscription in three pounds," gave a total of four pounds. Then John George gave £3. 10. 0, John Righter £3. 6. 2, and the following each contributed three pounds, Sarah Jones, Anthony Levering, Hugh Evans, Richard George, Thomas David, and Robert Roberts, the cooper. Hannah
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Williams gave £2. 10. 0, Robert Jones contributed forty bushels of lime, estimated at $2. 3. 4, and the following eac !! gave two pounds, Peter Becket, Lewis Jones, Edward Jones, Owen Jones, Jacob Jones, Daniel Williams, Robert Holland, and Anthony Tunes. The following each gave £1. 10. 0: Abraham Tunes, Lewis Scothern, Hugh Roberts, and John Robinson, and John Thomas, the smith, contributed three days of carting material amounting to this amount. These gave one pound : Edward Williams, John Roberts, Jr., Amos Moore, and Robert Wood, while Edward Roberts, Jr., sub- scribed only ten shillings. The Preparative Meeting still owns this lot but is never mentioned in the trustees' deeds. Another early school house in this neighborhood is referred to in a deed of Joseph Price, dated 22 Sep. 1804, conveying five acres of land (bought at sheriff's sale 15 Feb. 1803), and a log message, or tenement, adjoining th - Jands of Owen Roberts, William Holget, and William Frit:, from which he reserved five squares of land, on which a schoo! house is built, to the use of said school house forever.
In the Liberties, near by, were two other school houses of early times. One stood on the west side of the old Lan- caster Road, below the City Line. It was called the Penn School, and disappeared many years ago. The other was at Jefferson and 57th streets, which became the meeting house of the Orthodox Friends from Merion meeting in 1829.
We have seen that in 1801, and in 1804, John Dickinson gave the Merion Preparative Meeting two small lots, adjoin- ing the graveyard, one was to increase its size; the other was for the site of the dwelling for the caretaker of the meeting house and grounds. This lot is still used for that purpose, and the stone cottage stands on Montgomery Ave., opposite Haverford and Merion Ave. The subscription paper giving the names of those who contributed cash towards defraying the expense of erecting "the stone house, 26 by 18 feet, to cost not less han $800," gives, possibly, the roll of membership of Merion Meeting
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in 1804. The trustees at that time were Messrs. Paul Jones, Edward George, David Roberts, and Joseph Gorge. They superintended the work. Those who contributed $50 :- James Jones, Richard Jones, Thomas George, and David Roberts; $10, David Jones; $30, Paul Jones, Rees Price, Jon. Robinson, and Owen Jones; $27, Jacob . ones; $20, Giles Jones, Abel Thomas, Josoph George, John Holdgate, Lloyd Jones, and Mary I'rice; $15, James Jones, Thomas George and Edward George; $12, Elizabeth George; $10, Rebecca Price, Hannah Williams, Rebecca George, R. and II. Mcilvaine, A. and M. Jones, Thomas Gavery, George Aston and David Jones; $8, Margaret Cochran, Mary Jones, Ann Jones, Lewis Jones, John Hall, Paul Jones and Lloyd Jones. Some of these increased their original subscriptions subsequently. Among the smaller contributors were Joseph Hayes, David Evans, Nathan Evans, Isaac Hayes, Israel Morris, Elizabeth Rively, Levi Lukens, Marsella Alloway, Charles Jones, Ann Jones, Wil- liam Hayes, Phebe Hoffman, Jane Walter, Isaac Price, and Thomas Price, "by halling logs to saw mill for pail fence."
Whenever possible, it has been the custom of Friends to build a stone wall around their grav yards, and in reading some of the old deeds for land abutting on the Merion Meet- ing property, we have seen "the graveyard wall" was fre- quently a bound, and this was the stone wall there now. But from the "1714 deed" for the land on which the me.c- ing house stands, and from the minutes of the Merion Men's Meeting, we learn that it had a predecessor, "the graveyard pales." It may be presumed the paling fence was erected around the graveyard as soon as the land was acquired, even before deed was passed for it, and that it had become old by 1703, as in the minutes of the Merion Men's Meeting . 10. 1703, it was "ordered, John Roberts to gett someone to secure the grave yard pales," and, 7. 11mo. (Jan.) 1703-4, although bad weather for it, John Roberts, the treasurer, "had the pales fixed," and so reported, and that he har: "paid 5 shillings for mending
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them, and 12 hillings for nails," and had previously pai.l 14s. 6d. and had in the treasury $1. 11. 6. He complained "so we have not paid their subscriptions toward the meet- ing house," so it was "ordered they be spoken to."
Pales seemed to be good enough protection till Edward Rees, by his will, 25. 9. 1727, gave the Merion Meeting £10 to be used in erecting a store wall around the graveyard. This started a fund, quickly raised, and the stone wall was built in 1730, around the "Rees grave yard." But it was not until in 1809, that the stone wall was put up about the gift of lands of Tunes and Dickinson, 357 f: t, costing $242. According to minutes, the stone wall has been expensive, and had to be frequently repaired and rebuilt, and especially when the grade of Lancaster road was changed. In 1809, the old wall cost $169.78, and in the itemized bill is a charge of "101 wrought nails @ 10c, $10.10." On 2. 3mo. 1848, "ordered to pay John M. George, treasurer," "to repair the graveyard wall," $280. And again on 10. 2mo. 1859, Edward H. Dickinson, treasurer, was paid "for defraying expenses of repairing the graveyard wall and other prop- erty here," $167. On S. lino. 1849, $253.921/2 was raised by subscription, and the receiving vault was built below the surface of the lot, at the S.E. corner of the Merion Meeting House. The iron railing about the vault has dis- appeared.
Although the property of Merion Preparative Meeting passed in 1827-8, and so remains, into the control of the so styled "Hicksite Friends," both branches of the Society of Friends bury their dead in the graveyard of this meeting.
The burial records of the Merion Meeting have been fairly well kept since 1705, and I have had occasion in vari- ous instances to go to them for data. There are not many unusual items in these records, and some of them I have noticed elsewhere. Recorded is the burial of the "Dutch woman," no name given, who was poisoned in 1756; Jacob Thomas, who was killed by a wagon of stone passing over his head, in 1807, and the half dozen men killed in the
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powder mill. The remaining entry of this class was the burial, 11. 4. 1749, of "one Donelson, killed by the Fall of a Tresal [at] John Robert Matthew's plantation." John Robert Matthew was an early Welsh settler in Merion. He buried his son, Matthew, at the Merion Meeting, 9mo. 6. 1713, his daughter, Susannah, was ; cidentally drowned, so the record says, without particulars, and was buried here, 4. 6. 1748. Dr. Edward Jones had a servant who was burned to death, and buried here, in 1717. Many servants were buried at Merion, some of them negroes,* but mostly German people, who thus seemed to have been the favorite servants. Some entries of deaths are recorded in the Merion book, but the interments were at Haverford, or Radnor.
It may be seen from the following lists from the records of the surnames of people buried at the Merion meeting house, from the year 1705, that there were few Welsh names, and that this meeting had ceased to be purely one of Welsh Friends twenty-five years after its foundation, and suggests the quick assimilation of the Welsh and English families.
*As said elsewhere, Negroes were held and worked as slaves by the Welsh Friends as well as by the English, and in no extant records of the Welsh Friends does it appear that the Welsh were in any way in- flueneed against the "perniciou ness of slavery" by the protests of the newly convinced German Friends, therefore, it appears there never was any concerted movement among them to abolish "traffick of men-body." The German Friends have the credit of making the first formal pro- test, in a document still extant, presumed to have been written by Pastorius, addressed, "This is to ye monthly meeting held at Richard Worrell's." It sets forth the "reasons why we are against the traffick of men-body." The argument heing the old "golden rule," or "how'd you like it yourself, if you, or your children were carried off, and kept in bondage." It claimed that all Europeans "are astonished when they hear off that ye Quakers doe here handel men as they handel there ye cattle." It is dated and signed :- "This is from our meeting at Germantown, held ye 18 of ye 2 month, 1688, to be delivered to the Monthly Meeting at Richard Worrell's." Signed by "Garret \ nde- ricks, derick up de graeff, Francis daniell Pastorius, Abraham up Den graeff."
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Armstrong. Amos. Apty. Bevan.
Hodnet.
Pratt.
Holland.
Quinn.
Henby.
Rakestraw. Robeson.
Beringer.
Holgate.
Robinson.
Bossard.
Hendricks.
Robison.
Bomen (Bowman?)
Judgles.
Rogerson.
Balort.
Jordan.
Rodgers.
Bedford.
John.
Righter.
Crockson.
Kite.
Reese.
Camberlin.
King.
Rewalt.
Creakbeam.
Knowles.
Roman.
Conlin.
Lewis.
Russel.
Chapman.
Lloyd.
Robenson.
Coultar.
Lee.
Supplee.
Conrad.
Levering.
Seothom.
Comley.
Latch.
Sherrel.
Cannel.
Llewelyn.
Stuard.
Camble (Campbell?)
Loot.
Sunday.
Claphamson.
Morgan.
Shutz.
David.
Mifflin.
Suitzer.
Davies.
More.
Schible.
Dodomite.
Mills.
Swaim.
Dyer.
Musgrove.
Shiers.
Eves.
Matson.
Stadleman.
Edward.
Millar.
Streaper.
Edwards.
Marks.
Streeper.
Ellis.
McKewson.
Tamplin.
Firth.
Manuel.
Townsley.
Frame.
Mares.
Taylor.
Francis.
Miley.
Vincent.
Fisher.
Morris.
Vandern.
"riffith.
Null.
Wynne.
Giger.
Noble.
Williams.
Garret.
Ogleby.
Warner.
Harper.
Owen.
White.
Hughes.
Pugh.
Walker.
Hamilton.
Peters.
Whitloe.
Henderson.
Palmer.
Winter.
Pollin.
Ward.
Humphreys. Hemler.
Pearne.
Whitehead.
Harry.
Pistorus.
Webster.
Hemberger.
Pearson.
Winters.
Hill.
Perkins.
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Some of these interments were in "the Strangers's Yard," so they were not Friends, or were not members of this meeting. Besides other carly burials in this yard, men- tioned elsewhere, were those of Caleb and Joseph, sons of Rowland Richard, buried in 1705, on 1st and 13th, of 5th and 6th months; Hugh George on 26. 1mo. 1714; Ann Walter, on 27. 3mo. 1715; Edward Sion, "living Jate at Mt. Ararat," on 3. Smo. 715; Moses Roberts, on 22. 12mo. 1715-6; Catherine, wife of David Thomas, the mason, 4. 8mo. 1716; and William Shenkin, "aged about 92 years," on 12. 11mo. 1719-20.
Something has already been told of this graveyard itself, but by a ramble through it we have information of people who died in the last seventy-five years, from inscribed head- stones.
Passing enstward on the dividing walk, on the right hand there is first, what a tablet set into the cemetery wall tells is the "Zell Row, 1794-1875," which means that the row of graves along the wall, which in recent years was moved some yards westward, and divides the graveyard from the lawn of the Meeting House, are members of the Zell family, and among them is the grave of "Thomas Ellwood Zell, 1828-1905, A Founder of the Loyal Legion," the society of commissioned officers who served in the Civil War, and were honorably discharged. Next to the Thompson family's graves are twenty-four marked graves of the George family, among them that of Jesse George, the well known Philadel- phia philanthropist. A long stretch follows of unmarked graves, and then there are a few graves of the Ledom fam- ily with marble head-stones,* and of the families of Hoff- man, Yerkes, Jones, Trimble, Smith, Thomas, Bealer, Lynch,
*In the minutes of the Concord monthly meeting, held with the Chichester meeting, 7. 1. 1729, "whereas, it hath been upon the minds of some friends of this meeting to suppress all surperflus practices of putting of names and Dates upon Coffins, and it is the mind of this meeting that for the futer friends should decist from all such Idola- trous practices". And in the minutes of the same monthly meeting, 11. 5. 1729, "Agreeable to ye yearly meeting minute relateing to
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