to which I refer my Reader for an account of the further descent of the sd. land; & return to Thomas Wallis who I find named in a deed of Trust (for one half an acre of ground set apart for a Burying place at Penshawkin in the sd. Township of Chester) dated 30 of 9 mo. 1692 by a reference to the sd. deed among my loose papers it will fully appear: feeling a desire this morning the 8th day of the Eighth month 1824 & first day of the week to walk over the sd. half an acre of Ground & see what aspect it

21) now bears having Some years ago, when gathering Chestnuts I noticed the place, & remarked then a few very small chestnut trees growing on the spot, &c     When I came to the sd. ground, I counted thereon 7 chestnut treets, 1 hickory, & several small locust suckers growing up, & two horses feeding on the grass among them; soon discovered a stone, which I have no doubt formerly stood at the head of a grave, but it now lay flatt upon the ground, & broken into two pieces; on one of the sd. pieces which upon examination I take to be slate, was the following inscription (viz)

23) Standing another stone, which stone I take to be the one placed at the foot of Thomas Wallis's Grave: being the same kind of stone before mentioned: the following cut thereon

After I had read over these inscriptions taken from sd. stones which I suppose was brought from Philadelphia here &c. I took notice of a pebble stone with the following letters & figures cut thereon (viz)

near one of the sd. Locust bushes stood a larger pebble stone whereon was marked

If the reader hereof should ever feel the like inclination with me of paying a visit to this place in his own person perhaps 24) he, or she, may then think as I do now, if it were not for the four mentioned Grave Stones who could have thought this piece of ground had been consecrated with the bodies of our Fathers &c- (?) I was seriously impressed with the reaching of the first lines mentioned together with a reflection like this "see how we lie."