Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on May 17, 2006 17:27:18 GMT -5
I wasn't able to get copies of the complete book; only a few pages using my library card and Heritage Quest.
p.49 "Whatever else the settler in the new country may do without, he must, sooner of later, have a burial ground. The old Swedes had one at Christina and one at Tinicon Island. Much however as they loved the "water road" both of these were too far away to be convenient for the pioneers at Upland, and so at a very early day they had one of their own. They chose for the resting place of their dead the crest fo the first earth ripple along the Delaware from which the ground sloped gently south and west, to the river, whose water line was near of north of Front Street and to the tidal waters of Opplandt Kill."
More is told about the town and then ........"In front stretched the green of the Church Land and to the left, close to the then river bank, stood the lone house of Neales Laerson, near the site of which David Lloyd was soon to build his new residence, known later as the Porter Mansion."
Pg. 53, Speaking of Rev. Evan Evans and Rev. John Talbot the next paragraph speaks of "Gabriel Friend (Neales Laerson's son)" who with the two Rev.'s who came to organize the parish in 1704 "most of whom were in all probability members of the early mission: (here it names the men and among them is Gabriel).
The book is listed on Heritage Quest as Anonymous, Author Unknown.
p.49 "Whatever else the settler in the new country may do without, he must, sooner of later, have a burial ground. The old Swedes had one at Christina and one at Tinicon Island. Much however as they loved the "water road" both of these were too far away to be convenient for the pioneers at Upland, and so at a very early day they had one of their own. They chose for the resting place of their dead the crest fo the first earth ripple along the Delaware from which the ground sloped gently south and west, to the river, whose water line was near of north of Front Street and to the tidal waters of Opplandt Kill."
More is told about the town and then ........"In front stretched the green of the Church Land and to the left, close to the then river bank, stood the lone house of Neales Laerson, near the site of which David Lloyd was soon to build his new residence, known later as the Porter Mansion."
Pg. 53, Speaking of Rev. Evan Evans and Rev. John Talbot the next paragraph speaks of "Gabriel Friend (Neales Laerson's son)" who with the two Rev.'s who came to organize the parish in 1704 "most of whom were in all probability members of the early mission: (here it names the men and among them is Gabriel).
The book is listed on Heritage Quest as Anonymous, Author Unknown.