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From: "GeneStackhouse" <>
Subject: Re: [ORIGINAL-13] Re: Upper and Lower Burying Grounds
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:51:11 -0400
References: <200010012332.TAA08042@smtp10.atl.mindspring.net>


There is an Upper Burial Ground and a Lower Burial Ground. Each is
independent of the other.
Both the Germantown Historical Society and the trustees of the Upper Burial
Ground have a list of the contributors to the front wall.

Thones Kunders is not listed with the Lower Burial Ground.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Swain" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 7:32 PM
Subject: [ORIGINAL-13] Re: Upper and Lower Burying Grounds


> Hi all,
>
> At 09:00 PM 9/28/00 -0400, GeneStackhouse wrote:
> >Jan Lukens was a original subscriber to the Lower Burial Ground in 1737.
He
> >is listed in the original record book. Unfortunately, burials were not
> >recorded until 1755.
> >Jan is probably there but there is no indication as to where.
> >The Lower Burial Ground is administered by the Germantown Historical
Society
> >(GHS) and I am on the Board of Directors of the cemetery as liaison with
> >GHS.
>
> And --
> At 11:02 AM 9/30/00 -0400, Mary <> wrote:
> >I have pamphlet apparently printed by the Philadelphia Bicentennial
> >Commision. It has a large 1776 and 1976 printed on it - Subject
> >
> > THE BURYING GROUND
> >
> >In 1692, nine years after the founding of Germantown, the Upper and
> >Lower Burying Grounds of Germantown were created by a deed from Paul
> >Wulff. Each burying ground had is own Trustees and kept separate
> >records.
> >
> >The Upper Burying Ground Trustees "opened" their record book in 1761.
> >Christian Lehman, the noted surveyor and conveyancer copies into the
> >book records from various loose documents covering earlier
> >transactions. Among these papers were the contributors to the front
> >wall which was completed in May 1724.
>
>
> I'm still confused.
> It appears there were 2 early burial grounds, Upper and Lower,
> each with its own record book, right?
>
> Is the earliest record of the Upper a list of contributors to the
> front wall in 1724?
> Does anyone have this list?
> Does it include Thones Kunders (Dennis Conrad), who died in 1729?
> (Of course if he did contribute to the wall, that is no
> guarantee he was buried there; but that would be better
> evidence than anything else we seem to have.)
>
> Is the earliest record for the Lower a list of "original subscribers"
> in 1737?
> If there are earlier records of any kind for the Lower going back to 1729,
> do they mention Thones Kunders?
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment,
> Howard
>
>
>
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