Hi all, Thanks to Gene for his reply re. the 2 burial grounds and that Thones Kunders is not listed with the Lower Burial Ground. And also for the quote from H.C. Conrad that Thones contributed to the building of the Germantown Friends meeting house in 1705. At 07:32 PM 10/1/00 -0400, Howard Swain wrote: >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? Thanks to some chance events I have run across an article that can answer my questions above. That article is by Peter D. Keyser, M.D.: "A History of the Upper Germantown Burial Ground" in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol 8 (1884), pp 414-426. According to Keyser, Paul Wulff granted 1/2 acre in 1724 for the burial ground. The Quakers in 1705 and Mennonites in 1706 had each built a meeting house and each had a graveyard. So, this new one (in 1724) was for people of other religions, ie. open to all. For reasons I failed to note, they needed to build a front wall, which was begun in May 1724. And they took subscriptions to pay for the construction. "It was conditioned that all subscribers were to receive the right to bury in the graveyard at any time." I counted 73 names on the list of subscribers. These included: John Cunrad Dennis Cunrads (Tunis Cunders) Cunrad Cunrads Griffith Jones Anthony Klincken Margaret Tissen (Teisen?) John Strepers Anthony Tunes Samuel Kastner John, Daniel, & Jonathon Potts Hermanes Kuster Conrad Kuster There was no account of burials up to 1756, but 7 tombstones from before 1756 had been found (in 1884). The earliest was 1726 then 1735. I didn't recognize any of the names. He then lists some names from the record book after 1756. In a companion article in vol 9 pp 82-88, he lists inscriptions from the Upper Germantown Burying Ground. So, now it seems to me the question re. Thones Kunders is: Did he intend to be buried in the Upper Burial Ground when he, two of his sons, and one son-in-law contributed? Or did they just do it to support the community? I don't suppose anyone knows where John, Cunrad, and Griffith are buried either. (If someone could show they were all in the Upper Burial Ground, then I would guess Thones was there too.) Regards, Howard [email protected]