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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]