Ancienne et Moderne de Germantown, Mount Airy et Chestnut Hill . environ 20 acres de terre. Le Frankfort Land Company a donné un acre de terre près de la maison FriendsMeeting sur la rue principale, côté ouest, pour un marché, Maison de ville, en propriété sépulcrale, et autres bâtiments publics. C'était le centre de la ville, et hereWard croit que le Tribunal a eu lieu jusqu'à enlevé à la place du marché. Son sealwas un trèfle entouré par les mots Sigillum. Germanopolitanum Les amis de rencontre. Le Friends Meeting House appartient à Frankford Réunion mensuelle réunion trimestrielle d'andAbington. Les Amis de Germantown, tandis qu'une réunion

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Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . about 20 acres of land. The Frankfort Land Company gave an acre of land near the FriendsMeeting House on Main street, west side, for a Market, Town House, BuryingPlace, and other Public Buildings. This was the center of the town, and hereWard thinks that the Court was held till removed to Market Square. Its sealwas a trefoil surrounded by the words Sigillum Germanopolitanum. THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE. The Friends Meeting House belongs to Frankford Monthly Meeting andAbington Quarterly Meeting. The Germantown Friends, while meeting atprivate houses in 1688, issued their famous testimony against slavery. JacobShoemaker conveyed the land to the Friends. The first Meeting House is thoughtto have been of wood; and a part of its foundation was found a few j^ears ago.In 1708 a new stone building on the same site arose. In this building the firstIsaac Norris died, A. D. 1735. In 1812 a third meeting-house was built, westof the old site, near its location, and near the present school-house. In. THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, COULTER AND MAIN STREETS. GERMANTOWN. , 65 1871 it disappeared and a fourth meeting-house was erected, still further to thewest. An old tablet from the 3d house is preserved in the committee room. PENN ANNO GER OLD 1705 MAN NEW 1812 TOW. A Friends burying-ground joins the meeting-house. Perhaps fifty years agothe Friends had a library. Alfred Cope and others of late began to- buildupon this foundation. They erected the fine stone building, and stored itwith about 3000 valuable books. Alfred Cope endowed it. It has now about11000 volumes. Novels are excluded. The library building. Ward believedto have been on a part of Lot No. 9, which was Jacob Isaacs van Bebbers. Hesoon left Germantown. One of the name was Judge in the Supreme Court ofDelaware, and another a noted physician in Baltimore. The Maryland Van-Bebbers were a distinguished family. Van Bebbers Rock at Falls of theKanawha commemorates a d

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