. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. he dead resting in the Old Pine Street church-yard up to three thousand. It cannot fall far short ofthat. It may be much more. On the east walk there are six lots, enclosed withiron fences, belonging to the Schellinger, McFarlane,Work, Young, Brainerd, and Pile families. A few feetsouth of the last named is the Bailey lot, also the First Church side is the Ross lot. To-day theseare the only enclosed lots in the churchyard. The present interment register begins in 1846. B
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. he dead resting in the Old Pine Street church-yard up to three thousand. It cannot fall far short ofthat. It may be much more. On the east walk there are six lots, enclosed withiron fences, belonging to the Schellinger, McFarlane,Work, Young, Brainerd, and Pile families. A few feetsouth of the last named is the Bailey lot, also the First Church side is the Ross lot. To-day theseare the only enclosed lots in the churchyard. The present interment register begins in 1846. Be-fore then we have unfortunately no record save thatwhich the tombstones give us. A complete card indexof the churchyard is now being made, and all the in-scriptions carefully copied. Systematic attention isnow being given to the gravstones, and they are be-ing recut as the inscriptions fade, and the stones reset,as they give way to the stress of time and publication of a volume containing the inscrip-tions, and an account of the dead fuller than we areable to present here, is being •THE MOTHER OF EIGHTEEN CHILDRENThe quaint inscription is legible South Side
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