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Title: The guide book to historic Germantown
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 Site and Relic Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Publisher: Germantown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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f the early families of German-town and their descendants. Note the quaint old gravestonebuilt in the corner of the wall with its inscription, MemendoMory and symbolic cross-bones. Also the stone some thirtyfeet from Main Street and ten from the north wall, erected byJohn F. Watson, the annalist, over the gaves of General Agnewand Colonel Bird, British officers, killed at the Battle of Ger-mantown. Near the front gateway is the grave of ChristianFrederick Post, a noted Moravian missionary to the Indians.The oldest stone in the yard is that of Joseph Coulston, 1707—8.Note also the stone with the inscription : He was noble hearted & amiable &Intelligent, having been awardedA silver goblet for a literaryProduction at the age of 18. The marble wall at the front was erected with money leftfor the purpose by William Hood, a resident of Germantown,who accumulated wealth and died in Paris in 1850. The graveyard was presented to the borough of German-town in 1693 by Jan Streepers. 38
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39 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN No. 5109 Main Street occupies the site of Thones Kundershome, one of the original settlers of Germantown, and, so faras we know, the only house of an original immigrant that canbe accurately located. Notice the north wall of the building ;while it has all been plastered over you will observe that a por-tion of it, about ten feet high and extending back, is of a differ-ent shade from the remainder of the wall. It is thought thatthis is the old wall of Thones Kunders original dwelling, andit is said, in the many plasterings the house has had, theyhave never been able to get the old portion and the new to beexactly the same shade. The first meetings of the Society of Friends in Germantownwere held at this house, and it was from the members of thislittle meeting that a public protest against slavery was issued asearly as 1688. The paper was written by Pastorius, signedby him and three others, and, being appropriately referred totheir monthly and quarterly meetings,

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