PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Delaware County Institute of Science 



Volume VII Number 4 



ARCHIVES OF DELAWARE COUNTY. np,^ 



COMPILED BY EDWARD V. AND MARGARET S. STREEPER. ^^^'^f^l^Ai 



I. 



BURIAL RECORDS OF THE PROVIDENCE FRIENDS' BURYING 

 GROUNDS, PROVIDENCE ROAD, MEDIA, PA. 



The following records covering the last resting places of 

 our deceased have been gathered during the meandering of 

 one of those genealogical students in the pursuit of inform- 

 ation regarding the earlier settlers of this State, and it has 

 been a stumbling block to him and to many others that there 

 are no records extant in a collective sense of the exact loca- 

 tion of the burial of some of the most notable of our Dela- 

 ware Countians of other days. In the search for this inform- 

 ation the writer decided that possibly it would be a help to 

 others of the same genealogical trend of mind if a complete 

 record of the tombstones in the various burying grounds was 

 obtained while they were still legible and placed on file with 

 the Delaware County Institute of Science, at Media, so that 

 at any time a trace was being made, considerable time and 

 money would be saved thereby. 



The first records which will be placed on file will be those 

 of the Providence Friends' Meeting, on the Providence Road, 

 east of the Borough of Media: /. e., the Lower, or Main 



