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year, eleven days only after her decease, and aged 80 years, 

 did wither and die from a broken heart and of loneliness and 

 a longing desire to follow his wife. 



"Some familiar names to our ears are among those that 

 may be read on these cold, marble slabs, for here we read of 

 Coleman Sellers, born 1781, died 1834; Nathan Sellers, 1788- 

 1867 ; Samuel Sellers, 1780-1850; Rachel Lewis Sellers, 1824- 

 1856; James Sellers, Jr., 1823-1854 ; Thomas Burton, 1782- 

 1848, and many Snyders and Tysons and Burnleys ; and 

 please note this one, which lies close to the north fence : 



Francis Bailey * 

 The first American New Churchman, 



1784. 

 The first American Publisher of the 

 Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, 



1787. 



"The footstone has these words carved upon it: ' F. B. 

 Ter sepultum (thrice buried). Requiescat in pace,' from 

 which I infer that the bones of the first American New 

 Churchman were removed and re-interred twice after his first 

 burial. A large slab, broken into three pieces, covers the top 

 of his grave, so that this ' first American ' disciple of the 



* Frances Bailey, a printer, and a Miss Barclay, became the founders 

 of the Philadelphia Society, and the spiritual progenitors of the Swed- 

 enborgian Church in America. — J. E. P. 



Francis Bailey was the son of Robert Bailey, and was born in Sad- 

 bury Township, Lancaster County, Pa., 9-3-1744; was a mechanical gen- 

 ius and printer. In 1771 he became acquainted with Peter Miller, recluse, 

 founder of the Society in Ephrata ; postmaster at Lancaster, 1777; sent 

 to Virginia by the Government to bring back State prisoners sent there 

 for political opinions — principally Quakers of Philadelphia ; in Phila- 

 delphia in 1778; printer to the vState of Pennsylvania, and at the same 

 time edited the " Freeman's Journal." 



