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ever heard of, and I believe the reference to be a loose one to 

 the "arms" on the back of the old New Castle stones 

 described, which were there. 



These "arms" to which I have thus frequently referred, are 

 the three balls that form the central feature of Penn's armor- 

 ial shield, as appearing on his seal and elsewhere. Jocularily 

 they are said to stand for the apple dumplings enjoj^ed at 

 treaty feasts between Penn and the Indians. There are three 

 separate roads in the County and one outside, in Montgomery 

 County, that I know of, that still have such " Penn arm " 

 stones standing. And the stones are all of the same character, 

 of coarse, rough, Baltimore granite, all of about the size of 

 fifteen inches width, with rounded corners, (instead of the 

 twelve inch, square cornered, later stones of the turnpike 

 class j, and all with the all important " arms " as stated. It 

 takes but little, therefore, to make one believe that such stones 

 were all erected by the Philadelphia Contributionship interests, 

 separate, apart from, and prior to the turnpike stones. These 

 four roads are : — . 



First, Chester pike. The "road to Newcastle" as 

 above described. 



Second, The old Haverford road. Stones No. 9, 10 and 

 II are the only ones within our County. The others are in 

 Philadelphia or Montgomery. This road ran as far as old 

 Whitehall, now Bryn Mawr, where it tied into Lancaster pike 

 and ended. No. 1 1 , at that point, was thrown out b}' a side- 

 walk contractor last year, but I happened along and saved it. 

 No. 10 still stands in place, back of Haverford College. The 

 face is so worn as to be illegible. The " arms " on the back, 

 however, are plain. I have not seen No. 9 and 8, though I 

 believe Mr. F. P. Powers says they still stand. No. 7 is in 

 position just south of City Line road, in Philadelphia County. 

 No. 4 is m the cellar of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- 

 vania. No. 5 is in the grounds of the "Grange," that 

 famous old country seat in the extreme eastern corner of Hav- 

 erford Township, now the property of Mr. B. R. Hoffman. It 



