Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
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Source: January 1982 Volume 20 Number 1, Page 2

Foreword

Page 2

The "tricentennial" article in this issue, on the Quaker Welsh Tract, was actually written about forty years ago, but apparently never published. On the back of the original manuscript, however, is a comment by Howard S, Okie, one of the charter members of the Tredyffrin Easttown History Club, in which he noted, "This article seems very good to me ... it should be published." After four decades, his recommendation is being carried out.

It is believed that its author was Franklin L. Burns, a frequent contributor to the Quarterly in its early years.

The article on recreation in the latter half of the nineteenth cen- tury is based on contemporary newspaper accounts. The material was found in the clipping files of the Chester County Historical Society.

The ingenuity of the Berwyn Fire Company is illustrated in the next article. After reading about the incident, Bob Goshorn talked with Frank Kelley, then the assistant chief of the fire company, to get a first hand report of the details.

The compilation of nineteenth century burials in St. Peter's Churchyard, originally made in 1921 by Miss Ellen Gooding, and edited by Elizabeth Rumrill, is completed with the listing in this issue. In addition to the 390 graves that were listed in this six-part series of articles, there are an additional 60 burial sites that bear no name; some of them unmarked, others marked with plain stones, a few marked by an initial only on a corner post, and others marked only by a Civil War veteren's iron star.