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In the year 1761 the Society of Friends in this
Borough adopted the plan of burying their dead
i'll rows, regardless of family distinction. The
first person buried afterwards was NICHOLAS
MEEns whose remains lie at the north corner of
the grave c-yard, near the intersection of Pasture
street and Queen street. He was born in the
year l65O, under the government of Oliver
Cromwell; about the time when the Society Of
which he was member, first appeared in Eng
land, and about two years after Charles L. suffer-
cd death on the scaiold. He lived through one
Of the most eventual periods Of British history
perhaps through one Of the most important pc
rods Of tho world. He saw Il monarch, by the
most cruel and arbitrary conduct, cxasperating
his subjects, and afterwards fleeing before them
TO avoid their displeasure. He saw them call
ing a foreigner to the throne and placing the
crown of three kingdoms on his head. He saw
the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the
British revolution which taught its monarchs to
respect the opinions of their sub. ccts, and which
prostratins their high notions Of kinsly pre.oga-
tive, brought them under rules prescribed by
their people. He saw America an extended re-
gion almost wholly governed By its native Sa-
chens, and he lived to see il settled by Europe
ans, divided into numerous governments, and
pcoplcd by millions of entcrpri1ing foreigners.
He saw Pennsylvania and Delaware one great
forest--a range for the deer, the buffalo and the
panther, and he lived to sec them fruitful field,
ga garden inclosed," a refuge and asylum fol
the prosecuted.


MEhns life was extended through more rcigns
than almost any other individual The famous
Thomas Parr who died in the reign Of Charles /.
at the extraordinary age of l52 years, was sub
| jcct of eight monarchs, to wit:-l,ichard H.,
! Henry VIE, Henry WIZ, Edward VI, Mary T.,
Elizabeth, James l., and Charles l. MEEns was
Tie subject of len sovcreigns, to wit:--Olivcl
Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Charles H., James
H., william III. s. Mary H., Anne, George |
George H., and George III. He left this huctu
;.ting scene of existence rs shock of corn fully
ripe, at the advanced age Of one hundred ant
eleven years.


Thus two individuals, TuowAs Pam and Nj
cHoL.s MEEns lived under all the monarchs who
filed the British throne between the years 1481
and 1761, period Of two hundred and seventy
eight years! from the reign Of Richard Ill. Il
that of George Ill. inclusiyc-undcr sixtccl
Kings and Queens, and two Protectors.


B. i.