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FRANCIS BRkDLEY
A friend Of. Liberty,
and was privately slain
blythe enemies ef4sis
country Nov. I4th
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Tradition says be was the largest stoutest man
in the country. and much hated BY the TOTES, and
much desired by The British as prisoner, on ae-
count of the evil he had done. their scouting and
foraging parties, and their sentries Seeing four
tories lurking around his let he went to drive them
eff or-iake them prisoners. they effected their
object, his death, by seizing upoa him, and in the
scufae which was likely 10 be too hard for them,
one shot him with his own gun. -. =. :


Near by his stone is a brick wall about six feet
long and two feet high, without any inscription
that is upon the ground Of General Davidson, OF
this county, who eH dead by the rife shot of tory
as he was opposing the crossing of the British
forces at Cowan's ferry few miles distant from
this place, 1881. After the enemy had passed on,
his friend, Captain Wilson, whose grave is near
by found him pundered and stripped of every
garment, and hastily placing him on his horse,
bore him to this place Of seputure


. Congress voted a monument to the man most
beloved in his country, asaerifce to the public
welfare but the resolution has slept on7the re-
cords, and his grave is sill without an inscription
The college, patronized by his children and kin,
dred, bears his name. -


By the East wall you will End a rowof marble
tablets, all with the name of Alexander On one
is this short inscription --


JOHN. McKN1TT ALEXANDER


: who'departed this Afe>July 10th A. D. 1917


$, = :, Aged "a. -. = -.


This is the grave Of the clerk Of the -Corven.
ton; by his side rests his wife Jane Bane


At a little distance south wardly, as, yet without
a monument is the grave ofthe late much esteen,-
ed and influential Pastor of this church, JoHN-
WILLIAMSON. - - S7-F-a. =


January 18th, lS43 g. 49, VIATOR.