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Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
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The 1921 Spies inventory has a total of 74 graves listed. These 74 graves have been entered in Find-A-Grave. A transcription from the inventory has been added to each of the 74 entries in the bio section. This is exactly how it appears in the 1921 inventory; sometime no spaces are included. There is also a number reference from the inventory that has been added to each Find-A-Grave entry. It should be noted that the available copy of the 1921 inventory is very difficult to read and in some cases the exact dates are almost impossible to accurately decipher; therefore transcription accuracy may not be 100% perfect.
For example:
Honeywell Bowne,d.9th.mo.8th.day 1821 ae 7mos.7ds.
(re: #4, Spies, 1921)
Many of the grave markers have weathered badly since the 1921 inventory.
Additional research is needed on many of the graves.
From 'The Burough of The Bronx', by Harry T. Cook, 1913: (pages 181-182):
In 1790 a much larger and more imposing edifice was erected which sixty-four years afterward was burned to the ground. A third structure met with a similar fate. The present St. Peter's is a modern stone building, imposing, and beautiful. The chime of bells is said to have been presented in the time of Queen Anne.
The oldest head-stone in St. Peter's churchyard dates back to 1702. Some of the prominent families interred there are—Costers, Honeywells, who came to Westchester in 1693 and whose descend ants are still here. Waterburys, Valentines, Morrises, Mcneill, Setons, Simpsons, Wilkins, Hoffmans, Bayards, Desbrosses, Hunts, Boltons, Delanceys, Powells, Lorillards and Bartows.
Near St. Peter's burying-ground is the Ferris graveyard, also known as the Pasture Hill Burying Ground where are the family vaults of Benjamin Ferris, also numerous headstones to the Pell family.
Beyond the Sunday School building, a short distance south of the church, stood the ancient Orthodox Quaker Meeting House, built in 1723. In 1826 it was changed to Hicksites, after an American Quaker named Hicks. Two years later, the Orthodox built the Friends Meeting House on the opposite side of the Street.
Both were destroyed by fire on the same night in the spring of 1893. Just beyond flows the Indian Brook, now called Seabury Creek, on whose banks the celebrated George Fox is said to have addressed. in 1672, the first Quaker meeting ever held in America. To the west is the St. Peter's Rectory opposite Glebe Avenue, standing on land forming part of the "Ancient Glebe" given by the town to the church in 1703, and otherwise known as "Parsonage Land."
The 1921 Spies inventory has a total of 74 graves listed. These 74 graves have been entered in Find-A-Grave. A transcription from the inventory has been added to each of the 74 entries in the bio section. This is exactly how it appears in the 1921 inventory; sometime no spaces are included. There is also a number reference from the inventory that has been added to each Find-A-Grave entry. It should be noted that the available copy of the 1921 inventory is very difficult to read and in some cases the exact dates are almost impossible to accurately decipher; therefore transcription accuracy may not be 100% perfect.
For example:
Honeywell Bowne,d.9th.mo.8th.day 1821 ae 7mos.7ds.
(re: #4, Spies, 1921)
Many of the grave markers have weathered badly since the 1921 inventory.
Additional research is needed on many of the graves.
From 'The Burough of The Bronx', by Harry T. Cook, 1913: (pages 181-182):
In 1790 a much larger and more imposing edifice was erected which sixty-four years afterward was burned to the ground. A third structure met with a similar fate. The present St. Peter's is a modern stone building, imposing, and beautiful. The chime of bells is said to have been presented in the time of Queen Anne.
The oldest head-stone in St. Peter's churchyard dates back to 1702. Some of the prominent families interred there are—Costers, Honeywells, who came to Westchester in 1693 and whose descend ants are still here. Waterburys, Valentines, Morrises, Mcneill, Setons, Simpsons, Wilkins, Hoffmans, Bayards, Desbrosses, Hunts, Boltons, Delanceys, Powells, Lorillards and Bartows.
Near St. Peter's burying-ground is the Ferris graveyard, also known as the Pasture Hill Burying Ground where are the family vaults of Benjamin Ferris, also numerous headstones to the Pell family.
Beyond the Sunday School building, a short distance south of the church, stood the ancient Orthodox Quaker Meeting House, built in 1723. In 1826 it was changed to Hicksites, after an American Quaker named Hicks. Two years later, the Orthodox built the Friends Meeting House on the opposite side of the Street.
Both were destroyed by fire on the same night in the spring of 1893. Just beyond flows the Indian Brook, now called Seabury Creek, on whose banks the celebrated George Fox is said to have addressed. in 1672, the first Quaker meeting ever held in America. To the west is the St. Peter's Rectory opposite Glebe Avenue, standing on land forming part of the "Ancient Glebe" given by the town to the church in 1703, and otherwise known as "Parsonage Land."
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- Added: 16 Apr 2011
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2398169
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