On side of monument looking south: Emblem on shaft the following grouped together and united by a shield: Tomahawk, canoe paddle, scalping knife, calumet, wampum. Inscription on die: Maddened by the death of his father in the hands of the Savages, Tom Quick never abated his hostility to them until the day of his death, a period of over forty years. On base next to the die: Tom Quick died in 1796, at the house of James Rosecrantz on the banks of the Delaware, five miles northeast of this spot, and was buried on the farm of his friend in what is now the Rose Cemetery, two miles south of Matamoras. His remains were taken up on the 110th anniversary of the battle of the Minisink, July 22d, 1889, and placed beneath this monument. On north side: Emblem on shaft, plow. Inscription on die: Thomas Quick, Sr., Father of Tom Quick, his oldest child emigrated from Holland to America, and settled on this spot in 1733. He was the first white settler in this part of the upper Delaware, and his Log Cabin Saw Mill and Grist Mill, built on this bank of the Van De Mark, were the first structures ever erected by white men in the settlement of this region. On the base next the die: After a peaceful residence here of twenty years, and of unbroken friendship with the Indians, Thomas Quick, Sr., while crossing the Delaware on the ice, carrying a grist on his shoulder, was shot and scalped by his supposed friends, the Delawares, who were lying in ambush along the bluff on the south side of the mouth of the Van De Mark, and half a mile east of his humble home. On west side: Emblem on shaft, flag of the United States on standard and partly furled. Inscription on die: This monument was erected by a descendant of Thomas Quick, of the fourth generation; in youth a resident of Milford, in age, one of the founders of the “Chicago Tribune,” and from 1865 to 1869 Lieutenant Governor of the State of Illinois. Inscription on base next to die: Done under the direction of Rev. A. S. Gardiner, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Milford, 1889. APPENDIX.