* Simcoe's Military Journal, page 28. At that time the Philadelphians were dependent chiefly upon the Frankford Mills for their flour. It was with the pretense of going thither for flour, that Lydia Darrah left Philadelphia and hastened to the American camp at Whitemarsh, apprised Washington of an intended attack upon him, and, by her patriotic vigilance, doubtless saved the American army, under the commander-in-chief, from destruction or captivity. This circumstance is noted on pages 301--302. [[[The Grave of Dr. Franklin, and others.--His early-written Epitaph.-- Description of Christ Church]]] {249}Within its wall-inclosed grave-yard in the rear is the dust of many of the early and distinguished citizens of Philadelphia, the most renowned of whom was Dr. Benjamin Franklin. [Illustration: 9257] His grave is beside that of his wife, and daughter (Mrs. Bache), in the northwest corner of the yard. "I wish," he said in his will, "to be buried by the side of my wife, if it may be, and that a marble stone be made by Chambers, six feet long, four feet wide, plain, with only a small molding round the upper edge, and this inscription:= `````"Benjamin `````and Deborah `````Franklin. `````178--"= His wishes were complied with. The date on the stone is 1790. * In the same inclosure General Mercer, who was killed at Princeton, was first buried; also Major-general Charles Lee, whose aversion to burial with Dissenters has been noticed. Standing amid its graves, and overshadowed by the venerable church, the American feels that he is upon consecrated ground indeed--consecrated by something holier than the voice of man setting it apart as a resting-place for the dead. Here, wide open, is a broad page of our national history; let us sit down this still Sabbath afternoon and peruse a portion of it preparatory to a ramble on the morrow. On the beautiful banks of the Delaware **--the Indian's _Mack-er-isk-iskan_--dwelt for ages the powerful tribes of the Lenni Lenapes ***--the Original People. They claimed the broad land from the Hudson to the Poto- * As early as 1727, when Franklin was only twenty-two years of age, he wrote the following epitaph for himself: The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, Like the cover of an old Book. Its contents torn out (And stripped of its lettering and gilding), Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected by The Author. * This epitaph was first printed in a Boston newspaper (the New England Courant), established and printed by Dr. Franklin. ** This name was given to the bay and river in honor of Lord De la Ware, who was Governor of Virginia in 1611. *** This has been sometimes used as a generic term, and applied to all the tribes of the Algonquin family.