Chester Counties," and besides these, many other posts of honour or responsibility.

At first Doctor Graeme lived at Graeme Park only in summer, but toward the end of his life spent most of his time there. He did much to improve the estate and enclosed a park of three hundred acres, double-ditched and double-hedged, which, said he, in a letter to his intimate friend, Thomas Penn, " as a piece of beauty and ornament to a dwelling I dare venture to say that no nobleman in England but would be proud to have it on his seat."

Sadness and ill-health clouded Doctor Graeme's declining years. The death of his wife in 1765 was a blow from which he never fully recovered. She was a woman of remarkable accomplishments and of great personal charm, and as long as she lived all the eminent people of her day found Graeme Park a most hospitable and delightful place to visit. Among the famous men who were frequent guests there may be mentioned Elias Boudinot, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, Doctor Benjamin Rush, George Meade, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Penn, Andrew Hamilton, Reverend Richard Peters, Bishop White, Reverend Jacob Duché, and John Penn. Besides these, many distinguished visitors from abroad stayed there from time to time.

Elizabeth Graeme, Doctor Graeme's favourite daughter, a woman of brilliant parts, had become an invalid and had gone abroad to visit her kinsfolk in hope that the change might restore her health. She received marked attention from many titled admirers, was presented to King George III and "particularly noticed by him,"

and was "sought by the most celebrated literary gentlemen who flourished in England at the time." After her return home she managed her father's household. It was then that she met Henry Hugh Fergusson, a man much younger than herself, to whom she was afterward clandestinely married at Old Swedes Church. When she was about to break the news of this match to her father at Graeme Park and was waiting at the window as he came up the avenue from his walk before breakfast, the old doctor fell and died suddenly.

Mrs. Fergusson made over a large part of her fortune to her husband who, at the outbreak of the Revolution, deserted her and took refuge under the British flag. Graeme Park was confiscated on the ground of Fergusson being a Loyalist, and hence attainted of high treason, but was ultimately restored to Mrs. Fergusson by act of Assembly. In 1791 her nephew, a certain Doctor William Smith, bought Graeme Park, and after disposing of several tracts sold the balance along with the Hall to Samuel Penrose, whose descendants still own it.

OGONTZ, CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP
WALL-SHOEMAKER-BOSLER

HE IVY stands in the midst of the village of Shoemakertown, now called Ogontz, in Montgomery County at the corner of Old York Road and Church Road. The smaller part of the house was built

about 1682 by Richard Wall, who bought six hundred acres of land in Cheltenham Township, then Philadelphia County, extending across the township from the Abington township line on the north to the Bristol line on the south and covering the site of that which later became known as Shoemakertown.

He had married Joane Wheel, August 1, 1658, at Gloucester Monthly Meeting of Friends in England and came to this country in 1682 with a company of Friends from Cheltenham, England, his wife, his son Richard Wall, Jr., and his wife Rachel and their daughter Sarah. His certificate was received by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and reads:

Richard Wall, his certificate was read in the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia and accepted, which was given him by the Monthly Meeting held at ye house of Edward Edwards, of Stock Orchard in ye County of Gloucester the 26th. Day of the 4th. Month 1682, and subscribed by Charles Toney, Giles King, Edwd Waters, Joseph Underhill and several others.

The son, Richard Wall, Jr., bought one hundred acres of land adjoining his father's and also a large tract