Bond of George W. and Thomas N. Hearne on estate or Joseph Hearne, Sept. 19, 1848; amount of bond, $3,000.

A few brief trip notes, hastily written by Professor Eben Hearne, of Pocomoke City, Maryland:

On Monday morning at eight o'clock, June 1, 1891, a company of persons left Laurel, Del., for a carriage drive of thirtv miles in the country. The company comprised Mrs. Harriet H. Cannon, of Laurel; Mrs. Lavinia B. Fell, of Smyrna, Del; Mr. Wm. T. Hearne, of Independence, Mo; Master Charles L. Horsey, of Laurel, and Eben Hearne, of Pocomoke City, Maryland.

We drove over the Brooklyn bridge and turned into the Georgetown road, and in about thirty minutes reached Old Christ P. E. Church, built about the middle of the eighteenth century. in Colonial times, under George III. We found the church in a good state of preservation it is forty bv sixty feet, built of good heart pine, and the pews are of the same material. in its natural condition, without either paint or oil; the pews are built in the old Colonial style, as is also the pulpit, the latter being approached by a flight of steps. Everything around bears the marks of age. The hands of hundreds of the former worshipers in this ancient and famous old shrine have long been folded in death and their bodies have crumbled into dust. Six generations have trodden upon its threshold. While the years of the twentieth century arc rolling by. it will still be standing--a relic of an age never to return, In it worshiped Lowder Hearne (1753-1809) and Clement Hearne (1763-1851). whose pews still bear their names, probably written by each, respectively. As souvenirs of this sacred spot we brought away some wooden shutter-bolts and some other trifling mementoes.

(From a Delaware paper, 1899:

OLD CHRIST CHURCH.

Two thousand people gathered at Old Christ Church. Broad Creek, Sunday afternoon, it being the annual meeting of the Epis- copalians of lower Delaware. This church was built in 1772 and the interior is the same today as when the church was erected. with boxed pews, with high pulpit in the centre. No paint brush has ever touched the edifice and the timber inside and out is built of Sussex heart pine and is as sound today as when it was first erected. No nails were used in the interior, wooden pegs supplying their place. Outside the nails used were all hand forged and they and the iron

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