PROR REVOLUTION LEWES

HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN AND BEYOND

PRIOR AMERICAN REVOLUTION LEWES TOWN HAPPENINGS

These very early news items from Lewes may not be of much importance but the account

the jewelry and it's 'posies' , whatever that is, is somewhat interesting. I take 'posies' to be

engravings on the rings.

Sunday, June 9, 1748

Dropt from Anne Church in Lewes, a pocket, wherein was a small box , with three gold

rings in it, and a pair of silver cloak clasps, a pair of large silver shoe buckles, two pair of silver sleeve buttons, with several other things. The posies of the rings are as follows; the

hair ring, ' In his breast my heart doth rest', One of the plain rings, ' Love Intire is my desire',

the other ' Content is a treasure'. The cloak clasp are marked EB. Whoever has taken them

up and will bring them to Daniel Church in Lewes, shall be handsomely rewarded . All

silversmiths or others to whom they may be offered to sale are desired to stop them.

The source appeared in the Sunday, June 9, 1748 Pennsylvania Gazette out of Philadelphia.