Evening journal., 1889-11-15
eovERNoR vANDYKEls LONE.
DO His Bones Rest in New Castle or 1
a Field Near Delaware City?

DO His bones Rest in New Castle or ia
Field Near Delaware City?
The Middletown Transcript has the
following editorial in its last issue. The
New Castle correspondent Of the EVEN
ING JOURNAL takes exception to the
article published in the last Issue Of the
Transcript headed 'The First Governors
Of Delaware EVENING JOURNAL CORE.
spondent may think he is right in his
supposition, but he can have ocular proof
Of the error Of his statements by visiting
the farm Of A. Coulborn, near Della
ware City. On that farm is a single
grave protected from the plow" by an
iron fence, erected by descendants of
Nicholas Vandyke some twenty years
since. The gentleman who superintended
the erection is now a resident Of Will
mington, and the widow who contributed
$50 to the fund is now q resident of Port
Penn. We know a number of reliable
gentleman OF st. Georges hundred
who will testify that they have been
on the spot and have seen the grave.
stone, iron fence and all the surround
ings, and who know that the name OF
Nicholas Vandyke is on that stone, with
dates Of birth and death, with other data
which prove beyond doubt that the
grave is the last resting place Of Nicholas
Vandyke, as to his statements concerning
the monument erected to The memory Of
Nicholas Vandyke in Emmanuel Church
yard at New Castle, no one doubts them
Mr.. BRyard's address at Dover Is not th,
authority for tho statement in Tit
Transcript, and II it was, it woul,
/ certainly be very good as Mr.. BayarI
Is not accustomed to making wild state
ments such cs some others seem to de
| light in. Now NE would like to ask the
correspondent a question. If there is
monument erected TO the memory OF
/ Nicholas Vandyke in New Castle, and i
| there is a plain slab erected to tn
memory OF Nicholas Vaudyke in FIELD
near Delaware City, which of the tw
marks the grave in which Nicholas Van
dyke is buriedl
II is likely that any of his linea
descendants should imagine that tn
perpetuation OF his memory requires
the erection of monument in fiel
where no other mortal was ever burieC
and when people acquainted with the hi
tory Of his services do not go2 w
admit that a Cenotaph has been erecte
! In Emmanuel Churchyard, and we ais
know that the same thing has been fr
quently done In other cases where
man has been buried in one place al
5 his monument erected in another. "
o may also state that we have heard tv
gentlemen we'll known all over Ne
Castle county, state that tn,
have been on the spot, and ha'
$ seen the tomb. What further has 4
, Journal correspondent to say on this su
s iect. we will be very glad 20 place al
further Investigations he may make b
|, fore the public as that part OF his arl
" Gle which is correct contains some inte
$ estinE information, but he does not she
extraordinary smartness as he seems
!, imagine, in pointing out the ''absurdit
q Of the transcripts article; the absurd
Of the whole affair rests upon himse
and illusions to the fact that some O
g needs "a little rubbing up on histori
IS matters, OF taking IN initial step in tn
mastery would well apply to his o.
n case.
By this mornings mail the EVENT
JOURNAL has recei we'd the following
x ter from correspondent in Port PEI
te referring to the condition of Govern
sr Vandvkes grave:
~ 'sEDiroR EVENING JOURNAL The
tempt to deny the shameful condition
the grave of the first governor Of De
~ ware near Delaware City. on the canal
as suits from confounding Governor VI
ne dyke with his son. The author OF {
he original statements in the Middleto
he Transcript which was referred to in
- EVENING JOURNAL of the lth inst,
.e tended the funeral of the Nicholas VI
W dyke who was buried in New Castle
RS stated, and, though in his early boyho
lis remembers the sermon Of Rev. Joshua
70. Denforth on the occasion in the
,ia Presbyterian church as hestated that q
deceased was one 10 whose aame the w
Honorable was sf6xed." SIGMA
IA A5Yrmter, So.