Additional Note added by R. Test

"Long Acre Burial Ground was held on lease from 1675 to 1757, when on the expiry of the second lease, the land passed into other hands, and in 1869 William Beck described it as covered with " a dense mass of buildings," so that the dwellers in the neighbourhood were ignorant of its existence. The Weekly Times and Echo of 5th of Sixth Month, 1892, contained an account of " an extraordinary discovery of human remains," owing to some excavations made for construction of new premises in Long Acre; various conjectures were made respecting the deposition of these bones, but no evidence respecting them was forthcoming, whilst the date of the erection of the buildings on the spot showed that no interment could have taken place for nearly 150 years.

"The mystery was soon solved. Joseph Smith came into the Friends' Central Offices, 12, Bishopsgate Without, with a copy of the newspaper, and with some excitement exclaimed, " That is our old burial ground at Long Acre John Whiting was buried there." The Surveyor for the district was communicated with, and very kindly gave his assistance and sanction for the removal of the bones. By subsequent order of the Six Weeks Meeting (the finance committee of London and Middlesex Quarterly Meeting) some 510 skulls and portions of other bones were removed and re-interred in the Friends' Burial Ground, Isleworth, and over them was placed a stone, with a suitable inscription, giving the history of the reinterment."

Source: The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 3-4 1906 By Friends' Historical Society, Norman Penney LONDON, E.C.: Headley Brothers, pp. 15-16.

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