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Extracts from this letter, dated Philadelphia, June 14, 1736:

" We [Margaret and Thomas Freame, no doubt] went up to Pennsbury, where we could not be long by ourselves; at last we got an opportunity to speak to our brother." He was " pretty warm" over a proposal of John's, " but on thinking it over became more mild." He would not, however, send a proposed power-of-attorney (for the sale of some property, apparently), " for you att home [John and Richard] that dont love any trouble will dispose of it for what you can get. . . . He much wonders at my brother Richard's declining to come over. . . . I heartily wish all your affairs were so well settled as the Family might enjoy life rather than suffer it."

The Freames, at this time, were remaining in Pennsylvania for the purpose of selling their lands, some of which appear to have been at Tulpehocken, in what is now Berks County. Thomas Freame writes to John Penn that there are plenty desiring to buy, but they want small tracts and have little ready money, while he wishes to sell in large blocks and for cash. He says, writing from Philadelphia, March 22, 1736/7, " I met with a very great Disappointment, for those Dutchmen that I wrote you were about a large part of my Land went up with me to see it. They approved of the Land and agreed w* me for a price, so that I began to think of seeing you this Summer, I having been informed that they had sixteen hundred pounds in Gold by them, but it proved otherwise, for they would pay but £150 this summer and the rest Six years hence. This would have done very well if I could afford to let my money lay at Interest, but that is not what I want, therefore I did nothing with them." Later, in September, 1736, he again writes to John that as soon as he is able to ride (he had been unwell) he is going to Tulpehocken "with some Palatines lately come in, to whom I have some expectation of disposing of half that tract."

' John Barclay signs himself in his letters " thy sincere friend and affectionate kinsman," but the relationship is not clear. It was John Barclay's niece, Christian Forbes, who had married William Penn, Jr.'s, son, William Penn, 3d, in 1732, but this could hardly be regarded as creating kinship with Thomas.

Death

Burial: 12 FEB 1751 Jordans Meeting House Burial Ground,
A letter from Joseph J. Green, the distinguished Quaker antiquarian and genealogist, October 12, 1897, from Tunbridge "Wells, England, says, referring first to the grave marked Letitia Penn,—
" The stone is now correct,' Letitia Aubrey,' as I have drawn the attention of the local monthly-meeting to these defects, and new stones are now put down where errors existed. The stone ' Mary Frame" has been taken up, or altered to ' Margaret Freame,' and I think also ' Thomas Freame;' both are buried in one grave. The stone at John Penn's grave is also correctly marked."