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 another wealthy citizen entertain one hundred refugees of the same period? And there was Gunning Bedford, Jr., aide-de-camp and friend to Washington, inheritor of his crimson satin Masonic sash, his appointee as first Federal Judge for the District of Delaware. He and his wife, a Read of distinguished colonial stock, entertained friend and stranger with splendid hospitality in the very house in Market Street that had been the headquarters of Washington's French officers. The Bedfords were Presbyterians. Gunning Bedford, Jr., worshipped in the quaint little First Presbyterian Church in Market Street near Tenth, now reverently preserved and occupied by the Delaware Historical Society. Hard by in the churchyard you may see Judge Bedford's tomb, a low but graceful domed shaft facing the public street, so that all may read the lesson of civic virtue, and bearing an inscription that closes thus:

"His form was goodly, his temper amiable, His manners winning, and his discharge Of private duties exemplary.

"Reader, may his example stimulate you to improve the talents—be they five, or two, or one—with which God has entrusted you."