The left inscription reads: "I have great love and regard towards you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship, by a kind, just, and peaceable life, and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall in all things behave themselves accordingly" - William Penn to the Indians

The right inscription reads: "if we consider the almost miraculous beginning, and continuance of this plantation, we must needs confess that God hath opened this passage unto us, and led us by the hand unto this work." - Alexander Whitaker