With Latin phrase from Cicero meaning "To be, rather than to seem" - which is also the motto of the state of North Carolina. Shows founding year of 1833 and a torch for learning.
from Robert Clemens Smedley. History of the Underground Railroad In Chester And the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. Reprint of 1883 edition, Lancaster Pa; Offices of the Journal. p. 204-205
History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a mob, on the 18th of May 1838. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838.
Contains an inscription to Charles C. Burleigh. After his death, it passed on to his son Edward Davis Burleigh