Close to the Martyrs' Monument is a stone so near the fence that its inscription can be read from Broadway:
HERE LIES
DEPOSITED THE BODY OF
JAMES LEESON,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON
THE 28TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1794,
AGED 38 YEARS.
And above the inscription are cut these curious characters:
It is a cryptograph, but a simple one, familiar to school children. In its solution three diagrams are drawn and lettered thus: