"The first number of this very remarkable publication, which succeeded the North Briton, Bingley's Journal, and The Whisperer, appeared January 21, 1775, and it certainly existed till July 27, 1776, when the eightieth number was brought out." 79 66 The numbers bear various signatures, such as Casca," "Brutus," and "Junius," and are addressed "To the King," To the People," "To the Right Honourable Lord North," "To a Bloody Court, a Bloody Ministry, and a Bloody Parliament." No. 14 is entitled The present Necessary DEFENSIVE WAR on the Part of America, justified by the Laws of God, Nature, Reason, State, and Nations; and, therefore, no Treason or Rebellion." Another number contains "The Address, Remonstrance, and Petition of the City of London" against the measures of the government relating to America; with the King's Answer, which it says "would do Honour to any Bucher, Monster, or Tyrant on Earth." Number twelve contains a Poem called "The Prophecy of Ruin," of which the following, after describing a tyrannical monarch, is a specimen :— "Should such a King succeed to England's throne * * * Should I then live, i'd rather league with Hell, Than be his slave, and by all thats just and good, I'd rather see my children roll in blood." No. 72 is inscribed "To the most infamous Minister that ever disgraced this country, Lord North," and No. 46 is headed "Go on, vile Prince, by lawless strides, and try By your base arts America shall rise; The name of Slave and George alike despise. As a specimen of the prose the following passage will be sufficient to give an idea: "Ye conspirators against the liberties of mankind at St. James's, in St. Stephen's Chapel, in the House of Lords, or amongst the bench of Satanical bishops, you must surely think there is no God to judge, or hell to receive you; or you could never be so far abandoned as to stain your hands, and consent to dye the plains of America with the innocent blood of her inhabitants." It has been thought by some that Tom Paine was in some way connected with this publication, but such ideas have no doubt arisen by confusing these papers with the ones written by him in America under a similar title. Paine was in this country so early in 1774 that he could have had nothing to do with the matter. That " No. 3" was actually burned by the Sheriff of London, as stated in the extract from Marshall, there can be no doubt. A letter from London to a gentleman in Philadelphia (see Force, 4th S. vol. i. p. 118) has the following passage: "You have herewith inclosed the late English papers, and a peculiar fiery piece called the Crisis wrote professedly in favour of Liberty and America and which from its freedom, has suffered martyrdom at Westminster and the Exchange by order of a prostituted Parliament." Some numbers of the "Crisis" will be found in Force's Archives, but only a few. The question of their authorship is well worthy of investigation. F. D. STONE. JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE, son of Matthew and Maudlin, of the parish of Kirkbride, county of Cumberland, England, was born 7 m. 29, 1662. He arrived in Pennsylvania in 1681, and settled in Falls Township, Bucks County, where he, at first, followed the trade of a carpenter. On the 13th of 1st mo., 1688, he was married to Phebe Blackshaw, daughter of Randall and Alice, at Middletown Meeting. Phebe died 7 m. 29, 1701, having given birth to six children. Joseph married, second, Sarah Stacy, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca, of Burlington, N. J., 10 m. 17, 1702, at Falls Meeting. In his marriage certificate he is called a yeoman. Sarah died 9 mo. 29, 1703, leaving one child. On the 17th of 11 mo. 1704, he married his third wife, Mary Yardley, of Makefield Township, widow of Enoch Yardley, and daughter of Robert and Fletcher, at Falls Meeting. By her he had seven children, making fourteen in all. Joseph died 1 m. 1, 1737, in the 75th year of his age. His descendants are entirely too numerous to mention. His daughter Sarah married Israel Pemberton, a grandson of Phineas and Phebe, and his daughter Jane married Samuel Smith, the historian of New Jersey. S. B. JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE (page 116).-In answer to the Query of "H." in the last number of the Magazine, I state that some information of the family can be found in the History of Bucks County, and that numerous descendants are still living in the lower end of the county in Falls, Lower Makefield, and other townships. W. W. H. D. DAGWORTHY (page 116).-Capt. Dagworthy, afterwards General D., formerly (about 1775 to 1783) resided in Sussex County, Delaware. There he had a large landed estate obtained from William Penn or Lord Baltimore. It consisted of some 25,000 or 50,000 acres, principally cedar swamp, then valuable for the timber. He built a fine house and lived in handsome style, married and left one daughter, who married the Hon. William Hill Wells, M. C. from Delaware. By this marriage there was issue one son, who was named after his mother, Dagworthy. This son was a member of the Philadelphia bar, and married a daughter of Dr. Lehman, of Philadelphia, and left issue one son, William Lehman Wells, M.D., who can possibly furnish some further information in regard to his great-grandfather. Roxborough, Phila., May 27, 1877. D. RODNEY KING. From the Writings of Washington, by Sparks, it appears that Dagworthy had been an officer in the Canada expedition during the old French war, and had received a King's commission; he had, however, commuted his half-pay for a specific sum, which rendered his commission obsolete. In 1755-56, while stationed at Fort Cumberland, he held but a captain's commission from the Governor of Maryland, and commanded only thirty men from that Province. Col. Washington did not acknowledge his claim to supreme rank, and he, Dagworthy, cannot be said to have successfully contested precedence with the officers of the Virginia Regiment on account of the royal commission he had once been honored with. It is true Washington allowed Capt. Dagworthy to command at Fort Cumberland, but accepted no orders from him. On the 5th of December he wrote to Governor Dinwiddie from Alexandria, "I can never submit to the command of Col. Dagworthy since you have honored me with the command of the Virginia Regiment." The question regarding precedence in this case was referred by Governor Dinwiddie to General Shirley the Commander-in-chief, and as he delayed, Washington visited Boston and obtained from him a decision in his favor, and an order 230 that, in case it should happen that Col. Washington and Capt. Dagworthy should join at Fort Cumberland, Col. Washington should take command. (See Sparks, vol. ii. p. 133.) In 1755, a Captain Dagworth commanded the Maryland Rangers, 50 men, under Braddock. Sargent, in his history of the Braddock expedition (note to page 328), calls him Ely Dagworth, and states that "he obtained one of the lieutenancies in the 44th made vacant by the action of the 9th of July. His commission dated from 15th July. In 1765 he had risen no higher." Mr. Sargent speaks of this officer as the one who claimed superior rauk to Washington in 1756; if such was the case, there is some mistake regarding F. D. S. his name, as Sparks designates him as John Dagworthy. (See Index.) In 1758 a Col. Dagworthy, of Maryland, was with General Forbes. LADY CHRISTIANA GRIFFIN (page 116).-The Honorable Cyrus Griffin, of Virginia, President of the Continental Congress, married a Scotch lady of rank, Christina, eldest daughter of John Stuart, sixth Earl of Traquair, Baron Stuart of Traquair, Baron Linton and Cabarston, by his wife, Chris tiana, daughter of Sir Philip Anstruther, of Anstrutherfield, County Fife, Scotland. A grandson of hers, Dr. James L. Griffin, is, I believe, still living in Gloucester County, Virginia, and is said to be the present representative DAVID G. HASKINS, JR., Boston. of the Stuarts of Traquair. Gov. JOHN PENN (page 115).-The attention of DAUPHIN is called to the M. M. article on William Allen in this number of the Magazine, from which it appears that there is a portrait of Gov. John Penn. EDWARD WHALLEY THE REGICIDE (page 55).-Will you allow me to make a few suggestions in regard to the Whalley pedigree printed in your first number? I am inclined to consider it as unsatisfactory, for the reason of its inherent improbability, leaving the question of the death of the Regicide untouched. That is, I am willing to allow that we are so far from knowing with certainty when and where Whalley died, that I think any theory is entitled to careful examination. But in the present case, Edward Whalley is said to be born in or about 1615 (he was a Colonel in 1645), and to die in 1718. That is, it is claimed that he was one of the extremely rare class of centenarians. Yet his will makes no allusion to this fact, but calls him only "sick and weak in body." Again, being aged one hundred years or thereabouts, in his will he speaks only of three sons and three daughters, without allusion to remoter issue. Then he speaks of his brother Ratliffe as of one living, and certainly of his wife Elizabeth as surviving him. Mark Noble, in his Memoirs of the House of Cromwell, gives quite an account of the Whalleys. He says that the Regicide married the sister of Sir George Middleton, and that she died either in, or just before, 1662. He adds, that there were several children, of whose career nothing is known, except of Mrs. Goffe, and of John, the oldest son. This John Whalley, he says, was a member of Parliament, for the town of Nottingham in 1659, and the borough of Shoreham. He married the daughter of Sir Herbert Springate, and had a son Herbert. This Herbert Whalley was in 1672 in possession of some of the family estates, and we may infer that John was dead. If this Maryland story be accepted, we must find that Whalley took a second wife in the New World, which, indeed, a centenarian might well do. But this idea is opposed by the statement that Whalley was met in 1681 by two of his wife's brothers with this family. Indeed, the Robins account of 1769 does not seem to imagine any second wife. It may be noted here that Sir George Middleton, the known brother of Mrs. Whalley, was a violent royalist. I would, therefore, suggest to Mr. Robert P. Robins the following points: That search be made to see if lands were granted to Edward Middleton, and secondly, to Edward Whalley. Next to find out when the sons died, and their ages, if possible. Lastly to trace the dates in regard to the Rolins family. As to a coincidence of family names with those of the Whalleys and Cromwells, trifling as such evidence is, I fail to find it. The Regicide's brothers were Thomas and Henry; his father was Richard; his uncles Walter, John, and Thomas. On the Cromwell side his uncles were Oliver, Robert, Henry, Richard, Philip, and Ralph. The Maryland settler had sons John, Nathaniel, and Elias, surely not family names with the foregoing. I desire, however, to make one suggestion. We know nothing of the Regicide's younger children. May not a son of the same name, an Edward Whalley, Jr., be the person sought, who died in 1718, an old man, but not a centenarian? He might have passed by his mother's name (Middleton) first, and for many reasons might have been shy of acknowledging his rela tion to the Regicide. Family tradition might well have confounded his travels with those of his father, and, leaving the bones of the Regicide to rest undisturbed in New England, we may concede that his son may have died in Maryland. In brief, is it not much more probable that two of the same name have been combined, than to fancy that Edward Whalley's stormy and harassed life was an example of such extreme vigor as is implied in the word centenarian ? I think Mr. Robins' communication is worth study, but it certainly demands much additional examination of the Colonial records, and of the wills, deeds, and family records of all the parties mentioned. Boston, June, 1877. W. H. WHITMORE. THE WHALLEY FAMILY.-The interesting paper of Robert Patterson Robins in the late publication of the Society gives some importance to the following, copied from the "Visitation of Nottinghamshire" published by the Harleian Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota. E. D. N. Richard Whalley, of Kirton, married Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell. CHILDREN OF MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD WHALLEY. By first wife, Judith Duffel. JOHN, born A. D. 1633. FRANCES, wife of Colonel Goffe. BOOK NOTICES. Chester (and its vicinity), Delaware County, in Pennsylvania, with Genealogical Sketches of some old Families. By JOHN HILL MARTIN, Esq. 8vo. pp. 330. For the Author, 217 S. 3d St. Philadelphia, 1877. The lover of local history will find in this volume a store of curious information presented in a readable and pleasant form. The number of authorities quoted, the references to unpublished manuscripts, and the traditions collected are evidences of the years through which the work of its production has extended. It has indeed been a labor of love, and every page testifies to the truth of the words used by the writer in closing his volume, that "thus ends one of the most agreeable occupations of his life." In preparing his history Mr. Martin has spared no toil: newspaper files have been examined, documents and records inspected, muster-rolls copied, and inscriptions from tombstones transcribed; the histories of upwards of one hundred families are given, and the volume is rich with reminiscences of the past; and after reading it one almost feels that he has seen the old Swedish settlement of Upland grow into the present flourishing town of Chester. One of the most pleasing passages in Mr. Martin's book is the description of the old inn long known by the name of "Thurlow's." It was our intention to give an extended extract from this chapter, but as our space is limited we shall be obliged to postpone doing so until the next number. Mr. Martin's volume is well printed, and must prove a valuable addition to the historical literature of the State. A History of the United States of America, including some important facts omitted in the smaller histories, designed for general reading and for Academies. By JOSIAH W. LEEDS. 12mo. pp. 468. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1877. This volume, written by a Friend, contains a concise and excellent account of the settlement, growth, and government of the United States. Impressed with the undue prominence given in the text-books of our schools to the wars in which the country has been engaged, and to a corresponding neglect in them" of matters relative to the Indians (save that they were barbarous savages), the slaves, and other items of interest bearing upon our country's welfare," it has been the aim of the author of this book to supply the missing links, and to point out the "moral loss occasioned by a state of warfare, together with its exceeding expensiveness **** and to promote a knowledge of those things in the past and present history of our country which tend to its peace, prosperity, and true renown." Mr. Leeds, in the title of his book, modestly claims to furnish some information "omitted in the smaller histories," but on a number of obscure points it will be found superior to many works of greater pretension. This book is a valuable epitome of the history of our country, and will be found a useful handbook in any library. The Washington-Crawford Letters, being the correspondence between George Washington and William Crawford, from 1767 to 1781, concerning western lands. With an appendix, etc. etc. By C. W. ButterFIELD. 8vo. pp. 107. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1877. This correspondence, covering a period of nearly fourteen years, is a contribution to the history of the settlement of the southwestern portion of our State, and to that of Lord Dunmore's war. From it we can also gather facts regarding the business character of Washington, and learn the importance he attached to investments in western lands. The volume also contains a biographical sketch of Colonel William Crawford, whose awful death by torture in 1782 near Sandusky Washington deeply felt, sadly closing, as it did, an intercourse in which each party concerned had learned to know the other's worth. |