Pennsylvania
Dagazine

OF

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

Vol. 1.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLICATION FUND OF

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

No. 820 SPRUCE STREET.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

The Diary of Robert Morton. Kept in Philadelphia while that city

was occupied by the British army in 1777.

The Hessians in Philadelphia. A German officer's impression of our

city. From the Correspondence of Professor Schlözer, of Göttingen,

Vol. III. p. 149. Translated by Miss Helen Bell

Pittsburgh and Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1782-83. Letters from

Ephraim Douglass to Gen. James Irvine. From the Irvine Papers

in the Historical Society

Major André's Parole. Original in possession of Mr. Simon Gratz.

[From the American Antiquarian]

Edward Whalley, the Regicide. By Robert Patterson Robins

Baron Stiegel. By the Rev. Jos. Henry Dubbs, of Lancaster, Pa.

MEMOIRS PREPARED FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ADOPTION

OF "THE RESOLUTIONS RESPECTING INDEPENDENCY."

John Hancock. By Charles Francis Adams

Patrick Henry. By William Wirt Henry.

Henry Wisner. By Henry W. Bellows, D.D.

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40

44

54

55

73

78

80

Charles Humphreys. By A. A. Humphreys, Maj.-Gen. U. S. A.

. 83

Francis Dana. By Richard H. Dana, Jr.

. 86

Edward Biddle. By Craig Biddle

Chief Justice William Allen. By Edward F. de Lancey

Silas Deane. By Charles J. Hoadley

General Artemas Ward. By Robert C. Winthrop

Major-General John Armstrong. By William M. Darlington, of Pitts-

burgh, Pa..

Colonel John Nixon. By Charles Henry Hart

Dr. William Shippen, the Elder. By the late Thomas Balch

Robert Morris. Presented by Mrs. Armine Nixon Hart

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Contents of Volume I.

Francis Lightfoot Lee. By Samuel L. Clemens (" Mark Twain")

Samuel Adams. By George A. Simmons

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. 343

. 439

Isaac Norris. By the late George W. Norris, M.D.

M.D..

449

Memorial Notice of the Rev. William C. Reichel. (With portrait.)

Read by John W. Jordan, before the Historical Society of Pennsyl-

vania, November 13, 1876.

Memorial Notice of the Rev. William M. Reynolds, D.D. Read by

Townsend Ward before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Nov.

13, 1876

104

107

Descendants of Dr. William Shippen. Compiled by Charles R. Hilde-

burn.

. 109

Proceedings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 112, 222, 354, 465

Notes and Queries

113, 223, 355, 466

Journal of William Black, 1744. Secretary of the Commissioners ap-

pointed by Governor Gooch, of Virginia, to unite with those from the

Colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, to Treat with the Iroquois

or Six Nations of Indians, in reference to the lands west of the Alle-

gheny Mountains. Edited by R. Alonzo Brock, Secretary of the

Virginia Historical Society.

Occupation of New York City by the British, 1776. Extracts from the

Diary of the Moravian Congregation.

117, 233, 404

133, 250

The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, and Christina, Queen of the

Swedes, the Goths, and the Vends. A presentation of her portrait

to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, April 16, 1877 . . 149

Notes on the Iroquois and Delaware Indians. Communications from

Conrad Weiser to Christopher Saur, which appeared in the years

1746-1749 in his newspaper printed at Germantown, entitled "The

High German Pennsylvania Historical Writer, or a Collection of Im-

portant Events from the Kingdom of Nature and the Church," and

from his (Saur's) Almanacs. Compiled by Abraham H. Cassell,

translated by Miss Helen Bell

. 163, 319

An Unwritten Chapter in the History of the Siege of Boston. Contri-

butions of the Society of Friends of Philadelphia, for the Relief of

the Boston Sufferers in the Winter of 1775-76 .

The Oath Taken by the Officers at Valley Forge.

168

174

Death of Major Anthony Morris, Jr. Described in a Letter written on

the Battle-Field, near Princeton, by Jonathan Potts, M.D. Anno-

tated by the Rev. Edward D. Neill, President of Macalester Col-

lege, Minn..

Joseph Montgomery. By Wm. H. Egle, M.D.

Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia. Burials, 1709–1760.

buted by Charles R. Hildeburn

Book Notices

Meeting of the Descendants of Col. Thomas White, at

Church, Spesutiæ, and Sophia's Dairy, June 7th, 1877.

William White Bronson.

Contri-

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. 217

219, 350, 460

Washington's Encampment on the Neshaminy. By William J. Buck 275

The Massacre of Paoli. Historical Address of J. Smith Futhey, of

West Chester, Pa. Delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of that

event at the Dedication of the Monument to the Memory of those

who fell on the night of September 20th, 1777 .

The Wharton Family. By Anne H. Wharton

285

. 324, 455

Welsh Emigration to Pennsylvania. An Old Charter Party. Commu-

nicated by W. F. Corbit

General James Potter. By A. Boyd Hamilton .

330

346

William Penn. Eulogy on the Founder of Pennsylvania. Delivered

before the Penn Club, to Commemorate the One Hundred and Ninety-

Fifth Anniversary of his Landing. By Wayne Mac Veagh .. 361

Battle of Germantown. An Address delivered at Germantown upon

the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Engagement, October 4, 1877.

By Alfred C. Lambdin, M.D. .

. 368

Colonel Thomas White, of Maryland. By William White Wiltbank.

Read by him at the Meeting of the Descendants of Colonel White at

Sophia's Dairy, Maryland, June 7, 1877

420

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Report of Council to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, May 7, 1877 477

Officers of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

. 482

INDEX

. 485

SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUBLICATION FUND OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF

PENNSYLVANIA

495

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