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Excerpt from Reynolds Memorial: Addresses Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Upon the Occasion of the Presentation of a Portrait of John F. Reynolds, March 8, 1880After the meeting had been called to order and the reading of the minutes had been formally dispensed with, the President said.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1902, Vol. 26On the next page is the following advertisement: All persons who have Fire Arms by them are desired to give public notice thereof and dispose of them at a moderate price to those who want them. It is supposed that there are considerable numbers in this city which were used on board vessels during the War.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1917, Vol. 41At the Pennypacker Reunion, held October 4th, 1877, our late President in describing a member of the family who had become a Senator of the United States, said: Reverdy Johnson wrote to me of Isaac S., of Virginia, that possessing 'sterling integrity he had the confi dence of every man in the Senate.' Thaddeus Stevens complained of Elijah F. That he was 'too damned h...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 6These watchful guardians of the commonweal, with an alacrity they never exhibited in the hour of real peril ¿ew to their pens, and became Cassius and Civis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-t...

Excerpt from The Formal Opening of the New Fireproof Building of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, April 6-7, 1910Prior to the ceremonies, the visitors spent their time going through the spacious building, examining the rare books, collections of paintings and relics, in Stille Hall, Hall of Governors, Gilpin Library, and the priceless collections in the Manuscript Department, the Assembly Hall, and rooms of the officers of the Society. ...

Excerpt from Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of PennsylvaniaIt is hoped that this new edition of The Guide will prove useful and more usable to students interested in the rich manuscript holdings Of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Excerpt from Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of PennsylvaniaIt is hoped that this new edition of The Guide will prove useful and more usable to students interested in the rich manuscript holdings Of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1922, Vol. 46An address delivered before the Society as A Centennial Paper on November 14, 1921. Following this address was one on Thos. Willing the Financier, by Mr. Burton Alva Konkle not in manuscript and come quently not published.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a rep...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1892, Vol. 16Letter of General Washington to Joseph Reed, President of Penn sylvania, 1779. By Dr. William H. Egle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 33Fort Nassau to a condition of defence, and was charged on this account with extravagance in the expenditure of public funds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1890, Vol. 14IN the title of these sketches, The Old Bar of Philadelphia, refers to the first Bar after the Declaration of Independence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digi...

Excerpt from Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5Fragments of a Journal kept by Samuel Foulke, of Bucks County, while a member of the Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1762 - 4.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1907, Vol. 31Bemke, to Matthias Van Bebber, a Dutch merchant, who came to Germantown in 1687. Son of Jacob Isaacs Van Bebber, one of the first Crefeld purchasers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1907, Vol. 31Bemke, to Matthias Van Bebber, a Dutch merchant, who came to Germantown in 1687. Son of Jacob Isaacs Van Bebber, one of the first Crefeld purchasers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1905, Vol. 29Until a decade and a half ago the fact that the same great scene, as had animated Trumbull's brush, had several years earlier inspired another painter, had been so entirely lost sight of as to have been virtually unknown, when, in a dark corner of the old Boston Museum, on Tremont Street, the writer discovered the painting of The Congress Voting Inde pendence, begun ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1912, Vol. 36For the benefit of those who have enjoyed only the English version of this work, the dedication and preface of the first Swedish edition have been translated by the writer, as no English translation of this part has hereto fore appeared, so far as known.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1827, Vol. 2These noble aspirations, and wise resolutions, never forsook the mind of Penn, and all that could be taught by precept and by example, was taught and shown by this apostle of Christianity and mo rals, to his unenlightened brethren, to produce the great [and good ends which he so ardently desired for them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1917, Vol. 41Bibliographical and Descriptive Notes on the Issues of the Journal of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 177 6-1790. By Augustus H.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digi...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1895, Vol. 19Rev. William Rogers, DMD (portrait) 96, 251, 507 Letters Relating to the Death of Major General Anthony Wayne.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4: Part 1Society has done, during the short period that has elapsed, since its foundation.It is not to be estimated by the number of volumes that we have published, the publication of books was not our only, nor indeed our principal object, and when we con sider with what views this Society was formed, and for what purposes it was instituted, 1 think we have cause to congre t...