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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, 1899, Vol. 23 The rector's wife, whom Franklin describes as a good natured, chatty old lady, also could remember many per sonal characteristics of members of the family. Banbury was visited a few days later, where he met the husband of his deceased cousin Jane, daughter of John Franklin, and in the church-yard copied the inscription on the gravestone of his grandfather, Thomas ...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 7 The attempts to plant colonies upon the Delaware proved to be failures until the Swedes, in 1638, established themselves upon its western bank, near the present Site of Wilmington. Although the Dutch were the discoverers of the river, and gave to it its earlier appellation, 2 they had, to this period, failed to effect a permanent abode upon it. About the Publisher Forgot...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 74: January, 1950 I 16-120. The student in America should consult the Library of Congress Transcripts for cor rections of the text as printed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 6 Nevertheless, a bill to that effect was actually passed, but, backed as it was by neither coin nor credit, to give it due Significance, a proposal to commute the half-pay for life to five years' full-pay, was generally acceded to, and certificates indefinitely promissory were issued on the faith of the Congress. These tickets of commutation were freely parted with by the n...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 35 Nelson A. Miles, Lieut. Gen. U. S. A. (retired) S. M. B. Young, Lieut. Gen. U. S. A. (retired), John C. Bates, Lieut. Gen. U. S. A. (retired), George W. Melville, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. (retired) Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1897, Vol. 21 From 1710 until after William Penn's death in 1718, the home of the family was at Ruscombe, a place in Berkshire, near Twyford. It was rented by Penn, and from an expres sion in a letter of Hannah Penn, already cited, the house seems to have been a large and expensive one. Like most of the houses in which the Founder had his home in the course of his life, Ruscombe...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1882, Vol. 6 The Fourth Walk on the Germantown Road extended from Fisher's Lane northwardly to Wister's Big House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1883, Vol. 7In 1848, when Gen. William 0. Butler was the Democratic candidate for vice-president Of the United States on the ticket with Gen. Lewis Cass, Francis P. Blair, Sen., of The Globe, published some reminiscences of the Butler Family, which furnish the principal material for the following sketch of the Butler Family of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War and th...

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 Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4: Part 1 The last two articles, one of which relates to Natural History, and the other to Statistics, are but collaterally within the province of an Historical Society. The last, to a certain extent, may be considered more directly within it, as far at least, as regards the times that are past, and as to the present time, in things that are susceptible of change, and their ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 22 President from 1885 to 1890, a director of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia from 1888 to his death, and a director of the Commercial National Bank. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...

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

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1905, Vol. 29 Until 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, begu...

Excerpt from Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Late Old Residents' Association: During the First Five Years Few sections of our country open a more pleasing and varied field of study and research to the historian than Western Pennsylvania. Commencing with the mound-builders of pre-historic times, and passing down through the Lanni Lenape and other aboriginal tribes to the day when the last remnant ...

Excerpt from Inauguration of the New Hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: March 18, 1884 The new hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is situated at the southwest corner of Thirteenth and Locust Streets, Philadelphia. The main portion of the building was erected by the late John Hare Powel, in 1832, for a residence. It was purchased in 1836 by Gen. Robert Patterson, who resided there until his death in 1881. The house st...

Excerpt from The Formal Opening of the New Fireproof Building of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, April 6-7, 1910 Prior 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 Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 3 A few months ago Pittsburgh mourned the death of its great philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. Today it is called upon to honor the memory of a man who was at one time associated with Mr. Carnegie, and like his former partner, was a great public benefactor. Henry Clay Frick was born in Western Pennsylvania, and was of the blood of those Germans who with the English Quakers organized ...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 of 2 The office of a historical society is by no means confined to the revival of the neglected and decayed memorials of former years. Amid our regrets for the successive and irreparable loss of those precious records of our ancestors which time awhile had spared, and which we would fain rescue from oblivion, to be completed, compared, and explained, it is perhaps an injus...