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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...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28Rolling Mill at Manchester, in Allegheny County, to make iron rails. Connected with this mill were two coke furnaces, built in 1863. The company operated the works until Sep tember, 186 7, when they were leased by Springer Harbaugh. On January 1, 1870, Harbaugh, Mathias Owens took pos session as owners, and on August 1, 1874, they failed, when the manufacture of rails was ...

Excerpt from The Insurrection of the Paxton Boys, 1763-'64The Saxons are, of course, the basis of the Scottish as of the English people. The difference between them cannot be fully accounted for by difference in origin, or a different degree of intermixture of the elements from which they each originated. We must take account of the difference in soil, climate and religion. The Scot struggles with an unkindly soil, a cold and moist cli mate, h...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine, or History and Biography, 1878, Vol. 2Mmoxas prepared ron rns crxrnxxml celebration or rm: Anorrxox or Tm: Rssow'noss ansrnerrxo Isnsessnsscv.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 t...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine, or History and Biography, 1878, Vol. 2Mmoxas prepared ron rns crxrnxxml celebration or rm: Anorrxox or Tm: Rssow'noss ansrnerrxo Isnsessnsscv.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 t...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1908, Vol. 32Benjamin West's Family. The American President of the Royal Academy of Arts Not a Quaker. By Charles Henry Hart. (portraits.Diary of Clement Humphreys, of Philadelphia. By Miss Letitia A. Humphreys.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 importan...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2Letters of William Penn to King Charles II. And to the Earl of Sunderland, from authenticated copies obtained in London.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 recon...

Excerpt from Banquet Given by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, December 31, 1910, to Celebrate the Ninety-Fifth Anniversary of the Birth of Major General George Gordon MeadeTn) ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of Major General George Gordon Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac from J une 28, 1868, until the disbandment of that army afier the surrender at Appomattox, was chosen as a fitting time to bring to the attention of a...