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Excerpt from Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 Herc now this people lived peaceably for several years without preachers or magistrates. Each one did as he thought proper. About this time I became very sick and expected to die, and was willing to die, for my stepmother was indeed a stepmother to me. By her in¿uence my father treated me very harshly, I had no other friend, and had to bear hunger and cold. I often tho...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 1 It is true, the society entertains views somewhat different from those held by the editor of The Olden Time. It does not believe that the society could be a substitute for a periodical like The Olden Time, nor that this magazine could take the place of the society, but holds that the one must be the complement of the other. The society must supply the capital and the energy necessa...

Excerpt from Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5 Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia. Burials 1709-1760. By Charles R. Hildeburn. (continued from page 506, vol. Iv.) 223, 343. 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 reco...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1922, Vol. 46 At various times and places I have done what I could to make better known the history of our Commonwealth as embodied in the deeds of her great dead. Especially I have put my shoulder to the wheel to bring into public notice Governor Johan Printz, the Swede. To-night, however, I am not here to talk to you about other people's ancestors, but to say something about ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1889, Vol. 13 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Allegheny County Bar Association: I declined your appointment as historian of the bar and bench of Allegheny County. I found that the admissions to this bar in 1863 had been six hundred and fifty. The correspondence and labor of collecting information and the compilation of even a partial number of sketches would extend over many...

Excerpt from The History of the Consolidation of the City of Philadelphia: Prepared in Accordance With a Request of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania This is so far from the case that it may be said the labor of the management, and the necessity for funds, only then begin. The arrangement of books is a matter of much labor, and their binding of considerable expense, and when bound they involve the necessity for about three dollars per vo...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: Being a Republication In connection with this intimation they desire to say that they will feel obliged for copies of any letters of Mr. Du Ponceau, with which those possessing the originals may be disposed to favor them. The publication of the History of the Town of Beth lehem, and which the trustees believed they would before this have been able to present, has been de...

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, 1880 After the meeting had been called to order and the reading of the minutes had been formally dispensed with, the President said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1902, Vol. 26 John Hazlewood, one of the most noted naval officers of Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War, was born in England about 1726, and became a mariner, and in early life settled in Philadelphia. In 1753 he was in command of the ship "Susanna and Molly, " in 1762, of the ship "Greyhound, " in 1763, of the brig "Monckton, " in 1771, of the ship "Sally, " and in 1774, of...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1907, Vol. 31 Remke, 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 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 s...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1910, Vol. 34 While the British were in possession of the city of Phila delphia we find from Howe's Narrative that, aside from certain provmmal corps raised, they obtained but three troops of light dragoons, consisting of one hundred and thirty-two troopers, and one hundred and seventy-four real volunteers from Jersey, under Colonel Vandyke. From this obscure statement military ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1913, Vol. 37 The original manuscript, of the journal of James Kenny, "kept by him on his journey to Pittsburgh, and notes or remarks of what he judged worth taking notice of while he remained there, " is preserved in the Manuscript Division of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He had charge of the trading store established by the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, of the Pr...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1912, Vol. 36 [William Logan, a son of James Logan, of Stenton, and president of the Governor's Council, was born 5 mo. 14, 1718, and died October 28, 1776. After finishing his education, he engaged in mercantile pursuits until the death of his father, when he turned his attention to agriculture. He was a member of the City Council 1743-1776, in 1747, became a member of the Gove...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1915, Vol. 39 The failure of the Commissioners for the Provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland, who met in New Castle, on Delaware, in November of 1750, to agree whether the twelve miles from the centre of the circle was to be a radius or the periphery, and also as to the location of Cape Henlopen, from which the east and west line across the peninsula was to be run under the dee...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 43 Among the Sons of Delaware who were most noted for patriotism during the Revolutionary struggle, Caesar Rodney and his brother Thomas stand in the front rank. Caesar is so well known as' one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence that no further mention of him is needed for the purposes of this paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1916, Vol. 40 Mr. President, Fellow Members of the Historical Society, and Distinguished Guests of the Bench and Bar: We have met tonight to do honor to the memory of one who for nineteen years was our Senior Vice President - from November 12, 1896, to July 4, 1915 - and who for fifty-five years was in close personal and official relationship to our active work. Beginning with ...

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1884, Vol. 8 A Commemorative Address delivered at Hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, November John William Wallace. 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 digit...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1877, Vol. 1 The Objects of the magazine, as stated in the announcement. Made with the first number, are to foster and develop the interest that has been awakened in historical matters, and to furnish the means Of inter-communication between those of kindred tastes. How far these ends have been accomplished the volume now completed must attest, to the contributors to it, for the...

Excerpt from The Insurrection of the Paxton Boys, 1763-'64 The 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,...