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Notes and Queries. 133

Roberts.?Sarah Roberts, born Eighth month 14, 1716; married

Joseph Jeanes, Eighth month 19, 1738, at Friends' Meeting-House, Ab

ington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. I would like to obtain full names of her father and mother, and dates of their birth, marriage, and death. Also names of her grandfather and grandmother, and dates of their birth, marriage, and death. A. I. T. H.

Daniel Thomas.?I would like to learn full name of his wife, and dates of their birth, marriage, and death. Also full names of Daniel Thomas's father and mother. His son, Benjamin Thomas, died before Fourth month 12,1763. (Abington Meetings Records, page 101.)

A. I. T. H.

Abigail Hicks.?She was the wife of James Taiman, of Long Island, New York, who removed to Monmouth County, New Jersey ; died in

1737. Who were her parents ? She was of Flushing, and I am informed that her marriage record (27 of 8ber [October], 1712) is still extant in the register of the Rev. Thomas Poyer, rector of the Parish of

Jamaica, Long Island. P. S. P. Conner.

Rowlandsville, Maryland.

Rhoads.?John Rhoads and his wife Hannah Willcox had a son named Barnabas. The latter's wife was named Mary (married in or about 1730). Who were her parents? S

Tan-go-ru-a.?The author of "

Tan-g?-ru-a : An Historical Drama, in Prose," is supposed to be Henry Clay Moorhead. L. P.

?00* gtotittA Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Moore, 1612-1897. By

John Andrew Moore Passmore. Philadelphia, 1897. 2 vols. 8vo, 1599 pages. Illustrated.

These volumes present the results of many years of research and

patient labor, and no expense or pains have been spared to make them of interest and helpful to all the descendants of Andrew Moore, who came to Pennsylvania and settled in Sadsbury Township, Chester

County, in 1724. And as a contribution to Pennsylvania genealogy they are particularly acceptable. Good

type, good paper, a liberal number of illustrations, and, what is most important, a very full index add to the attractiveness and value of the work.

Stories of Pennsylvania; or, School Readings from Pennsyl vania History. By Joseph Walton, Ph.D., and Martin G. Brum

baugh, A.M., Ph.D. American Book Company, 1897. 300 pages. Illustrated.

The series of sketches which comprise this work are taken chiefly from the unwritten history of the Commonwealth, and typify almost every important phase of its growth. There were three classes of people who helped to build up the Commonwealth,?William Penn and his Quakers ; the Germans, who, attracted by the peace principles of the

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Founder, founded homes in a land of civil and religious liberty ; and the Scotch-Irish, earnest and aggressive, who pushed to the frontiers

with farm, school, and church. The authors, who are well known in educational circles, have with good judgment selected their incidents from these diverse elements which possess romance, daring, and bravery, and which will not only appeal to and interest school-children, but also the general reader. Covering mainly the Colonial and Revolutionary period, it was not an inappropriate conclusion to introduce incidents connected with the battle of Gettysburg, which was fought on Pennsyl vania soil by a Pennsylvania general. The work should be placed in the hands of every child in the Commonwealth.

The St. Louis Mercantile Library, of St. Louis, Missouri, in

February published a neatly printed Reference List of Missouri and Illinois newspapers, 1808-1897, chronologically arranged, and manu

scripts relating to Louisiana Territory and Missouri.

Some Colonial Mansions and those who lived in them, with

Genealogies of the Various Families mentioned. By Thomas Allen Glenn. Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 1898. Vol.1. 459 pp.

Mr. Glenn in the preface of his book under notice well says, "

If the

history of a people is to be studied, it must be by going into their homes and looking up their family records." This is what he and the writers

of the various articles in the work have done, and the result is a series

of sketches describing the social life, architecture, art, dress, and letters

of some of the prominent families of this country and the homes they and their descendants have occupied generation after generation. One

valuable feature of these sketches is the genealogical tables which

have been added, but in such a way as not to embarrass the text. West over and the Byrd family, Morven and the Stocktons, Cedar Grove and

the Coates-Paschall-Morris families, Bohemia Manor and the Herrmans, the Patroonship of the Van Rensselaers, Rosewell and the Page family, the Carters of Virginia, Clermont and the Livingstons ; Doughoregan

Manor and the Carrolls of Maryland, Graeme Park and the Keith and

Graeme families, Brandon, on the lower James, and the Harrison fam

ily, and the Randolphs, comprise the contents of this volume,?the second volume is now going through the press. Another attractive

feature of the book is the illustrations, upwards of one hundred and

sixty in number,?photogravure portraits and interior and exterior views

of the old mansions,?the portraits in most cases being taken from the

original paintings yet hanging on the walls. Printed on excellent paper, with special type and broad margins, a rubricated title-page and neat

binding, the book is highly creditable to the taste and liberality of its

publishers.

Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogi

cal, RELATING CHIEFLY TO INTERIOR PENNSYLVANIA. Edited

by William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A. Harrisburg, 1898. 8vo, 238 pp. We are indebted to the courtesy of the editor of Notes and Queries

for a copy of his last annual issue. It represents his usual careful selec

tion of historical, biographical, and genealogical contributions. Dr.

Egle's knowledge and experience have equipped him with singular com

pleteness for the compilation of these annals, and his clientage, which

is a large one, will be gratified to learn that his last issue is on our

shelves.

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A | Form of Prayer | issued | By Special Command of his Maj esty | George III ( London | 1776 | Imploring Divine assistance against the King's | unhappy deluded Subjects in America now in

| open rebellion against the Crown. A copy of this

" Form of Prayer," recently found in the collection of

the American Philosophical Society of this city, of great interest to churchmen and others, has been reproduced in facsimile by photo

mechanical process by Julius F. Sachse, printed on fine hand-made,

deckel-edge paper, and neatly bound in art canvas with gilt top and uncut edges. The edition is limited to one hundred and fifty copies, and will be sold by subscription only. Price, $2 per copy, post-paid. Address 4428 Pine Street, Philadelphia.

Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll. By William M. Meigs. Large 12mo, bound in cloth, gilt top, illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Com

pany, publishers. This contribution of Mr. Meigs to American biography and history

is most timely in these days when we hear so much of the Monroe

Doctrine, for Mr. Ingersoll was one of the strongest advocates of Amer ican rights upon this continent. He was an earnest supporter of the declaration of war in 1812, and a member of Congress from 1813 to 1815, as well as from 1841 to 1849. The historian of that war and the author of numerous political pamphlets, he was intimately associated with all

matters of public history and men of the first half of the present century. Price, $1.50.

Pusey's "

Proteus Ecclesiasticus." A copy of this rare little book has recently been acquired by the Lenox Library of New York City. It was

published at Philadelphia by Reynier Jansen in 1703, the full title of which may be found in Hildeburn's "Issues of the Pennsylvania

Press." The only other copy of the rarity heretofore found in American libraries is the one in the library of the Historical Society of Penn sylvania.

Genealogy of the Hord Family. By Rev. Arnold Harris Hord..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. 8vo, 199 pp. Price, $3.

The Hord family traces its ancestry back to the year 1215. It is Scan dinavian in origin, and its settlement in England probably took place at the time of the incursions of the Norsemen iuto that country. Descend ants resided in the counties of Salop, Oxford, and Surrey, where for centuries they held distinguished rank. John Hord, the first ancestor of the family who came to America, in 1685 settled in Caroline County,.

Virginia, where he purchased a large estate and named it "Shady Grove." In the compilation of this branch of the family, the Rev. Dr. Hord was fortunate in having access to a manuscript genealogy prepared by Robert Hord in the year 1838, which he has enlarged. The book is well printed, liberally illustrated, and contains a full index of names.

The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini. Edited by Berthold Fernow. New York, 1897. 8vo. Six volumes.

The city of New York, under the above title, has recently issued in six octavo volumes the "Court Minutes of New Amsterdam." This

mine of historical, genealogical, and biographical information has lain unworked and practically unknown until, by the laborious skill of its editor and translator, it is now made free to all. Mr. Fernow has ren

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dered many other services to American history, but this work is far from

being his least. The historian will find it full of the material he most needs,?facts in detail from which he can generalize. To the novelist these records afford suggestions for many a plot, and the preacher can, if

he will, draw an unlimited amount of moral illustrations for his Sunday exhortations. To the genealogist it will be indispensable, and even the

lawyer may occasionally find it profitable reading. New York has done well ; Philadelphia should not be slow to imitate her. We are loath to dismiss such a valuable work so briefly, but cannot refrain from saying to the Councils of the city of Philadelphia,

" Go thou and do likewise."

The History of the Wagenseller Family in America. We

have received a broadside history of this family, compiled by George W. Wagenseller, of Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, who desires

to correspond with all persons connected with the family, with a view to

the publication of the data in book form. The first American ancestor

of the family settled, prior to 1734, in what was then Hanover Township,

Philadelphia County, since which time the ramifications of the family have extended to all sections of the country. Mr. Wagenseller should

meet with the encouragement his labor of love deserves.

The Descent of Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker from the

Ancient Counts of Holland, with Authorities in Proof.

Philadelphia, 1898. 25 pp. Forty copies printed. This sumptuous little book gives the descent of the Hon. Samuel W.

Pennypacker, President Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, from Dierck, son of the Hertog Sigisbert, and a descendant of

the Dukes of Aquitaine, who in the year 863 became the first Count of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland, His wife was a daughter of the

King of Italy. It is printed in red and black letters, on heavy hand made paper, and is embellished with a portrait of the count in full

regalia. Two lines of descent are given.

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