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246 Notes and Queries.

NOTES AND QUEEIES.

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Colors of the Philadelphia Associators.?The Independent Advertiser, of Boston, Massachusetts, of February 1, 1748, contains the

following "

Devices and Mottos painted on some of the Silk Colours of the Eegiments of Associators in and near Philadelphia."

I. A Lion erect a naked Scymeter in one Paw, the other holding the

Pennsylvania Scutcheon. Motto, Pro Patria. II. Three Arms, wearing different Linnen, ruffled, plain and chequ'd ;

the Hands joined by grasping each the other's Wrist, denoting the Union of all Eanks. Motto, Unita Virtus valet.

III. An Eagle, the Emblem of Victory descending from the Skies. Motto, A Deo Victoria.

IV. The Figure of Liberty sitting on a Cube, holding a Spear with the Cap of Freedom on its Point. Motto, Inestimabilis.

V. An armed Arm, with a naked Faulchion in its Hand. Motto, Deus adjuvat Fortes.

VI. An Elephant, being the Emblem of a Warrior always on his

Guard, as that Creature, is said never to lie down, and hath his Arms ever in Eeadiness. Motto, Semper Paratus.

VII. A City walled round. Motto, Salus Patrice, Summa Lex. VIII. A Soldier with his piece recovered, ready to present. Motto,

Sic Pacem Querimus. IX. A Coronet and Plume of Feathers. Motto, In God we Trust.

X. A Man with a Sword drawn. Motto, Pro Aris et Focis &c. Most of the above Colours, together with the Officers Half Pikes and

Spontoons, and even the Halberts, Drums, &c, have been given by the

good Ladies of this City, who raised Money by Subscription among themselves for that Purpose.

Penn Family.?According to Gran ville Penn in bis "

Memorials of Sir William Penn" (Vol. II. p. 580), and also according to Burke in his "

Commoners of England" (" Penn"), the inscription on the monument to the admiral in St. Mary's Church, Eedcliffe, states that Sir William

was "

of the Penns of Penns-Lodge in ye County of Wilts, and those Penns of Penn in ye C. of Bucks." The part in italics is altogether omit ted in the version of the inscription given in the Pennsylvania Mag

azine, Vol. XIV. p. 172, which is a transcript from Mr. Lea's copy taken from the monument. As Mr. Lea says, in a foot-note to the page men

tioned, that, from its elevation, the reading of the inscription, even with a glass, was a very difficult task, I suppose he could not see the part I

have underlined, and so omitted it.

P. S. P. Conner.

Curious Christian Names.?Names of persons belonging to the

Handy family in Maryland : Goliah Godolphin Einaldo Einaldini Puf fendorf Gordon Marius Handy. Lucretia Anne Elizabeth Eleanora

McCloster Gordon (Handy) Toadvine. Eev. Mr. Adams, an eccentric and deaf clergyman of the Episcopal

Church, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, records the following bap tism :

" Fortune Eitty Buck, baptized Forty Eipping Bucks." B.



Notes and Queries. 247

Lines Written at the "Assembly," Philadelphia.?The fol

lowing "lines written in an Assembly Eoom, in Philadelphia, and at

tributed to Colonel Joseph Shippen," contain names well known in this city. We are indebted to the courtesy of Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, a

great-granddaughter of the "

lovely White," for this copy.

In lovely White's most pleasing form, What various graces meet, How blest with every striking charm, How languishingly sweet.

With just such elegance and ease, Fair charming Swift appears, Thus Willing, whilst she awes can please, Thus Polly Franks endears. A female softness, manly sense

And conduct free from art, With every pleasing excellence

In Inglis' charms the heart. But see ! another fair advances

With love commanding all, See happy in the sprightly dance Sweet, smiling, fair McCall. Each blessing which indulgent Heaven On mortals can bestow, In Sally Coxe's form and face

True index of her mind. The most exact of human race

Not one defect can find.

Thy beauty every breast alarms,

And many a swain can prove That he who views your conquering charms Must soon submit to love. With either Chew such beauty dwell,

Such charms by each are shared, No critic's judging eye can tell Which merits most regard. Tis far beyond the painter's skill, To set their charms in view, As far beyond the poet's quill, To give the praise that's due.

Hunsicker.?On the fly-leaves of a, copy of Saur's Bible, German

town, 3d ed. 1776, is the following record :

Diese bibel geh?ret Henrich Hunsicker dem Jungen zu und ist Mir Kauft worden von meinem Vatter d/ 5 Abrill 1803.

D: 11 January 1782 ist Henrich Hunsicker gebohren des abends um

9 uhr Soli Deo gloria. Den 11 October 1804 ist Henrich Hunsicker verheirat mit Maria Det

weiler. Maria Detweiler was born February 14th Satterday evening at 9 o'clock

in the year of our Lord 1784. 15 Februarius 1806 ist unser dogter Catharina Hunsiker auf diese welt

geboren des abens um 11 uhr. 22 October 1807 ist unser Sohn Johanes Hunsicker auf diese weit ge

bohren des nachmittags um 3 uhr. Den 15 martz 1810 ist unser Sohn Henrich Hunsicker auf diese weit

gebohren des nachmittags um 2 uhr.




Den 13 martz 1812 ist unser Sohn Danyel Hunsicker auf diese weit

gebohren des morgens um 8 uhr. Den 3 September 1814 ist unser Dogtter Maria Hunsicker auf diese

weit geboren des abens um 8 uhr.

Den 11 September 1817 ist unser Sohn Pilzus Hunsicker auf diese

weit geboren des abens um 11 uhr und ist gestorben den 21 februarius 1

uhr. 12 April 1818 ist unser Dogter Ester Hunsicker auf diese weit geboren

des morgens um 5 uhr.

This 3 Day of March 1821 Was our Son Wailloim Hunsicker Was Born in the four noon at 11 Clock.

This 8 Day of March 1823 Whas our Dauchter Elizabath Hunsicker Was Born in the Afternoon at 5 oclock.

Unto uz a child waz given Unto uz a Daughter was Born the 10th Days of December 1826 at 1 oclock and became the name Suzanna Hunsicker."

T. S.

Carter?Sutton?Morris?Hill?Eidgway. ?

According to a

memorandum made by me in February, 1870, the following is a copy of

entries in a Bible of 1698 (imprint not recorded in my note) that had once belonged to William Carter :

William Carter, son of Joanas & Dority his mother (sic) was born the

20th day of the 4th month called June 1651 & was baptised at one day ould. William Carter came to Pensilvania the 9th month 1682.

Philadelphia 26th 6th month 1721, William Carter married Mary Sutton, widow.

William Morris son of John and Mary Morris born 27th 4th month

1735, at Spring Mills in White Marsh Township. Anthony Morris son of John and Mary Morris born at Spring Mills

in White Marsh the 10th day of 8th month and 6th day of the week. And departed this life 9th mo. 2d day, 1740 and was buried at Plimouth

Meeting. The following endorsement, in the handwriting of Mrs. Margaret

Morris, n?e Hill, is upon the marriage certificate of William Morris and

Margaret Hill, who were married at Philadelphia, 21st Ninth Month, 1758 :

Eichard Hill Morris & John Morris, Twins, were born Sep. 28. 1759. E. H. M. died Aug. 29.1760. Deborah Morris was born Nov. 29th 1760. Eichard Hill Morris was born Sep. 5th 1762.

Mary Morris was born June 19th 1764. Died Feb. 14. 1765.

April ye 14th 1766. On this sorrowful day my dearly beloved companion & husband W.

Morris departed this life (after an illness of 12 days) & is I trust, at rest in the bosom of his & my glorious Eedeemer. He was aged 30 years

& 9 mos.

And now Lord ! what wait I for ? my hope is in thee. Gulielma Maria Morris was born August 18th 1766. The last dear

Pledge of the fondest & happiest Love that ever was experienced by Mortals. M. M.

I copy the following from a " Trenton Bible" (printed by Isaac Collins) : Mary Oldden Eidgway [sic) was born on 4th Day the 17th Feby 1808,

17 minutes past 10 o'clock in the evening.

Mary Oldden Eidgway Died 26th of November 1809 at 1 o'clock & 50 minutes in the Morning, aged one year nine months & nine Days.

James Eidgway was born 3d day the 28th Nov. 1809 J- past 7 o'lk in the

evening.




Elizabeth Eidgway was born 2d day the 8th April 1811 15 minutes past 9 o'clock in the evening.

Eebecca Ann Eidgway was born the twenty fourth day of September 1813 about fifteen minutes before nine in the morning, on the Sixth day of the week. T. S.

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.?Mr. Frederick

Schober sends us the following extracts from a letter of Dr. Edmund

Porter, of Frenchtown, New Jersey, to Dr. Thomas Miner, of Haddam,

Connecticut, dated October 25, 1825, describing a meeting of the

Academy of Natural Sciences, of this city, which he attended: . . . When the mirror of life is looked into, who does not discover

his aberrations? Who has not erred? The first geniuses of the age, the greatest men of the world, with a sigh, exclaim, "poor human na

ture." I sometimes indulge myself in contemplating great minds, who

have not had the advantages of either an Academic or Collegiate edu

cation. I have contrasted them with those, who have passed the ordeal

of the first of literary examinations, and find some consolation in be

lieving that the glare of glory, has hallowed their names, while the most studious sons of science have sunk in the scale of common appro

bation, have mingled with their mother earth and are forgotten. The idea is melancholic, but not the less true.

I am almost, sometimes, a disciple of the doctrine of destiny, and have been led to these remarks, in consequence of my association in

Philadelphia, a few evenings since, with a Society of gentlemen, mem

bers of the "Academy of Natural Sciences." There were present fifteen or twenty. Among the number was La Suer, Eafanesque, Say, Peale,

Pattison, Harlan, and Chas. Lucien Bonaparte. Among this collection, life was most strikingly exemplified.?La Suer,

with a countenance weather beaten and worn, looked on, for the muscles of his iron-bound visage seemed as incapable of motion, as those on the

medals, struck in the age of Julius Caesar. Eafanesque has a fine black

eye, rather bald, and black hair, and withal is rather corpulent. I was

informed that he was a native of Constantinople. At present he lives in Kentucky. Dr. Harlan is a spruce young man and has written a

book. Peale is the son of the original proprietor of the Philadelphia Museum, and one who visited the Eocky Mountains with Major Long ; he is a young man, and has no remarkable indications of countenance to distinguish him. Say, who was his companion in the same expedi tion, is an extremely interesting man ; to him I am particularly obli

gated, for showing me their Museum and extensive Library. He spoke of Benjamin Silliman, not that he knew him personally, but as being one of the first men of the age. I think he told me that their society, had published nine volumes. They commenced their operations in 1812. Pattison, I remember to have seen some five or six years ago on a mineralogical excursion in my neighborhood. I judge that the cause of his devotion to natural history, is the cause of the want of something to amuse and diversify the tedium vita of a bachelor's life. Griffith su

perintends the dispensatory. There is nothing remarkable for which he is distinguished.

Bonaparte is the son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew to the Emperor Napoleon ; he is a little set, blackeyed fellow, quite talkative, and withal an interesting and companionable fellow. He devotes his atten tion to ornithology, and has published a continuation of Wilson's work on the above subject.

There was also a little fellow called Dr. Coates, with a nose similar, to




what you have sometimes seen, on the front of an Irishman's face

turned up ; nevertheless he is a young man of science, and highly re

spected. I do not know what kind of a nose Lavater most liked?at all

events Dr. Coates may keep his own nose. Hays, an interesting Jew, delivered the lecture on mineralogy. He had collected his specimens on the Catskill Mountains. C. L. Bonaparte read a memoir on the "

Golden Plover." To a novice it seems curious, that men of the first

intellect should pay so much attention to web-footed gentry with wings. A Latin letter was read by Mr. Collins descriptive of a certain plant,

growing on the waters of the Arkansaw ; for my part I did not under

stand much of it?however it was to those who did, not the less valu

able.

Memorial to Baron Stiegel.?Zion's Lutheran congregation,

Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, propose to place a chime of

ten bells in their tower as a memorial to Baron Henry William Stiegel,

who, in 1762, founded the town and donated the land on which their church stands. Baron Stiegel came to America in 1750, from Manheim,

Germany, and twelve years later began the manufacture of glass and

stoves in Lancaster County. In 1774 he became financially embarrassed

and died poor.

Eeynolds.?In a copy of the "Federal Eeady Eeckoner," 1793, found at Leary's, the following genealogy is recorded :

Geo. Eeynolds was born March 9th, 1767.

Nancy Eeynolds, his wife, was born October 10th 176(?) Was married October 17, 1792. Died November the 20th, 1803.

John Eeynolds was b. Monday, June 23,1794. Elizabeth Eeynolds b. March 16, 1796. George Eeynolds b. April 8, 1799.

William Eeynolds b. January 10, 1801. Ann Eeynolds b. March 5, 1803.

Visit to Valley Forge.?On Saturday, June 18, 1892, a large number of gentlemen, members of the Historical Society of Penn

sylvania, in charge of Librarian Frederick D. Stone, passed a field-day at

Valley Forge. A special train conveyed them to Washington's head

quarters, and, after inspecting the old mansion, an informal meeting was

organized on the front lawn. Vice-President Charles J. Stille made some appropriate remarks and introduced Professor Howard, who read

extracts from the oration of the late Henry Armitt Brown, Esq., de

livered on the spot in 1878. After partaking of a luncheon, served in a

tent on the lawn in the rear of head-quarters, carriages were taken to the

head-quarters of Lafayette and Knox, Forts Washington and Huntington, the site of the cantonment of the troops and the line of intrenchments

on Mount Joy. On returning to head-quarters, impromptu addresses

were made by Judge Armstrong, John Lucas, William Watterall, Wil

liam S. Baker, and Craig Eitchie, Esq. A vote of thanks to Mr. Stone

was passed for the success and pleasures of the field-day.

A List of Justices of Burlington County, New Jersey, 1682

1709.?The following list of justices of the jurisdiction, liberties, and

precincts of the court at Burlington (1682-1709) was prepared by Francis Bazley Lee, of Trenton, N. J. The manuscript records still re

main in the State capitol, and form a most valuable commentary upon




the earliest history of West New Jersey. In the arrangement of matter the date gives the first appearance of the name, although many of the

members of the court sat for several years. The justices were members of the Quarter Sessions, Special, Common Pleas and General Courts, Court of Errors, and, at a later date, the Supreme Court (Combury establish

ment, 1704).

Justices.

Sep. 1682 Thomas Ollive Eobert Stacy John Chaffen

William Biddle Thomas Budd John Cripps Benjamin Scott

Dec. 19/1682 Elias Farr (ffarre)

Feby. 1682/ Mahlon Stacy 8th 6 Month 1683 Jno. Gosling

8. " " Jno. Skeen "

Tho. Gardner1 " Henry Stacy "

Wm.Emley 20. 12. 1683 Francis Collins

3. 4. 1684 Eobert Dims dale " Daniell Wills " " " Eobert Turner

8. 6. 1684 ffrancis Daven port

8. 6. 1685 Willm Peachee " James Budd "

GeoHutcheson2 15. 10. 1685 Eichard Guy 26. 1. 16863 Andrew Eobin

son

12. 3. 1686 Eichard Lau rence

" George Deacon

15. 5. 1687 Edw Hunloke " Ja: Marshall " Willm Myers 15. 5. 1687 Eichard Bas

nett4 23. 6. 1687 Jno. Wood " " " James Martin 20. 12. 1687 Tho. Lambert 6. Nov. 1688 Jno. Skene

Nov. 21. 1692 Wm. Birfiton

Nov. 21. 1692 Feb. 20. 1692/3 Oct 16/1693 Nov 3/

"

Feby 20/1693

Aug 8 /1694 ic a a

Feb.

Aug 20 /1694 8/1695

" 1698

Nov 3. "

Feb 20 "

" " 1699 " 1699

Aug 8 /1700

Aug 8 /1700 Nov 4/1700 June 5. 1705

JuneCt. 1706 Sep 3. "

Dec 10.

Sep 23. June

Sep 13.

Dec

1707 1709 1709 a

1709

Danll Leeds John Tatham Jno. Worlidge ThoEevell5 Nathaniel West

land John Curtis Peter ffrettwell Jeremiah Basse Jno. Adams Samll Harriott John Holling

head Thomas Bibb Anthony Elton Joshua Ely

Michaeli New bold

John Test John Jewell

William Hew ling

Ealph Hunt Joshua New

bold Eichard Eidg

way Eobert Wheeler Sam1 Furnis6

Eoger Parkes)

(Eoger Parke) J William Budd John Bai nbridge John Eudroe

Michael New port

William Bustill Enoch Andrews Danll Coxe7

Hugh Huddy8 Mr SoMmans

i Thomas Gardiner, King att'y, Feb. 20,1699. 3 Justices called magistrates, 1686. 5 President. 1705. 7 Coll.

2 President 12,3,1686. 4 Aug. 8,1692, Attorney-General.

6 Burgess.

? Coll.




August 1682

Mo. 3. 1684

3. 4. 1684

3. 9. 1685

Governors.

Sam1 Jenings Gov ernor

Thomas Ollive Deputy & Prest

Thomas Ollive Gov ernor

John Skene Depy Governor under

Byllinge

D. Mo. 10. 7. 1686 20.12 1687

Jno Skene Governor

Daniell Coxe Gov ernor

John Skene Dep Governor

May 12 /1694 Andrew Hamilton Governor and

Judge

Sheriff.

Sep 26 1682 John White 1692 James Hill

Feby 20 1699 Joseph Cross Sep 29. 1700 Christopher Weth

erill

Nov 3. 1701 Isaac Marriott Aug 8. 1702 Hen: Grubb Sub.

Sheriff Dec. 10 1706 Hugh Huddy

Recorder.

Sept 26 1682 Tho: Eevell Feby 1699 Edward Hunloke

clerk

May 8 1701 Thomas Gardiner clerk of sessions

Aug Jan

8 1702 Hugh Huddy 111704 Captain Jewell for

mer clerk.

Lafayette in the American Eevolution.?Mr. Charlemagne

Tower, Jr., of Philadelphia, is engaged upon a work on Lafayette in

the American Eevolution, and will be obliged to any one possessing letters of Lafayette, written during that struggle, who will send copies of them to him in care of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia.

Bush?Tippin?Maxwell.?Information is requested as to parents of Sarah Eush, who married Benjamin Tippin. What relation was

Sarah Eush to Dr. Benjamin Eush ?

In the year 1749, Audley Maxwell moved from Pennsylvania to

Georgia. He had a brother James, who about the same date moved

from South Carolina to Georgia. The names of parents, brothers, sisters, or other data, is requested.

William Harden.

Savannah, Ga.

Dewees.?In the Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. VI., pages 75 and

77, appears the name Cornelius Dewees, who married Margaret Eichards,

granddaughter of Owen Eichards, one of the early Welsh settlers in

Chester County, Pa. Was this Cornelius Dewees a son of William

Dewees, who died in the "

township of Germantown" in 1745, and who

was the father of the wife of Henry Antes, of Moravian Church history ?

Information is desired by a descendant. Mrs. E. A. Weaver.

3215 Spencer Terrace, West Philadelphia, Pa.




Ogden.?The date of birth and death of Lewis Ogden, of New Jersey, who married Margaret Gouveneur; and also of the wife of Uzal Ogden, father of Lewis, is requested.

A. B. M. I.

Clarke.?Which son of Benjamin Clarke, of Stony Brook, New

Jersey, was the father of James Clarke (married Susan Everingham), whose father was Dr. Israel Clarke of Clarkesville ?

A. B. M. I.

Matriculates, College of Philadelphia.?Information is desired

concerning the following matriculates :

May, 1759. Joshua Clayton, s. James Clayton, of New Castle government. John Cook, s. Silas Cook, of Ehode Island.

Stephen Watts, s. Stephen Watts, of Bucks Co., Pa. Samuel Cample, s. Hugh Cample, of Penna.

John Porter, s. John Porter, Bucks Co., Pa.

May 9, 1760. William Paxton, s. Joseph Paxton, Trenton, N. J.

Stephen Porter, s. James Porter, Maryland. James Lang, s. Patrick Lang, Lancaster Co., Pa. James Anderson, s. Samuel Anderson, Chester Co., Pa. Eobert Johnston, s. John Johnston, Chester Co., Pa. John Stewart, s. Andrew Stewart, Lancaster Co., Pa.

May, 1761.

James Sayers, s. John Sayers, Philadelphia. George Bundle s. George Bundle, Devonshire, England.

Walter DuBois, s. Isaac DuBois, late city New York. Edward Armstrong, s. Eobert Armstrong, New Castle Co., Del. James Huston s. James Huston, Philadelphia.

May 3, 1762.

George Saunders, s. George Saunders, Barbadoes, W. I.

Joseph Hutchins, s. Henry Hutchins, Barbadoes, W. I. William Hopper, s. William Hopper, Maryland. James Weims Moore, s. William Moore, Pennsylvania.

May 21, 1775. William Allston, South Carolina. John Caldwell, Philadelphia.

Matthias Harrison, Philadelphia. Paxton Hatch, Boston, Mass.

Joseph Lisle, Philadelphia. George Simpson, Philadelphia. John Smith, Antigua, W. I. Thomas Watres (sic Watres), South Carolina. James Yard, New Jersey.

William Temple Franklin, London, O. E.

Joseph Mayo, Virginia. James Hopewell, Maryland. Eobert Dorsey, Maryland.

Major William Baily.?Information is wanted in reference to the

ancestry and life of Major William Baily, who died at the battle of the Cowpens, and of his son Eobert, who wrote

" Life and Adventures of

Eobert Baily," published in 1822. K.




Bead's "The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard."?In what

magazine was T. Buchanan Bead's story of "

The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard" first published ? K.

Early Printing in Welsh in America.?The will of John

Humphrey, of the Welsh tract, dated September 22, 1699, and proved August 31, 1700, contains the following clause: "I give and bequeath 10 lbs. [?10.0.0.] towards putting in the Press the Testimony of the 12

Patriarchs in the Welsh tongue if conveniences can be had for the same in these America pts. otherwise if it canot [sic] be had I order the same

to be disposed for charitable uses by the monthly meeting." If this once popular book was printed by Jansen, it is the first book in

Welsh printed in America, and antedates Pugh's "

Annerch ir Cymru" (Philadelphia : Andrew Bradford, 1721), which has hitherto held that

place, by some twenty years.

Eev. John Arrowsmith.?Who was the Eev. John Arrowsmith? He is mentioned in the will of Ann Cox in 1699, and seems to have been a clergyman of the Church of England. C.

Claypoole Portraits.?Information is requested as to whether there are any portraits of James Claypoole, the emigrant, his ancestors or descendants, and in whose possession they are. G.

Potts?Howell?Peterson.?Does any one know of the existence

of a signature of Daniel Potts, of Philadelphia County ? He died about 1728, at about 30 years of age. A tracing of his signature is desired.

Moses Wells, son of John and Olive, of Philadelphia County, mar

ried Eebecca Howell, June 1, 1721. Can any one give the names of her

parents ? Hance Peterson owned land in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle

County, Delaware, as early as 1689. He was one of the first church

wardens of Holy Trinity (Swedes' Church, Wilmington) in 1697. One of his sons was Israel Peterson. Can any one furnish information of

Hance or Hans Peterson's family connections,?his parentage, his wife's

name, and names of his children? The writer would be glad to have any information sent to him direct,

as he desires it for use in a genealogical work now in course of publica tion.

Canonsburg, Pa. Thomas Maxwell Potts.

f$*trttt& The suggestion for the list of books enumerated in the

" curious lot

of manuscripts in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsyl vania" (Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. XV. p. 501) had its origin, I

fancy, in "

Addison's Catalogue of Books," found in and designed for a

ladies' library. ( Vide Addison's Papers, Nos. 37 and 92, in the Spectator.)

Adding the names of ladies eminent in society in 1778, as authors, was

no doubt, as you say, a bit of satire.

Bellefonte, Pa. J. M.

Shoemaker or Schumacher Family.?In answer to H. C. B.'s

query, in the April number of the Pennsylvania Magazine, I would

reply that the earliest information we have regarding them is that ob




tained from Besses' "

Suffering of Friends," and from this it appears that in the year 1657, William Ames and George Eolfe, English Friends, visited Kreisheim, now Kriegsheim, in the Palatinate, and made many converts. In 1663 a fine of five shillings was imposed on each person every time they assembled for worship ; to collect this fine, their cattle and household goods were seized and sold, they being, no doubt, farmers.

Among those who suffered greatest were George and Peter Shoemaker. In 1680, William Penn heard of the persecutions this little band of

Quakers were undergoing, and visited them, inviting them to join him in his colony in Pennsylvania. This led to the formation of the Frank

fort Company, and the settling of Germantown, under the lead of Pas torius. Professor Seidensticker visited Kriegsheim in the hopes of

learning more of these early Germans, but found their church records had been destroyed by fire in 1848, so that no trace remained. Among the inhabitants in 1680 were three brothers, or cousins, bearing the name of Schumacher,?viz., Jacob, unmarried, who came out with Pas torius in 1683 ; all trace of him is lost. The Friends' Meeting-House,

Main and Coulter Streets, stands on land given by him. In 1685 came

Peter, his son Peter, Jr., daughters Mary, Frances, and Gertrude, and cousin Sarah, while in the same year sailed George, Sarah his wife, and their seven children, George, Jr., Barbary, Abraham, Isaac, Susanna,

Elizabeth, and Benjamin. The father died at sea, but the widow and children arrived in Germantown 1st mo. 26th, 1686.

George, Jr., on 12 mo. 14th, 1694, married Sarah Wall, granddaughter of Eichard Wall, a prominent English Friend, who had taken up six hundred acres of land in what is now Chelton Hills. The most of those

bearing the name come from this marriage. For a fuller account of this line than is proper here, see "The Shoemaker Family, of Cheltenham," p. 76, in "The Old York Eoad and its Early History." Susanna married Isaac Price, 1st mo. 4th, 1696. They were the ancestors of the late Eli K. Price, who has recorded in "The Family" a

genealogy of that line. Isaac, brother of the two above, married Sarah, daughter of

Gerhard Hendricks, a prominent Friend, and one of the four signers to the first protest against slavery, issued by the Germantown Friends, 2d

mo. 18th, 1688. Hendricks had drawn lot No. 8 in the Pastorius di

vision, which was situated on the main street, where Shoemaker Lane now is. On the rear, close to the Wingohocking Creek, he, in 1682, erected a stone house, which remained until torn down by Mr. Mehl in

1840, and from its passing to his son-in-law became known as the Shoe maker House. A tenant house built close by on a large rock, and near the railroad, called the Eock House, still stands. From this rock, tra dition says, William Penn preached to the people assembled below in the meadow. (See picture of the house in

" Watson's Annals.") The

old Hendricks' Bible is now in the possession of Mrs. Samuel M. Shoe

maker, of Baltimore. It was printed in 1538, and has a number of Shoemaker records in it. Benjamin Shoemaker, son of Isaac and Sarah, sat in the Provincial Council, and was three times mayor of Phila

delphia, and for sixteen years its treasurer. His son Samuel succeeded him as treasurer, and was also twice mayor. From this line descends what is known as the Shoemaker-Eawle-Morris-Pennington branch.

(See Keith's "Provincial Councillors.") The Shoemaker homestead H. C. B. asks about was built by Isaac prior to 1732; it stood on the north corner of Germantown Avenue and Shoemaker Lane and was in the possession of the family until 1842, when it was purchased by the late George M. Thompson, who shortly afterwards tore it down and erected on the site what is now known as Cottage Eow. Pictures of the




house show it was built after the old German style, two stories high, with an entrance from the rear, while on Germantown Avenue was a

door-way leading to the cellar, which gave it the appearance of a three

story building. It was large and commodious, being quite pretentious for its day.

As to the time of Anglicizing the name Schumacher, it is probable it

began very shortly after the family arrived. Eichard Wall, in his will, dated 1697-8, writes it "Shoemaker," though most likely the Germans

retained the style of the Fatherland, the change thus being a gradual one.

Thomas H. Shoemaker.

Germantown, 6th mo. 3d, 1892.

l00fe |)Mtae& Virginia Genealogies. A Genealogy of the Glassell Family

. of Scotland and Virginia, also the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Little

page, Moncure, Peyton, Eobinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace of

Virginia and Maryland. By Eev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A.

Wilkes-Barre, Penna., 1891. Large 8vo, 788 pp. Price, $8.

Among our genealogists, the Eev. Mr. Hayden has the reputation of an indefatigable and conscientious worker, and this is more than sus

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preliminary to the genealogies, and replete with information for those whose vanity incline them to seek first for royal and noble ancestors be fore those of the freemen and yeomanry of Great Britain, is deserving of careful reading. In addition to the genealogies of the sixteen families

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Weeks, Whiting, Williams, Winston, Wood, Wormley, and Yates. Nu merous illustrations and portraits, and a full index of names, add value, and the good typography attractiveness to the book.

Mr. Hayden is now preparing a volume of Delaware Genealogies, with a genealogical history of the Van Dyke family of New York, New Jer

sey, and Delaware, and allied families of Johns, Nixon, Eobinson, and

Stuart, With collateral lines.



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