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Notes and Queries. 113

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Note on the Moravian Church in Lebanon County.?The first

Moravian evangelist to visit the present county of Lebanon, in this Com

monwealth (1743), was Rev. Jacob Lischy, a son-in-law of John Stephen Benezet, of Philadelphia. Two years later a congregation was organized, and a log church erected on land donated for the purpose by Peter Kucker, about half a mile from the borough of Lebanon. In 1750, Rev. Christian

Henry Rauch (formerly employed in the mission among the Mohicans in New York and Connecticut), who was then superintendent of the Mora vian Home Mission in Lancaster and Berks Counties, was instrumental in having erected that large quaint-looking building of rough stone, with

high pitched roof and two rows of windows, on the Kucker land, within a few hundred rods of the Philadelphia and Harrisburg turnpike and in full view of the Lebanon Valley Railroad. This building, an object of interest to the searcher for olden landmarks, was, up to the year 1848, the second church and parsonage occupied by the Moravians, and since then used for a barn. On its south face were two stones which bore the

legend, "

Orarorum Unit. Frat. liber fundat," and "

1750." The first floor was occupied by the pastor and his family, and on the second floor was the meeting hall or church, which was dedicated July 16, 1751. From two small rooms in the eastern and western ends of the building stairs led to the church, which were used respectively by the brethren and sisters.

The Rev. C. F. Bader (whose daughter was one of the so-called "

Mo ravian Nuns" of Bethlehem, who assisted in embroidering the banner for Count Pulaski) was pastor of the congregation during the greater

part of the struggle for Independence. In the summer of 1777 a de tachment of Hessian prisoners were quartered in the building, and when

they were removed others took their place. For a period of ten months this state of affairs continued, and Mr. Bader remained with his family in their apartments, continuing to attend to his duties as well as the circumstances would permit. Under date of February 4, 1778, he has recorded in the church diary, which is here translated from the original

German, the following: "To-day a rifleman from Anspach, with a cor

poral, visited Bro. Bader. They related to him that Gen. Howe had

recently written a letter to Washington containing merely a transcript of the seventh chapter of the Prophet Ezekiel, and that Washington had replied by an epistle embodying the fourth chapter of the Book of Baruch." The following extracts from a letter addressed to the Board of

War by Mr. Bader, under date of April 30,1778, are also translated from the German original :

" You will pardon the liberty I take in addressing

you in regard to the present position of myself and family. Without doubt you have heard that for over half a year my parsonage has been filled with Hessian prisoners to the great inconvenience of my family. I am also prevented from attending to the duties of my office to my

congregation. "Yesterday Major Watkins came to my house with five men and a

horse and wagon load of powder, broke open my door with force and put

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the powder in my room. To-day he came again and advised me to leave the house, as he intended to fill it with powder. You can easily under

stand, gentlemen, that this causes my family and myself great uneasiness. Where can I go? I have no other house or my congregation either. Shall I leave the people who are intrusted to my care? The injustice of it appeals to heaven ! My house looks more like a ruin than a well

regulated parsonage, for the damage arising from having the Hessians here so long has not yet been repaired. I cannot remain in my house for fear of my life. My sorrow bears me down to the earth concerning

my congregation. Can you not, gentlemen, feel compassion for me and

my poor congregation, and free us from the burden under which we rest? I often pray that our present situation may soon come to an end." Mr.

Bader's lot was not a happy one ! It was not until 1779 that the military stores were removed to Lancaster. John W. Jordan.

Medallic Portraits of Washington, with historical and critical

notes, and a descriptive catalogue of the coins, medals, tokens, and

cards. By W. S. Baker, author of "

The Engraved Portraits of Wash

ington." Small 4to, pp. 252. Philadelphia: Robert M.Lindsay & Co. $5.

Mr. Baker has again placed the collectors of Washington memorials under a deep and lasting obligation. In the work before us he has sys

tematically arranged exact descriptions of the various medallic portraits of Washington which have appeared since 1783, to the number of 651,

giving the obverse, reverse, legend, size, and peculiarities of each issue. These are recorded in groups, under headings, such as Coins or Washing ton Pieces, Washington before Boston, Peace of 1783, Military and Civil

Career, Birth, Death, and Centennial Anniversary, February 22, 1832, Centennial Commemorations of Events in the War for Independence, Tokens, Store Cards, etc. The collector is thus enabled to identify each

acquisition, and give it its proper place in his cabinet. It is not the collector alone, however, who will gather instruction and

pleasure from Mr. Baker's book. The introductions to the chapters and the notes to the descriptions are full of interest. A feeling of patriotism, of high appreciation of Washington's character, pervades the entire

work, and the pieces are described with an exactness which impresses the reader with the value of the criticism from an artistic stand-point.

Much valuable information will be found regarding the artists whose work Mr. Baker describes, and of the portraits they have followed. A few extracts from the book will convey to the reader a better idea of its character than any general remarks on its merits. Of the Houdon bust,

Mr. Baker writes, "

It has not only come to be recognized as the medallic

type, but also as the standard portrait of Washington. No other repre sentation of the features of the hero and statesman, which has come

down to us from either painter or sculptor, conveys to the mind of the

observer a fuller sense of individuality, strength of character, and dig

nity of purpose. Its truthfulness to nature cannot reasonably be doubted, and an examination of the portrait of Robert Edge Pine, painted a few

months earlier, and that by Edward Savage, five years

later in date, both

of which possess similar characteristics, will convince the most skeptical. The painting of Pine, the work of a finished artist, has always been

classed as an admirable portrait, and the latter, although claiming no

particular artistic excellence, certainly leaves the impression of being a

faithful portrayal of an individual."

In introducing the list of pieces struck as memorials of the buildings

occupied as headquarters by Washington, Mr. Baker pays this graceful tribute to his memory :




" The different headquarters occupied by Washington during the strug

gle for independence are memorable points, and make, as a whole, a

complete rounding out of his military career. From the earliest to the

latest,?from Cambridge, in '75, where he took command, to Newburg, in '83, which saw the final disbandment of the army,?each has its

special bearing and significance. One suggests triumph, another defeat ; one misery and privation, another glory and renown ; here discord and

plot, there manhood and truth ; but all are silent witnesses to the de

velopment of a character which reaches the highest of excellence

humanity can attain. "

Courageous to insist, but prudent to restrain ; patient in defeat, and modest in success ; with judgment to direct, and virtue to control ; his

only ambition, the fulfilment of his duty ; his only desire, freedom for his country. This was Washington !"

Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1880-81.

By J. W. Powell, director. Washington, 1883. Large 8vo, pp. 477.

It may appear somewhat late to notice a book which professes to have been issued in 1883 ; but this date is one of the mysteries which surround the work of the government printing-office. In point of fact it is only

within the last few months that this report of 1880 has been accessible to the public. Its merits, however, make amends for its tardiness. There are several articles in it which stand in the first rank of importance in

American archaeology and ethnology. As first in value we mention the excellent paper on "Art in Shell of

the Ancient Americans," by William H. Holmes. His resolution of the

peculiar and obscure artistic designs which he figures is as ingenious as it is convincing. The analogy of the decoration and drawings on shells from Missouri and Georgia to the art-work of the Mayas of Yucatan is

altogether too positive to be attributable to chance or to parallelism of art-evolution. Its explanation demands a historic unity of culture.

The aptitude for artistic work in the native race is further illustrated

by the article of Dr. Washington Matthews on "

Navajo Silversmiths." He shows that they have not only technical dexterity, but original dec orative conceptions as well.

Mr. Frank H. Cushing contributes one of his studies of Zu?i life, in this instance on the Zu?i philosophy and their fetiches. It is a very curious illustration of the course of native thought directed toward the

problems of religion. Similar to it in its subject is Mrs. Erminnie A. Smith's paper on the "

Myths of the Iroquois." With due deference we must say, however, that the illustrations of this article, borrowed without credit from Cusick's

well-known book (which has already appeared in a government publica tion), are out of place in a report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Nor does Mrs. Smith improve on the quaint narrative of Cusick by dressing it up in modern English.

A would-be critical article on "Animal Carvings from the Mounds of the Mississippi Valley" is inserted from the pen of Henry W. Henshaw. It would have been of more weight had the writer known more of his

topic from personal observation and depended less on second-hand state ments. The Bureau should confine its writers to what they know of their own knowledge.

Two illustrated catalogues of collections from New Mexico by James Stevenson close the volume.

D. G. B.




Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd. By Howard M. Jenkins. Philadelphia, 1884. 8vo, 396 pp.

There is an old Spanish proverb of much force which says, "

Tras la cruz esta el Diabolo,"?behind the cross stands the devil. From time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary there has rarely been any work attempted for the advantage or improvement of humanity

which has not been almost immediately seized upon, or at least used as a

shelter, for an improper or self-interested purpose. This fact is as patent 'in literature as in any of the other mundane pursuits. The effect of the recent centennial period was to stimulate a desire among the American

people, especially in the Middle and Western States, for a fuller knowl

edge of local and ancestral history. A proper nourishment of this awakened spirit of investigation cannot but result in a moral and intel lectual elevation of every community which it pervades. Unfortunately, it had scarcely made its appearance before, in its wake, came a deluge of

books purporting to be local histories, gorgeous in the beauty of cheap morocco and poor gilt, made up largely of facts taken, without let or

license, from the labors of others, which were thrown hastily together and spoiled, and illustrated with the woe-begone and homely counte nances of obscure individuals who were willing to pay in substantial cash for a faint hope of immortality. At such a time the real student of the history of his country will welcome with exceeding gratification the appearance of such a book as Mr. Jenkins's "History of Gwynedd,"

which lacks everything which the class just referred to possess, and pos sesses all of the merits which they lack. Among the most interesting of the earliest settlers in Pennsylvania were the Welsh Quakers, and to one of them, whose life, unfortunately, has never been written, and

whose memory is only cherished among scholars, David Lloyd, liberal

government in Pennsylvania owes more than to any other man among our early law-givers, unless we except Penn himself.

Perhaps the first suggestion in a public way ever made in the province of a historical or genealogical subject was in a petition from the Welsh

tract, in which the signers allude to themselves proudly as "

the descend ants of the ancient Britons." Mr. Jenkins comes of this ancestry, and he has undertaken to write the history of a township in which men of this race first made their American homes. For years he has been pa tient in studying old deeds, time-worn letters, and records of Friends'

Meetings, gathering together whatever remained to throw light upon the lives of the worthy men who lived in the olden time, and his work now completed has that value which only such earnestness and zeal can

produce. He has succeeded in finding some hitherto unknown sources

of information. Naturally, concerning as it does the Welsh, much of it is taken up with pedigrees and genealogies, and they indicate great thoroughness in their preparation. The journal of Sally Wister, a

lively young lady, who tells of the doings of the armies in the neigh borhood in 1777 and 1778, is inserted entire. The paper is good, the

binding is neat and modest, and of the illustrations it need only be said that they are original etchings by Blanche Dillaye of local subjects of interest and show real artistic merit. Upon the whole, though perhaps

not absolutely perfect, the book is worthy of the highest commendation, and it will doubtless be appreciated by all who care for the history of

Pennsylvania, and all who care to see any proper task well performed. S. W. P.

Books Printed in Pennsylvania between 1685 and 1784. Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn proposes to publish a work giving all the titles he




has been able to collect of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in

Pennsylvania between the above-named dates. This volume is intended to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the introduction of the art of

printing into the middle colonies, which event took place in 1685, when William Bradford set up his press in this city.

Mr. Hildeburn has for several years been gathering material for this

work, and in doing so has examined all the principal libraries of England and America. He has printed brief abstracts of the titles he has ob tained in the Bulletins of the Philadelphia Library. In this way he has submitted in part the progress he has made to persons interested in such

matters, and has had his attention called to many publications he had not noticed. In the forthcoming work the titles wiil be given in full, and the size and paging of the volumes noted. Mr. Hildeburn desires to

make his list as complete as possible, and will be glad to hear from people possessing such books as he is in search of, that he may obtain exact

copies of their title-pages.

History of the Ojibways, based upon Traditions and Oral State ments. By William W. Warren, Saint Paul, Minn. 8vo, 535 pp.

This work forms Volume V. of the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections. Its author's ancestry can be traced on his father's side to Richard Warren, one of the

" Mayflower" pilgrims. His mother was

the daughter of Michael Cadotte, who married an Ojibway woman, the

daughter of White Crane, hereditary chief of La Pointe village. This admixture of blood seems to have resulted in the development of tastes

which, had the life of their possessor been prolonged, would have pre served for future generations an almost complete history of the Ojibway nation. Recognizing the fact that the traditions of his native ancestors would soon be irrevocably lost if not gathered by a person familiar with the language of the Ojibways, he assumed the labor of recording them.

The volume before us gives their history based upon traditions and oral statements. It was the intention of the author to have supplemented this with others treating of the present condition of the tribe and of their mythological traditions. The work which he completed is author

itative, as he spent a large portion of his life among the Ojibways, was

perfectly familiar with their language, and preserved their confidence. Some of the topics he writes upon have already been considered by Jones and others, but portions of the work are entirely new. Of par ticular interest, it seems to us, are those parts which speak of the rela tions which existed between the Ojibways and the early French settlers and voyageurs. The volume also contains a memoir of the author, by J. Fletcher Williams, Secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, and a supplementary chapter to the body of the work, by the Rev. Edward

D. Neill, entitled "

History of the Ojibways, and their Connection with

Fur-Traders, based upon Official and other Records."

The Theatre : its Early Days in Chicago. This is the title of an in teresting address delivered before the Chicago Historical Society, Febru

ary 19, 1884, by J..H. McVicker. It has been printed in a little vol ume of 88 pages, by Knight & Leonard, of Chicago. Its perusal will repay any one interested in dramatic history.

Register of Fort Duquesne.?The Rev. A. A. Lambing has re

printed in separate form his translation of the Register of the Baptisms and Interments which took place at Fort Duquesne during the years 1753, 1754, 1755, and 1756, lately published in his excellent "

Histori




cal Researches in Western Pennsylvania." The credit of having dis

covered the manuscript of this Register is due to Dr. John Gilmary

Shea, who printed it in 1859 in his " Cramoisy" series. The title of the

document speaks for its importance. It is without doubt one of the

most interesting that has been preserved connected with the French oc

cupation of Western Pennsylvania, and the reverend author has done a

real service in giving the public an accurate translation of it. It is

carefully annotated, and is prefaced with an introductory essay on the

French in Western Pennsylvania. The text of the Register is given in

both French and English. The whole forms a handsome 4to pamphlet of 97 pages. The retail price is $1.00. Orders should be addressed to

Rev. A. A. Lambing, 48 Third Avenue, Pittsburgh.

Whale Fishing on the New Jersey Coast in the Eighteenth

Century.?We are indebted to an antiquarian friend for the following

copy of a curious old document, taken from the record in the office of

the Secretary of State at Trenton. It will be read with interest, as it

relates to the taking of "

whales and other royal fish" on our coast. It

also "

lycences" the persons therein named to secure all wrecks, and render

an account of them to the Governor. It is, perhaps, the first "

lycence"

relating to this subject granted in New Jersey : "

Edward Viscount Cornbury Captain Generall and Governor in Chiefe

in and over her Majesties provinces of New Jersey?New York, and all

the territories and tracts of land depending thereon, in America and

Vice Admiral of the same &c?to Joseph Laurance & James Laurance

Greeting ; you are hereby lycenced and authorised to fit out two boates

to fish for your proper use and advantage?for what whales or other

royal fish you can or may find on the Coust of this province of New

Jersey ; betwixt Sandy Hook and barnagat inlestt?as also to take and

secure all boates?barques?ships or other vessells or things that may be

rael cast away?or otherwise Stranded on the said Coust, and within the

said district and when secured you are forthwith to give me an acct of

the same, in order to receive further direction from me the said Lord

Viscount Cornbury, paying unto me or to such as I shall appoint to re

cieve the same?one twentyeth part of all the oyle and bone of the

whales, and such other fish as by virtue of this lycence you shall take

and kill ; all the charges of taking?killing and trying the same being first deducted.

" Given under my hand and seale this 11 day of December Anno Reg

Reg?Anne Nunc Anglice &c Anno Dei 1704. "Cornbury."

($xuxxt&.

Magazine of European Literature.?Who was the editor of a "

Magazine of European Literature, or a collection of select and inter

esting pieces, either original or versions from the Italian, German, and

Spanish, First Vol. Paris, 1802" ? an 8vo of 164 pp. Was more than

one volume published ?

From the following extract from the preface, and other internal evi

dence, there is some reason to believe this publication was edited by an

American. The editor states the above work was published "

for con

veying to the public of America an adequate idea of the modern Euro

pean taste in the different branches of literature. When we consider




the rapid progress of the population, commerce, and wealth of the United

States, we may flatter ourselves that a pretty numerous set of individuals exist in this country whom their education and knowledge will not suffer to be indifferent to the many and agreeable productions which make their

appearance every year in the different countries of the old continent, but

who, by reason of their remote distance from the same, cannot conven

iently procure them." The frontispiece is a fine portrait of Buonaparte, and there are, beside

other illustrations, twelve fashion-plates. Pages 148 to 152, inclusive, are taken up with an article,

" Journals and Political Gazettes in the United

States of America." This sketch of the American press in 1802 antedates that of Isaiah Thomas eight years.

There is occasional reference to General Washington in other articles, and to America. It was not a magazine in the usual acceptation of the

word, nor is it mentioned in Sabin.

Camden, New Jersey. William John Potts.

Jeffry Hawkins.?In addition to the information furnished in the last number of the Magazine under my name, the following will be found of interest : By order of William Penn, dated 13 of 8 mo., 1682, there was surveyed unto said Hawkins, the 25th of 9 mo., 1683, 288 acres in Falls township, Bucks County. I have also made a note that Jeffry

Hawkins married Ellen Pearson in the 8th month, 1687. This was

Erobably extracted from the Falls Meeting Records. She may have

een his second wife. William J. Buck.

James Coulter, First Printer of Lancaster, Pa.?-Is anything known of James Coulter, the first printer (1745) in Lancaster, Pa. ?

H.

John Larkin.?Can any reader of the Magazine give me any infor mation of John Larkin, of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, prior to 1682, or his son Thomas, living 1715, or their descendants? C. L. B.

Margaret White.?I am trying to trace the line of Margaret White, who was born in Philadelphia. She had a daughter, Sophia White, who married Asa Hall, and moved to Cheat River in 1782. They lived at Duck Creek X Roads, Delaware, before they moved West.

Shall be very glad of any information. Yours respectfully,

Newburgh, W. Va. Richard S. Miller.

Elton.?Secretary of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania : Can

you give me information concerning William Elton and Hannah, his

wife, Friends, living in Burlington, New Jersey, probably as early as 1774?

Where and when were they born? And what was her maiden name?

Elizabeth, N. J., Feb. 17,1885. B.

Cresswell.?Can any of the readers of the Penna. Magazine give the name of the first settler of the Cresswell family in America, when he came over, and from where? Who were the parents of Susanna Cresswell, who, previous to the Revolution, was of Fagg's Manor, Chester Co., Pa.?

What was the maiden name of her mother ? March 30, 1885, Elizabeth, N. J. B.




Pennsylvania Newspapers published between 1750 and 1790

(Vol. VIII. p. 441).?M. L. M. will find an account of most of the

newspapers published during the period in Philadelphia, Germantown, and Lancaster, in Thomas's

" History of Printing" and in Hazard's

" Register of Pennsylvania," Vol. I. pp. 171-4 and 177-9.

" The Pittsburgh Gazette," the first newspaper published west of the

Alleghany Mountains, started August 19, 1786.

Alleghany, Pa., March 13, 1885. I. C.

Carved Chests (Vol. VIII. p. 441).?In reply to "

I. W. L.'s" in

quiry respecting carved chests, I may say that there have been in the posses sion of members of my mother's family, for two hundred years or more, three carved chests of the kind referred to. They were brought to this

country from Merionethshire, North Wales, at the time of the settlement of Pennsylvania, and are about the size of that in the collection of the

Historical Society. They are ail of British oak, with panels in front and at the sides. One of them, which belonged to David and Katherin Jones, is a beautiful piece of carving in its front and at its sides. Another has

large iron bands, as if it had been the depository of articles of special value. The third, though its panels are plain, has a scroll at the top, and the letters

" K. R., 1664," beautifully carved on it. The owner,

Katherin Robert, was the wife of John ap Thomas, whose history, and that of David and Katherin Jones, may be found in this Magazine, Vol. IV. pp. 319-321. J. J. Levick.

Carved Chests (Vol. VIII. p. 441).?In answer to I. W. L. in the last number of the Penna. Magazine of History and Biography, I will state that I have an old chest in good order (one of seven), made about the year 1560, by order of Joseph Wood, a cloth manufacturer, of

Halifax, England. The chest is carved, made of English oak, 53 inches

long, 32 inches wide, and 24 inches high. It has passed down through the succeeding generations, and now in my possession.

Respectfully yours,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. John G. Wood.

Arms of Massachusetts in 1672 (Vol. VIII. p. 441).?See Morton's "New England's Memorial," published in Cambridge, in 1669, and

Barber's "

Historical Collections of Massachusetts," p. 522.

Alleghany, Pa. I. C.



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