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Notes and Queries Source: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 30, No. 2 (1906), pp. 241- 251 Published by: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20085335 . Accessed: 14/05/2014 12:52 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.196 on Wed, 14 May 2014 12:52:07 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Notes and QueriesSource: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 30, No. 2 (1906), pp. 241-251Published by: The Historical Society of PennsylvaniaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20085335 .

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NOTES AND QUERIES. Motes.

Bust of Franklin, Attributed to Ceracchi the work of

Caffiere.?The well known bust of Franklin, with the loose neck

cloth, which for nearly, if not quite, a century has been attributed to

the Italian sculptor Guisseppe Ceracchi I have discovered was not

made by him but is the work of the Frenchman, Jean Jacques Caffiere.

The one presented by Franklin to M. le Roy, of the Academy of Sci

ences, is signed "fait par J J Caffiere en 1777," in which year it was

exhibited at the Salon. I am satisfied that Ceracchi never made a bust

of Franklin. The whole story I shall soon tell in a work I am

preparing. Charles Henry Hart.

Franklin Portraits.?The letter from Franklin to Jeremiah

Meyer, the eminent miniaturist and enameler, printed from a rough draft, unfortunately not dated, in the Pennsylvania Magazine of His tory and Biography for January 1906, in which Franklin speaks of

" the Picture from which he was to make a Miniature," leads to the perti

nent inquiry, What has become of the Franklin Family portraits ? I know of but one portrait of Deborah Franklin, that engraved for Sparks, of

but one of Sarah Bache, that painted by Hoppner, now in the Metro

politan Museum, New York ; and of but one family miniature of Frank

lin, that by Duplessis, formerly owned by Mrs. E. D. Gillespie. Yet in

the Franklin letters, in the American Philosophical Society, there are

repeated references to portraits and miniatures of himself, of his wife and of his daughter. What has become of them? Any reader know

ing will kindly answer.

Franklin writes to Deborah November 22, 1757 [with a postscript on December 2] "I hear there has a miniature painter gone over to Phila

delphia, a relative to John Reynolds. If Sally's picture is not done to

your mind by the young man [John Hesselius] and the other gentleman is a good hand and follows the business, suppose you get Sally's done

by him and send it to me with your small picture that I may get all our little family drawn in one conversation piece.

' '

June 1758,?"I fancy I see more likeness in her [Sally's] picture than I did at first and I look at it often with pleasure, or at least it re

minds me of her. Yours is at the painters who is to copy it and do me

of the same size ; but as to family pieces it is said they never look well and are quite out of fashion and I find the limner very unwilling to undertake anything of the kind. However when Franky's [Francis Folger] comes and that of Sally, by young Hesselius, I shall see what can be done.

' '

Spring of 1759.?" I wrote you by a man of War lately sailing for New York and sent you my picture in miniature.

' '

VOL. XXX.?16

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August 14, 1771.?" I am glad to hear of all your welfares and that the Pictures etc were safe arrived. You do not tell me who mounted the great one nor where you have hung it up. Let me know whether

Dr Bond likes the old one, if so the old one is to be returned hither to Mr Wilson [Benjamin Wilson] the Painter. You may keep the Frame as it may be wanted for some other picture."

March 19, 1772.?(Fragment) " I wonder that the picture could not

# * * * * * stairs. I think it would have hung * * * * * *

passage."

July 14, 1778.?Richard Bache to Franklin writes.?"A Captain Andr? also took with him the picture of you which hung in the dining

room. ' '

October 23, 1788.?Franklin to Madam Lavoisier.?"I have along time been disabled from writing to my dear friend by a severe fit of the gout, or I should sooner have returned my thanks for her very kind

present of the portrait which she has done me the the honor to make of me. It is allowed by those who have seen it to have great merit as a

picture in every respect ; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies when they were in possession of this city and my house, made a prisoner of my portrait and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced the husband and the lady seems to smile as well pleased."

Here is plenty of material for investigation and may lead to the iden tity of some unknown portraits.

Charles Henry Hart.

Burial Place of Charles Brockden Brown the First Ameri can Novelist.??

Through the courtesy of our esteemed member, Mr. George Vaux, Sr., we are able to answer the question, so frequently asked, as to the burial place of the first American novelist, Charles Brockden Brown. Mr. Vaux writes : "I was called upon perhaps a dozen or more years ago, by some one, I cannot now remember who, with the request that I should try to ascertain whether Charles Brockden Brown was interred in Friends Burial Ground. There is in the Record Department of Friend's Library a copy ot a record of interments kept by a former superintendent of the grave-yard at Arch and Fourth streets. This copy was made from the original many years ago at my suggestion, by a gentleman at one time a clerk in my employ as a clerk, who I think was a careful

copyist, and I have no reason to suppose that the copy is inaccurrate." 4'The interment was in Friends' Burial Ground, Arch and Fourth

Streets, Philadelphia, 2nd mo., 22, 1810, age thirty-nine years; disease, decay ; Locality, row 18, Grave 16 ; District, Southern. The

locality has no significance?all the early grave mounds in this ground were levelled about seventy years ago and no interments earlier than 1848 can be identified."

Mr. Stevenson H. Walsh, another member, in an examination of the Records of the Board of Health, Philadelphia, made the following ex

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tract from the ' '

Interments in the Friends' Burial Ground from the 17th of 2nd month to the 24th, 1810, Charles Brown, thirty-eight years, of Phisis Pulmonalis.

' '

Letters of administration on the estate of the deceased were granted in the same year to Elizabeth L. Brown, widow, and Elijah Brown,

merchant. Sureties Armitt Brown and James Robertson, merchants. No account of the Estate appears?only an Inventory.

Abstracts from the Personal Account of Richard Neave, Jr., during his residence in Philadelphia, from original in collection of

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.?

1773

February.?Made a visit of ten days to New York, taking a servant and two horses. While there his hair dressing cost ?1.2.6. Theatre tickets ?1.13, and his losses at the Club, ?2.5.6.

March.?Dinner at Clarks 10/6 ; Supper at Frankford 7/6 ; Theatre tickets ?3.2.6. Gains at the Club ?2.12.6. Sold a silver-laced waist

coat, ?2.

April.?Dinner at the Falls 5/6, and Burns' 15/ and again 19/8. Theatre tickets 17/6. Lost at the Club 15/.

May.? Dinner at the Falls, 10/. Lost to Sam. Morris, ?2.10., to R.

10/6; won of Moylan, 3/6. June.?Dinner at Schuylkill Club, 42/9. Lost to John Meas, ?2.15.

July.?Gift to Dutch Church, 20/; Dinner at Musket's 13/. Winter Club at Duffs, ?8.9.6. Beaver hat for self, ?2.4.0.

August.?Sold phaeton, ?55. Supper at Claus 7/6. My Club din

ner, ?2.14.3. Turtle at Burns, 19/6. 4 pair Silk stockings, ?5.

Dressing my hair one year, ?9. Hair ribbons, 2/4.

September.?A parrot cage, 14/. To the new play, 1/3. October.?2 Bot. Wine, 10/'. Expenses to Chester with T. Read,

?1.5.8.

November.?Tea at Muskets, 3/3. Tickets for the play, 7/6. 1 pair new shoes, 10/. Carting trunk to wharf [for New York]. Hire of a

chair, 3/. 1 pair knee buckels ?1.9. [Spent parts of the months of No vember 1773, and to end of April 1774, in New York City with 2 horses and servant Toby.]

1774

January.?1 Bot. Turlington, 4/. 1 pair black breiches, 34/. Suit of clothes for Toby 16/ and shoes 9/6. Keyser's Pills 17/. Bridges for hair dressing 4 mo. 64/.

May.?Returns to Pbilada.?expenses of journey going and returning 64/. Dinner at Chester 6/9.

August.?Club at Schuylkill ?2.10. Drawing Toby's tooth 1/. September.?Tickets for theater 9/ Supper at Carsons 4/6.

Letter of Eliza West, Wife of Benjamin West, the Artist, to her Kins Folks Robert Shewell and Wife, of Pains wick Hall, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania.

[The original letter is in the possession of Dr. James Hendrie Lloyd, of West Philadelphia, who is a lineal descendant of Robert Shewell, to whom the letter is addressed. The Mr. Hunt referred to is the father of Leigh Hunt, the poet. Leigh Hunt was a nephew of Mrs. Benjamin

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West, his mother having been a daughter of Stephen Shewell, merchant, of Philadelphia, who was a brother of the artist's wife, Eliza or Elizabeth

Shewell.] My Dear Cousins, Robt. & Sally,

Altho' I have not heard from either of you, yet I cannot resist the

inclination of writing, in hopes it will be a further inducement to you, to afford me the pleasing satisfaction of hearing from you. You will no

doubt expect that I should say something of your son, my Cousin

Thomas, but I am truly sorry to be under the necessity of acknowledg

ing that I have not seen him more than twice or thrice since his arrival

here. ? which is to me the more unaccountable, as knowingly, or will

ingly, we have never given any offense : ? I have made strict enquiry ? &

never yet have been able to find his abode, or any connection by which I could trace him, & it has at times made me really unhappy ;

? Mr. Hunt told me a long while ago, that he had left London and was gone on a Commercial scheme into the country ;

? but whether he has returned to America or not, I am totally ignorant.

I have the happiness my dr Cousins to say that Mr. West and our

sons are perfectly well, that my health still fluctuates tho' I think my self better than I was some years ago, tho still troubled with Nervous &

Billious Complaints, ? I stay much at home as usual.

As to News?it grieves me to reflect on the deplorable situation the

world is in, ?the Thousands that have perished, & are likely still to fall by the desolating sword,?Oh ! God preserve and keep us ; I sincerely pray that America may be enabled to preserve her neutrality ;?but sometimes my fears will prevail.

I have sprained my thumb some time ago, & it is at present so painful that I can scarcely hold the pen, therefore will only beg you will have the goodness to remember me to all your family.

Accept yourselves my dearest Love & believe me most truly your affec* Eliza West.

London, 20 July 1798.

Letter of Samuel Powelto George Roberts, 1763.?

(For other letters of these correspondents see Penna. Mag., Vol. xviii,

pp 35-42.) Dear Roberts,

I know not how to account for your long Silence, or what can have

tempted you to be so forgetful of your Friend. Not a Line by Budden, Tillet, Osborne, or the Ship arrived at Bristol a few Days past. Could

I imagine this Neglect to be willful, be assured I would not write you a

Syllable. Crapton says he has a Line from you in which you enquire after me. I will not condemn you unheard, but trust to Time to con

vince me that you still remember I am an Inhabitant of this lower World.

What in the Name of good Luck makes you export so many People? no less than 24 in Budden, amongst the rest Meinheer Kepley & Hughey Forbes. The last after conversing with me in the Coffee House (the first I do not know) enquired how my father did, assuring me he be haved to all the Passengers with particular affability and good nature. Budden who sat by marred the Joke, by asking him who I was?he re

plied, A. Allen?Indeed I fancy I shall be as great a Stranger to most

People in Philad* on my Return as you were.

Morgan still in Edinburgh presents Compliments to you. He is near

graduating & will leave Scotland in about a fortnight. I wish you had

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been with me yesterday?two soney Scot's Ladies, my Lord Provosts

Daughters, did me the Honor of taking a Dish of Tea here. You see

Robert I am visited by Ladies of better Fashion than those who frequent the Temple. Will you go to Marybone tonight? The Entertainment is tolerable & quite new to you. On Tuesday night the Free Masons

with their Grand Master, (Lord Ferrers) were there at Lowe's Benefit.

I have no news for you, save Foote has brought out a new Piece called

the Mayor of Garrett, in which he takes off among others Glover (the author of Le?nides) a Member of Parliament. This seemed his favorite

Character, but he has been obliged to drop it. Twas droll enough and well supported.

I beg you will present my Compliments to Mr. Charles Thomson & honest Steel, from both of them I have received Letters, but cannot answer them now. When does Harry publish the Lower County

Georgies ? Or will not the Goddess emerge from the Fens and Mud to assist him in the arduous Task ?

My next to you, if you give me any encouragment to write, will be

dated from Paris?I am now on Haste and only scrawl this unconnected stuff to assure you you are not, nor can be forgotten by

Yours &c 29 June 1763 S. Powel

From an old "sampler" belonging to a lady of Lewes, Delaware :?

William Paynter, son of S and E. Paynter was born January 24d

1774.

Jane Jacobs, daughter of A and E. Jacobs was born October 20th

1782. William Paynter and Jane Jacobs, married September 13th 1797.

James J. Paynter, b. 9-7-1798.

Albert J. Paynter, b-12-28-1800.

Elizabeth Paynter, b-4-26-1802.

William Paynter, b. 1-28-1804.

Jane Paynter, b. 3-21-1806. Ann Paynter, b. 1-23-1807.

Mary S. Paynter, b. 3-21-1809.

Sarah M. Paynter, b. 3-22-1811.

Hannah Paynter, departed this life 8-10-1813.

Delaware Bible Records.?The following records have been

copied from the Bible belonging to Mrs. Louisa Moarshall, Lewes, Delaware :

John Marshall son of Wm Marshall and Kittv his wife (Catherine Maull) b. 11-10-1802.

Eliza Rodney West daughter of William and Mary West b. 9-29 1806

Burton Marshall son of John and Eliza Marshall b-5-23-1824. at 3 P. M

William Marshall son of John and Eliza Marshall b. 7-5-1825, at

midnight Charles M. Marshall son of John and Eliza Marshall b-7-14-1826.

at 7 A. M.

Helen Mar. Marshall daughter of John and Eliza Marshall b. 8

4-1829, at 7 P. M.

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246 Notes and Queries.

Elizabeth R. Marshall daughter of John and Eliza Marshall b. 6 2-1843

George Herbert de Orton b. 9-25-1874

Edgar Marshall de Orton b. 8-24-1877

William West, father of Eliza Rodney West, b. 10-15-1771 d. 12

1-1816 Mary, wife of Wm West and mother of Eliza R. West, b 7-30-1776

d 4. 28-1845 John Marshall was married to Elizabeth Rodney West, Sept. 3d

1823 by John Finley. Departed this life 3-8-1868 William Marshall, the father of John Marshall, was born 11-4-1774.

d 6-21-1850, \ past 10 P. M. John Marshall son of John Marshall and Eliza Rodney his wife. b.

1-1-1831. 4 P. M., Married Lizzie P. Morris 1-26-1853

Catherine M. Maull wife of Wm Marshall d. 11-27-1874, aged 95

years James W. Marshall son of John and Eliza Marshall was b-ll-13

1832. at 11 P.M.

Elizabeth Marshall daughter of John and Eliza Marshall b. 8-6-1834, at 6 P. M

William Marshall son of John and Eliza R. Marshall b. 4-26-1836 at 12 P. M. d-3-2-1866

David A. son of John and Eliza R. Marshall b.. 9-28-1838.

Frances Almira Boggs Marshall daughter of John and Eliza Marshall b 12-5-1840, at 1 A. M. d. 11-15-1845

Burton Marshall son of John and Eliza R. Marshall d. 8-17. aged 2 months and 25 days

William Marshall son of John and Eliza R. Marshall d. 9-5 aged 2 months

Elizabeth daughter of John and Eliza R. Marshall d-7-31?aged 11

months, 25 days Elizabeth R. de Orton daughter of John and Eliza Marshall d. 1-27

1880 at 6 P. M.

George de Orton (her husband) d. 8-16-1880 Eliza Rodney Marshall d. 7-22-1882 in the 76th year of her age Helen Mar. Marshall d-11-9-1851.

" Elizabeth Rodney youngest daughter of the late Hon. John Mar shall and beloved wife of George de Orton "

(Newspaper cutting pasted in Bible.)

Fine for Firing a Cracker or Squib July 4, 1825.?Justice of

the Peace Eneu's office, was at 200 Shippen (now Bainbridge) Street. Commonwealth ?

vs. > July 4th, 1825, Personally appeared J. Walker John Walker, j and payd Sixty Seven cents, the fine for firing of a

cracker or Squib on this day on the Publick Street. James Eneu, Jr.,

Justice of the Peace.

Battle?Price.?Copy of entries in Book of Common Prayer, which

belonged to James and Mary Price of Christiana Mills, New Castle County, Delaware, and is now in the possession of Mr. William J.

Williams of Philadelphia. It is deficient in title-page, but the Psalter, bound with it, was "Printed by J. Barber, for J. Holland, at the Bible

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and Ball, and W. Taylor at the Ship, both in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1707." The record, other than that of the Battell family is not

consecutive.

Christianna Mills.

Mary Battell, daughter to William Battell * and Parnellah his wife, was born the 27th of September, at eleven o'clock in the day in the

year 1723.

French Battell was born the 16th day of July, 1725.

Aves Battell was born the 25th day of June, 1727.

Sebeller Battell was born the 6th day of April, 1729.

Elizabeth Battell was born the 30th August, 1730. In another hand Mary Price, March the 29th, 1752. * William Battell married 19 June, 1718, Parnel French [Records of

Immanuel Church, New Castle], daughter of John French. The will

of the latter, dated 22 November, 1728, probated 12 December, of the same year, and on file in the Registry of Wills of New Castle County,

styled him "Colonel John French of New Castle upon Delaware,

gentleman." In it, Colonel French named wife Eves, daughters Mary and Sybilla French, sons-in-law Robert Robertson and Captain William

Battell and grand-children Mary Battell, Avis Battell and Mary Robert

son, also a "beloved grand-son." Colonel French was a familiar

figure in Colonial Pennsylvania, serving successively as Sheriff of New

Castle County, Register of Wills, Master of the Court of Chancery, Justice of the Supreme Court, and a member of the Governor's Council at the time of his death. M. A. L.

New Castle, December 9,1749.

Robert, son of Mary Mackys was born on the 9th of this inst, about . . . o'clock in the morning.

Mary Price departed this life 25 April, 1777. Ruth Price, daughter of James Price and Mary his wife, was born

January 5th, 1753, about 12 o'clock in the day in New Castle Hundred.

Ruth Price departed this Life the 27th Day of October in the year 1753, in the tenth month of her age.

Aves Price was born on Wednesday at eleven o'clock in the morning, 26 March, in the year 1755 in Penn Cader Hundred, New Castle County.

M. James Price, April the 22nd, 1759.

Mary Price was delivered of a son the 18th of October, 1766, which died the 24th of the same month.

William Price was born in the year of our Lord, 9 April, 1761, in

Penn Cader Hundred in New Castle County. James Price departed this life March ye 25th at midnight, 1802.

William Price Departed this life March ye 24th about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in the year of our Lord, 1803.

Esther Price departed this Life September ve 16th in the year of our Lord 1773.

Uniforms of the Officers and Privates of the Continental Army 1779-1780.?

At the request of a correspondent, the following orders regulating the

uniforms of the officers and privates of the Continental Army, have

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been copied from the Orderly Books of the Commander-in-Chief, in the possession of the United States Government :

Head Quarters, Moore's House, October 2, 1779.

The following are the Uniforms that have been determined for the troops of these States respectively as soon as the state of the public supplies ever permit their being furnished.

New Hampshire, Y Massachusetts, I Blue faced with White Rhode Island, [ Buttons and Lining White. Connecticut. J

New York, j Blue faced with Buff,

New Jersey. J White Lining and Buttons.

Pennsylvania, ") Delaware, 1 Blue faced with Red, Maryland, f Buttons and Lining White. Virginia. J

North Carolina, ) *fu? *"*

with, Bl*\, 0a?(. ri??,,i; '

I Button holes edged with narrow South Carolina,

f white lace or te *e. Buttons and Georgia,

J Lining White.

a ..? ? Blue faced with Scarlet. Scarlet Lining, r l j ry ! yellow buttons, yellow bound hats, coats

1 The whole Blue faced

Light Dragoons. V with White?

j White buttons and linings.

Head Quarters, Short Hills/ June 18, 17S0.

As it is at all times of great importance both for the sake of appear ance and for the regularity of service that the different military Ranks should be distinguished from each other and more especially at present?

The Commander-in-Chief has thought proper to establish the follow

ing distinctions, and strongly recommends it to all the Officers to en

deavor to conform to them as speedily as possible. The Major General to wear a blue coat with Buff facings and lining?

yellow buttons?white or buff undercloaths?two Epaulets, with two

Stars upon each and a black and white Feather in the Hat.

The Brigadier Generals, the same uniform as the Major Generals, with

the difference of one Star instead of two, and a white feather.

The Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels and Majors, the uniforms of their regiments and two Epaulettes.

The Captains, the uniforms of their regiments and an Epaulette on

the right shoulder.

The Subalterns, the uniform of their regiment and an Epaulette on

the left shoulder.

The Aides de Camp, the uniforms of their ranks and Corps, or if they belong to no Corps, of their General Officer. Those of the Major Gen

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erais and Brigadier Generals, to have a green feather in the Hat. Those of the Commander in Chief, a white & Green.

The Inspectors, as well Sub as Brigadier?the Uniforms of their ranks

and Corps, with a blue feather in the Hat. The Corps of Engineers and that of Sappers and Miners?a blue coat

with buff facings, red lining, buff undercloaths and the epaulettes of their respective ranks.

Such of the Staff as have military rank to wear the uniform of their ranks and of the Corps to which they belong in the line?such, as have no military rank to wear plain Coats with a Cockade and Sword.

All officers as well Warrant as Commissioned to wear a Cockade and side arms either a sword or genteel Bayonet.

Delaware Militia Company, 1803-1807.?Contributed by Rev. H. B. Turner.

Joshua Burton, was commissioned by Governor James Sykes, of

Delaware, to be Captain of the Fourth Company, in the Eighth Regi ment of Militia, June 25, 1801. The following is the Muster Roll of the Company for the year 1803.

Commissioned

Joshua Burton,

Pay n ter, Isaac Waples,

Sergeants. l8t Thomas Burton, 2d James Burton, 3d Thorns Grice, 4th John Lingo.

1st Class.

Cornelius Burton, John Lingo. Cannon Prittyman, Arthur Milby, Shaduck Murrah.

3d Class. William Burton, Eli Cary, Perry Pool, Samuel Burton,

Woolsey Burton, John Hancock, Cannon Smith.

5th Class Ebenezer Lyons, David Barker, Thomas Shennor,

Bagwell Burton, Gilbert B. Poynters, Lewis Lingo.

Officers. Captain ; Lieutenant ;

Ensign.

Corporals. 1st Benjamin Richards, 2d John Burton, 3d James Lingo, 4th William Hommons.

2d Class.

Bagwell Barker, Peter Milby,

Henry Lingo, Jonathan Cullin,

Joseph Milby, Peter Marriner,

Joseph Waples.

4th Class. Isaiah Burton,

William Clark, John Jones, John Stockley, John Burton, John Cade.

6th Class.

Robert Marriner, Epraim Gorden,

Joseph Fisher, Jonathan Bell, Henry Massey, Kindle Batson, James Hancock.

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7th Class.

Benjamin Burton, Isaac Waples,

William Wolfe, Jacob Richards,

William Bagwell, James Fossett, Isaac Burton,

Valentine Pride.

8th Class.

William Morgan, Thomas Poynter, Robert Burton, Luke Warrington, William Harp.

A Roll of the Commissioned, non commissioned officers and private men in the 4th Company of Militia of the 8th Regiment in Sussex

County, in the State of Delaware, between the age of Eighteen and

Forty-five years.

Commissioned Officers.

Captain, Joshua Barton, com. 14 Oct. 1807.

Lieutenant, Paynter Frame, " "

Ensign, James Burton, " "

Sergeants.

Thomas Burton, 37 years. Isaiah Burton, 44 "

Jacob Richards, 44 "

Horatio Collins, 41 "

Corporals.

William Lingo, 32 years. Robert Marriner, 30

' '

David Hazzard, 34 "

Bagwell Burton, 27 "

Rank and File.

William Bagwell, 30 years. Samuel Burton, 28

Cornelius Burton, 33

Robert Thomson, 22

Kendal Batson, 38

Lewis Milby, 37 Burton Warrington, 25

James Warrington, 22

Thomas Reynolds, 32 John Burton, 30

David Barker, 30

George Robinson, 38

Benjamin Burton, 20

John Burton, 27

James Burton, 24

Thomas Sheppard, 23

Bagwell Barker, 41 Lewis Butcher, 25 James Hancock, 31

Henry Lingo, 20 Morris Abdel, 22 Isaiah Cleft, 30 Joshua Cary, 18 Noah Reynolds, 18 James Johnson, 23

Isaac Prittyman, 29

James Collins,

Aytchless Lingo, Perry Pool, Kendal Stevenson, Richard Roach, James Mumford,

Benj Richards, William Burton,

Woolsey Waples, Eli Cary, Cannon Prittyman,

Henry Lingo, Wm Blizzard, Peter Waples, James Davidson, Zadock Evans,

Joseph Barker, Wm Brerecton,

Elijah Warrington, James Lingo,

Hopkins Parsons, William Reynolds, Samuel Coffin, John Roach, Jehu Barker,

William Barker, Isaac Lane,

20 years. 21

38

35

33

36

40

32

33

33

35

27

30

40

23

35

19

20

19

29

27

22

22

23

30

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Mountain Family:?" J. Mountain, from New Jersey?English, about 1554. Children were : Joseph, John, Richard, Martha ; also

half-brother, George Grinup. Joseph Mountain married Miss E. Drake; one child, Joanna. Martha Mountain married Captain James McPike,"

(f circa 1789). Extract from original manuscript dictated by the late Judge John Mountain McPike (1795-1876), which is now preserved in the Museum of The Newberry Library, Chicago; case No. II. 31.2 ;

catalogue No. 89030.

The same manuscript gives the names of the ten children of James

McPike and Martha Mountain, his wife, in the order following :?

Joseph, Richard, Elizabeth, Nancy, Sarah, John, Haley, George,

Martha, James. Other reliable evidence shows that the full name of

the third son was John Mountain McPike ; hence it is safe to infer that he was named after his maternal grandfather, described above as "J.

Mountain," though it is possible that he was, instead, (and like his brothers Joseph and Richard) named after a maternal uncle. Be this as it may, these facts seem to assign the given name James to the Mc

Pike family as such. The name of James McPike's father is unknown ;

perhaps, it, also, was James. He is said to have been a linen-merchant,

presumably in Edinburgh or London. Can any reader confirm marriage of T. James McPike (Pike or Pyke) to Martha Mountain, about 1789, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Maryland ?

The date 1554 above given, is obviously wrong : the year 1654 might be more nearly correct as representing, approximately, the period of

emigration of one Mountain from England to New Jersey. Eugene F McPike.

1 Park Row, Chicago, Illinois.

Rev. Samuel Kennedy.?I shall be thankful for information of the

parentage and descent of the Rev. Samuel Kennedy, an eminent Presby terian Minister who came from Scotland to America before 1751 and

had a church at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, where he died in 1786. There is a brief account of him in the Cyclopedia of American Bi

ography, but it does not mention his father. Wm. Hand Browne.

Johns Hopkins University.

3Booh mot?ces.

The History of Nathaniel Evans, of Cat Fish Creek, and His

Descendants. By James D. Evans. 8vo, pp. 104. Illustrated.

This history, interesting not only to the Evans and allied families, but to all of the descendants of the Welsh settlers of the Great Pedee Valley in South Carolina, contains the first authentic record of their families from the earliest knowledge we have of them down to the present time.

It also gives the names of the emigrants and the places in Wales from

whence they came, their first settlements in Pennsylvania and their re

moval to the "

Welsh Tracts," South Carolina.

The history contains, besides these records, many other original docu ments of great interest, and in addition to the full and exhaustive history of the Evans family, includes full genealogies of the collateral families of Daniel of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Durham of North and

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