Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol 1, No 2, Title and Contents

VOL. I. No. 2. {Publications of llje (firnralagiral forirtij of {pcnnsnloanin Sulg, 189G Uecorfc Series No. 1 (PHILADELPHIA WILLS) PHILADELPHIA PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY EDWABD STERN & Co., INC., 112 AND 114 NORTH TWELFTH ST. CONTENTS. Philadelphia Wills, 1682-1692 .... PiOI 45 Officers of the Society 90 List of Members 91 The Third Annual Report 94 Address of Edward Shippen, M.D., U.S.N. The Fourth Annual Report 100 James Mifflin 103 98 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. THE following abstracts of the earliest wills probated at Philadelphia are from the original documents on file in the vaults of the Register of Wills Office. They cover a very interesting period in the history of Pennsylvania the first years of Penn’s Province. Great care has been exercised in making these abstracts in order to insure accuracy in the dates and names, and this, it is believed, so far as the variation of the record books and the very imperfect con¬ dition and partial illegibility of the original wills would permit, has been accomplished. In every case, when not missing, the original will was produced and the proof of the copy taken from the Record Books, compared therewith. It has been thought advisable to name who the wills were proved by. It will be noted that some of the abstracts are much more lengthy than others, but in any case it can be de¬ pended upon that the wills contain nothing else of any moment, nor any names other than those given. As it is not the intention of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania to print records, at present, beyond the first few years of the history of the Province, but to preserve them in manuscript form, the balance of the abstracts of Philadelphia wills complete, indexed and bound, to the year 1800, will be found in the Society’s Collections at 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia. — L. TAYLOK DICKSON, P. S. P. CONNER, THOMAS ALLEN GLENN, } Committee on Publication.