Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEA¬ LOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEAD AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 2, 1931. To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: The Board of Directors begs to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1930: At the Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Society held March 3, 1930, the following named officers and directors were elected: President: Charles P. Keith. Vice-Presidents: John Frederick Lewis, Edward Robins, Charles F, Jenkins. Recording Secretary: Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary: Miss M. Atherton Leach. Historian: Frank Worthington Melvin. Treasurer : Ogden Dungan Wilkinson. Directors to serve three years: Frank H. Stewart, Louis B. Moffett, Henry Reed Hatfield. Following the election, Hon. Frederick A. Godcharles, Director of the Pennsylvania State Library and Museum, delivered an address on “The Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies.' The usual supper was then served. At the January meeting announcement waB made of the receipt of a legacy of $1000.00 from the Estate of Thomas H. Hoge Patterson. At the May meeting attention was invited to Mrs. William M. Mer¬ vine ’s most generous offer to present to the Society the large and im¬ portant genealogical collection of her late husband, William M. Mervine, and, on motion, Mrs. Mervine was unanimously elected a life member. Subsequently she was elected a life member of the Historical Society. At the November meeting the President was authorized to appoint a committee of five members of the Society to cooperate with the main committee, or such agencies as may be delegated, to plan for the com¬ memoration of the 250th anniversary of the coming of William Penn to Pennsylvania. He appointed Mr. Charles F. Jenkins, Mr. Ogden D. Wilkinson, Hon. George Henderson, Major Henry Reed Hatfield and Hon. Ralph Beaver Strasaburger. ’ In addition to the Mervine Collection, two other important collections were received by gift during the year: The Lord Collection, in memory of the late Charles W. Lord, Jr. of Dover, Delaware, the gift of Mrs. Charles W. Lord, the compiler's mother, is replete with data relating to many widely known families of Kent County, Delaware. Mr. Lord's papers have been arranged and bound in two volumes, and are accessible to the membership. (205) Thirty-ninth Annual Report. 206 The Warren Collection is the gift of Miss Cora Warren in memory of her sister, Miss M. Ina Warren, who died May 29, 1930. These papers, consist of notes on the Warren and allied families of Kent County, Delaware. A check for fifty dollars accompanied this important gift. It is gratifying to announce the completion of the work of assembling, arranging and binding the Gilbert Cope Collection, mainly relating to Eastern Pennsylvania and more particularly to Chester County. It com* prises ninety bound folio volumes, an outstanding mark of the genea¬ logical devotion and accomplishment of the Dean of Pennsylvania genealogists whose name is here perpetuated. This has been made pos¬ sible by the interested membership of the Society. During the year No. 1, Vol. XI of the Publications was distributed to the membership, together wth the Index of Volume X. Through the generosity of a (member, Ricardo W, Staudt, a special number, entitled “Palatine Church Visitations, 1609,“ was also issued. Sixty-five members were enrolled during the rear. Number of members January 1, 1930 Loss by death Resignations Dropped 686 20 17 11 48 638 Elected and qualified 65 Number of members January 1, 1931 703 The membership classifed as follows: HOD or ary 1 Annual 453 220 29 Life Publication Fund The additions to membership were: Hon. John Morin Scott Warren 8. Ely Miss Grace Albert Mrs. J. H. R. Timanus H. W. Kriebel Henry Sage Linn Mrs. J. Rutter Worst Miss Ethel Corinne Worst Miss Helen Noble Worst Mrs. Stephen Corson Mrs. Charles B. Webb MrB. Letitia 8. Shroy Life Members. Charles Starne Belsterling Miss Anna Fisher Annual Members. Miss Mary Garrettson Cook Mrs. John Seaman Albert Mrs. Matthew H. Cryer E. M. Kinsey MrB. Russell Bement Mrs. Robert M. Weber Miss Emma K. Edler Mrs. Philip Brognard Driver Mrs. Oscar F. West Mrs. Morse Archer 703 Thirty-ninth Annual ReportF. Linwood Beading Mrs. Henrietta Vernon Davis Mrs. J. Willis Martin Mrs. Joseph R. Wilson Stanley Vaughn Sparks Earl L. Sparks Mrs. Howard Reifsnyder Bev. William F. Lutz Miss Ruby Haskins Ellis Mrs. Laura Lonsdale West Sparks B. Hoff Knight William H. Gaskill Kenneth F. Pemberton Mrs. Alfred Coxe Prime Walter Rhoads White Mrs. C. B. Allen Miss Harriet T. Lewis Mrs. Edward E. Chandlee Mrs. Warren 8. Ely Charles Penrose 207 Joseph C. Lester Mrs. C. B. Allen Mrs. Frederick N. Morton Frank A. Bedford Mrs. John S. Muckle Mrs. Francis H. Thole Mrs. Francis Du re11 Weaver Miss Frances T. Kinsey Mrs. Frank Embery David S. B. Chew Mrs. Henry T. Kent Mrs. Paul C. Rebmann Robert D. Newkirk Mrs. Beulah Newbold Markle Mrs. Roger Sherron Ethan Allen Doty Col. William Allen March Charles B. Montgomery Miss Dorothy Adams Poore Oswald Chew Mrs. John H. Crowe The Board in sorrow reports the death of the following: Mrs. Paul Sturtevant Howe, January 15, 1930. Thomas F. Dooner, February 9, 1930. Mrs. Laura Lonsdale West Sparks, February 25, 1930. Dr. Gregory B. Keen, April 30, 1930. Miss Fanny A. Shortridge, April 9, 1930. Miss M. Ina Warren, May 29, 1930. Edouard C. Lehr, August 10, 1930. Mrs. Arthur H. Lea, August 14, 1930. Mrs. J. Louis Ketterlinus, August 14, 1930. Samuel Gordon Smyth, October 4, 1930. Rev. Louis Fitzgerald Benson, October 10, 1930. David Franklin Shull, October 17, 1930. Rev. Charles Henry Black Turner, October, 1930. Mrs. Joseph Slocum Chahoon, November 2, 1930. Mrs. Walter Willard, November 8, 1930. William Peterson Newhall, November 9, 1930. Miss Emma T. Thackara, November 16, 1930. Walter Ross McShea, December 5, 1930. Hon. J. Willis Martin, December 23, 1930. Leroy Litzenberg, December 17, 1930. The Collections of the Society number 936 volumes, of which the fol¬ lowing were added during the year: Marriages and Deaths, Poulson's American Daily Advertiser. 18381839. Family Data, Gilbert Cope Collection, 40 volumes. Photostats of Philadelphia Wills and Inventories. 4 volumes. Thirty-ninth Annual Report. 208 Minute Book, Hood Cemetery, Germantown, Phila. Pedigrees of British Noble Families. Sayres Genealogy by Samuel P. May. Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms. 2 volumes. ' Burials, Christ Union Church, Schoenersville, Penna. Records of St. Stephen's North Sassafras Parish, Cecil County, Md. Captain Samuel Finney of Philadelphia and his Descendants. Jellett, Gillette Family. 3 volumes. Hynson Family of Maryland. 2 volumes. Owings Family of Maryland. Hynson Family of Maryland, Genealogical Notes. Lord Collection, Genealogical Material Relating to Kent County, Dela¬ ware Families. 2 volumes. Rickey Ancestry. Elwell Ancestry. Crispin Ancestry. Sheppard Ancestry. Kirk Family. Genealogical Columns, Boston Evening Transcript. 6 volumes. Accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered, are: Mrs. Joseph Bodine. Funeral Notices, Burlington County, New Jersey, and Vicinity. Mrs. William P. Buffum. Letter written by Anthony James Morris to Samuel Morris dated April 28, 1776. Thomas Butler. Ancestry of Crispin, Elwell, Rickey and Sheppard Families. Miss Mabel Corson. The Descendants of Cornelius Corson; The Silent Sentry, A Chronicle of Happenings in Frankford and Vicinity; Golden Jubilee, Abington Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Joseph Oaley. Lucas Family Chart. John B. Clement. Clement Family Items. H. Stanley Craig. Gloucester County, New Jersey Marriages. The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany, New York. Year Book 19291930. The Genealogical Society of Finland. Year Books of, 13 volumes, 1917-1929 inclusive. Replete with Finnish Genealogy and source-material therefor. The Genealogical Society of New Jersey. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. V. Harrold E. Gillingham. Photostat copy of Gillingham Bible Records. John Louis Haney. The Haney Family. The Historical Society of Frankford. Copy of the Thomas Creighton Memorial. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Thomas Wilson Family. Mrs. Charles W. Hoffner. Marriage Certificate of Leonard Lauer and Mary Betson. Henry Sylvester Jacoby. Jacoby Family Genealogy. Thirty-ninth Annual Report ■ 209 The Lincoln, Pearce, Porter, Ayer and Related Dr. W. W. Keen. Families. Mrs. Clarence K. Klink. Gravestone Inscriptions, Emanuel Reformed Cemetery, Hanover, Penna. Lackawanna Historical Society. The Biography and Ancestry of Hon. George Henry Catlin. Mrs. Louis E. Laflin. Laflin Genealogy. Lancaster County Historical Society. Index of Personal Names in Collections of Society; Papers Read before The Society. Miss M. Atherton Leach. The Conewago Colony, York now Adams County, Penna., Baptisms 1769-1793. Baptisms and Burials in Penryn Cemetery, Penryn, Penna.; Hynson Genealogical Notes, Abstracts of Maryland Wills, etc. Miss Katharine Lewis, deceased. Hynson and Owings Families of Maryland. Lehigh County Historical Society. Proceedings of The Society. 1930. T. M. Lightfoot. Gravestone Inscriptions, Friends' Burying Ground, Maiden Creek, Berks County; Wright Family Bible Records. Mrs. Milnor Ljungstedt. County Court Note Book, Yol. IX. Mrs. McCain. Will of William Cloud. Charles Major. Commemoration Meeting Held at Plymouth Meeting House, 1929. J. E. Sturgis Nagle. Fix-Garver Graveyard, Reading, Pa. The New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. Report 1929. John Omwake. Six Horse Bell Teams of Easton, Pa. Mrs. M. A. Pettit. Bible Records of Wright, Mecum, Dick and Wetherby Families. The Presbyterian Historical Society. Publications, Vols. II-YTI. John W. Reeves, 2nd, History of Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, Cape May, New Jersey, 175th Anniversary. William Otis Sawtelle. High Lights in Early History of Maine. Mrs. Edward 8. Sayres. Sayres Genealogy; Descendants of Thomas Sayre of Southampton, L. I. Charles Sellers. Reifsnyder Bible Records. Joseph G. Shryock. Records from the Shryock Family Bible. Frank H. Stewart. Publications of The Gloucester County Historical Society, Nos. 1 and 2. J. C. Stow. Records from the Stow Family Bible. Rev. C. H. B. Turner. Lofland Family Chart. Miss Helen N. Worst. Records from the Hughes Family Bible. Respectfully submitted, ERNEST SPOFFORD, Recording Secretary • CHARLES P. KEITH, President.