The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol 48, No 2, Title and Contents

THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE before 1948 called Publications of Hie Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 48 N uni her 2 Fall/Winter 20 1 2 Aaron Goodwin lidit or Sandra M. Hewlett, c<;, Proofreader «2012 by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2207 Chestnut Street, Phila¬ delphia, Pennsylvania 19103 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (ISSN 0882-3685) is published twice per annum (Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter), Nonmember subscriptions are sold by volume only (2 issues), $30.00; foreign subscriptions, $34.00; single issues, $20.00 each; back issues, contact the Society office. The Society does not assume liability for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. EDITOR’S NOTES JOURNAL PUBLICATION AS PRESERVATION 'hen some of my friends hear that I’m traveling to one repository or another to research a particular record set, they often respond with some variation of the same question: Isn’t everythin}' online now? It s a reasonable question. Websites from large commercial ventures to small, local non-profits have focused a large amount of their time and resources in recent years on providing easy access to as much of their materials as they can manage at a time. The pace at which these records have been released is staggering— millions of pages a year. But all of this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to available information, most of which is not so easy to access. That’s where journals like PGM come in. This issue is comprised exclusively of record abstracts from unique sources. They have never been published online. They have never been microfilmed. And if you wanted to read them, you would have to travel and conduct research onsite. Until now. The earliest baptisms of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, beginning in 1792, are found only in the church’s archives. Publishing them here illuminates structures and relationships for many African American families at the turn of the 19th century, most for the first time. A single, bound typescript of Charleston cemetery inscriptions sits on a shelf in the South Carolina History Room at the Charleston County Public Library. Publishing inscriptions that refer to Pennsylvania origins makes that data available to all Pennsylvania researchers. The orig¬ inal Jacob Tees Family Bible is held at the Archives of the Eastern Penn¬ sylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church at Historic St. George’s United Methodist Church. It’s the 13th volume on shelf I 1 in a very small basement room. The ledgers for Huntingdon County’s Court of Quarter Sessions contain criminal, civil, and administrative actions. Only two sessions from US 1 3 are abstracted in 20 pages here, a clear indication of the sheer volume of data available. A single sheet of paper listing sol¬ diers in the Philadelphia jail in 1736 is only found miles away at the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark. And the original Hand-Griffitts Bible, containing some descendants of several prominent Philadelphia families, took a circuitous route from the family who recorded it, to a relative who became disinterested, to a kindergarten teacher who might like an extra Bible, to a genealogical Samaritan who responded to a listserv posting about it, to a professional genealogist and the proofreader for PGM. The last link ensured its publication and preservation. Aaron Goodwill 98 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. i8 (20 12) THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 48 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2012 CONTENTS EDI TOR’S NOTES JOURNAL PUBLICATION AS PRESERVATION 98 BIR THS AND BAPTISMS RECORDED AT THE AFRICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS, PHILADELPHIA, 1792-1817 101 contributed by Leslie 15. Potter, jn HAND-GRIFFTTTS FAMILY RECORD PHILADELPHIA 121 contributed by Gayle Ann Livecchia A LIS T OF SOLDIERS IN THE GAOL PHILADELPHIA, 1756 123 contributed by Aaron Goodwin COURT OF GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS OF THE PEACE HUNTINGDON COUNTY, APRIL AND AUGUST 1813 125 contributed by Patricia Lee Hobbs TEES FAMILY RECORD PHILADELPHIA 145 contributed by Aaron Goodwin PENNSYLVANIANS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS 147 contributed by Aaron Goodwin ARTICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA IN TEREST IN NON-PTNNSYI.VANIA JOURNALS 152 PERSONAL NAME INDEX VOLUME 48 (20 12) indexed by Aaron Goodwin and Emily Shaw 153 Genealogical Credentials: CG, Certified Genealogist, CGL, and Certified Genea¬ logical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists*. Accredited Genealogist and AG are certification marks of the International Com¬ mission for Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. Individuals are licensed to use the credential designations after meeting the competency standards of those organizations. FASG designates fellows of the American Society of Genealogists, an honorary society limited to St) living members chosen for the quality of their published genealogical scholarship. Fellowship in other societies may also be rec¬ ognized by a postnominal designation, including FGSP for fellows of the Genea¬ logical Society of Pennsylvania.