Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors RAYMOND MARTIN BELL, RA.S.G., whose Notes from Cumberland County Tax Records appeared in the previous issue of the Magazine, is represented in this issue with a distillation of many years of research into the Bell Family. MARWOOD DARLINGTON, a native of West Chester, is on the library staff of the Chester County Historical Society, where he formerly served as Corresponding Secretary and Curator. He is a genealogist and historian. He was co-publisher of Chester County Collections and one of the compilers of the Index to Chester County, Pennsylvania, Wills and Intestate Records. MARY BURTON DERRICKSON MCCURDY, a Delawarean by birth and a resident of North Carolina, with a doctorate from Duke University, became interested in genealogy while organizing the research done by her mother, Mary Lewis Burton Derrickson. Her articles have appeared in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Virginia Genealogist, Delaware History and this Magazine. VERNON H. NELSON, a native of Wisconsin, with degrees from its University, Moravian Theological Seminary and University of Pennsylvania, is the Archivist at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem. He is the author of a wide range of articles, including a booklet on the artist John Valentine Haidt (Williamsburg, 1966), and The Moravian Church in America, one of eighteen studies in Unitas Fratrum (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1974)- The article here is based on a talk the Rev. Nelson gave to the Society 21 November 1974. GARFORD F. WILLIAMS, a graduate of Syracuse University and Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, NJ., has been a member of the Lackawanna Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. since 1968. He has also had charges in the Methodist and Congregational Churches. Long interested in genealogy and local history, Rev. Williams was chairman of the committee which arranged, on behalf of the Susquehanna County Historical Society, for the reprinting of the Centennial History of Susquehanna County, by R. M. Stocker. He presently has a charge in Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pa.