Fortieth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOG¬ ICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 7, 1932. To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania : The Board of Birectors begs to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1932: At the Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Society held March 3, 1931, the following named officers and directors were elected: , President Charles P. Keith. Vice-Presidents John Frederick Lewis, Edward Robins, Charles Fran¬ cis Jenkins. Recording Secretary, Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary, Miss M. Atherton Leach. , Historian, Frank Worthington Melvin. Treasurer, Ogden Dungan Wilkinson. Directors to serve three years, Hon. George Henderson, Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Ralph Beaver Strassburger. Following the election, Mr. Burten Alva Konkle delivered an unusually interesting address entitled A Succession of Great Financial Leaders of Philadelphia. Supper was then served. At the March meeting of the Board of Directors it was Resolved, That the Board endorse the action of the Council of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in requesting the Postmaster General to issue a stamp, or stamps, in commemoration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the first arrival of William Penn in America; and that a copy of this resolution be sent to Mr. Philip H. Ward, Chairman of The Historical Society's Penn Stamp Committee. At the April meeting the Board endorsed the proposed William Penn Commemoration of 1932 and earnestly recommended that the General Assembly and the Governor of Pennsylvania make such appropriation as may be worthy of so great an occasion. At the October meeting Mr. Frank Willing Leach's valuable gift of unpublished genealogical sketches of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence ; together with letters, photographs and other material relating to his published Old Philadelphia Families, was accepted. The Chairman of the Executive Committee was authorized to have the data assembled and bound, and the Secretary was (Directed to convey the thanks of the Board to the donor. The former gift covers several generations of such Signers as left issue. The Mervine Collection numbers sixty-six volumes on the shelves, with additions to follow from the bindery. This important acquisition is en¬ hanced by a cross-index, prepared by the late Mr. Mervine. The Newkirk Collection, the history and papers of a widely-spread (307) 308 Fortieth Annual Report. family of New York planting, consists of twenty-one volumes on the shelves with additions at the bindery. During the year No. 2, Volume XI of the Society’s Publications was distributed to the membership. Forty-eight new members were enrolled during the year. Number of members January 1, 1931 13 Loss by death 22 Resignations 8 Dropped 703 43 060 Elected and qualified 48 Number of members January 1, 1932 708 The membership classified is as follows: . Honorary 2 223 Life Annual 452 Publication Fund 31 During the year the additions to membership were: Life Members. Ross Haven Swope Mrs. Samuel Hinds Thomas Fairfax Harrison Malcolm Lloyd, Jr. J. Sibley Felton Annual Members. John W. Reeves, 2d. Mrs. Viola Root Cameron Mrs. Elvert M. Davis Mrs. George B. Bains, 3d. Mrs. Norman B. Musselman Mrs. Thomas W. Broom Howard Cooper Johnson Miss Martha Bacon Newkirk Mrs. Francis A. Lewis, Sr. Charles Comly French Mrs. Lucie C. Dehm Mrs. Mary E. Groff Mrs. Kirk B. Barb Edmund S. Barrington Mrs. Lovatt Frescoln Mrs. C. E. Shirk Miss Blanche Cummings Mrs. Chester N. Godfrey Mrs. Gardner Hendrie Miss Ethel Holme Dr. G. Irving Laing Miss Annabel Ruth Mrs. William Clarke Fownes Rev. Arthur C. Carty Mrs. J. Gardner Walton Mrs, Mary W. L. Smith S. Weir Lewis Miss Marianna Bartram Griffiths Miss Edith E. Cooke Miss Mary Ashton Pile Mrs. John Lynne Clawson Mrs. Thomas Sprowl Gassner Mrs. Jonathan J. Jones Mrs. Claire Ackerman Vliet E. L. Mattern Mrs. E. F. Saxman Mrs. E. F. Saxman, Jr. Mrs. Sarah Evans Reickard Francis M. Cresson Mrs. Stanley G. Reiff 708 Fortieth Annual Report. 309 The Board in Borrow reports the death of the following: Mrs. Charles 'Wheeler, February 15, 1931. Miss Minnie Fogel Mickley, February 7, 1931. Miss S. Elizabeth Gilpin, December 4, 1931. Mrs. Alanson B. Newkirk, December, 1931. Mrs. Peter Troth Wright, November 26, 1931. Mrs. Samuel Barbash, 14 March, 1931. Joseph S. Lovering Wharton, March 17, 1931. Miss Sarah D. Williams, May 14, 1931. Miss Louise H. Snowden, June 7, 1931. Mrs. John Coates Browne, June 20, 1931. Mrs. Edward M. West, June 26, 1931. Mrs. Alvin Afflick Parker, August 18, 1931. Miss Emily Bell, August 19, 1931. Charles II. Vinton, M.D., August 20, 1931. The Collections number 1050 volumes, of which the following were added during the yearWilliam M. Mervine Collection, Genealogical Notes. 66 volumes. Adamson B. Newkirk Collection, Genealogical Notes, Source Material, etc. 21 volumes. Copies of Philadelphia Wills and Inventories. 4 volumes. Photostat. Tables of Contents, Gilbert Cope Collection. Bucks County Gravestone Inscriptions. 1 volume. History of Kreutz Creek Reformed Church, York County. Records of Kreutz Creek Reformed Church, York County, 1757-1855. Photostat copy. Records of Zion Lutheran and Reformed Church, Conewago Township, York County, 1765-1833. Photostat copy. Records of Rev. John Weber, Westmoreland County, 1778-1819. Photostat. Records of Lower Merion Baptist Church, 1808-1927. Photostat. Records of St. John's Lutheran Church, Dauphin County, 1780-1848. Photostat. Records of Falls Monthly Meeting. 11 volumes. Photostat. Bucks County Petitions for Roads, 1721-1801. Photostat. Marriage Certificates, Centre County Monthly Meeting. 1804-1893. Funeral Notices, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1846-1910. Genealogical Records, Volume 2. London and Middlesex English Friends' Records. Transcript. Commemorative Meeting Held at Providence Meeting House. Bradshaw Ancestry. 2 volumes. Crispin Ancestry. 6 volumes. Warren and Allied Families of Kent County, Delaware. Holliday Family History and Genealogy. The American Ancestry of Frederic Louis and Reginald Shippen Huidekoper. Emory Family of Maryland, Notes on, 310 Fortieth Annual Report. Bible Records Collected by Mrs. Charles M. Steinmetz. Accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered, are: Mrs. William P. Buffum. Letter written by Anthony James Morris to Samuel Morris, March 9, 1777. Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society. The Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy. Mrs. Hampton L. Carson. Memoir of the Gibbs Family; a number of manuscript commercial Receipt Books; Bible Records of Christopher Baker Family. Miss Edith E. Cooke. Photostats of commissions, Bible records and family papers of Col. William Cooke, Northumberland County. Mrs. George E. Douglas. Family Data: Williams, Douglas and Allied Families ; Commission of Capt. Ephraim Williams. Dutch Settlers Society. Year Book 1930-1931. Mrs. W. S. Epperson. Epperson and Allied Families. Col. Ira F. Fravel. John Rudolph Waymire and the First Three Gen¬ erations of his Descendants. John M. Fogelsanger. A Lineal Record from David Fogelsanger, 1763. The Genealogical Society of New Jersey. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. VI. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Gravestone Inscriptions, Menaker Burying Ground, Paxton Township, Dauphin County; Lamon Family Data; Copy of Will of Silas Engle; Keen Family Chart; Paatorius Family of Germantown; Notes on Wayne, Parry, Gorgas and Allied Families. John C. Holliday. Holliday Family History and Genealogy. Col. Frederic L. Huidekoper. The American Ancestry of Frederic Louis and Reginald Shippen Huidekoper. Mrs. A. F. Jamieson. Scudder Bible Records. Charles F. Jenkins. Material Relating to Joseph Kirkbride. Mrs. Clarence K. Klink. Gravestone Inscriptions, Emanuel Reformed Cemetery, Hanover, Pennsylvania; St. Thomas, Whitemarsh; St. Peter's, Barren Hill; St. Michael's, Germantown; Leverington, Roxborough. Also, List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Washington County, Pennsyl¬ vania, compiled by Lida H. Lynn, Historian of Washington County D. A. R. Charles PenroBe Keith. The Wife and Children of Sir William Keith. A Reprint. Rev. Preston A. Laury, D.D. Gravestone Inscriptions, mainly in Le¬ high and Northampton Counties: Appel’s (New Jerusalem), Leithsville, Lower Saucon, laid out as early as 1738. Arndt's Burial Ground, Lower Forks. Forks ground— few stones. Hartman, private, near Colesville, two miles from Fried ensville, Upper Saucon. Limekiln graveyard, orig¬ inally Mennonite. Old Schoeneck, southern base of Cherry Hill, North¬ ampton County, Moravian, few stones. Plainfield, South Section, dates from 1718; several Revolutionary Soldiers. Seifert ground between Lower Saucon and Springfield. St. Paul’s, Indianland, oldest stone, William Heinrich Best, 1713-1762. Fortieth Annual Report . 311 Library of Congress, Beport 1930. Mrs. Milnor Ljungstedt. County Court Note Book. Charles Major. Ancestral Records of Major Family. Miss Cornelia I. Morrell. Gravestone Inscriptions, Hollidayaburg, Blair County, collected by members of the Adam Holliday Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. The Lutheran Cemetery of seven hundred twenty-two (722) inscriptions. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery of four hundred thirty-three (433) graves. Green Lane Cath¬ olic Cemetery, two hundred thirty (230) graves. Holliday BuryingGround, forty-one (41) having inscriptions. Jackson Cemetery, twentythree (23) inscriptions. Colored Union Cemetery, one hundred thirty-two (132) graves. The Presbyterian Cemetery, oldest in that section of the country, has six hundred and two (602) decipherable inscriptions, while many remain whose markers are illegible. The new part of this ceme¬ tery, copied from undertakers' records, numbers one thousand, five hun¬ dred and thirty-eight (1538) burials. This is a valuable contribution to state history. New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. Report 1930. Ormond Rambo. Wilson Family Chart. Mrs. Edward S. Sayres. The Diary of Mary Ann Hulme, wife of Henry Carvill. 1844-1879. Ross Haven Swope. History of St. John's (Ham's) Reformed Church, Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. (Reading, 1916.) Miss Cora Warren. The Dance of Death, by Miss Florence Warren. Miss Mary B. Wharton. Genealogical Material on the Wharton, Hol¬ lingsworth, Redwood, Boggs and Allison Families. Notes and papers of the late Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Litt.D. Miss Helen Noble Worst. Genealogical Data concerning John Leonard Ellmaker. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P. KEITH, ERNEST SPOFFORD, President. Recording Secretary. REPOET OF THE TREASURER FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER, 1931. PERMANENT FUND. Balance January 1, 1932 Life memberships Cash portion of Fanny P. Shortridge Legacy Subscriptions to Publication Fund Loan from Current Fund $588.27 $400.00 17.78 75.00 163.95 656.73 $1245.00 INVESTED. 38 40/50 shares Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities Stock $1245.00 3X2 Fortieth Annual Report. CURRENT TUND. Receipts. Balance January 1 Dues Income from Investments Sale of Publications Sale of Reprints Interest on deposits Extra invitations, Annual Meeting Photostat prints Reimbursement for mounting and binding Contribution Mervine Collection $363.44 $1995.15 1635.91 56.50 4.00 43.14 12.00 1960.75 62.50 10.00 5779.95 $6743.39 Payments. Dues Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies Binding Publications Annual Meeting ■Warren Notes (typing) Paste English Friends’ Records (binding) Translation Finnish Record Desk and Chair . Rent of safe Index to Philadelphia County Exemplification Papers Index to Philadelphia Wills . Expenses photostat Christmas gifts Loan to Permanent Fund Stationery, postage and sundries Salaries . $ 5.00 569.41 699.09 377.50 15.00 20.00 5.90 4.13 59.00 5.00 25.00 25.00 1283.29 115.00 163.95 361.66 2374.75 Balance January 1, 1932 6123.68 $619.71 OGDEN DUNGAN WILKINSON, Treasurer. INVESTMENTS. Permanent Fund. $2000.00— Electric and Peoples 4% Certificates. 2200.00— Fourth Liberty Loan. 14 shares Philadelphia Traction Company. 385 shares United Gas Improvement Company, Common. 9 shares United Gas Improvement Company, Preferred. Joseph Eddy Gillingham Legacy. 11 shares Philadelphia Traction. Fortieth Annual Report. Anne Hannwm Creaaon Legacy. 1000.00— Ivan Apartment Bond. Lily Sturges Mifflin Legacy. 2000.00— Penna. R. R. Mortgage Cert. 50.00— Fourth Liberty Loan. 4%. Joaiah Granville Leach Fund. 1000.00— Fourth Liberty Loan. Joaiah Granville Leach Memorial Fund. 1800.00— Fourth Liberty Loan. Anna Juatina Magee Fund. 8000.00— Fourth Liberty Loan. Fanny A. Shortridge Legacy. 3 shares Central Pennsylvania National Bank. 3 shares Philadelphia National Bank. 3 shares Philadelphia Traction Company. 1 share Union Traction Company of Philadelphia. 1 share Insurance Company of North America, Thomas H. Eoge Patterson Legacy. 1000.00— Fourth Liberty Loan. 313