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Copyright, 1990 The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume XXXVI Number 3 1990 Captain John Finney's Company of Philadelphia Militia, 1704: Biographical Notes of Merribersi•04*•••*•*4•019•••••••99••••••••••••••••••• 165 Jane Gray Buchanan, Peter Stebbins Craig, and Jeffrey L. Scheib The Pennsylvania Newspaper Project: With a List of Titles Preserved on Microfilm William A. Hamill and Roberta Dell 192 A Guide to Pennsylvania Soldiers in the Mexican Antoinette j. Segraves 203 Genealogical Accessions by the Genealogical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1989............219 Wayne E. Kelly Review Essay: Colonial Delaware Assemblymen, by Bruce A. Bendier ••••• Jeffrey L. Scheib 6 •••••••••••*•••••*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*•••••• 251 Book Reviews Barnes, Baltimore Courtly [Maryland] Families, 1659 1759, by George Ely Russell 0 1166i•re+16•up•A pI+ • .. 1 601I640 I* m•1406 *..##...** E014.0 10a•401•06•404 414 . Weiser, trans. and ed., Records of Pastoral Ads at Christ Lutheran Church, Stoudisburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Part I. Baptisms 1743-1819, by Jane Adams Clarke...•...r *eq.' ••••••giut.s.$1•Olusem.es roe Med N•*.eue mug pat.osi•I•purod.04.00oilia.61.0•N 257 257 Linn, Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755 1855, by John A. Baird, Jr... 238 Mitchell, A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards, by Suzanne Wiley 259 Schildknecht, ed., Monocacy and Catoctin, Vol. 2, by Jane Adams Clarke ........... 259 Brackenridge, History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, Commonly called the Whiskey Insurrection, by John A. Baird, Jr. 260 Schrader-Muggenthaler, comp., The Alsace Emigration Book, Vol. 2, by Jane Adams Clarke 260 .••••••••.••••••••4011, Book Reviews--continued Good and Ebert, Finding Your People in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Genealogical Guide, by Eric G. Grundset 261 Burgert and Jones, Westerwald to America: Some 18th Century German Immigrants, by Jane Adams Clarke 262 Jacobus, ed., The American Genealogist (TAG), Vols. 9-41, by Sandra M. Hewlett 263 Kemp, International Vital Records Handbook, by Sandra M. Hewlett 263 Bell, Mother Cumberland: Tracing Your Ancestors in South Central Pennsylvania, by Louis S. Marks 264 Jones, German American Names, by Arta F. Johnson 265 Series Review: The "Jeremy Gibson Pamphlets," by Louis S. Marks 266 Books in Brief Compiled by Thomas Jay Kemp 271 Information Wanted 273