Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, BEAD AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 1, 1926. P To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania : The Board of Directore begs to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1925. At the thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Society held March 2, 1925, the following named Officers and Directors were elected: President ) Charles P. Keith. Vice- Presidents, John F. Lewis, Edward Robins, Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. Recording Secretary, Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary, Miss M. Atherton Leach. Historian, Frank Worthington Melvin. Treasurer , Ogden Dungan Wilkinson. Directors, to serve three years , Miss Nina Lea, Charles F. Jenkins, Edwin Jaquett Sellers. to serve two years , Hon. George Henderson. Following the election, Edwin Jaquette Sellers, Esq., delivered am exceedingly scholarly and instructive address on i i Genealogical Investi gation. ’’ The usual supper was then served. At a regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held April 21, 1925, it was unanimously 11 Resolved, That the twenty -five years useful association of Mr. George H. Fairchild with the Historical and Genealogi cal Societies of Pennsylvania be and hereby is greatly appreciated by this board." A copy of this resolution was ordered engrossed and presented to Mr. Fairchild as a small memento of his valuable service. At the same meeting the completion of the work of transcribing Friends ' records at Devonshire House, London, England, was authorized. Through the good offices of Mr. Alfred Rudulph Justice, a member of the Society, most of the work has been accomplished. At this meeting, also, the preparation and publication of a complete catalogue of the Society 's collections was discussed and approved. At the December meeting, the indexing of marriage and death notices appearing in Pontoon 's American Daily Advertiser , to the extent of a single volume supplementary to the books now on the Society 's shelves, was authorized. During the year the work of photostating the original wiUs, inventories and accounts from the Philadelphia Registry of Wills has steadily proceeded. The photostat , now well beyond the experimental state, is acclaimed a great success. AH of the Society 's work of copying wills, church and other records by this method has been accomplished without cost to the institution. Indeed, a profit for the year of $293.17, made possible by work done to accommodate members and others, is shown by the books. In this connection, acknowledgment is due Mr. Henry W. Scarborough and George W. Boyer, Esq., both members of the Society, for their zeal in securing suitable material for the photostat. (323) G S - 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 324 . Thirty - fourth Annual Report During the year 80 new members were enrolled. Number of members, January 1, 1925 Loss by death Besignations Dropped from the roll 571 14 7 5 26 Elected and qualified 545 80 i Number of members January 1, 1926 The membership classified is as follows ; Honorary Life Annual Publication Fund 625 3 175 427 20 ., . 625 P The following were transferred from annual to life membership: Spencer Ervin Trueman H. Clayton Lieutenant Colonel Edward Wiener During the year the additions to membership were : Life Members G S Edgar S. McKaig Mrs. Ogden D. Wilkinson Mies Sara Wilkinson Herbert N. Bayne Mrs. Walter Boss McShea John J. L. Houston Miss Harriet Holderbaum Annual Members Ellis Lewis Mrs. Samuel B, Bay Mrs. Thomas Cooper McCahan Mrs. Dale Baker Fitler Robley A. Warner Miss Meria Knight Mrs. James G. Luker Joseph Moore Watkins Charles Bhoads Roberts Mrs. John Eckstein Beatty Horace Wells Sellers Mrs. J. Gardner Cassatt Jennie M. McKee, M.D. Mrs. James S. Merritt Mrs. William H. Patterson James L. Wilmeth Mrs. Edward S. Littell Mrs. Frederick Fletcher Bainbridge Georg© W. Emlen Miss Mable Clay Mrs. Elizabeth H. Longnecker Miss 9. Innes Forbes John J. Foulkrod, Jr. Miss Katherine Ball Harry B. Bossier Mrs. John J. Foulkrod, Jr, Thomas Creighton Mrs. F. W. Bussenius Miss Edna Miriam Hoopes Mrs. Stewart Anderson Mrs. Ephraim Tomlinson Gill E. Shirley Borden Albert G. Thatcher John P. MacBean Mrs. Oliver Hopkinson Mrs. John B. Blair Mrs. Finley Acker Warren Milne William L. Degn George W. Boyer Miss Louise H. Snowden Mrs. Edgar S. McKaig 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Thirty - fourth Annual Report . 325 Walter E. Goodman Frederick M. Wilton George Nox McCain Mrs, George Nox McCain W. D. B. Ainey Henry Ferris William F. Kelley Mrs. Abram S. Ashbridge, Jr. Mrs. Robert H. Newborn Mrs. Richard P, Tinsley Henry V. Gummere William A. Heitshu Mrs. Mary Bradfield Mrs. Joseph Bo dine Horace H. Price Charles A . Hunsberger Mrs. Robert F. Dobbins Mrs. Edward E. Donohue Mrs. Sydney Thayer, Sr. Mrs. Joseph Thompson Mrs. Frederick G. Pierce Mrs. John McCurdy Headman Mrs. Betitia P. Wilson John S. Williams, 2d Richard Ashhurst Mrs. Samuel Barbash Mrs. B. F. Thomas P With profound regret the Board reports the death of the following named members : Mrs. D. Webster Shelly Charles McFadden Miss Mary Couper Williams J. Harold Wickersham Mrs. J. William White Mrs. Howard Gardiner Mrs. E. Oaliett Hemphill Craig N. Liggett Miss L. E. A. Righter Thomas A. H. Hay Mrs. Linwood Layton Righter William T Montague Richard Parry Tatum Thomas Hale Streets, M.D, S . G The Collections of the Society now number 584 volumes, of which the following were added during the year ; Stokes and Allied Ancestry, 2 Volumes. Genealogical Notes, Vol. XIV . Dallett Family. Records of St. James ' Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Johnson Genealogy in England. Records of Middletown Monthly Meeting. History of Krieder Family. Egle Collection Relating to Pennsylvania Families, 10 volumes. Second Church Book of the Reformed Jerusalem Congregation in North Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Records of Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Gamble Family of Toronto. The Pershing Family in America. Sussex County, Delaware, Wills, 4 volumes with indices. Maryland Records, Dorchester County, 2 volumes, Maryland Records, Coventry Parish. Maryland Records, Somerset County. Miscellaneous Records, 2 volumes . Manning and Allied Families. The Warren, Little, Lothrop, Park, Dir, Whitman, Fairchild, Platt, Wheeler, Lane and Avery Pedigrees of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1847 1920. The Ancestors in America of the Dewey Family of Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey. * 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Thirty- fourth Annual Report . 326 - Other accessions, for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully ten dered, are: Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs, Photo Prints of Colonial Documents Relating to Warwick, Rhode Island, Gravesend, Hempstead and Huntington, Long Island, Descendants of James and Hannah Baldwin; Baldwin Family Data; Data Concerning Virginia Baldwin Family ; Cuttings from Long Island Traveler pertaining to Baldwin Genealogy ; Early English Chan cery Proceedings ; Early English Wills ; Ryder Family of New York Banning, Miss Kate Banning and Allied Families Barker, Charles R Gravestone Inscriptions from Blockley Baptist Cemetery Bell, Edmund Hayes. The Balhair Rosses, Brecht, S K Photostat copies of Petition to General Assembly re garding the Test Act ; Bills, of Christopher Yeakel at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia for property destroyed by the British at the Battle of Germantown ; Signatures of Contributors for the building of a school house at Tyrone, Pennsylvania, 1810 Busch, Miers Social Register, 1923 ; and Summer, 1925 Butler, Thomas Map of division of land of Thomas Holme ; Marriage Certificate of Hester Crispin and Thomas Rush ; Testimony of Samuel Wells as Witness of Marriage of Thomas Holme ; Copy of Will of Thomas Holme Christian, A W. Bible Records of the Christian and Richards Families; Autobiography of John Christian ; Marriage Certificate of Christopher Deen and A Bettley ; Passport of Thomas Deen ; Bondage Release of Thomas Deen, his wife and five children ; Marriage Certificate of Andrew Wesley McClaskey and Elmira Richards; Copy of Baptismal Vow of Elmira Richards McClaskey ; Births, Marriages and Death Records from Elmira Richards papers ; Easterly Genealogy Corson, Mrs, George ; Marriage Certificate of Robert Ashton and Mary Thomas Dewey, Edwin J The Ancestors in America of the Dewey Family of Hadd onfield, Camden County, New Jersey Dornan, John Pickens Copy of Church Book No 2 of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in North Manheim Township, Schuylkill County Edmonds, Franklin D, History of Krieder Family Fisher, Howell Tracey. Sheafe Genealogy. Gill, Mrs Ephraim Tomlinson Bible Records of Gill and Tomlinson Families Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Publications of the Society 1924 Historical Society of Delaware Churches in Delaware during the Revolution , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Autobiography of John Straw bridge* Irwin, Miss Frances Manlove Family Data ; Gwinn Family Data ; The Gwynnes and Wynnes ; Bible Records, Collins and Polk Families ; Gravestone Inscriptions from Cemetery in Milton, Sussex County, Delaware, Landreth, Burnet Anus of the Landreths ; Brief of Burnet Descent ; Bradstreet Connection ; Biographical Sketch of Captain Burnet Laudretb Lane, Mrs Alexander H Bible Records of Wattson, Harrison and Washington Butcher Families; . . . . . - . . . . . P . - . . S . . . G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1924 . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol IX Thirty- fourth Annual Report . 327 Leach, F. Phelps. Thomas Hungerford of Hartford and New London, Connecticut, and Borne of His Descendants with their English Ancestors. Leach, Miss M , Atherton. Hempstead Bihle Records. Lehigh County Historical Society. Proceedings, 1924. Lewis, Gwendolen de Yeaux. Foulke Family Papers, 2 volumes. Ljungstedt, Mrs, 0. A. County Court Note Book, 1925, McHenry, James O. Protection Papers of James Orr. Orr, Mrs, H. Wilson, Photostat Copy Commission of Abraham Schraek. Palin, F. A. Flint Family Data. Pemberton, Jr. Mrs, Henry , Bible Records of Pemberton and Shallcross Families. Pershing, Edgar J. The Pershing Family in America. Rambo, Ormand, Jr. Bible Records of Rambo Family. Sargent, Winthrop. Short Memoir of the LeMesurier Family. Schwartz, Walter M . Schwartz and Meredith Family Record. Stewart, Frank H, Gloucester County in the Revolution, Stokes, Samuel Evans. Stokes and Allied Ancestry. Turner, Rev. C. H. B. Sussex County, Delaware, Wills with Index, 4 vols. ; Maryland Records, Dorchester, Somerset and Coventry ; Bible Records from different states ; 2 volumes Miscellaneous Records ; Genealogical Newspaper Clippings ; Military Note Book ; Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina ; One Hundred Years with Old Trinity Chnrch, Natchez, Miss., by Charles Stietenroth. Welcher, The Misses. The Warren, Little, Lotbrop, Park, Dix, Whitman, Fairchild, Platt, Wheeler, Lane and Avery Pedigrees of Samuel Putnam Avery 1847- 1920. Wood, Miss M. E. Photo Copies of Early Patents, Deeds and Tombstones. Respectfully submitted, CHARMS p. KEITH, President . ERNEST SPOFFORD, Recording Secretary . G S P # REPORT OP TREASURER FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1925. PERMANENT FUND. Receipts . Balance January 1, 1925 $249.52 $750.00 15 Life Memberships 50, 00 2 Subscriptions to Publication Fund 5 Shares Preferred Stock U. G. L called @ $55.14 per Bhare 275.73 1,075.73 $1,325.25 Payments. 6 shares Common Stock TJ. G. I. @ $50.30, 5/10 Warrant 1924 IT. G. I. $18.50, Brokerage $1.00 321.30 Balance January 1, 1926 $1,003.95 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 328 Thirty - fourth Annual Report . . PERMANENT FUND Investments . The following securities were purchased with the proceeds of life membership fees : $2000. Electric and Peoples 4% Trust Certificate. 14 shares Philadelphia Traction Co. 56 shares United Gas Improvement Co. $100, Germantown Cricket Club, 5% registered 2d mtg, bond ( taken in payment of two life memberships by resolution of Board of Directors ) . $1400. Second Liberty Loan. 500. Third Liberty Loan. 2200. Fourth Liberty Loan. Joseph Eddy Gillingham Legacy , 11 shares Philadelphia Traction Co. P $1000. Josiah Granville Leach Fund . Third Liberty Loan. Josiah Granville Leach Memorial Fund. $1700. Fourth Liberty Loan, S Anne Sannum Cresson Legacy . $1000. Ivan Apartment Bonds, 5 Lily Sturgis Mifflin legacy ( Mrs . James Mifflin ) . $2000. Pennsylvania R. R. Cons. Mtg. bonds 50. Fourth Liberty Loan. G Anna Justina Magee Fund . $5000. United States Steel Corporation bonds 5%. 2500. Fourth Liberty Loan. . CURRENT FUND Receipts . Balance January 1, 1925 . $1,585.21 Dues $2050.25 Sale of publication 52.00 16.00 Extra invitations, Annual Meeting Contribution for copying English Friends Records. . . 50.00 51.78 Interest on deposit 1164.60 Photostat prints Permanent Fund Income from Investments , . . . . . . . 607.49 Joseph E. Gillingham Legacy Div. 11 shares Phila. 44.00 Traction Anne Hannum Cresson Legacy Jut. $1000. Ivan Apt. 57.50 Bond Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy Int. $2000. P. R. R. Mtg. 90.00 — — — .1 — 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Thirty- fourth Annual Report , 329 — Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy Int. $50. Fourth Liberty Loan 2.12 Joeiah Granville Leach Fund Int. $1000. Third Liberty Loan 42.50 Josiah Granville Leach Memorial Fund Int. $1700. Fourth Liberty Loan. 72.26 I Anna Justina Magee Fund Int , $5000 TJ. S. Steel * 250.00 Anna Justina Magee Fund Int. $2500. Fourth Lib' erty Loan 106.24 — — — * $6,241.95 Payments. $1,087.00 . 88.27 Copying Records English Friends Records Translating Records i Indexing . .i. Clipping and mounting newspaper cuttings Mounting Egle Papers Mounting Foulke Papers . . . . . 66.96 . 107.50 .. t G S P 92.80 . 238.30 , 65.00 , 140.63 Binding . 283.18 Publication-Index Vol. VIII • t i 546.93 Vol. IX, No. 1 t t . 521.11 Vol, IX, No. 2 . 368.35 Annual Meeting Photostat Operating and supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 871.23 5.00 Lancaster County Tombstone Inscriptions . . . . 3.00 Dues Penna. Federation of Historical Societies Anniversary gift and engrossed resolution G. H. F.. . 37.50 5.00 i Rent of safe 93.00 Steel Cabinets i 78.45 Stationery, postage and sundries 100.00 Christmas gifts — 4,656.74 Balance January 1, 1926 .21 4.799 ! $1,442.74 OGDEN DU NOAN WILKINSON, Treasurer. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX