Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA , READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 7, 1927, To the Members of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania : The Board of Directors beg to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1926 : At the Thirty fourth Annual Meeting of the Society held March 1, 1926, the following named officers and directors were elected : President : Charles P, Keith Vice Presideiits : John F Lewis, Edward Robins, Mias Anne Hollings worth Wharton, Seconding Secretary : Ernest Spofford Corresponding Secretary : Mias May Atherton Leach Historian: Frank Worthington Melvin, Treasurer : Ogden Dungan Wilkinson. Directors : to serve three years, David Milne, Wilbur Paddock Klapp, M.D to serve two years , lion George Henderson , Following the election, Mr William Otis Sawtelle delivered an exceed ingly informing and instructive address, illustrated with lantern slides, on t i William Bingham of Philadelphia and his Maine Lands. The ’’ usual supper was then served. Throughout the year the photostating of probates, church, and other records of a gene*alogical nature, continued In this connection grateful acknowledgment is due Henry W Scarborough, Esq , a member of the Society, for his zeal in securing material for the photostat That the Society is not depending altogether on the photostat for transcribing records is clearly shown by a volume of marriage notices copied from the files of The Berks and Schuylkill Journal from 1816 to 1. 854, by Mrs, Charles Mays Steinmetz, of Reading, Pennsylvania, and by her presented to the Society. To Mrs. Steinmetz grateful acknowledg ment is also due During the year 44 new members were enrolled Number of members, January 1, 3926 625 Resignations 5 Loss by death 15 Dropped a 24 601 Elected and qualified 44 Number of members January 1, 1927 645 The membership classified is as follows : Honorary 3 Life 186 Annual 436 Publication Fund 20 645 * f 97 ) - - . . - . . . - P . . . S . . . G , - . . » *,* .. 1927 f # » Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania I 1 f 1 H PGM Vol X No.1 98 Thirty - fifth Annual Report . The following were transferred from annual to life membership: Miss Eva R. Klemm Mrs J George Klemm, Jr Mrs Thomas Cooper MeCakan Mrs Frank Worthington Melvin Mrs John Eckstein Beatty Mrs T, Hudson Rich Miss Katherine Sendee Steen Mrs. Henry Duke Emaek During the year the additions to membership were : . . . . . . . L i f e Members . Mrs. Wilbur Paddock Klapp Mrs. George Peirce Mrs. Ilenry Paul Busch Mrs Seymour Davis Mrs Thomas Willing Baleh Mrs. Edgar Pardee Earle Murray Earle, Esq . . Annual Members Mrs George M Marshall Mrs. P Mortimer Lewis Miss Miriam May MaeGrath T. Maxwell Men’weather Dr. George M Marshall Francis R , Taylor, Esq. Miss Mary Mays Beatty Mrs Harry Snowden Miss Ada L Chamberlin Mrs. Gorham Clifton Mrs. Robert T WeatheriU Mrs. Clarence Lee Harper James W, Eardcley Mrs, William Evans Mrs. William C. Hesse Mrs Joseph W, Newbold W A . Herbert Rcider J. H Zerbey, Jr David Franklin Shull Mrs Lawrence Clark Mrs. Edward M. Pearson LeRoy Litzenberg Hamlet M. Jeitles Mrs. E E. Allen Sieberling Miss Laura G. Hibbs Charles R Barker Mrs. Edward Carlile Choate A. M. Pennington Mrs John P. Donohue Mrs W Xorman Morris Mrs. Walter Willard Mrs A Van Dom Honeyman Paul D I. Maier Mrs Mary Leonard James Archbald Mrs Douglas Eugene Dismukes Mrs Thomas A Kane . . . . P . . . . . S . . G . . . . . . . . . . . . . With profound regret the Board reports the death of the following named members: Mrs Ashbel Welch, died January 9, 1926 Col. Daniel Bertsch Wentz, February 8, 1926 George Wood, February 17, 1926 Louis Ashbrook , February 27, 1926. Alfred Coxe Prime, March 1, 1926. Clement B. Newbold, March 30, 1926. Hon William Potter, April 29, 1926, Miss Henrietta Grace Ritchie, July 19, 1926 Dr Wilmon Whilldin Leach, September 26, 1926 Mrs Jones Wister, October 16, 1926. Mrs William Brooke Rawle, December 18, 1926. Samuel Price Wetherill, May 2, 1926 Hon, T, Lawrence Eyre, September, 1926 Hon Henry A du Pont, December 31, 1926 . . . . . . . . . 1927 . . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . . PGM Vol X No.1 Thirty - fifth Annual Report . 99 - The Collections of the Society number 624 volumes, of which the fol lowing were added during the year : English Friends Records, 12 vols : Lancashire Births, Marriages, Deaths. 3 vols Bristol and Somerset Burials, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Burials Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Marriages, Births and Burials . . . . Essex Burials. Surrey and Sussex Burials. Suffolk Marriages, Burials and Births. Warwickshire, Leicestershire, and Rutlandshire Marriages, Births, . . and Burials Westmoreland Marriages, Births, and Burials , Yorkshire Births Index of Gloria Dei Church Records, Philadelphia Philadelphia Wills and Inventories ( Photostat copies of originals* ) . . . 4 vols . P Sheafe Genealogy Pearson Family in Pennsylvania , Foulke, Bringburst, Clavpoole, Evans and Parker Papers 2 vols Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Springfield, Pennsylvania Records of Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brickersville, Pennsylvania, . . . . 4 vols Records of Messiah Reformed Church, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Penna Boston Evening Transcript Genealogical columns 10 vols. Register Book for the Parish of Prince Frederick Win yaw, South S . . G Carolina Marriages and Deaths from Poulson ’s American Daily Advertiser 1834-1837, , The accessions by gift, for whieh acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered, are: The American Historical Society Gray, Kamm, and Allied Families H Clifford Campion Photostat copy of Minutes of Northampton County, New Jersey, 1697 1803 Arthur J Carruth. Carruth Family Genealogy Mrs. William Godell Clark. Deeds pertaining to Hillborne and Allied Families, and Wiltbank and Paynter families of Sussex Co., Delaware. Charles J Cohen Memoir of Rev. John Wiley Faires, with sketches of upwards of 500 of his pupils Mrs. Joseph H Cott-man, Pennsylvanian Ledger, December 31, 1777 Mrs Annie Cunningham Deltor Family Record. Dr Irwin H. De Long Descendants of Otto Henrich Wilhelm Brink - . . . - . . . . man . . . . . . . . . . . . Dutch Settlers ' Society of Albany. Year Book 1926-1927 Mrs. Clarence F Hand. Marriage Certificate of James D Byerly and Hannah B Bonsai. _ Rev * William H, Haupt Baptisms in Dryland Lutheran Congregation, HeckfcoTvn, Northampton County j Gravestone Inscriptions, Union Church yard, FogeUville, Pennsylvania* . 1927 . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.1 100 Thirty- fifth Annual Report . . Dr Cheesman A. Herrick. White Servitude in Pennsylvania. Harold F Hippenstiel The Hippenstiel Family in America Historical Society of Pennsylvania Erwin Genealogy Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Report 1925 James F Huff master. Ancestry of Mrs James F Huff mas ter ; An cestors of James Hapgood and Mary C Estabrook of Acton, Massa chusetts Charles P Keith The Register Book for the Parish Prince Frederick Winyaw, South Carolina Miss M Atherton Leach. The Phillips Family A Sketch of the Phil lips Family compiled by Joseph Augustus Phillips Miss Gwendolen de Vaux Lewis, Foulke, Bringhurst, Claypoolc, Evans and Parker manuscripts, from collections of the late Henry Carvil Lewis Mrs O A Ljungstedt County Court Note Book Library of Congress Report 1925 Percy McGraw Mann A Direct Descent of 265 years from John Bige low A. D. 1617 to Percy McGraw Mann A, D, 1882 Mrs. Harry Rogers, Genealogical Columns, Boston Evening Transcript, 10 vols New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, Report 1924 William Otis Sawtelle. i i Just Maine Folks, written by Maine Writ ” ers ’ Research Club ; Notes on the Norwood Family ; Daniel Gott, Mount Desert Pioneer, His Ancestors and Descendants. Mrs Edward S. Sayres Original Manuscripts Henry W Scarborough. Photostat copy of Map and outline of the titles of New Hope and part of Soleburv Township, Bucks County, a 3 prepared by Walter F. Hayhurst, Esq., of Lambertville, N J , from data collected by Reuben P. Ely. James W T Scott Sharswood Genealogy Miss Mary Grace Sicber Marriages by John Hutchinson, Y D M , and Dr. Mathew Allison, Pastors Presbyterian Congregation, Mifflintown and Lost Creek. Mrs Harry Snowden Bible Records Smith Family. Mrs. Charles Mays Steinmetz. Marriages from The Berks and Schuylkill Journal. 1816-1854. Mrs. Frederick F Stevenson Warfield Family Chart Frank H Stewart Various genealogical miscellany Theophilus B. Stork. Stork Family Records 1698-1914. G Byron Summers A History of George Summers of Douglass and Lower Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Mrs Richard Parry Tatum Tatum Narrative 1626-1925, Rev C H. B. Turner. Somerset County, Maryland, Marriage Licenses and other miscellaneous records. University of North Carolina Press. The James Sprunt Historical Publications, 1926 ; The James Sprunt Historical Studies, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - . . . . - . P . . . . G . . . S . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P, KEITH, President . ERNEST SPOEFORD, according Secretary , 1927 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.1