Notes, Queries and Corrections

Notes, Queries and Corrections. 99 Irene, born May 17, 1731. Phineas, born February 11, 1733. Daniel, born May 25, 1735. Prudence, born March 7, 1737. Susanna, born April 28, 1741. Ruth Hathaway, died September 10, 1705, aged 62 years.* Isaac Hathaway, died June 7, 1749, aged 45 years. (Ibid., page 288; see also New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. X, page 54.) Thomas Borden was born, not as stated in the Borden Genealogy, page 139, in 1750, but, as given in the Publications from the Bible Record, October 26, 1749. According to the said Bible, he died May 30, 1831. His gravestone, however, gives the death date as May 29, 1831, not No¬ vember 29, 1831, as in the Borden Genealogy. He probably died about midnight. Jefferson Borden, his twelfth child, was born 28 February, 1801, not 3 February, as in the Borden Genealogy, p. 169. He married 15 April, 1828, not 1825, Susan Elizabeth Easton; I was present at the fiftieth anniversary thereof, 15 April, 1878. His daughter, Emma Corinna Borden Keen (ibid., 230), wife of William Williams Keen, M. D., my mother, died at Osterville, now Wiano, Massachusetts, 12, not 2, July, 1886. CORINNA KEEN FREEMAN. GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION DESIRED.— IT is suggested that members, and others, having information on the families mentioned below, put themselves into communication with the compiler of the proposed work. Charles R. Barker, 108 Ardmore Ave., Ardmore, Pa., is compiling a history of the Colflesh, Goodman, Grow, Horn, Kitselman, Knoll, Kriclcbaum, Litzenberg, Ott, Stadelman, Stillwagor Towmiller, and other fami¬ lies of the township of Dower Merion am its vicinity the founders of the Old Dutch Church ’ ' of Dower Merion. — ‘‘ RECENT BOOKS. CHRONICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION TO THE PEACE OF AIX-DA-CHAPELLE, 1688-1748. By Charles P. Keith. Philadel¬ phia, 1917. 2 vols., 8 -j- 981 p., 8°. Price, $5.00 plus postage. Address: Author, No. 308 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 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It is full to overflowing with hitherto unpublished records. Including the frontispiece (the old Gloucester County Court House at Woodbury, reproduced from a sketch made by the well-known Philadelphia artist, Frank H. Taylor), it contains ten illustrations. Of the thirty-two contributions briefly mentioned below which make the book of the utmost value, the editor is directly responsible for nineteen : New Jersey, a Poem; Gloucester County Court Records, 1686-1799; Old Trinity Church, Swedesboro; Battle of Red Bank; A Gloucester County Merchant, Samuel Mickle of Woodbury ; Township Book of Great Egg Harbor ; Inn and Tavern Licenses; Slavery in Old Gloucester ; The King’s Highway; The Moravian Church at Oldman’s Creek; Gloucester County Freeholders’ Becords; 1701-1800; James B. 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Compiled by the Secretary and published by the Society [Philadelphia] 1917. 109 p., il., 8°. 102 Recent Books. Contains lists of founders; present officers of Society and Color Guard; standing committees; proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual meeting, and report of Board of Managers, which includes admissions of the year and obits of deceased members; annual sermon at St. Peter’s Church, 17 Dec., 1916, by the Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, S. T. D., and addresses by Albert Howard Kemmerer and Charles Rhoads Roberts. THE PHILADELPHIA ASSEMBLIES. By Thomas Willing Balch, a Man¬ ager of the Assemblies; 1909-1912, and a Vice-President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Allen Lane and Scott, 1916. First edition, 15 -(- 146 p., 8°. Few indeed are better equipped than Mr. Balch to satisfactorily deal with the history of the ‘‘City Dancing Assembly, ’ ’ which had its begin¬ ning in 1748, and still continues under the title above. A second edition of this important contribution to the ne plus ultra social life of the socalled Quaker City is anticipated with interest.