Thirty-First Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEA¬ LOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MABCH 5, 1923. 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, 1922. At the thirtieth annual meeting of the Society held March 6, 1922, the following named officers and directors were elected: President, J. Granville Leach. Vioe-Presidents, Charles P. Keith, Edward 8. Sayers, John F. Lewis. Eecording Secretary, Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary, Edward Robins. Treasurer, C. Howard Colket. Historian, Ogden D. Wilkinson. Directors, to serve three years, Stevenson H. Walsh, Charles F. Jenkins, Miss Nina Lea. Immediately following the election. Honorable Hampton L. Carson, LL. D., President of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, delivered a most interesting and informing address, based on the Humphreys Papers in the Manuscript Division of the Historical Society, entitled The Humphreys Family: Pioneers, Shipbuilders, Soldiers. The usual supper for members and guests followed. At a regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held Feb¬ ruary 20, 1922, Miss Nina Lea was elected a Director to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mrs. James Mifflin; and, also as Mrs. Mifflin’s successor, it was reported at this meeting, that Miss Lea had accepted the chairmanship of The Associate Committee of Wommen. At the April meeting the Treasurer reported the receipt of a check for $2,000 from the Estate of Lily Sturgis Mifflin, and on motion it was resolved that this bequest be known as The Lily Sturgis Mifflin (Mrs. James Mifflin) Legacy. At the special meeting of the Board held June 5, 1922, Vice-President Sayres offered the following resolution, which was on motion unani¬ mously adopted and the Secretary instructed to have a copy engrossed for the family of the Society’s late President: “At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of The Gen¬ ealogical Society of Pennsylvania held in the Stille Room of The 314 Thirty-first Annual Report. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Monday afternoon, June 5, 1922, at four o’clock, the following minute was unanimously adopted: “ The Board of Directors of The Genealogical Society of Penn¬ sylvania has heard with profound regret and sincere grief of the death on May 27th, 1922, at his residence in Philadelphia, of Colonel Josiah Granville Leach, President of the Society. Colonelÿ Leach and four others were the original founders of the Society which met at the house of Charles Swift Riche Hildeburn in Clinton Street, Philadelphia, on the evening of February 13th, 1892. All have since passed away save one. It was always a question between Colonel Leach and Mr. Hildeburn as to which of them suggested the founding of the Society, but always discussed in a friendly spirit. Colonel Leach, since its founding was, perhaps, the most active man and more earnest in the affairs of the Society than any one. He was elected April 21st, 1913, President of the Society, succeeding Rear Admiral Edward Shippen. M. D., U. S. N. He was a learned lawyer, a skilled genealogist and an intelligent and reliable historian, interested in many historical and hereditary societies, in many of which he, held high office. His advice was not only always sought for but followed almost in every case, his judg¬ ment being sound. Coming by descent from an early New England family, he was naturally a gentleman by birth and surroundings. “ To this Society his loss is immeasurably great for he was the mainstay of its work and influence from its founding, and to these of his colleagues of this Board, by whom he was much beloved, his loss is a personal grief and will be deeply felt. His courtesy and urbanity, his cheerfulness, pluck and courage in all matters were well-known. This minute to his memory is placed on our records as a brief tribute of the great loss the Society has suffered in his death.” ‘‘ “ At the October meeting announcement was made of the exceedingly generous gift of $5,000. to the permanent fund of the Society from Miss Anna Justina Magee, a life member of the Society and a member of The Associate Committee of Women. Attention was also invited to, Miss Magee’s splendid gift of a like amount to the parent organization, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At this same meeting, Mr. C. Howard Colket’s suggestion that the Publication of the Society for 1923 should be a memorial number to the late President of the Society, and contain a sketch of his life and a portrait, was, on motion referred to the Committee on Publications, with power to act. Mr. C. Howard Colket ’s resignations as Treasurer and Chairman of the Executive Com¬ mittee were then read and laid upon the table. At this same meeting the senior Vice-President, Charles P. Keith, was elected President of the Society and Messrs. Edward S. Sayres, John Frederick Lewis and C. Howard Colket, Vice-Presidents. Thirty-first Annual Report . 315 At the November meeting, Mrs. Sarah Logan Wister Starr’s letter to Mr. C. Howard Colket, acknowledging the receipt of flowers from this Society on the occasion of the formal opening of The Pennsylvania! Society of the Colonial Dames of America’s building, 1630 Latimer Street, this city, was read, and Mr. Colket ’s thoughtfulness heartily approved. This incident is noted on the minutes as marking the first instance in Philadelphia of an hereditary-patriotic organization building a home of its own, and as evidencing the cordial relations existing be¬ tween the Societies. This relationship had been emphasized earlier in the year by a meeting under the auspices of the two organizations, held in May, at the Corinthian Yacht Club, Essington. As this function was, however, planned for this Society by The Associate Committee of Women, it will receive an adequate notice in the Committee’s report. This November meeting was eventful. Announcement was made that Alfred Percival Smith, Esq., desired to be a liberal contributor to a permanent fund which he suggested should be created in memory of the Society’s late President, to be known as The Josiah Granville Leach Memorial Fund. This fund is still open. Mr. Stevenson H. Walsh offered an amendment to the By-Laws to be incorporated at the end of Article II, Section 5, to wit: “The Board, by unanimous vote of the members present at any stated meeting, may in recognition of services rendered elect Honorary Vice-Presidents.” Mr. Frank H. Stewarti said that the Society should own a photostat to be used in copying Church and other records; and referred to the accuracy, speed and per¬ manency of photostat reproductions as compared with the slow, labor¬ ious, costly and less certain method of copying now employed by the Society. Mr. Stewart offered to subscribe to a special fund for tha purchase and installation of such a machine; whereupon Mr. Stewart, Miss Leach and Mr. Spofford were appointed a committee to report on the cost and advisability of purchasing a photostat. At the December meeting Mr. C. Howard Colket ’s resignations aa Treasurer, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Vice-President! were, with keen regret, accepted to take effect December 31, 1922. Mr. Stevenson H. Walsh was elected a Vice-President, Mr. Ogden D. Wilkinson, who had been serving on the Board as Historian, Treasurer, and Miss May Atherton Leach a Director ; their terms of office to begin January 1, 1923. The President appointed Miss Leach Chairman ofi the Executive Committee. During the year 123 new members were enrolled; of this number 69 responded to written invitations authorized by the Board of Directors; 26 were proposed by individual members, Mrs. M. Stanton Taylor lead¬ ing with eight; and 28 by The Associate Committee of Women. The membership, the largest in the history of the Society, is as fol¬ lows: 316 Thirty-first Annual Report . Number of members, January 1, 1922 Deaths Resignations . Dropped from the roll .. .. 444 11 5 3 19 425 123 Elected and qualified Number of members January 1, 1923 The membership classified is as follows: . Honorary Life . Annual Publication Fund 548 4 148 380 16 548 The following were transferred from annual to life membership : Colonel Daniel B. Wentz Mrs. Alvin Affiick Parker Ralph Beaver Strassburger Hubert Somers Miss Nina Lea Honorable George Henderson Mrs. Thomas S. Safford During the year the additions to membership were: Life Members, George J. DeArmond J. Keyser DeArmond Percival C. Colket Miss Lydia F. Warner 'U. Munroe Dobbins Henry Goddard Leach, Lift. D. Arthur Adams Mrs. William Lyttleton Savage Mrs. Holstein DeHaven Fox W. L. Mellon William P. Bancroft Henry Wiener, Jr. John C. Lowry James G. Biddle Miss Juliana Wood Mrs. W. C. Lowry Annual Members. Miss Caroline N. Rhoads Mrs. Felix E. Schelling Henry F. Williams George Bailey, Jr. Mrs. Samuel Porter Summers Alfred C. Garrett Mrs. Howard Gardiner Franklin Smedley Mrs. H. Wilson Orr Charles C. Norris, Jr. Miiss Cornelia M. Plater Mrs. Theodore W. Cramp Effingham B. Morris, Jr. Mrs. George Sayen Mrs. Virginia Shannon Fendrick Frederick E. Fearing Mrs. Harry C. Campion Miss Frances H. Irwin Vivian Frank Gable Hubert Somers Daniel Berthsch Wentz Evan Randolph Mrs. Evan Randolph Miss Alice B. Doughten Thirty-first Annual Report . 317 Charles W. Walker Henry Kennedy Cortright Howard Sylvester Jackson Sickel Henry S. Drinker Miss Jean E. Graff en Mrs. Jones Wister G. Byron Summers Mrs. W. R. Boggs Mrs. William F. Thacher Mrs Clarence K. Klink Mrs. Julien Ortiz Joseph Walton Mrs. William C. Braisted Miss Mary Hart Darragh G. L. Peck Mrs. John Coats Browne Miss Emma Cadbury Mrs. George B. Miller Mrs. John C. Groome Miss Alice G. Howland Miss Emily T. Silvia Mrs. Newton W. Corson Burnet Landreth Mrs. Fielding Otis Lewis T. Edward Connor Mrs. Raymond F. Potter Mrs. Franklin D’Olier Mrs. Francis Stevick Mrs. Horace R. Carpenter Harry E. Thomson Walter I. Cooper Ambrose Huneberger Mrs. Walter I. Cooper William J. Middleton, M.D. Miss Elizabeth Hood Latta Mrs. Clarence A. Warden Dr. Thomas Mellor Tyson Frederick A. Dicks Mrs. Lee G. Dicks Miss M. Elizabeth Bockius Miss Christine King Mrs. Alberta H. Lynn Mrs. Maude L. Marston Charles D. Clark Miss Lucie L. McCarter Thomas Francis Dooner Carl G. Johnston Mrs. John Semple Sharpe W. A. Welsh Gen. E. E. Wood Miss Katharine Buckley Mrs. Nathaniel G. Keay W. R. Murphy Mrs. Henry B. Master Edward J. Dooner Mrs. J. Bundle Smith B. Frank Townsend, Jr. Mrs. Harry H. Battles Mrs. James Martin Hancock Mrs. George McFarland Mrs. George Shoemaker Mrs. Edward B. Chase Mrs. Henry Hill Collins, Jr. Samuel G. Stem Mrs. Mary Dilworth Betts Mrs. Thomas F. Branson Mrs. Walter Horstmann James Ross Snowden Miss Beatrice P. Turner Mrs. Anna Ethel Elmore Elliott Samuel John Howard Elliott Mrs. Henry K. Smaltz J. Barlow Cullum William Otis Sawtelle Henry S. McDevitt Thomas A. H. Hay Mrs. Frank Worthington Melvin Cheesman A. Herrick, Ph.D., LL.D> Miss Elizabeth Nixon Cooke Warren P. Humphreys Charles G. Wesley Honorable George E. Alter Mrs. Charles G. Wesley 318 Thirty-first Annual Report. The following named members were elected in January and February, 1923 : Captain Warren Patten Coon George 0. C. Stout Mrs. V. E. Barrington Mrs. Clarence G. Crispin Mrs. Ashbel Welch Mrs. Willard Spenser Miss Anne Collings Knight Mrs. William Fisher Norris Mrs. Charles Henry Scott Mrs. Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr. Mrs. John A. Brown, Jr. Mrs. Mary D. Jump Mrs. N. Myers Fitler Mr. N. Myers Fitler , With profound regret ithe Board reports the death of the following named members: Seymour Morris (life member) died September 27, 1921.) Mrs. John Neal Fort, Jr. died 1921. William F. Gable (life member) died November 28, 1921. Thomas MeBurney Montgomery died January 17, 1922. Col. Edward Buchanan Cassatt died January 31, 1922. Frederic Schoff died February 27, 1922. John P. Hutchinson died May 10, 1922. James Miller Landis died May 22, 1922. Col. Josiah Granville Leach (president of Society) died May 27, 1922. James Emlen died July 4, 1922. Hon. John Wanamaker died December 12, 1922. The Collections of the Society now number 507 volumes, of which the following were added during the year: Christ P. E. Church, Upper Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: Births, 1824-1906; Burials, 1806-1901; Marriages, 1841-1906. St. James P. E. Church, Kingsessing, Philadelphia: Gravestone In¬ scriptions. Edmunds Genealogy Miscellaneous Papers. Edmunds Genealogy Blanks used in its compilation. Bound in six volumes. Hazeltine Papers in 82 volumes as follows: Vital Becords of Peaeham, Stratford, Waterford, Dorset, and Danville, Vermont; Rockingham, Ver¬ mont, Vital Records (Abstracts) ; Maine and Vermont Vital Records (Absracts) ; Maine Vital Records (Abstracts) ; New Hampshire Vital; Records (Abstracts) ; Massachusetts Vital Records (Abstracts) ; New¬ bury, Massachusetts Vital Records (Abstracts) ; West Newbury, Massa¬ chusetts, Deaths and Marriages (Abstracts) ; Newburyport, Massachusetts, Births (Abstracts) ; Vermont Persons married at Haverhill, Massachu¬ setts ; Barton, Clough and Kimball Names in New Hampshire; Bliss Family; Descendants of Solomon Wood; Crosbys in England; Shapleigh Family; Gage Family; Andrews Family; Atwood Family; Gilman Fam¬ ily; Osgood Family; Chase Family; Fo(r)ster Family; Hazen and Merrill Families; Wood Family; Chadwick Family; Peabody Family; Chevalier and allied Families; Carleton Families, male lines, 2 volumes; Palmer, —— Thirty-first Annual Report. — — 319 Emerson, Eaton, Sawyer and Johnson Families; Wheeler and Bartlett Families Inscriptions from Graveyards at Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton, Massachusetts Ipswich Marriages from the Clerk of Courts Copy; John Wheeler; Descendants of John Webster, Vols. I, II and IV; Descend¬ ants of John Webster, female lines; Thomas Webster Family; West Haverhill, Massachusetts, Church Records; Haseltine Family, Searches in Public Record Office and British Museum; Daniel Hazeltine and His Descendants; Peter and Sarah (Jones) Haselton of Dracut, Massachu¬ setts and their Descendants; Robert Haseltine Genealogy, 18 volumes; John Haseltine Genealogy, 11 volumes; John Haseltine of Philadelphia. Haseltine Papers Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous Short Records, Volume I: Containing Bishop White’s Register of Baptisms, 1801-1835; Confirmations, 1787-1836; St. Thomas P. E. Church, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania: Baptisms, 1860-1894; Marriages, 1861-1902; Burials, 1860-1910; Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Church: Marriages 1769-1812;, Baptisms, 1771-1812; Deaths, 1771-1805; Pine Creek Presbyterian Church, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: Marriages, by* Rev. John H. Grier, 1815-1878; First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia:) Deaths, 1828-1834; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: Subscriptions, 17311738; Brickersville Cemetery, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Tombstone Inscriptions; Gravesend, Long Island, New York: Index to Town Records; Greenfield Hill Church, Fairfield, Con-1 necticut: Marriages 1699-1760. Gordon Papers. Crispin and Allied Families. Volumes I, II and III. Genealogical Notes. Volume XII. Haseltine Papers Miscellaneous. The Descendants of John Townsend. Memorial of the Townsend Brothers. History of the Baptist Church of Oyster Bay, Long Island. The accessions by gift, for which acknowledgement is hereby grate¬ fully tendered, are: American Catholic Historical Society. Records of the Society. Vol¬ ume XXXII, Nos. 3, 4; Volume XXXIII, No. 1. Beetem, Charles Gilbert. The Beetham Repository, 1770. Busch, Henry Paul. Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition ot Portraits by Thomas Sully, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Busch, Miers. Social Register, Philadelphia, 1921; Summer, 1921. Butler, Thomas. Crispin and Allied Families, 3 volumes. Cadbury, Miss Emma. Marriages and Deaths 1838-1916, compiled by Miss Mary Ann Cadbury. Campbell, Joseph Andrew. Genealogical Account of the Ancestors in America of Joseph Andrew Kelly Campbell and Eliza Edith Deal (his wife). — — 320 Thirty-first Annual Report. Cohen, Charles J. Rittenhouse Square Past and Present. Conway, William W. Mumford’s Domesday Book of Norfolk; Nor¬ folk Lists, 1837; Index to Norfolk Pedigrees; Hundred of Launditch, 3 parts; The Townsends; Memorial of the Townsend Brothers; History of the Baptist Church of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Craig, H. Stanley, The Descendants of John Townsend. De Long, Dr. Irwin Hoch. DeLong, A Correction; Inscriptions on the Tombstones in the Cemetery of Christ DeLong ’s Eef ormed Church, Bowers, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Dunkerley, Edwin Squire. Names of children of John and Ann Dunkerley. Fendrick, Mrs. C. F. Welsh Run Presbyterian Church; Bible Re¬ cords of Michael Graham’s Family. Graffen, Miss Jean' E. Bible Records of the Carman Family. Herrick, Cheesman, A., Ph.D., LL.D. History of Commerce and Industry; Reclaiming a Commonwealth and other Essays; Outstanding Days. (The donor is also the author.) Historical Department of Iowa. Annals of Iowa. Volume XIII, Nos. 1 and 2. Huffmaster, J. T. Huffmaster-Hoffmeister Family. Irwin, Miss Frances H. Manlove Family Data. Jenkins, Charles F. Births, Marriages and Deaths from the Minutesi and Records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Tortola, Virgin Islands, British West Indies. Jewett, Mrs. C. N. Lechner and Rutter Nbtes. Justice, Alfred R. Conewago or Low Dutch Graveyard, near Get¬ tysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania: Gravestone Inscriptions. King, Miss Christine. Fort Stauffer. Leach, Miss May Atherton. Briefs of Title; mostly of Philadelphia properties. Lineaweaver, James I. Lineaweaver Papers, comprising Toby, Bellas, Pleasants and Lineaweaver Families. Ljungstedt, Mrs. Olof A. The County Court Note Book. Louisiana Historical Society, The. The Louisiana Historical Society Quarterly, January, 1921. Marshall, Dr. John. A sketch of the late Professor Theodore George Wormly. Moore, E. M. H., M.D. Miscellaneous genealogical data. Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies, The. Year Book, 1920. Quale, Alexandros J. The Terrills (corrected copy). Sargent, Winthrop. Early Sargents of New England. Sawtelle, William Otis. Sir Francis Bernard and his Grant of Mount Desert. Scarborbugh, Henry W. Haworth-Searborough Families. Shoemaker, Colonel Henry W. The Changing of Historic Place Names, Thirty-first Annual Report. 321 by George P. Donehoo; Le Musse du Dfisert en C6rvennes, 1915; The Comle Family and Belgian Huguenots. Shoemaker, Miss Mary. Amos Griffith’s Bible Becord. Stewart, Frank H. Cohansey, Cumberland County, New Jersey,. Lutheran Church Becords (photostat copy). Turner, Beverend C. H. B. Age Book, October 4th, 1826, containing, vital records of West and Lafetra families; Abstracts of some Delaware Deeds. Turner, Beverend Joseph Brown. White Family Bible Becords. Tyson, Samuel T. Tyson-Fitzwater Genealogy. Wharton, Miss Anne Hollingsworth. Family of Bandall Holmes of Chester, England. Bespectfully submitted, CHARLES P. KEITH, President ERNEST SPOFFORD, Recording Secretary. . BEPORT OP TREASURER FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1922. PERMANENT FUND. Receipts. Balance January 1, 1922 $446.8S 22 life memberships at $50 $1100.00 . . Interest on deposits 6.42 Transfer from Current Fund uninvested balance of principal of Mifflin Legacy 1116.42 10.00 1563.30 Payments. $1000. Fourth Liberty Loan, int. & com $1003.56 Transfer to Current Fund difference between cost of 5000 U. S. Steel Corp. 5% bonds & amount received from Anna Justina Magee 112.50 1116.08 Balance January 1, 1923 447.24 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. 50 shares United Gas Improvement Co. 5 shares United Gas Improvement Co. preferred $100. Germantown Cricket Club, 5% registered 2d mtg. bond (taken in payment of two life member¬ ships by resolution of Board of Directors) Thirty-first Annual Report. 322 $500. Second Liberty Loan do. $500. Third do. $1650. Fourth $50. Victory Loan Joseph 'Eddy Gillingham Legacy 11 shares Philadelphia Traction Co. Josiah Granville Leach Fund $1000. Third Liberty Loan Anne Hammm Cresson Legacy $1000. Ivan Apartment Bonds, o]/2 % Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy (Mrs. James Mifflin) $2000. Pennsylvania R. R. Cons. Mtg. bonds 4 y2 % $50. Fourth Liberty Loan Anna Justina Magee Fund $5000. United States Steel Corporation bonds 5% Eeceipts January Balance on hand 1, 1922 Dues $1765.95 373.52 Permanent Fund. Income from investments Joseph Eddy Gillingham Legacy. Biv. on 11 shs. Phila. Traction 44.00 Josiah Granville Leach Fund. Int. on 1000. Third 42.50 Liberty Loan Anne Hannum Cresson Legacy. Int. on 1000. Ivan . •ÿ ;. . Apt. Bonds 55.00 Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy (Mrs. James Mifflin) principal 2000.00 Bo 6 mos. int. on 2000 P. R. R. il/2% Con. mtg. bonds 45.00 Bo. 1.07 6 mos. int. on $50. Fourth Liberty Loan Anna Justina Magee Fund, principal 5000.00 13.58 Interest on deposits Sale of publications . 27.65 i. Extra invitations for annual meeting 18.00 Subscription to Penna. Mag. included in check sent 3.00 for dues Refund on cigars & cigarettes not used at Annual . Meeting 5.42 Transfer from Permanent Fund balance due Anna Justina Magee Fund 112.50 $290.69 > .......... ...... . .... > . .. . . Carried forward 9507.19 $9797.88 Thirty-first Annual Report . 323 Payments. Copying Records $1305.97 66.80 Binding Records 351.15 Annual Meeting 512.88 Publication, vol. VIII. No. 1 77 77 75.00 No. 2, on a/c 168.65 Stationery, postage & sundries Permanent Fund. Transfer dues of 4 members who 20.00 became life members Subscription to Penna. Magazine see per contra ... 3.00 Lily Sturgis Mifflin Legacy (Mrs. James Mifflin) bond at 97 int. $2000. P. R. R. con. mtg. & com 1966.25 50.56 Do $50. Fourth Liberty Loan int. & com Do. Transfer to Permanent Fund, uninvested principal 10.00 Anna Justina Magee Fund $5000 U. S. Steel Corp. 5134.58 Bonds at 102*4 int. & com 9664.84 Balance January 1, 1923 133.04 . i ...... ... .. C. HOWARD COLKET, Treasurer.