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CATALOGUE 
 
 PAINTINGS AND OTHER OBJECTS OF INTEREST 
 
 BBIiOneiNO TO TBB 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 COLLINS, PRINTER, t05 JAYNE STREET 
 
 1872. 
 
WILL BE PUBLISHED JAN. i, 1873. 
 
 THE HISTORY . ilST 
 
 OF THE 
 
 003SrSOIjIID^TI03S3" 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Prepared in accordance ivith a request of 
 
 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 
 By the HON. ELI K. PRICE. 
 
 One Vol. iimo. 
 
 J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Publishers, 
 715 AND 717 Market Street. 
 
 4»-WILL BE FOR SALE BY THE PUBLISHERS. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 COLLINS, PRINTER, Y05 JAYNE STREET. 
 
 1872. 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 PAINTINGS AND OTHER OBJECTS OF INTEREST 
 
 BELONGING TO THE 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 •I 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET. 
 
 1872. 
 
the entire end is attained. This is so far from the case that 
 it may be said the labor of the management, and the neces- 
 sity for funds, only then begin. The arrangement of books 
 is a matter of much labor, and their binding of considerable 
 expense ; and when bound they involve the necessity for 
 about three dollars per volume for the construction of a proper 
 building. After the structure, which of course should have 
 every convenience, is erected and occupied, the conduct of a 
 library, in order that the use of the books may be free and 
 prompt, requires an annual expenditure of the interest of 
 three dollars per volume. It will, therefore, be seen that 
 each book entails the necessity for at least six dollars of 
 capital, for an entirely satisfactory accommodation and use. 
 Considering this, no one need be surprised that valuable 
 collections, bequeathed to great libraries in England, have 
 lain unpacked for more than a century. 
 
 Regarding the affairs and conduct of the Society, none can 
 know so well as those who have directed them, how desirable 
 it would have been to have accomplished much more than 
 has been achieved, nor can any better apj)reciate the necessity 
 that existed for the exercise of forethought, prudence, and 
 economy, as well as for the unwavering adherence to a wise 
 and successful system, which have been essential to reach 
 the condition we now happily occupy. Aware that failure 
 is far more usual than success, we have not, however, hesi- 
 tated to attempt, by well-considered and carefully-matured 
 appeals to the public, followed up by the hard work necessary 
 to gather the fruit of such appeals, to improve the condition 
 of our affairs. The result is the fine building that accommo- 
 dates the library and gallery, and the various trust funds, an 
 account of which is appended. 
 
 In the catalogue the effort has been to give, with as little 
 amplification as possible, such an account of each object as 
 would at once interest and instruct those who might, from 
 youthfulness or other cause, be ignorant of the history of 
 the particular subject. And this seems to be the more proper 
 when we reflect that the full history of an institution can 
 only be obtained from a thorough knowledge of all its 
 records, and that each succeeding year brings upon the stage 
 
of active life a corps of youth that must needs contain many 
 desirous to acquire and preserve for themselves and others 
 the knowledge of a generation that is passing away. It 
 would not have been difBcult to have largely increased the 
 catalogue, but as additions can readily be made in future 
 editions, further delay in issuing it was thought undesirable. 
 The arrangement of the gallery and preparation of the cata- 
 logue, often at the cost of a day for verifying a date, fell 
 upon volunteers who could ill spare the time necessary for 
 the very considerable labor involved in the performance of a 
 Avork that had already been much too long delayed. 
 
 The Hall is open from 10 o'clock A.M. till 2 o'clock P.M., 
 and from 7 o'clock till 10 o'clock P.M., except during the 
 months of July and August. Very beautifully engraved 
 steel plates have been procured by a member who authorizes 
 their use for printing cards of introduction for visitors, to be 
 had in such numbers as may be desired by any member of 
 the Society, at the cost of printing, or three dollars per hun- 
 dred for the larger, and two dollars and fifty cents per hun- 
 dred for the smaller ones. They may be obtained of the 
 Librarian or Secretary, or orders for them may be given to the 
 collector, Mr. James E. Kaighn. The card, desirable as it is 
 in removing any chance of perplexity as to the mode of 
 access, is not, however, absolutely necessary, for, in accord- 
 ance with early and constant usage, the Librarian admits any 
 civil person who desires access. Upon entering, the visitor 
 records his name and place of residence in the Registry. 
 
 The building of the Society is situated on the beautiful 
 grounds of that ancient and noble charity, the Pennsylv^ania 
 Hospital, 1^0. 820 Spruce Street; but before entering it, some 
 notice may be made of what has been deemed fitting to place 
 on the exterior. 
 
 THE WINDOW GUARDS 
 
 bear the 
 
 1. Arms of William Penn, Founder of the State. 
 
 These are two beautiful bronzes, modelled by Mr. Hermann E. 
 Wesche, and cast by Messrs. Robert Wood & Co., the only work of 
 the kind hitherto executed in this country. The motto, "Z>w»i Clavum 
 
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 Teneam,'' means, "Whilst I hold the helm;" and as the late Gran- 
 ville John Penn said, "is part of a line of the Latin poet Ennius, of 
 whose writings, fragments only have been preserved in the pages of 
 other authors, and this line is quoted by Quintilian. * * * * The 
 whole line stands thus : ' Dum clavum rectum teneam navimque guber- 
 nam,' ' Whilst I hold the helm right or straight and steer the ship.' " 
 
 Surmounting The Roof of the hall is the 
 
 2. Vane of the Old Mill on Chester Creek. 
 
 A building that was situated about one and a half miles KW. of 
 Chester, and which was erected in 1699, by Richard Townsend, with 
 material brought from England. William Penn, Samuel Carpenter, 
 and Caleb Pusey were the original partners, who conducted the busi- 
 ness. The vane is of iron, and pierced to bear the following inscription, 
 
 W. P. 
 S. C. : C. P. 
 1699. 
 A piece, the longer arm, bearing upon it "Historical Society, 1873," 
 has now been added to it, and the whole richly gilt. 
 
 The old vane was presented to the Society, June 13th, 1864, by Mr. 
 Reese W. Flower. 
 
 ENTERING THE BUILDING 
 
 Here hang over the door-sides two 
 
 3. Fire Buckets. 
 
 They belonged to the first Bank of the United States, and are 
 adorned with the arms of the Federal Government, underneath Avhich 
 is the inscription, " 17— G. Rutter, Philada. Pinxt.— 92." 
 
 Presented to the Society, November 17th, 1852, by Thomas Dunlap. 
 
 At the right hand of the door stands the 
 
 4. Printing Press of the Spiritual Order of the Solitary 
 
 IN Ephrata. 
 
 Among those drawn to the shores of the JSTew World, by 
 the fame of William Penn, were many German Baptists. In 
 early times, in Germantown and along the beautiful banks 
 of the romantic Wissahickon, there were a few of those who 
 sought "the Woman in the Wilderness," as they figuratively 
 styled their ideal of a spiritual life, but it was such of these 
 simple-mannered Germans as found an abode at Ephrata, in 
 
Lancaster County, that became the most ftimous, by their 
 adopting the seventh day for their period of rest, and insti- 
 tuting a semi-monastic life. There, after a day of faithful 
 and allotted labor, each, in his narrow cell, reposed upon a 
 wooden bench, with a billet of wood for a pillow, to rise at 
 dawn; and, as, from a motive of economy, their diet was 
 restricted to vegetables, to eat his simple meal from an octa- 
 gonal wooden platter, one of which is to be seen in our col- 
 lection. An hour-glass in each cell (and it was, perhaps, the 
 only other article of furniture) enabled the monks and nuns 
 of this strange order to punctually parade in their long white 
 gowns and cowls, for their costume was that of the Capu- 
 chins or White Friars, or to assemble for the practice of their 
 exquisitely charming music. That they were well practised 
 in penmanship, may be seen in a volume of their beautifully 
 written music, preserved in our fire-proof room. Their pro- 
 ficiency in music has not, however, been preserved. 
 
 Upon this ancient press, and on paper made at their mill, 
 were printed their now rare books, some of which we fortu- 
 nately possess. Among them, "The Bloody Stage, or Martyr 
 Book of Baptists," 2 vols, folio, containing in all 1514 pp., 
 printed in 1748; "Dissertation on Man's Fall," 1765, jn-e- 
 sented to the Society, December 21, 1825, by the Right Rev. 
 William White ; and the " Chronicon Ephratense," a quarto 
 of 252 pp., of 1786. During the period that the Continental 
 Congress sat at York and Lancaster, the issue of Continental 
 money came from it. 
 
 "I give my printing press, known as the old Ephrata 
 Printing Press, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 but, if not accepted by them, to any similar institution in the 
 city or county of Lancaster, in the discretion of my execu- 
 tor," is an item in the last will of the late P. Martin Heitler, 
 of Ephrata. 
 
 The press was sent' by the executor, Mr. Samuel ITessly, of 
 Lancaster, May 13th, 1872. It was formally received by the 
 Society on the 11th of !N"ovember, 1872, on which occasion 
 the venerable Mr. J. R. Chandler delivered an address that 
 will leave no doubt as to the place of the press among the 
 historical treasures of Pennsylvania. 
 
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 5. The Music Book and Platter were presented l!s"ovember 
 24th, 1845, by the Right Eev. Peter Wolle. 
 
 6. Backplate for Chimney, with the Eoyal Arms. 
 
 Presented October 10th, 1870, by Mr. Alexander F. Beam. 
 
 7. The Swamp Angel. 
 
 This is a miniature, scale one inch to the foot, of a two- 
 hundred pounder Parrott gun, cast by soldiers under com- 
 mand of Col. W. W. H. Davis, and of the sand-bag battery, 
 built in the marsh one mile from Morris Island, near Charles- 
 ton. It was for the construction of this battery that a re- 
 quisition was made by the officer in charge for one hundred 
 men eighteen feet high to wade through mud sixteen feet 
 deep. 
 
 Presented by Gen. W. W. H. Davis. 
 
 8. Benjamin Franklin, President of the Supreme Executive 
 
 Council of Pennsylvania, from 1785 to 1788. 27x36. 
 By Charles Wilson Peale. 
 
 Deposited by Mr. James J. Barclay. 
 
 9. Timothy Matlack. 25x30. By Chas. Wilson Peale. 
 
 Deposited Nov. 11, 1872, by Mrs. Martha Bryan Whitney. 
 
 10. Columbia's ISTight Watch. 42 x 56. By Mr. Augustus G. 
 
 Ileaton. 
 
 Presented by the artist, 8th February, 1869. 
 
 11. Bank OF Pennsylvania. 46x65. Artist unknown. 
 
 Presented by Mr. George K. Reed, of Lancaster, 9th of May, 1870. 
 
 12. History or the Old French Revolution. 
 
 In the Hall of entrance the bookcases contain, in the 
 lano-uage of Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, " one of the most com- 
 plete records extant of official documents and ephemeral 
 pamphlets, etc., connected with the old French Revolution." 
 The following account, an extract from the proceedings of 
 the meeting of the contributors to the purchase of the Penn 
 manuscripts, is given as a brief history of the books. 
 
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 "After the list of subscribers (for the purchase of the Penii 
 manuscripts) had been read, the secretary'- represented to the 
 meeting that the Historical Society had a permanent Binding 
 Fund, amounting to more than two thousand dollars, which 
 had its* origin as follows: Rather more than ten years ago, 
 in a conversation with the late Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, they 
 exchanged views as to the remarkable collection of books 
 and pamphlets on the Revolutionary History of France, 
 which had been gathered together by William Maclure, late 
 President of the Academy of JS'atural Sciences, who had 
 gone from Scotland to Paris early in that terrible struggle, 
 and remained there a number of years, using a handsome 
 income in succoring as he could the distresses of his fellow- 
 men ; for he was a philanthropist of the most practical kind. 
 There Mr. Maclure had secured, as they appeared, the pub- 
 lications relative to the struggle, and he formed a collection 
 unrivalled, as it is thought, except by that in Paris itself. 
 By his will these, as well as his other books, went to the 
 Academy, and there for many years they remained boxed up 
 and unused, for the great needs of the Academy permitted 
 no proper accommodation for them. Dr. Wilson agreed that 
 such a collection could not with propriety be sold outside of 
 the city where the institution to which it had been be- 
 queathed was located, but he, however, further agreed that 
 it would not be improper for the Academy to sell it to an 
 institution in the same city, more especially should such sale 
 result in its becoming more available for the use of students. 
 Upon inquiry, being told that the collection, amounting to 
 twelve hundred volumes (it has, however, proved to be much 
 larger), was worth one dollar per volume, he at once drew a 
 check for twelve hundred dollars, and authorized the pur- 
 chase for the Society (Mr. William S. Wilson, a brother, pro- 
 posing to do so, paid two hundred dollars of this sum). 
 
 " Considering that he was bound to eiiect the purchase on 
 the most reasonable terms, his friend, without however using 
 Dr. Wilson's name, represented the matter to the Library 
 committee of the Academy, who named five hundred dollars 
 as a proper sum, and obtained authority to sell at that price. 
 The collection being thus secured for the Historical Society, 
 
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 the receipt and the remainder of the money, seven hundred 
 dolhirs, were handed to Dr. "Wilson ; who said, as he had 
 given the money, he could not take it back, and requested 
 his friend to use it at his discretion for the benefit of the 
 Society. Upon their next meeting, Dr. Wilson was informed 
 that a §1000 bond of the l^orth Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company, then selling at but little more than sixty percent., 
 and one share of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, had 
 been purchased and placed in the hands of the Trustees of the 
 Historical Society, as a permanent Binding Fund, the inter- 
 est of which was first to be used in binding the books thus 
 purchased. That interesting collection is now entirely well 
 bound, and it was a pleasure to say that subsequently a mem- 
 ber of the Society had added a thousand dollars to the fund, 
 so that the amount was now more than two thousand dollars. 
 It was now within our power still further to increase the fund, 
 to make it more than three thousand dollars, and on motion 
 of the secretary it was 
 
 " Resolved^ That the balance of the fund remaining over 
 after the purchase of the Penn manuscripts, shall be invested 
 and placed in the hands of the Trustees of the Historical 
 Society, and added to its Binding Fund." 
 
 The French collection was presented the 11th of March, 
 1861, by Thomas B. Wilson, M.D., and William S. Wilson. 
 
 13. George Gordon Meade, Major General TJ. S. A. 
 
 A photograph, presented by Messrs. Wenderoth & Taylor, April 11, 
 1864. 
 
 14. Thaddeus Stephens. An engraving. 
 
 Presented March 9th, 1868, by Mr. Charles G. Sower. 
 
 In the centre room, down stairs, is the 
 
 15. Writing Desk of George Washington. 
 
 This . production of skilful Parisian cabinet-makers af- 
 forded General Washington, during his presidency and resi- 
 dence in this city, a most ample and convenient piece of 
 office furniture. Its descent to our day is as follows : — 
 
 "Mr. Lear presents his respectful compliments to Mrs. 
 
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 Powel, and, agreeably to General Washington's commands, 
 has the honor to send her the writing-desk which she bought 
 of the general. The original cost of the desk was £98 Kew 
 York currency. 
 
 "Mr. L. is apprehensive that some injury has happened to 
 the mouldings in getting the desk out of the President's 
 room, on account of which, and other injuries, Mrs. Powel 
 will make such deduction as she may think proper. 
 
 " Mrs. Powel will also receive a pair of oval mirrors, 
 brackets and lamps, which the general begs she will accept 
 as a token of his respectful and affectionate remembrance. 
 "Thursday, March 9, 1797." 
 
 Deposited November 11, 1867, by Mr. Chas. H. Hutchinson. 
 Mr. Hutchinson is grandson of Charles Willing Hare, who was 
 nephew of Mrs. Elizabeth Powel (nee Willing) to whom the letter was 
 addressed, and who died without children. 
 
 16. McDonough's victory on Lake Champlain. 
 
 Presented March 11, 1872, by Mr. Philip H. Brice. 
 
 On the door opening into the west room is 
 
 17. SxEPflEN Girard's Door Knocker. 
 
 Presented March 14, 1870, by Mr. A. C. Kline. 
 
 18. Suit of Armor. 
 
 From the palace in Mexico, at the time of the occupation of that city 
 by the army under General Scott. 
 
 Presented by Col. Hiram B. Yeager to the State Fencibles of Phila- 
 delphia ; and, on their disbanding, presented bj' their commanding 
 officer. Col. James Page, to the Society, on the 11th of November, 1872. 
 
 TPIE STAIRWAY, 
 
 wnde, and of easy ascent to the main hall, is moderately 
 well furnished with paintings, engravings, etc., which repre- 
 sent in some degree, and as well as it was in our power to 
 do so, the history of provincial days and of those immedi- 
 ately succeeding. 
 
 19. Philadelphia 100 Years ago. 
 
 Published by Matthew Clarkson and M. Biddle in 1763, republished 
 in 1858. 
 
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 20. New York in 1728. 
 
 A plan of the city in the year named, made by James 
 Lyne, and engraved by William Bradford. 
 Presented tlie 11th of November, 1872, by Mr. John William Wallace. 
 
 21. The Election Medley. 
 
 This rare print portrays an election scene at the old Court 
 House and Provincial Hall, that stood in the middle of Mar- 
 ket Street on the western line of Second Street. The stairs, 
 which were on the exterior of the building;, were ascended 
 by the voters who passed up from the northern side, voted at 
 the door of the second story, and descended by the southern 
 flight. The time at which the print appeared was just after 
 that act, unexampled in the history of man, the voluntary 
 abandonment of their long domination, by the Society of 
 Friends, as is indicated by the verses which begin 
 
 " In Pennsylvania's peaceful days, 
 
 When Quakers ruled the roast, sir ; 
 No quarrel then (my boys) there was ; 
 Love warmed each honest breast, sir." 
 
 Franklin appeared in this medley, as he so constantly did 
 in many places, not only in America but also in Europe 
 during so large a part of the eighteenth century: — 
 
 " God save great George our King, 
 Prosper Agent Franklin, 
 
 Grant him success ; 
 Hark how the valleys ring ; 
 Long live our gracious King, 
 From whom all blessings spring. 
 Our wrongs redress." 
 
 Presented May 13, 1872, by Mr. ToAvnsend Ward. 
 
 At an early day Pennsylvania became noted for her ex- 
 tended and well-made turnpikes, and for a bold engineering 
 in bridges which spanned rivers of a width that Europeans 
 viewed with awe and wonder. The bridges w^ere a necessary 
 result of the vast number of wagons of which Edmund 
 Burke speaks as engaged in transporting the products, un- 
 rivalled in magnitude, of our fruitful soil. While the 
 
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 supremacy ill this respect is more than maintained in the 
 mighty works under the government of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company, it is not too much, however, to ask the 
 visitor to give a moment's attention to bridges that even now 
 are great, and which before the day of railways, were, in this 
 country, at least, unrivalled. 
 
 22. "Wire Bridge at the Falls. 
 
 This structure was erected so long ago that very few now 
 
 remember it. In 1811 it was broken down by a drove of 
 
 cattle. Photograph from an original painting by Thomas 
 
 Birch. 
 
 Presented January 10, 1870, by Alfred Stille, M.D. 
 
 23. Upper Ferry Bridge. 
 
 This remarkably beautiful span, ninety-eight feet greater 
 than any other known at the time, was boldly thrown across 
 the Schuylkill at Callowhill Street, the site now occupied by 
 the present wire bridge. It was painted by Tlionias Birch, 
 and this engraving executed by Jacob J. Plocher. 
 
 Presented March 11, 1873, by Mx*. James N. Stone. 
 
 24. High Street Bridge. 
 
 This great work 3^et stands ; its roadway, however, having, 
 some twenty years ago, been reduced from an arch to a 
 horizontal, with the view to accommodate the great traffic 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The original painting is 
 by Thomas Birch. Engraved by S. Seymour, 1805. 
 
 Presented March 11, 1872, by Mr. James N. Stone. 
 
 25. Savannah Founded. 
 
 James Oglethorpe, Governor of Georgia. 
 
 Treaty with the Creek Indians. 
 
 Thaddeus Kosciusko. 
 
 Kathaniel Greene. 
 
 Kasimir Korvin Pulaski. 
 These are the works of an accomplished artist, Henry Saun- 
 ders Dmochowsky, who passed a number of years in this 
 country. 
 
 Presented by Messrs. J. Francis Fisher, Henry Saunders Dmochow- 
 sky, Thomas B. Wilson, M.D., and William S. Wilson, July 14, 1861. 
 
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 26. Broadside to obtain Eecruits for Washington's Army. 
 
 Presented 
 
 27. Baltimore in 1752. 
 
 rrom a sketch by John Moale, corrected by Daniel Bow- 
 ley, engraved by Borgum. 
 
 Presented the lltli of March, 1872, hy Mr. Frederick D. Stone. 
 
 28. Bethlehem in 1760. 
 
 "A view of Bethlem, the great Moravian settlement in 
 
 the Province of Pennsylvania. Sketched on the spot by His 
 
 Excellency, Governor Pownal. Painted and engraved by 
 
 Paul Sandby." 
 
 From the Penn Manuscript Collection. 
 
 29. Penn's Treaty with the Indians. 
 
 Painted by Benjamin West, engraved by John Hall. 
 
 Presented 
 
 30. West and his Family. 
 
 Painted by Benjamin West, engraved by G. S. & J. G. 
 Facius. 
 
 John West, the father of Benjamin, married and at once 
 came to America in 1714, leaving his wife in England. She 
 gave birth to a child, and died, the child remaining in Eng- 
 land. John married again in America, and Benjamin was 
 the youngest of the ten children of the American wife. 
 When Benjamin left America, he was engaged to be married 
 to Elizabeth Shewell, and in 1765 his venerable father ac- 
 companied her to England, and there, for the first time, he 
 saw his eldest son, who was at the time fifty years of age. 
 The boy standing by his mother's side is Raphael West. 
 Benjamin, his father, stands with a pallet in his hand. Hats 
 are on the heads of John West and his eldest son. Relatives 
 are paying their first visit to Mrs. West on the birth of her 
 second child. 
 
 Presented November 11, 1872, by Mr. Frederick D. Stone. 
 
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 31. Magna Charta, with the Seal of the King and Shields 
 
 OP the Barons in Arms. 
 Fac-simile from the original in the British Museum. 
 
 Presented 
 
 32. George Washington. 25x30. 
 
 The original, by Gilbert Stuart, belongs to Colonel "Wesley 
 P. Hunt, of Trenton, IsT. J. Mr. Sully, a pupil of Stuart, 
 considering it to be next in point of merit to the fine head 
 in the Boston Athenaeum, executed this copy. 
 
 Presented November 12, 1855, by Thomas Sully. 
 
 33. The Rev. Benjamin Dorr, D.D. 25x30. 
 
 Born March 22, 1796 ; Rector of Christ Church from May 
 
 4, 1837 ; author of the History of Christ Church, of Memoir 
 
 of John F. Watson, and of Travels in Egypt, etc. Died 
 
 September 18, 1869. Painted by James R. Lambdin in 1840. 
 
 Presented June 13, 1870, by Mr. John William Wallace. 
 
 34. The Royal Arms of England. Temp. Queen Anne. 
 
 Painted on panel, 36x42. 
 This symbol of Sovereignty was displayed in the Provin- 
 cial Hall and Court House that once stood in Market Street 
 at Second, and no doubt was placed there at the time that 
 Queen Anne reigned over our forefathers. When the State 
 House was built in CliBstnut Street, it is probable the arms 
 were removed there, and that at the Revolution they were 
 stored in the loft of that building. IS'otice of their being- 
 there is to be found in the minutes of the meetins: of this 
 Society, l^ovember 4, 1844, soon after which they were pre- 
 sented to the Society. These arms bear the motto. Semper 
 JEqdem, which Queen Anne, in 1702, ordered to be used. On 
 the accession, however, of the House of Hanover, George I. 
 restored the old motto, Dieu et mon Droit, ^vhich had been 
 first assumed by Edward III. 
 
 35. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Major-General U. S. A. 
 
 25x30. 
 Born in Virginia, March 20, 1777, died June 6, 1849. 
 Painted by Rembrandt Peale. 
 
 Presented December 13, 1869, by Mr. Henry Carey Baird. 
 
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 36. Arthur St. Clair, Major-General U. S. A. 25x30. 
 Born in Edinburgh, 1734, died at Greensburg the 31st of 
 
 August, 1818. Original by Charles Wilson Peale, copied 
 by Mr. James B. Sword, and presented by him, October 14, 
 1861. 
 
 37. Election Day at the State House. 
 
 Painted by Lawrence Krimrael in 1815, engraved by Alex- 
 ander Lawson. 
 
 Presented by Miss Lawson. 
 
 38. Pedigree of the Penn Family. 
 
 Presented July 4, 1852, by Tkomas Gilpin. 
 
 39. Pedigree oe the Penn Family. 
 
 From the Penn Manuscripts. 
 
 40. William Penn. 
 
 Full length, painted by Inman, engraved by John Sartain- 
 
 Presented 
 
 41. William Penn. 
 
 An artist, now unknown, executed a portrait in duplicate, 
 of this eminent man, both of which w^ere at Stoke Poges 
 until one of them was presented to this Society by his grand- 
 son, Granville Penn. As the Society w^as therefore possessed 
 of a portrait, not only entirely authentic, but one that pre- 
 sented Penn as marked by eminent personal beauty, as was 
 indeed the case, a member, believing that the people should 
 see the founder of their government as he really was, under- 
 took, some years ago, to have this fine work of art fittingly 
 engraved. With great deliberation and an exercise of all 
 the intelligence and judgment of which he was capable, an 
 engraver thought to have no superior in this country was 
 selected, and, in order to facilitate his work, a crayon drawing 
 of reduced size was obtained. This drawing w^as executed 
 by Mr. William Hunt, of Newport, Rhode Island, who, after 
 he had been paid the stipulated charge, one hundred dollars, 
 said he had become quite enamored with the work he had 
 undertaken, and that, not satisfied with the drawing he had 
 
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 first made, lie bad executed another tbat now entirely satis- 
 fied him. With a view to establish the value of the drawing- 
 which he had delivered, he said his charge for a similar work 
 would be five hundred dollars. 
 
 This drawing, as well as the painting, was placed in the 
 hands of Mr. S. A. Schofi:', of Boston, who, in the course of 
 rather more than two years, finished a steel plate that has 
 been pronounced by critics to be quite equal to anything of 
 the kind ever executed in America. While the work must 
 of course speak for itself, it may not, liowever, be improper to 
 refer to the remarkably fine and bold eft'ect produced by the 
 unbroken lines in the armor, a feature in engraving for which 
 there was hardly a precedent, and to secure which, the work, 
 which had been nearly finished, in short, broken lines, with 
 necessarily but little or no effect, was punched out, and these 
 new lines were traced by the artist's master hand. The con- 
 trast between the metal, the flesh, and the long flowing hair 
 of the cavalier, was but a happy accident, but it was an ac- 
 cident that lends an exquisitely charming effect to a work 
 of no ordinary merit. 
 
 Presented May 13, 1873, by Mr. Townsend Ward. Impressions from 
 this plate liave never been sold. Recently, liowever, the owner of it 
 resolved that any person subscribing to the Publication Fund of the 
 Society should be entitled to receive a copy. 
 
 42. Letter of William Penn to the Indians, 25th of Second 
 
 Month, 1682. 
 A fac-simile. Presented June 27, 1842, by Benjamin Ferris. 
 
 43. Lady Juliana Penn. 
 
 Wife of Thomas Penn and daughter of the Earl of Pomfret. 
 Born 1729, married 1751, died 1801. 
 
 44. Nicholas Biddle. 
 
 After Sully's painting, engraved by Samuel Cousins, Lon- 
 don. 
 
 Presented May 13, 1872, by Mr. Craig Biddle. 
 
 45. Almanac of 1687, a Broadside. 
 
 The late Edward D. Ingraham, in looking over the volume 
 
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 of letters of "William Ten n to James Harrison, which then 
 M-as bound in paper, said it might be well to examine the 
 cover, as in early days they were sometimes stiffened by 
 pasting inside of them printed matter that might now have 
 become of great value. The cover was accordingly removed, 
 and after being soaked for several days, Mr. Ingraham had 
 the satisfaction to obtain this copy of one of the earliest 
 specimens of Philadelphia typography. "Printed and sold 
 by William Bradford, near Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, pro 
 Anno 1687." Eestored March 14, 1853, by Edward D. In- 
 graham. 
 
 46. Fairman's Mansion and the Treaty-Tree. 
 Painted by Brittan, engraved by Berz. 
 
 Although the house here represented, and which appears in 
 West's painting of l^enn's Treaty with the Indians, was not 
 erected till long after that event, yet Fairman had resided 
 at the place before Penn's arrival, as may be seen by the 
 following extract from the Record of Friends' Marriages at 
 Burlington. "Thomas Fairman, of Shackamaxon on ye 
 river Delaware, to Elizabeth Kinsey, the 24th of the lOtli 
 month, 1680, at the house of John Woolston, Burlington." 
 Presented tlie 13tli of May, 1873, by Mr. Townsend Ward. 
 
 47. William Bradford's Letter to Half- Yearly Meeting 
 
 OF Friends at Burlington. 
 This letter, written the "3d of ye fifth month, 1688," con- 
 tained a proposal to print a large Bible. It is a fac-simile of 
 an original among the records of Arch Street Meeting. This 
 proposal of Bradford's was the first proposition ever made in 
 America to print the Bible in English. For an account of 
 Bradford and of these proposals, see " An Address delivered 
 at the celebration of the Kew York Historical Society, May 
 20, 1863, of the 200th birthday of Mr. William Bradford, 
 who introduced the art of printing into British America, 
 by John William Wallace of Philadelphia." Albany, 1863. 
 Presented February 13, 1873, by Mr. John William Wallace. 
 
 48. Unknown Portrait. 18x24. 
 
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 49. The Rev. William Rogers, Chaplain of the 3d Brigade 
 
 Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army, from 
 March 1776 to 1781. 23x26. 
 
 Deposited January 10, 1859, by the Society of the Cincinnati. 
 
 50. Autograph ]^ames of the Governors of Pennsylvania, 
 
 FROM THE TIME OF "WiLLIAM PeNN TO THE YEAR 1800. 
 Presented April 14, 1851, by Mr. Sidney V. Smith. 
 
 51. Representation of the Tombstone of William Bradford. 
 This is a colored drawing representing the tombstone of 
 
 the celebrated first printer of the middle colonies of British 
 America, as the stone stood in the grounds of Trinity 
 Church, New York, from the date of its erection in (as is 
 probable) A.D. 1752, the date of Bradford's death, or soon 
 after, till May 20, 1863 (the 200th anniversary of his birth), 
 when the corporation of Trinity Church, of which Bradford 
 was a vestryman from A.D. 1703 to A.D. 1710, erected a 
 new one in marble, with a grand religious ceremony and a 
 printed "order of services to be held in Trinity Church, May 
 20, 1863, on the occasion of the restoration of the tombstone 
 of William Bradford, deceased May 13, 1752." The original 
 tombstone, which stood near the church on the north side 
 thereof, and which had been injured in the erection of the 
 present church edifice, was then fastened together by 
 clamps, and was presented to the Is^evv York Historical So- 
 ciety, in whose hall it now remains. 
 
 52. Portraits of Indians. 17x23. 
 
 The Knife Chief of the Pawnee Loups, called "the 
 Bravest of the Braves," painted from life by John iN'eagle 
 in 1821, and presented by him October 14, 1861. In Poul- 
 son's Daily Advertiser, of February 1, 1821, is the following 
 account: — 
 
 " Knife Chief, of the Pawnee Loups, called the Bravest of 
 the Braves. He belonged to a band of men called Braves, 
 and he rescued a woman of the Paduca Nation, who was 
 taken prisoner by his nation and placed at the stake to be 
 burnt in presence of a council of the nation. The brave 
 
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 stood looking on until he could bear it no longer. He 
 sprang forward, rescued her, with his knife he cut the fasten- 
 ings that bound her, flung her on a horse, and rode away with 
 her. It was an act so daring that it was thought to be the 
 work of the Great Spirit. He escaped, and remained long 
 away, fearing to return. He was at last recalled, and for 
 this act w^as styled the Bravest of the Brave." See God- 
 man's IsTat. Hist. Introd., and engraved by Peter Maverick 
 from this picture. 
 
 Painted from life by John Neagle in 1821, and presented October 
 
 14th, 1861, by the artist. 
 
 53. The Two Heads. 17x23. 
 
 Left Hand, Big Kansas, or Caussetongua. 
 Right Hand, Sharitarishe, Chief of the Grand 
 Pawnees. 
 
 Big Kansas had a remarkably sleepy expression in his 
 eyes, was inanimate except on important occasions, but a 
 dreadful opponent. He had a great friendship for Shari- 
 tarishe of the Panis Loups, and would not consent to sit 
 for his likeness without they w^ere both painted on the same 
 canvas. The Indian name is Caussetongua, of the Ottoe 
 Tribe (or Kansas), and brother to their head Chief. In this 
 tribe are 350 Avarriors (1821). Sharitarishe, Chief of the 
 Grand Pawnees, son of a distinguished orator. He was dis- 
 tinguished in war against the Spaniards and Indians on the 
 confines of !N'ew Mexico. Like his father, .he is a distin- 
 guished orator, and next in eloquence to Big Elk of the same 
 dejDUtation. He commands great respect from his tribe, is 
 very decisive, and has great energy of character. These 
 Indians came as a deputation wdth Major O'Fallon in 1821. 
 
 Painted from life by John Neagle in 1821, presented October 14, 1861, 
 by the artist. 
 
 54. The Right Rev. "William White, D.D. 
 
 Born in Philadelphia April 4, 1748, died July 17, 1836. 
 Chaplain of the Continental Congress, Chaplain also of the 
 Senate in the Presidency of Washington, and first Bishop of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. 
 
 Deposited February 12, 1872, by Mr. John William Wallace. 
 
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 55. Blowing up of the British Frigate Augusta. 20x30. 
 
 This event occurred at Red Bank, near the Jersey shore 
 below Philadelphia, on the 23d of October, 1777, while this 
 fated vessel, H. B. M. Frigate Augusta of 64 guns, was lying 
 aground on a mud bank. A hot shot struck and set her on 
 fire. She was raised in 1869 or 1870. 
 
 The painting, as also that of the action of the Serapis 
 and Bonne Homme Richard, under Paul Jones, was executed 
 by an English naval ofiicer, who, coming here from Jamaica, 
 was, for a time, a guest of James Peale, whose son, of the 
 same name, relates this. It would seem that this ofiicer 
 must have painted the scene in duplicate, for in 1867, Mr. 
 Holloway, an American long residing in London, purchased 
 at an auction sale in that city a similar painting, which he 
 presented to Mr. George W. Childs. While the difference 
 in them is merely trivial, the style is the same, and Mr. 
 James M. Earle thinks there can be no doubt that the same 
 hand executed both. The painting of the Society once be- 
 longed to Peale's gallery. There is only one other painting in 
 this collection that came from that gallery ; but it may not be 
 amiss to say that the action of members of the society led 
 to the purchase at auction, by the city, of about eighty 
 paintings, being about one-half of Peale's gallery. After 
 the chairman of the Committee on City Property ceased to 
 bid, a member of this society, desirous to keep together as 
 much of the gallery as was possible, commenced to bid, and 
 purchased about twenty more, which he permitted the Coun- 
 cils to take at cost. A rejected portrait, that of Arthur 
 O'Connor, which did not command a bid at the sale, and which 
 was, therefore, thrown into the latter lot, subsequently was 
 placed, along with the others, on the walls of Independence 
 Hall, and was labelled General Charles Lee. 
 
 Presented to tlie Society Marcli 9, 1857, by Mr. James S. Earle. 
 
 56. George Washington. 
 
 Engraved by Welch after Stuart. 
 
 Presented April 14, 1853, by Mr. George W. Childs. 
 
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 THE MAIN ROOM. 
 
 Inside of it hang the portraits of 
 
 57. General John Cadwalader. 40x50. 
 
 A son of Dr. Thomas Cadwalader. He was born in Phila- 
 delphia in 1743, served during a great part of the Revolu- 
 tionary "War, was at Brandywine, Germantown, and Mon- 
 mouth, and died Februarj^ 10, 1786. 
 
 Original by Chas. Wilson Peale ; copy by Mr. Edward Bowers, and ' 
 
 Presented by him June 30, 1854. 
 
 58. William Moultrie, Major-General in the Army of 
 
 THE Revolution, 25x30. 
 
 Born in England in 1731. Emigrated to South Carolina 
 at an early age. Was a member of the Provincial Congress. 
 Second in command at the siege of Charleston. Was Gover- 
 nor of South Carolina. Died at Charleston the 27th of Sep- 
 tember, 1805. 
 
 Original by Chas. Wilson Peale. Copy by Mr. James B. Sword. 
 
 Presented Nov. 11, 1873, by Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
 59. The Rev. Israel Acrelius, Provost of the Swedish 
 
 Churches in America. 25x30. 
 
 This historical writer was born in Sweden, and leaving 
 there he came to this country, and in 1749 settled in Wil- 
 mington, Delaware. In 1756 he returned to his native land, 
 where he died in 1800. His " Description of the Present 
 and Former State of the Swedish Congregations in 'New 
 Sweden" has just been translated by the Rev. William M. 
 Reynolds, and is to appear under the auspices of the Histori- 
 cal Societies of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The original 
 portrait, artist unknown, was in the possession of his descen- 
 dants, the Gordon family of Wilmington, who presented it 
 some years ago to Trinity Church of that place. Permission 
 for the purpose being kindly given by the Rev. Mr. Breck, 
 this copy was made by Mr. Christian Schuesselle and 
 
 Presented by him the 11th of March, 1861. 
 
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 60. The Eev. William Smith, D.D. 45x39. 
 
 Born in Scotland about the year 1725, he left there for 
 this country in 1751, and became Provost of the University 
 of Pennsylvania. Died the 14th of May, 1803. 
 
 Gait, in his Life of West, after speaking of West's Copy 
 of St. Ignatius, an early effort of his art, goes on to say : — 
 
 " This copy was greatly admired by all who saw it, and by 
 none more than his valuable friend. Provost Smith, to whom 
 it suggested that portrait painting might be raised to some- 
 thing greatly above the exhibition of a mere physical like- 
 ness ; and he in consequence endeavored to impress upon the 
 mind of his pupil that characteristic painting opened a new 
 line in the art, only inferior in dignity to that of history, 
 but requiring, perhaps, a nicer discriminative tact of mind. 
 This judicious reflection of Dr. Smith was, however, antici- 
 pated by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who had already made the 
 discovery, and was carrying it into eftect with admirable 
 success. The Provost, however, was unacquainted with that 
 circumstance, and induced West to make an experiment by 
 drawing his portrait in the style and attitude of the St. 
 Ignatius." 
 
 Artist, Benjamin West. 
 
 Presented the lOtli of October, 1871, by Mr. H, W. Smith, 
 
 61. William Bartram. 25x30. 
 
 A botanist, and fourth son of John Bartram, who estab- 
 lished the remarkable Botanic Grarden at Kingsessing. Born 
 at that place in 1739, William Bartram had the advantage 
 of the best of all schools, a practical one, and was elected 
 Professor of Botany, in the University of Pennsylvania, in 
 1782. He was author of "Travels in Carolina, etc. etc." 
 Died July 22, 1823. 
 
 Original by Chas. Wilson Peale. This copy was executed by Mr. 
 .lames B. Sword, and presented December 9, 1861, by Mr. John 
 Jordan, Jr. 
 
 62. Henry Knox, Major-General of the Army of the Revo- 
 
 lution. 25x30. 
 
 Born in Boston 1750, died at Thomaston, Maine, 1806. He 
 
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 was in every battle where Washington fought, and was 
 
 Secretary of War from 1784 to 1795. 
 
 Original by Charles Wilson Peale ; copy by Mr. James B. Sword, 
 presented November 11, 1872, by Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
 63. Marion's Dinner. 42x35. 
 
 A striking incident in the career of the famous partisan 
 leader, General Francis Marion, is related as follows, by 
 Alexander Garden, of Lee's Legion, in his Anecdotes of the 
 Revolution, " A British officer was sent from the garrison 
 at Georgetown, S. C, to negotiate a business interesting to 
 both armies ; when this was concluded, and the officer about 
 to return, the General said, 'If it suits your convenience, sir, 
 to remain for a short period, I shall be glad of your company 
 to dinner.' The mild and dignified simplicity of Marion's 
 manners had already produced their effect; and, to prolong 
 so interesting an interview, the invitation was accepted. 
 The entertainment was served up on pieces of bark, and con- 
 sisted entirely of roasted potatoes, of which the General ate 
 heartily, requesting his guest to profit by his example, repeat- 
 ing the old adage, that 'hunger was an excellent sauce.' 'But 
 surely. General,' said the officer, ' this cannot be your ordi- 
 nary fare.' 'Indeed it is, sir,' he replied, 'and we are fortu- 
 nate on this occasion, entertaining comjxmy, to have more 
 than our usual allowance." 
 
 Original by John Blake White, of Charleston, S. C, of whicli this is 
 supposed to be a cojiy. 
 
 64. Fort N'ECESSiTy. 38x26. 
 
 The appearance on the 17th of April, 1754, at the conflu- 
 ence of the Alleghany and the Monongahela Eivers, where 
 Pittsburg now stands, of a very considerable French force 
 under the command of M. de Contrecoeur, an event that led 
 to the abandonment of the incomplete and defenceless Eng- 
 lish works at that place by Ensign Ward and his small body 
 of forty-one men, is of special interest in the annals of Penn- 
 sylvania. The occurrence took place on our soil; it again 
 involved the two powers that for so many centuries had 
 waged so many wars; and it has consequently taken its 
 
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 important place in history as the first act of hostility in still 
 another war between France and England. It was a war, 
 too, that was destined to rage for seven years, drawing 
 other nations into its vortex, and pervading every quarter of 
 the globe. Besides stripping France of the Canadas and the 
 vast region of the Ohio and the Mississippi, it gave also to 
 England, and as if in contrast with the new world, the 
 ancient empire of India, by the mighty conquests effected by 
 Lord Olive. !N"or was this all. In the old world the power 
 of the new kingdom of Prussia then arose, and Frederick the 
 Great achieved his enduring fame, while in the new, the im- 
 mortal Washington, here in the primeval forest, found a 
 school of adversity in which he learned the lessons that 
 fitted him to found the empire whose capital bears his name, 
 and whose influence seems as world-wide as his fame. 
 
 With a prophetic and instinctive sense of the importance 
 of the movement, young Washington, then at Wills's Oreek, 
 at once determined to occupy and fortify the mouth of Red- 
 stone. On his way thither he encountered, at the Great 
 Meadows, a force of thirty-five French, and on the 28th of 
 May defeated them, with the death of their commander, M. 
 de Jumonville. To avenge this, the French gathered some 
 six hundered men under the fiery Coulon-Villiers (known for 
 his prowess as Le Grand Villiers), and marching against him, 
 attacked Washington in the rude works he had hastily 
 thrown up, and which he called Fort ]!!^ecessity. A long de- 
 fence, with insufficient ammunition, resulted in the sur- 
 render at near midnight of the three hundred men under 
 Washington, whose bravery, however, was rewarded by the 
 favorable terms which permitted them to march out the next 
 morning, the fourth of July, 1754, with drums beating and 
 colors flying. This post wrested from England, her power 
 for a time seemed to wane ; for now throughout the Canadas 
 and in the whole valley of the Mississippi to its head springs 
 in the Alleghanies, no standard floated but that of France. 
 
 The writer of this first saw the field of Fort IS'ecessity on 
 the evening of a third of July, and with just such a sunset 
 as the artist some ten years later happily gave to a scene that 
 at first promised but little picturesque effect. The plough, 
 
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 now wisely stayed, had nearly done its work of obliterating 
 the embankments of the fort, the traces of which are, how- 
 ever, easily perceived, both on the ground and in the painting. 
 Artist, Paul Weber. 
 
 Presented the lltli of February, 1856, by Messrs. J. R. Tyson, John 
 Jordan, Jr., T. K. Collins, Sen., George McHenry, Howard Spencer, 
 Jas. R. Snowden, George W. Norris, M.D., B. H. Coates, M.D., J. 
 Dorsey Bald, F. A. Comly, Wm. Henry Trotter, J. Dickinson Logan, 
 M.D., J. Francis Fisher, J. B. Lippincott, Thomas Sparks, Jr., Jas. 
 L. Claghorn, Charles M.Wagner, Richard Ashhurst, Charles M. Morris, 
 W. O. Johnson, Charles S. Ogden, J. Gillingham Fell, Wm. Parker 
 Foulke, Thomas B. Wilson, M.D., Henry C. Baird, George W. Ball, 
 Charles Magarge, John Cadwalader, E. C. Markley, Charles H. Muir- 
 heid, Ferd. J. Dreer, Pedro J. Guiteras, John M. Butler, Archer & 
 Warner, Samuel J. Christian, Lyon J. Levy, H. G. Jones, John J. 
 Vanderkemp, Thomas Sergeant, J. C. Mitchell, Stephen Colwell, S. A. 
 Mercer, James Traquair, Israel Morris, J. L. Fenimore, Strickland 
 Kneass, C. H. Clark, John T. Lewis, Samuel Welsh, Lawrence John- 
 son, S. Morris Wain, Daniel Holsman, P. Brady, John O. James, Wm. 
 R. Lejee, Samuel L. Shober, and F. M. Wynkoop. These gentlemen 
 also presented, at the same time, 
 
 65. Braddock's Grave. 22x26. 
 
 The unfortunate general who commanded the English on 
 the fatal field, which is the subject of the next painting, was 
 mortally wounded there, July the 9th, and died on the retreat, 
 at the Great Meadows, on the 13th of July, 1755. His re- 
 mains repose just to the north of the present turnpike, about 
 one mile westward of Fort ^N'ecessity. For a century or 
 more the place was marked by a broad oak tree, whose 
 blasted top seemed no less emblematic of his fate than the 
 tree itself did of his name ; for in old English brad meant 
 broad. The tree itself has recently fallen, but art which has 
 perpetuated its solemn form may, for long years to come, 
 help to preserve the historic interest, still keenly appreciated 
 by its inhabitants, of a region that Paul Weber, no mean 
 judge, said was the most beautiful he had ever seen. 
 Artist, Paul Weber. 
 
 66. Braddock's Field, or the Battle of the Monongahela. 
 
 38x26. 
 The disastrous battle of the 9th of July, 1755, occurred 
 
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 on the right bank of the Monongahela, nine miles above 
 Pittsburg. Overwhelmed by the calamity, the pusillanimous 
 Dunbar, who had succeeded to the command, fled with the 
 shattered fragments of the array all the way to Philadelphia, 
 leaving the border open to a foe who swept almost unopposed 
 over the greater part of Pennsylvania. On this field, too, on 
 the Ist of August, 1794, the people of "Western Pennsylvania 
 were assembled in opposition to the excise laws, and in such 
 numbers, about six thousand, as to excite grave fears of 
 insurrection. The President, General Washington, sent a 
 formidable military force into the country. 
 
 Artist, Paul "Weber, and presented by liim the 11th of December, 1854. 
 
 67. William Penn, A photographic copy of a recently 
 discovered crayon drawing. 
 
 A book entitled "The Penns and Peningtons of the 
 Seventeenth Century," by Maria Webb, London, 1867, gives 
 in a note some account of this drawing, the history of which 
 is also in the following note from Alfred Cope to Daniel B. 
 Smith, 5th month 1st, 1868. 
 
 " These photographs of William Penn and his wife were 
 received from John Thompson, of Hitchen, England, who 
 Avrites that they were taken from original crayon portraits of 
 William and Hannah Penn, in possession of a gentleman who 
 resides near Darlington, and who says they have remained 
 with other portraits by the same artist, Francis Place, in the 
 possession of his family ever since they were drawn by Francis 
 Place, who was an ancestor of this gentleman. And I under- 
 stand they are marked by F. Place as being William and Han- 
 nah Penn. Maria Webb tells me that one of the Peniugton 
 family formerly lived near Dimsdale, in the county of Dur- 
 ham, and that she has ascertained that William Penn and 
 wife occasionally visited at this Peningtons, near Dimsdale, 
 and that Place was on intimate terms with Penington, and 
 she presumes that, during one of William and Hannah Penn's 
 visits. Place, who was an amateur artist, executed these por- 
 traits, and this accounts for their being at Dimsdale, so far 
 from where William Penn lived. The photographer says 
 
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 that the originals are drawn on very coarse paper, and that 
 they are discolored by age, and that it is very difficult to get 
 
 a good negative." 
 
 Presented by Mr. Samuel L. Smedley. 
 
 THE BAY WINDOW. 
 
 This great window in the southern side of the main hall, 
 besides affording a fine view of the beautiful garden of 
 the Pennsylvania Hospital, is so ample in its dimensions as 
 to afford abundant space for the display of pictures and rel- 
 ics of interest. Its eastern end is adorned with a finely 
 carved bracket bearing the Arms of the Lloyds of Dolobran in 
 Wales, one of whom, Thomas Lloyd, was President of Coun- 
 cil and Commissioner of Pennsylvania from 1684 to 1688, and 
 again President of Council and Deputy -Governor of the Pro- 
 vince under "William Penn, from 1690 to 1693. 
 
 On the bracket, and under glass shades, are to be seen 
 
 68. An Impression in Wax of the Great Seal of England. 
 
 69. The Key of the Fire-Proof of the Frigate Augusta. 
 
 Presented November 13, 1871, by Mr. Arad Barrows, Jr. 
 
 70. Bronze Medal in Commemoration of Washington. 
 
 By D. Eccleston, of Lancaster, 1805. 
 
 71. Silver Medal Commemorating the Yictory of Com. 
 
 Oliver Hazard Perry. 
 
 72. Medal of Washington's Second Presidency. 
 
 73. Medal of Washington in 1797. 
 
 74. Bronze Medal of Henry Clay. 
 
 75. Bronze Medal of Pius IX. 
 
 76- Box MADE from the wood of the Charter Oak. 
 
 Presented by Miss Ann Bingham Peters. 
 
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 77. Sir William and Lady Keith. 
 
 Pencil drawings by John Watson. Presented November 12th, 1855, 
 by Mr. Wm. A. Whitehead, of Newark, N. J. 
 
 78. Roberts Yaux. Presided at the two meetings prelimi- 
 
 nary to forming this Society, and its first Vice-Pre- 
 sident. 
 
 Presented by Mr. J. Francis Fisher, August 17, 1863. 
 
 79. Samuel C. Morf.is. Commander of the First City Troop 
 
 at the battle of Trenton. 
 
 Presented March 11, 1872, by Miss Martha Morris. 
 
 Above the bracket is a portrait of 
 
 80. The Marquis de la Fayette, Commandant-General of 
 
 the Parisian ^N^ational Guard, 1789. 
 
 Presented February 12, 1872, by Mr. John Wm. Wallace, 
 
 81. Parisian I!^ational Guard. 
 
 A certificate of membership in the 4th Company, 5th Bat- 
 talion, 3d Division of the Parisian IN'ational Guard of 179 2. 
 This is an engraved form, printed on parchment, and bears 
 the ominous word "Commune." In the sentence, "d'etre- 
 fiddle a' la N'ation, a la Loi, au Roi, a la Commune de Paris," 
 the words au Roi are crossed out. Although issued in a day 
 of "terror" it is signed with a jest, "Crete, captain des 100 
 culottes." The term " sans culottes" is connected with our 
 own history, for it originated at Valley Forge ; being ap- 
 plied there by Baron Steuben to the half-naked American 
 soldiers. This, however, is not the only connection that ex- 
 isted in spirit between the two lands, for at the time of the 
 " Reign of Terror," bands of men, as they passed along the 
 streets of Philadelphia, sang — 
 
 " Vive la ! the French convention, 
 Vive la ! the rights of man. 
 Vive la ! America, 
 For 'twas with you it first began." 
 Presented the 12th of February, 1872, by Mr. Edward J. Biddle. 
 
 A frame remains vacrnt for a portrait of 
 
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 82. Beaumarchais; 
 
 That extraordinary character, who, like La Faj'ette, was 
 most intimately connected, not only with the old French 
 Monarchy and the American Revolution, but also, like him, 
 with that Revolution which dyed the land of France in 
 blood and left it without a God. 
 
 83. Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 "This medallion, with about one hundred other impressions, 
 
 was found by the Due de Chaumont in 1849, in the attic of an 
 
 old chateau belonging to the estate of his father, who had 
 
 been a great friend to Dr. Franklin. It is presumed that 
 
 this likeness was an 'original,' taken in 1777 by Pim." 
 
 Gotten in Paris by the donor, 1850, presented by Dr. Jolin T. Sharp- 
 less in 1860. 
 
 84. Stoke Poges Park and Castle. 16x23. 
 
 The ancient manor of Stoke Poges was purchased in 1760 
 by Thomas Penn, in whose family it remained for nearly a 
 century, when it was sold. It is now the property of Lord 
 Taunton. 
 
 Artist, Mr. Edmund B. Bensell. Presented March 11, 1872, by Mr. John 
 "I Jordan, Jr. 
 
 85. The Rev. John Heckewelder. 12x14. 
 
 A Moravian Missionary among the aborigines in America, 
 and author of " The History of the Delaware Indians," etc. 
 etc. 
 
 Original in possession of the American Philosophical Society, from 
 which this copy was made by Mr. Wm. Cogswell, and presented by 
 him June 14, 1852. 
 
 86. Robert Proud. 12x14. 
 
 Born in Yorkshire, England, May 10, 1728, came to 
 Philadelphia in 1759. Author of the "History of Penn 
 sylvania." Died July 7, 1813. 
 
 Painted after a pencil sketch in possession of Dr. Benj. H. Coates. 
 The late Jonah Thompson, who remembered Proud, said the painting 
 was a fair likeness. Artist, Mr. William Cogswell, and presented by 
 him July 12, 1852. 
 
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 87. Patrick Gordon. 15x18. 
 
 Deputy-Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 
 
 1726 to 1736. Died at Philadelphia, August 5, 1736. 
 
 The artist is supposed to have been Hesselius or Feke ; these painters 
 having been here at the time. Presented December 17, 1834, by Gran- 
 ville Penn, grandson of the Founder. 
 
 In the centre of the bay window is the 
 
 88. Thermometer of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 Presented the 11th of November, 1872, by Mr. Charles M. Morns. 
 
 The bracket on the western side of the window bears the 
 
 89. Arms of James Logan. 
 
 Under the glass shades are to be seen 
 
 90. A Silver Watch said to have been taken from an Eng- 
 
 lish officer at the battle of Braddock's Field. 
 Presented April 13, 1868, by Mr.Wm. Walker, of Wyandotte, Kansas. 
 
 91. A Box MADE FROM WOOD OF THE HaNCOCK HoUSE. 
 
 92. A Bell cast from the filings of the Bell of Inde- 
 
 pendence, February 22, 1846, with the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 Proclaim Liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof 
 — Leviticus, xxv. 10. 
 
 By order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania. 
 For the State House in Philadelphia. 
 
 Pass and Stow, Makers, MDCCLIII. 
 
 From 
 
 The Committee on City Property, 
 
 to 
 
 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 
 93^ Benjamin Franklin's "Wineglass. 
 
 94. A Silver "Winecup. 
 
 One of a set of twenty-four from the camp-chest of Gen. 
 Anthony "Wayne. 
 
 Presented May 13, 1872, by Mr. Abraham R, Perkins, 
 
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 9o. Pitcher Portrait of Washington. 
 
 In 1801 an imi3orter in Philadelphia received from England 
 a number of delf-ware pitchers on which the portrait of 
 "Washington appeared. Its great excellence was not observed 
 until most of them had been sold to country dealers. The 
 few that remained were for the most part broken with a view 
 to frame the portion bearing the likeness, and are yet to be 
 seen in the cabinets of the curious. This is probably the only 
 perfect pitcher remaining. 
 
 Presented the 8th of January, 1866, by Miss Harriet A. Thaw. 
 
 96. George Fox's Burning Glass. 
 
 Presented February 2, 1859, by Mr. Harrison Earl. 
 
 97. Benjamin Franklin's Burning Glass. 
 
 98. Box made of the wood of the Treaty Tree. 
 
 99. Key that belonged to a bookcase of William Penn, and 
 
 which was worn upon a ring attached to his watch 
 chain. 
 
 Presented by Edward Settle, Jr. 
 
 The old French Monarchy, from its vast American posses- 
 sions, some of whose forts were erected upon what is now our 
 soil, was, therefore, not less intimately connected with our 
 early history, than it was, at a later day, when it became our 
 faithful and most efficient ally, in the struggle for an in- 
 dependence that could hardly have been attained without its 
 aid. Of the era when France was the undisputed mistress 
 of the greater part of Il^oi-th America, is a card of invitation 
 to a ball at Versailles: — 
 
 100. 
 
 * 
 
 Bal PARk 
 
 _ . ^ . _^ 
 
 
 A Versailles 
 
 
 Pour la Marriage 
 
 
 De Monseigneur Le Dauphin 
 
 
 Le Mercredi 24 Fevrier 
 
 
 1745. 
 
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 De BONNEVAIi. 
 
 _ — _ _& 
 
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 This Dauphin, who never ascended the throne, was father 
 of Louis XVI. The engraving is from a design of great 
 beauty, and the card is almost unique. 
 
 Presented February 12, 1873, by Mr. Edward J. Biddle, 
 
 101-102. Louis XVL and Marie Antoinette. 
 
 Two portraits engraved in commemoration of the Treaty 
 of Paris, 1783, by which the Independence of the United 
 States, declared in this city, was, after a long and arduous 
 war, at last recognized. It was of this Queen, called in her 
 3^outh to the great throne of France, that Burke wrote, 
 *' Sure never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to 
 touch, a more delightful vision." The reign of terror hurled 
 them both from the throne to the guillotine. 
 
 Presented February 12, 1872, by Mr. John Wilham Wallace. 
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 103. Stamp under the British Stamp Act of March 22, 1765 ; 
 
 Repealed March 18, 1766. 
 This stamp was preserved in the Tower of London from 
 the time of the early days of George III. until the year 1852, 
 when, on the occasion of a visit to that place by the Ameri- 
 can Minister, Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, it was presented to 
 him. It is about an inch and a quarter square, on parchment, 
 green on one side, impressed with the Royal Arms, in the 
 centre of the parchment, which is white ; on the other side 
 is the Royal Monogram with the crown. 
 
 Presented the 14tb of November, 1853, by Joseph E. Ingersoll, 
 President of the Society. 
 
 104. Yalley Forge in the Autumn, 1853. 9x12. 
 
 105. Valley Forge IN THE Winter, 1858. 9x12. 
 
 These two paintings were executed by Mr. Isaac L. Wil- 
 liams for the late Cephas G. Childs, and were 
 
 Presented March 11, 1872, by Mrs. Childs. 
 
 106. George Washington. 21x24. 
 
 Extract from a letter from Mr. Charles A. Davis, of l!^. Y. ; 
 author of Letters of Major Jack Downing. 
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 "Mr. Meredith, of Baltimore, on seeing Wertmuller's por- 
 trait for the first time, in 1854 (although he had never heard 
 of it before), was immediately attracted towards it, and, ap- 
 proaching, said, ' "Where does this come from V and, gazing 
 intently, added, 'I never before have seen a picture of 
 Washington that so forcibly brings back to my memory 
 what I retain there of Washington, as he appeared for a 
 whole season in church — our pew being next to his in Phila- 
 delphia, — and so went on respecting what he deemed defects 
 in other portraits, all being resemblances in this and that 
 feature, 'but none so life-like as this.'" 
 
 Wertmuller was a native of Stockholm, Sweden, and prac- 
 tised his art with considerable success in Paris, leaving it, 
 however, impoverished by the revolution, and he came to Phila- 
 delphia in May, 1794. On the first of January, 1801, he 
 married a granddaughter of Hesselius, Pastor of th^ Swedish 
 Congregation at Wilmington, and not long afterward pur- 
 chased a farm situated below Marcus Hook. He died in 1812, 
 and was buried, it is thought, in the ground of the old 
 Swede's church in Swanson Street, in this city. He painted 
 this portrait in 1795, and presented it to his friend Amos 
 Slaymaker, of Lancaster, grandfather of the present owner. 
 Artist, Adolpli Ulrio Wertmuller. 
 
 Deposited by Mr. Jasper Green. 
 
 107. Joseph Reed. 12x15. 
 
 President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsyl- 
 vania, from 1778 to 1781, died March 5, 1785. Artist, Chas. 
 Wilson Peale. 
 
 Presented November 17, 1852, by Mr, William B. Reed, 
 
 108. George Washington. Equestrian, mezzotint. 
 
 Done from an original drawn from the life, by Alexander Campbell, 
 of Williamsburg, Va. Published as the act directs, 9th Sept. 1775, by 
 C. Shepherd. 
 
 109. Monument. 
 
 Erected June 15, 1871, by the Moravian Historical Society, 
 to mark the site of Friedenshuetten, a settlement of Christ- 
 ian Indians, between 1765 and 1772. 
 
 Presented by the Moravian Historical Society, 
 
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 110. George Washington. 
 
 A pencil sketch from life by Charles Wilson Peale in 1787. 
 
 Presented March 9, 1868, by Messrs. Jay Cooke & Co., E. W. Clark 
 & Co., George W. Childs, W. V. McKean, A. E. Borie, C. F. Norton, 
 J. G. Fell, Charles H. Hutchinson, Stephen Colwell, Charles Magarge, 
 Wm. C. Houston, Isaac Lea, James Weightman, Charles M. Morris, 
 John A. McAllister, Atherton Blight, Jas. L. Claghorn, Jos. Carson, 
 M.D., George B. Wood, Z. Locke, Thos. C. Hand, Frederick Collins, 
 Charles G. Sower, and R. Eddy. 
 
 111. Invitation to the President's Birth-night Ball. 
 
 *— '■ — -. -* 
 
 1796 
 The President's Birth-night. 
 The honor of Major Lewis's company is requested to a Ball on 
 22d of February at the Amphitheatre. 
 
 Samuel Sterett, ^ Nalbro Frazier, 
 
 John Vaughn, » George Harrison, 
 
 Thomas W. Francis, « George Willing. 
 
 Admittance at 6 o'clock. 
 
 <«■- 
 
 The Amphitheatre was at the southwest corner of Sixth and Chest- 
 nut Streets, where the building of the Public Ledger now stands. 
 
 Presented April 9, 1866, by Mrs. M. Frazier. 
 
 112. GrEORGE WASHINGTON. 
 
 "Engraved by J. G. Walker from a picture by W. Birch, 
 1796. Painted from life by request of J. G. Van Staphorst,Esq." 
 
 113. Arms op Washington. 
 
 Presented by Mr. Thomas Sinclair. 
 
 114. TiNDER-BoX AND FlINT-LoCK. 
 
 Before the day of matches, now of such universal use as 
 to excite no thought, the means of readily obtaining fire was 
 a matter of much difiiculty and most serious consideration. 
 It is to be supposed that some discontented mortal, after 
 having once secured the sacred element by rubbing two sticks 
 together, sat himself down to reflect, and that he felt little 
 satisfaction, not with the result, but with the labor required 
 to effect it. However this may be, here is a box that some 
 such person made. It contains a chamber for a supply of 
 
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 tinder, and has a lock resembling that of a pistol, so that the 
 indolent proprietor, perhaps we should call him an aspiring 
 genius, could, by pulling the trigger, produce the desired fire. 
 The box was formerly the property of Jane Clark, of the 
 Society of Friends. 
 
 Presented in 1872 by Mr. Richard L. Nicliolson. 
 
 115. Medal of William Pitt. Silver. Obverse, a fine 
 
 head, and around it " Gulielmus Pitt." Reverse ; 
 " The man who, having saved the parent, pleaded 
 with success for heo' children." 
 
 In the latter part of the reign of George II. the failure of 
 the arms of England was not less striking on the bloody field 
 of the Monongahela than it was elsewhere, at sea as well as 
 on the land. Her day of domination seemed to be past, 
 when there arose the great Commoner, William Pitt, whose 
 rapid conquests in the four quarters of the globe were not 
 only fully as brilliant, but have proved more enduring than 
 those of a later day effected by the great Napoleon. A friend 
 of the English Colonies in America, Pitt opposed the Stamp 
 Act, and even after hostilities commenced he pleaded for re- 
 conciliation. Reaching tlie acme of human grandeur, statues, 
 to do him honor, were erected in his own land ; while in 
 Pennsylvania it was ordained that the name of Fort Dn 
 Quesne should disappear, and that a city, destined to become 
 mighty, should bear the name of Pittsburg, that it might 
 carry his fame through coming centuries. 
 
 Deposited November 11, 1873, by Mr. John William Wallace. 
 
 116. Pine-Tree Shilling. Obverse, "Kew England, An. Dom. 
 
 1652, XII." Reverse, " In Massachusetts" and the 
 figure of a pine-tree. 
 Deposited November 11, 1872, by Mr. John William Wallace. 
 
 117. Henry Melchior Muhlenburg. 25x30. 
 
 Born 'in Germany. Founder of the Lutheran Church in 
 
 America. Died at Philadelphia in 1787, aged 76 years. 
 
 Original by Charles Wilson Peale, copy by Mr. James B. Sword, 
 and presented by him December 9, 1861. 
 
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 118. James Ross. 25x30. 
 
 Of Pittsburg, Senator from Pennsylvania during the presi- 
 dency of Washington, and agent of Washington for the 
 management of his Western lands. 
 
 Artist, Mr. James R. Lambdin in 1844, and presented by him Deer. 
 13, 1859. 
 
 119. Charles Aemand Tufin, Marquis de la Rouerie. 25x30. 
 A French nobleman who served as Brigadier-General in 
 
 the American Army during the Revolution. He was inti- 
 mate with the family of Mr. Craig, of Andalusia, in Bucks 
 Co., and, after his return to France, sent them this portrait. 
 It was purchased from the collection of Mr. Edward Biddle 
 in 1859, and 
 
 Presented March 14, 1859, by Messrs. Robert P. King, Jos. Harri- 
 son, Jr., Lawrence Johnson, D. C. McCammon, J. B. Lippincott, 
 Thomas B. Wilson, M.D., George W. Norris, M.D., John Fagan, J. 
 Francis Fisher, H. 6. Jones, Charles S. Ogden, John Jordan, Jr., and 
 Wm. Parker Foulke. 
 
 120. Admiral George C. Read, U. S. K 25x30. 
 
 Artist, James R. Lambdin, and presented by him the 9th of Deer. 1861. 
 
 121. Lapowinsa. '24x32. 
 
 One of the signers of the Treaty for the "Walking Pur- 
 chase." 
 
 Painted in or near 1737, by, as is supposed, Hesselius or Feke. Pre- 
 sented December 17, 1834, by Granville Penn. 
 
 122. TiSHCOHAN. 24x32. 
 
 One of the signers of the Treaty for the " Walking Pur- 
 chase." 
 
 Painted in or near 1737, by, as is supposed, Hesselius or Feke. Pre- 
 sented December 17, 1834, by Granville Penn. 
 
 123. William Rawle. 25x30. 
 
 First president of the society. Born April 28th, 1759; 
 
 died April 12th, 1836. 
 
 Original by Inman. Copy by Mr. William Cogswell, and presented 
 by him December 11, 1848. 
 
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 124. Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. 25x30. 
 
 Second president of the society. Born in the Isle of Ehe, 
 France, the 3d of June, 1760. Died in Philadelphia, April 
 1st, 1844. Came to this country in 1777 as secretary to 
 Baron Steuben. 
 
 Original by Thomas Sully. Copy by W. Sanford Mason, and by 
 him presented November 17, 1852. 
 
 125. Thomas Sergeant. 29x36. 
 Third president of the society. 
 
 Artist, T. Buchanan Read, and by him presented November 17, 1852. 
 
 126. Samuel Hazard. 25x30. 
 
 Born in 1784. Died May 22d, 1870. Editor of the Colo- 
 nial Records and Archives of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Painted by Mr. William E. "Winner, and presented by him the 8th 
 of November, 1853. 
 
 127. John F. Watson. 25x30. 
 
 Born in Burlington County, 'N. J., the 13th of June, 1779. 
 Died at Germantown the 23d of December, 1860. The justly 
 celebrated annalist of Philadelphia and of Kew York, a field 
 of labor in which his rank is that of the pioneer. 
 
 Artist, Mr. A. B. Rockey, and presented by him November 17, 1853. 
 
 128. Red Jacket. 25x30. 
 
 Chief of the Senecas in ^ew York. His Indian name was 
 Sagoyenatha, which means "Keeper Awake." Born in 1756, 
 died January 20th, 1832. 
 
 Artist unknown. From Edward D. Ingraham's sale, May 14, 1855. 
 
 129. John Hampden. 25x30. 
 
 Born in London 1594. Died the 24th of June, 1643. 
 
 The history of this portrait may be gathered from the following letter 
 to Mr. Buchanan, late President of the United States, read at a meet- 
 ing of the Society, held on the 13th of May, 1856, and from the remarks 
 that follow it: — 
 
 Athen^um Club, London, 
 March 19th, 1856. 
 My Dear Sir : You having been so kind as to forward 
 the portrait of the patriot Hampden to be presented from me 
 
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 to the Congress of the United States, I think it proper for 
 me to say something of the facts, as far as I have ascertained 
 them, as to its authenticity. 
 
 It was formerly in the possession of Sir Richard Ellis, of 
 Buckinghamshire. His family, in the male line, became 
 extinct ; and it, with several portraits, passed into the pos- 
 session of collateral heirs, and one of these, almost fifteen 
 years ago, on repairing and altering his house, gave the old 
 portraits to a decorator and gilder of the name of Wesly, to 
 sell. Wesly was at the same time employed by me in deco- 
 rating and gilding my house in which I lived, in Lownde's 
 Square, and in which our mutual friend Lady Talbot de 
 Malahide now resides. From Wesly I bought Sir Peter 
 Lely's portrait of Lord William-Russell, and this portrait of 
 Hampden, attributed to Vandyke in his earliest and more 
 finished manner. 
 
 Houbraken engraved from it his portrait of Hampden for 
 his large historical collection. I send you this engraved 
 portrait. Houbracken was a somewhat harsh engraver, and 
 took liberties with the costumes, though he generally pre- 
 served the likeness. In this engraving it will be observed 
 that every feature, the moustache and hair, are strikingly 
 correct — the coloring making the only difference. There is 
 an ivory bust, very like, taken from it at the seat of the 
 Earl of Buckinghamshire. There was a fine marble bust 
 from the j)ainting at Stowe, before the magnificent collection 
 of the Duke was sold in lots a few years ago. That bust had 
 on the pedestal the following inscription : — 
 
 John Hampden. 
 
 With great courage and consummate abilities lie began a noble oppo- 
 sition to an arbitrary court in defence of the liberties of his country ; 
 supported them in Parliament, and died for them in the field. 
 
 It is known that at an early period, Hampden, disgusted 
 with the despotism of the king and the church, contemplated 
 settling in America. He, his cousin Cromwell, and several 
 others, had actually embarked in the Thames, and were pre- 
 vented from departing by Charles I. It would appear by 
 the following extract from the History of ISTew England, by 
 
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 Jedediah Morse, D.D., etc., that Hampden had previously 
 been in America when about twenty-eight years of age : — 
 
 "In the Spring of 1623 Massasoit fell sick and sent intelligence of it 
 to the Governor, who immediately sent Mr. Winslow and Mr. John 
 Hampden (the same who afterwards distinguished himself by his oppo- 
 sition to the arbitrary and urgent demands of Charles I.) to pay him a 
 visit. They carried with them presents and some cordials for his relief. 
 Their visits and presents were very consolatory to the venerable chief, 
 and were the means of his recovery. In return for their kindness he 
 informed them of a dangerous conspiracy among the neighboring In- 
 dians, the object of which was the total extinction of the English. By 
 means of this timely discovery, and the consequent spirited exertions 
 of the Governor, whose wise plans were executed by the brave Captain 
 Standish, the colony was once more saved from destruction," 
 
 These circumstances not only associate the name of Hamp. 
 den with America, but with 'the origin and rise of her politi- 
 cal, civil, and religious liberties. It was these historical 
 facts and the honest interest which I take in your magniiicent 
 country that suggested to me presenting the portrait of the 
 great patriot to your ^N^ational Congress. 
 
 Wishing with all sincerity your safe arrival and happy 
 meeting with your friends, and assuring you that I shall, 
 through life, retain the warmest recollections of the happy 
 and instructive times, I have had the pleasure of enjoying 
 
 your society, 
 
 Believe me Faithfully yours, 
 
 J. MAC GREGOE. 
 Hon. James Buchanan, etc. etc. 
 
 "When the portrait reached the Custom House, Mr. Charles 
 Brown, the Collector of the Port, kindly permitted an officer 
 of the Society to have it in his charge for a few weeks, for 
 the purpose of a copy being made. This copy was executed 
 by Mr. George W. Conarroe, who presented it the 17th of 
 January, 1857. 
 
 130. Hernando CoRTEz, THE Conqueror OF Mexico. 43x76. 
 Born at Medillin, Estramadura, in 1485, died at Seville, 
 December 2d, 1547. The original, by an artist whose name' 
 has not been preserved, is now lost, but a copy from it is in 
 the Hospital of Jesus, in Mexico, having been presented and 
 sent there by one of the family of the Dukes of Mouteleone, 
 
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 descendants of the conqueror. Wlien, during the war, Gene- 
 ral Scott occupied the city of Mexico, he appointed Captain 
 Charles Naylor to be keeper of the archives. Struck with 
 the character and value of so fine a work of art, Captain 
 !N'aylor procured this full-length copy to be executed, and on 
 his return to this city, brought it with him. Subsequently 
 it fell into the possession of Mr. Caleb Jones. 
 
 The Arms of Cortez, in the upper part of the painting, 
 were granted by Charles V., by letters patent, of March 7, 
 1525. In the instrument, it is stated that the double-headed 
 eagle is given as the arras of the Empire ; the golden lion, in 
 memory of the courage and constancy shown by Cortez in 
 the conquest of Mexico; the three golden crowns indicate 
 the three monarchs whom he . successively opposed in the 
 capital of Mexico ; the city represents that capital ; and the 
 seven heads held together by a chain, on the border of the 
 shield, denote so many Indian Princes whom he subdued in 
 the valley. 
 
 Presented 14th July, 1856, by Mr. Caleb Jones. 
 
 131. Pennsylvania Castle. 18x22. 
 
 Situated on the island of Portland, and the summer resi- 
 dence of the family of Penns. 
 
 Presented March 11, 1872, by Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
 132. Church at Stoke Poges. 18x22. 
 
 This church, attached to the seat of the Penns, was made 
 widely known by the poet Gray, in his "Elegy in a Country 
 Churchyard." 
 
 Presented March 11, 1872, by Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
 133. Andrew Jackson. 7x9. 
 President of the United States. 
 
 Artist, Thomas Sully. Presented March 11, 1861, by Samuel Breck. 
 
 134. Stephen Decatur. 7x9. 
 
 Born January 5th, 1779, on the Eastern Shore of Mary- 
 land. Fell in a duel with Commodore Barron, March 22d, 
 1820. 
 
 Artist, Thomas Sully. Presented March 11, 1861, by 'Samuel Breck. 
 
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 135. Subscription to the First Dancing Assembly, Phila- 
 
 delphia, 1748. 
 
 Presented February 12, 1872, by Mr. John Wm. Wallace. 
 
 136. Proposals to print a large Bible, by William Brad- 
 
 ford, the 14th of the First month, 1688. 
 This was the first proposal in the Colonies, to print the 
 Bible. See J. Wm. Wallace's Address, pp. 46, 65, 66. 
 
 Presented by Natban Kite. 
 
 137. William Irvine. 25x80. 
 
 Born near Enniskillen, Ireland, in 1744, went to Carlisle, 
 
 Pennsylvania, in 1764. Brigadier General in the Army of 
 
 the Revolution. Died at Philadelphia, July 30th, 1804. 
 
 Original by Robert Edge Pine. Copy presented November 14, 1865, 
 by Wm. A. Irvine, M.D. 
 
 138. Nicholas Biddle. 21x25. 
 
 Born at Philadelphia, in 1750, became a midshipman in 
 the British navy in 1770, and on the breaking out of the 
 Revolutionary War, resigned and entered the American navy. 
 While in command of the frigate Randolph, he engaged, off 
 Charleston harbor, March 7th, 1778, the British ship of the 
 line, Yarmouth, of 74 guns. Early in the action he was 
 severely wounded in the thigh, yet he continued in command, 
 and with a prospect of success against the vast odds, for it 
 was thought he fired four broadsides to one of the Yarmouth. 
 While sitting in a chair on deck, the surgeon dressing his 
 shattered thigh, the Randolph blew up, with the loss of all 
 on board, except one, or perhaps more, saved by the Yar- 
 mouth. 
 
 Original by Charles Wilson Peale, in possession of Mr. Craig Biddle. 
 Copy by Mr. Christian Schuessele, and presented by him, April 11, 
 1859. 
 
 139. Anthony Wayne, Major General of the Army of the 
 
 Revolution. 25x30. 
 
 Born in Chester county, 1746. Died at Presque Isle, De- 
 cember, 1796. 
 
 Original in cabinet size, by Colonel Trumbull, in the Trumbull Gal- 
 lery, at New Haven. A copy was made at the request of the late 
 
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 William S. Wilson, and from it this life-size head was executed by Mr. 
 P. F. Rothermel, and jDresented by him, the 9th of December, 18G1. 
 
 140. Thomas Mifflin, Major General of the Army of the 
 
 Revolution. 25x30. 
 Born about 1744. Died at Lancaster, January 20th, 1800- 
 Member of the First Continental Congress, Last President 
 of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, from 
 1788 to 1791, and under the new constitution the first Gover- 
 nor, from 1791 to 1799. 
 
 Original by Gilbert Stuart, copy by Mr. James R. Lambdin, and 
 presented by him, November 17, 1852. 
 
 141. Thomas McKean. 25x30. 
 
 Born at K^ew London, Chester county, March 19th, 1734. 
 
 Died June 24th, 1817. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania from 
 
 1777 to 1799, and second Governor under the constitution of 
 
 1790, from 1799 to 1808. 
 
 Original by Gilbert Stuart, in possession of Commodore McKean. 
 Copy by Mr. James R. Lambdin, and presented by him, November 
 17, 1852. 
 
 142. Simon Snyder. 25x35. 
 
 Governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817. 
 
 Original by Thomas Sully, in possession of John Binns. Copy by 
 Mr. James R. Lambdin, and presented by him. 
 
 143. William Findley. 25x30. 
 
 Author of the " History of the Western Insurrection." 
 
 Original by Charles Wilson Peale. Copy by Mr. James B. Sword, 
 and presented by him, January 13, 1862. 
 
 144. George Wolf. 25x30. 
 
 Governor of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1835. 
 
 Original by Joseph Kyle, in possession of Mr. J. Logue. Copy by 
 Mr. James R. Lambdin, and presented by him December 10, 1855. 
 
 145. Joseph Kitner. 25x30. 
 
 Governor of Pennsylvania from 1835 to 1839. 
 
 Original by Jacob Eicholtz, in possession of Mr. Thomas H. Bur- 
 rowes. Copy by Mr, James R. Lambdin, and presented by him Deer. 
 10, 1855. ■ 
 
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 146. The Eev. Ashbel Green. 12x14. 
 
 Presented November 17, 1852. 
 
 147. EicHARD Penx.^ 25x30. 
 
 Son of William Penn, and, after his death, one of the Pro- 
 prietaries and Governors of the Province of Pennsylvania. 
 Having married Hannah Lardner, he and his wife sat for 
 their portraits, three-quarter length, which were painted by 
 that excellent artist, Richard Wilson, in the year 1751. Mr. 
 Penn then sent them to this country as a present to his 
 brother-in-law, Lynford Lardner, from whom they have 
 descended to his grandson, the present Admiral James L. 
 Lardner, U. S. iT. 
 
 Copy by Mr. James R. Lambdin, and presented by bim the 9th of 
 December, 1861. 
 
 148. Amerigo Yespucci. 16x22. 
 
 The navigator from whom this continent received its name. 
 He was born at Florence on the 9th of March, 1451, and 
 died at Seville on the 22d. of February, 1512. 
 
 This portrait was copied from the original in the gallery of the 
 Grand Duke of Tuscany, by Charles Wilson Peale, and is the only 
 painting possessed by this Society, except that of the blowing up of 
 the Frigate Augusta, that once formed part of his interesting and valu- 
 able gallery. Presented June 13, 1859, by Wilson C. Swann, M.D. 
 
 149. James Logan. 25x30. 
 
 Born in 1674, came to Philadelphia with William Penn in 
 1699. Was Provincial Secretary and President of the Council 
 of the Province from 1736 to 1738. Collected an extensive 
 and valuable classical library, which now forms the Loganian 
 Library. Translated Cicero on Old Age. Died October 31, 
 1751. 
 
 Artist unknown. Copy by Mr. William Cogswell, and presented Oct. 
 26, 1852, by the donors of Andrew and James Hamilton. 
 
 150. William Penn. 24x30. 
 
 Born in London October 14, 1644. Landed at Upland, 
 
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 now Chester, :N"ovember 8, 1682, K S. Died July 30, 1718, at 
 Rushcombe, near Twyford, in Buckinghamshire, EngUxnd. 
 
 This original and authentic portrait of the founder of Pennsylvania 
 was painted, as the words on it show, when he was 22 years of age. 
 Artist unknown. Presented by his grandson, Granville Penn, of Stoke 
 Poges, March 20, 1833. 
 
 151. Grave of William Penn. 26x88. 
 
 The simple mound that marks the spot where repose the 
 remains of the Grcnt Founder, is to be seen in tlie Quaker 
 Burial Ground, at Jordan's, near Beconsfield, in Buckingham- 
 shire. 
 
 Artist, Decort. Presented December 17, 1834, by Granville Penn. 
 
 152. Isaac Nobris. 25x30. 
 
 He was the second son of Isaac N^orris, the founder of his 
 
 family in Pennsylvania. Born October 23, 1701. Married 
 
 June 6, 1739, Sarah, the only daughter of James Logan, of 
 
 Stenton. Died at Fair Hill, July 13, 1766. On the death of 
 
 his father, he became proprietor of this estate, and resided 
 
 there till his death. He was Speaker of the General Assembly 
 
 for many years, and the leader of the party in opposition to the 
 
 Proprietary interest. 
 
 Original, artist unknown, in possession of John Dickinson Logan, 
 M.D. Copy by Mr. William Cogswell, and presented September 13, 
 1852, by Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
 153. Unknown Portrait. 16x22. 
 
 154. John Penn. 25x30. 
 
 Son of Thomas and Lady Juliana Penn. Born February 
 23, 1760. Died 1834. 
 
 The original is by Pine in 1787, and was presented by John Penn to 
 his friend Edmund Physic, accompanied with the following note. Deer. 
 18, 1787. "This iiicture of one of a family in j'our connection, with 
 whom your probity and attachment have been so conspicuous, is pre- 
 sented as a testimony of gratitude and regard by your sincere friend and 
 obedient humble servant, John Penn." 
 
 Copy by Mr. James R. Lambdin, presented by him the 9th of Deer. 
 1861. 
 
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 155. The Kev. David Jones. 12x14. 
 Chaplain of "Wayne's Brigade. 
 
 Original in possession of liis grandson, Mr. Horatio G. Jones. 
 Copy by Mr. George W. Conarroe, and presented by him April 14, 
 1853. 
 
 156. Sebastian Cabot. 
 
 Engraved from the original in possession of Charles Joseph 
 Horford. The original portrait was purchased by the late 
 Richard Biddle, of Pittsburg, and unfortunately was de- 
 stroyed at the great fire there. 
 
 This engraving was presented the 10th of April, 1871, by Mr. 
 William M. Darlington, of Pittsburg. 
 
 157. John Penn, son of "William Penn. 25x30. 
 
 Visited Pennsylvania in 1734. Died Oct. 18, 1746. 
 
 Original in possession of Mr, Richard Penn Lardner. Copy by Mr. 
 James R. Lambdiu, and presented by him the 9th of December, 18G1. 
 
 158. Francis R. Shunk. 25x30. 
 
 Governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848. 
 
 Artist, Mr. James R. Lambdin in 1844 and presented by him Deer. 
 12, 1859. 
 
 159. WiLLAM Moore. 25x30. 
 
 President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylva- 
 nia from 1781 to 1782. William Moore married Sarah Lloyd, 
 great-granddaughter of Thomas Lloyd, Deputy-Governor 
 under Wm. Penn. He was of the Lloyds of Dolobran, Wales, 
 and traced his ancestry to Mirick, Prince of Demeca, who 
 was born A.D. 490. Their son, Thomas Lloyd Moore, mar- 
 ried Sarah Stamper, whose daughter Eliza married Richard 
 Willing, whose descendants are living. 
 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of William and sister of Thomas 
 Lloyd Moore, married the Marquis Barbe de Marbois, the 
 history of whose family is interesting. They had an only child, 
 Sophie, who married the Duke de Plaisance, for a long time 
 the French Minister at Athens ; and these had an only child 
 who became engaged to Count Capo d'lstria. President of 
 the Greek Republic. He was assassinated in 1831, and she 
 
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 did not long survive him. The Duchess de Plaisance died 
 at Athens on the 14th of May, 1854, intestate, and with no 
 living issue. Upon this the children of Richard Willing 
 claimed her estates, valued at two millions of francs, and ob- 
 tained a decision of the French courts in their favor. 
 
 Artist, Charles Wilson Peale. Copy by Mr. James R. Lambdin, and 
 presented by him the 9th of December, 1861. 
 
 160. Thomas Whakton, Jr. 25x30. 
 
 President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylva- 
 nia from 1777 to 1778. 
 
 Original by Charles Wilson Peale, in possession of Mr. Fishboume 
 Wharton. Copy by Mr. James R. Lambdin, and presented by him 
 the 9th of December, 1861. 
 
 161. John Dickinson. 25x30. 
 
 Born in Maryland I^ovember 13th, 1732. Author of the 
 " Farmer's Letters." President of the Supreme Executive 
 Council of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1785. Governor of 
 Delaware. Died February 14, 1808. Artist, Charles Wilson 
 Peale, in possession of J. Dickinson Logan, M.D. 
 
 Copy by Mr. William Cogswell, and presented October 11, 1852, by 
 Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
 162. Sir William Keith. 25x30. 
 
 Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1717 to 
 1726. Died in the year 1749. The original is the pencil 
 drawing by that early American artist, John Watson, pre- 
 sented by Mr. William A. Whitehead, of ]^ewark, !N'ew Jer- 
 sey, :N'ov. 12, 1855. 
 
 Copy by Mr. J. Harrison Lambdin, and presented by him December 
 12, 1859. 
 
 163. Andrew Hamilton. 25x30. 
 
 Original, artist unknown, destroyed. A copy, however, 
 had been made previously by Wertmuller, which at last came 
 into the possession of Mr. Henry Becket, who permitted Mr. 
 William Cogswell to make this copy. 
 
 Presented October 26, 1852, by the donors of James Hamilton. 
 
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 164. James Hamilton. 40x50. 
 
 Son of Andrew Hamilton. Governor of the Province of 
 Pennsylvania from 1748 to 1754, and from 1759 to 1763. 
 The original is a full-length, hy Benjamin West. The 
 remarkably fine hand is said to have been stood for by 
 Charles Wilson Peale, who was then in London, and a pupil 
 of West. 
 
 Copy by Mr. William Cogswell, and presented, together with the por- 
 traits of James Logan and Andrew Hamilton, October 26, 1852, by 
 Messrs. George W. Norris, M.D., J. R. Tyson, Hartman Kulin, J. 
 Francis Fisher, Thomas Biddle, John Cadwalader, Samuel Breck, 
 Thomas Sergeant, S. Austin Allibone, John Jordan, Jr., Joseph Sill, 
 Isaac R. Davis, Thomas S. Mitchell, Richard Price, H. Pratt McKean, 
 N. B. Browne, John McAllister, Jr., George W. Childs, J. E. Negus, 
 Caleb Cope, William Parker Foulke, Benjamin H. Coates, M.D., 
 Evans Rogers, George Hammersly, John William Wallace, George 
 Cadwalader, and J. Dickinson Logan, M.D. 
 
 165. Henry D. Gilpin. 25x30. 
 
 Vice-President of the Society, and Attorney-General of 
 
 the United States. 
 
 Original by Inman, copied by Mr. Samuel B. Waugh. Presented the 
 nth of November, 1872, by Mrs. Henry D. Gilpin. 
 
 166. Benjamin West. 21x26. 
 
 Born in Springfield TownshijD, Delaware County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, October 10, 1738. Died March 10, 1820. 
 
 Original by Sir Thomas Lawrence. A copy with the cypher C. G. 
 This picture was deposited by some j^erson now unknown, 
 and also, it is believed, unknown at the time of the sale to 
 be spoken of, in the Gallery of the Academy of the Fine 
 Arts. When the Meade Collection, which had also been 
 deposited there, was sold at auction, this, by some error, was 
 supposed to belong to it, and was sold. It was bought by- 
 Mr. Currie, the picture restorer, and purchased from him. 
 
 Presented, April 14, 1853, by Messrs. John Jordan, Jr., J. R. Tyson, 
 J. Engle Negus, Smith Bowen, Henry Palmer, H. G. Jones, Jr., 
 George W. Norris, M.D., J. J. Mickley, William Parker Foulke. 
 
 167. The Treaty Tree. 12x18. 
 
 IsTote by the late Cephas G. Childs. 
 "The following inscription is from the back of the draw- 
 
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 iiig from which this painting was copied. The original was 
 made probably about 1809, a short time before the tree was 
 blown down, which occurred in the year 1810. 
 
 " 'The Treaty Tree, Kensington. 
 "From the original drawing made on the spot, by J. J. 
 Barralet in 180- Copied by permission from the original pic- 
 ture by Thomas Doughty, R.A., for Cephas C Childs' Views 
 of Philadelphia in 1829. The figures drawn by Thomas 
 Underwood, A.P.A.' " Artist, Xanthus Smith, 1866. 
 
 Bequest of the late Ceplias G. Childs, and delivered by his executor, 
 the Rev. S. C. Brace, October 9, 1871. 
 
 168. Commission by Washington, to the Director of the 
 Mint, 1796. 
 Elias Boudinot, to whom the commission was made out, 
 was born in this city. May 2, 1740, from French Huguenot 
 ancestry, who came to America soon after the revocation of 
 the Edict of I^Tantes. He received a good education, and 
 entered upon the practice of the law in Kew Jersey. He early 
 espoused the cause of the colonies in their differences with 
 Great Britain, and in 1777 was appointed Commissary- 
 General of prisoners, and in the same year elected a member 
 of the Continental Congress. In 1782 he was made President 
 of that body, and signed in 1783 our treaty of peace with 
 Great Britain. At a subsequent date he was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Congress of the United States under the present 
 constitution. In 1796 he was appointed by President 
 Washington, who long had had opportunities of witnessing 
 his abilities and integrity. Director of the Mint, an office 
 which he held till 1805, when he retired from all public em- 
 ployments, and fixed his residence in Burlington, IS". J., and 
 devoted himself to benevolent and literary pursuits. He be- 
 came a trustee of Princeton College in 1805, and endowed it 
 with a cabinet of natural history. In 1812 he was a member 
 of the American board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 
 and in 1816 was made the first President of the American 
 Bible Society ; an institution in which he ever took great in- 
 terest, and to which in a single donation he gave $10,000, a 
 great sum of money at the time he gave it. His wife was a 
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 sister of Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration, 
 whose own wife was a sister of Mr. Boudinot. Mr. Boudinot 
 built, and while in Philadelphia resided in, the handsome 
 edifice still standing at the S.E. corner of 9th and Arch. He 
 had one child, a daughter, who became the wife of the Hon. 
 William Bradford, Attorney-General of the United States 
 in the presidency of Washington. Mr. Boudinot died at his 
 residence in Burlington, October 24, 1821, and is buried in 
 the grounds of St. Mary's Church, where his daughter, wife, 
 and many of his connections are also interred. 
 
 169. The Chair and Cane of Robert Proud, the Historian. 
 
 Presented, August 16, 1826, by Charles West Thompson. 
 
 It is a misfortune that we possess so little to recall the 
 past, for a few Indian hatchets and arrow-heads, and some 
 pieces of Indian pottery, are, with two important exceptions, 
 the Great Belt of Wampum, and the Deed from the Indians, 
 nearly all that we can exhibit of the race that once owned 
 the continent. Of the Swedes who, in 1638 and 1642, came 
 here under the reign of their mad Queen Christina, we have 
 among us many worthy descendants, and some of their vene- 
 rable churches still remain, and there is 
 
 IN THE FIRE-PROOF ROOM 
 
 170. A Patent from Queen Christina to Captain Hans 
 
 Amundsson Besk, Stockholm, 20 Augast, 1653 ; 
 granting land in ~New Sweden , extending to Upland 
 Kyll. 
 Presented the 17th of November, 1852, by Mr. Aubrey H. Smith. 
 
 While we have so little of the day. of the domination of 
 the Swedes, of the Dutch, who in 1655 conquered them, 
 even less remains. Of the English, however, who in 1664 
 took possession and held it with but a slight interruption, we 
 can display an invaluable original manuscript. 
 
 171. " The Record of the Court held at Uppland in Delowar 
 
 River from 1676 to 1681." 
 Before this land was granted to Penn, and named Pennsyl- 
 vania, there were people, Swedes, Dutch, and English, living 
 
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 along the margin of tlie Delaware River, and most fortunately 
 this full record of the court that administered justice among 
 them has preserved for our day a graphic and truthful picture 
 of their life and manners. It was a primitive mode of life 
 they led, and their manners were somewhat rude, hut all was 
 natural, and we cannot, therefore, read without interest of 
 "Jan Cornelissen, of Amesland, complayning to ye Court 
 that his son Erik is bereft of his naturall sences & is turned 
 quyt madd," and that it was "Ordered: that three or 4 per- 
 sons bee hired to build a little Blockhouse at Amesland for 
 to put in the sd. madman." 
 
 With a quaint simplicity, entirely in accordance with 
 those early times, 
 
 Andries Inckhooren is Plaintiff against 
 Andries Homman ye Constable, Deft, and 
 
 "The Pit. complains that this Deft, hath pulled him by 
 the Beard and twisted his neck, and desires to know ye 
 reason." 
 
 Poetic justice was even meted out, for at the session held 
 October ye 13th, 1680, at Kingsessing, in an action of slander 
 and defamation, 
 
 Claes Cram is Pit. against 
 Hans Peterss Deft., and 
 
 " The Deft, not being able to prove what he hath said or 
 any part thereof, the Court ordered that ye Deft, openly shall 
 declare himself a Lyar." 
 
 They spoke freely, and used plain English, as in the case of 
 Moens Peterson Staecket Pit. and 
 Hans Jurian Deft. 
 
 When " William Orian sworne, declares that Laest yeare 
 Living att Calkoenhock he oft' heard great Rangling between 
 Pit. & Deft: and that ye deft, sayed you have broaken my 
 caues Legg and thou art a gallows theef." 
 
 The court did not escape animadversion among those free- 
 spoken people, and it was well that Penn was soon to come, 
 for, on the 14th of June, 1681, "Benck Salung sworne in 
 Cort. sayeth that hendrick Colman tould him that hee heard 
 moens Staecket say that all the Court were Rogues." 
 
 To be deposited with, or presented to, the Society, by J. Dickinson 
 Logan, M.D, 
 
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 Pennsylvania has a heritage of moral and mental grandeur. 
 She derived much from the Swedes, who gloried in such 
 rulers as Gustavus Adolphus, and Christina, that Queen 
 so full of promise in her earlier years, and the Chancellor 
 Oxenstiern, whose wisdom taught his youthful mistress all 
 his art. The Dutch, whose naval power at that time was 
 still great, must also have left their deep impress upon the 
 mind and character of the people who lived in straggling 
 settlements along the Delaware. The English, now aspiring 
 to become the leading power of the world, were stimulated 
 to absorb the infant colony, and through William Penn suc- 
 ceeded in obtaining that overpowering influence which they 
 never afterwards lost. 
 
 172. Proclamation of Charles II. Given at the Court at 
 
 Whitehall, the second day of April, 1681, to the 
 inhabitants and planters of the Province of Penn- 
 sylvania, describing the bounds of the Province and 
 enjoining obedience to the Proprietary, etc. Broad- 
 side, with the Royal Arms. 
 
 Presented September 28th, 1846, by Mr. Richard M. Grain, of Har- 
 risburg. 
 
 173. William Penn's Instructions to the Commissioners for 
 
 settling the Colony. 
 
 " The above document is presented to the Historical So- 
 ciety of Pennsylvania. It was found among the Hamilton 
 papers at the Woodlands. 
 
 " It has considerable value and curiosity, as it contains the 
 original instructions to the Commissioners William Crispin, 
 John Bezar, and J^athaniel Allen, for settling the Colony, 
 sent a year before William Penn's first visit, and dated Sep- 
 tember 30th, 1681. 
 
 " The last two lines and signature are in the handwriting 
 of the Founder and Lord Proprietor. 
 
 "My wish is that it may be carefully and neatly framed in 
 such a way as to be read on both sides through the glass. 
 
 J. FRANCIS FISHER." 
 Presented the 11th of March, 1872. 
 
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 174. The First Deed of the Indians to William Penn, 
 July 15th, 1682. 
 A satisfactory account of tliis document may be obtained 
 from the following letters. 
 
 308 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, June 4, 1867. 
 To the President, etc. of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Gentlemen : As a member of the Historical Society I de- 
 sire to place in its charge and keeping an authentic relic of 
 the olden time, -vvhich I purchased some years ago at the 
 Sanitary Fair in this city, and which seems to be too valuable 
 and important a document to remain in private possession. 
 
 It is, I believe, the iirst original deed of the Indians to 
 William Penn, and it bears on its face, as well as in the 
 indorsements on its back, full internal evidence of its genuine- 
 ness and its value. 
 
 These are, however, also abundantly certified to in the in- 
 closed note of William M. Tilghman, Esq., in whose family it 
 has remained for many years, and who presented it to the 
 Fair, to be sold for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission. 
 
 I beg to refer you to that note, as also to Mr. Tilghman 
 himself, for further information ; and, asking your acceptance 
 and proper preservation of the gift, 
 
 I am, gentlemen, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 THOMAS KIMBER, Jr. 
 1303 Locust Street, Philadelphia, September 11, 1865. 
 Thomas Kimber, Jr., Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir : In reply to your inquiry, I have to state, that 
 the original deed from the Indians to William Penn, dated 
 15th July, 1682, for a large part of what is now Bucks 
 County, Pennsylvania, presented by me to the great Central 
 Fair of the U. S. Sanitary Commission in this city, in June, 
 1864, and there purchased by you, was found, about ten years 
 ago, among the law papers of my grandfather, the late Edward 
 Tilghman, of this city, to whom it is supposed to have been 
 given by some of the Penn family, for whom he was counsel, 
 shortly after the Revolution. 
 
 The copy of it contained on pages 47 to 49 of the first vol- 
 
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 ume of the "Pennsylvania Archives," is apparently taken 
 from an incomplete copy of the original — the indorsement of 
 the "livery of seisin," as well as the note of the signatures 
 or marks of the Indian sachems, being omitted in the printed 
 copy. 
 
 It is undoubtedly thejirst deed from the Indians to Penn, 
 and as such, being the original evidence of his first treaty 
 with them, negotiated about three months before his arrival 
 in the province, by his deputy, William Markham, is one of 
 the most curious and interesting documents connected with 
 the history of Pennsylvania. 
 
 I am truly glad to find that, through your liberality, this 
 old relic not only " served its turn" well at the Fair, but is 
 likely to be placed where it will be permanently preserved 
 among other records of the early history of our State. 
 Very respectfully and truly yours, 
 
 W. M. TILGHMAK 
 
 175. The Great Belt of "Wampum delivered to William Penn 
 
 at the Treaty of 1682, under the Elm Tree at 
 Shackamaxon. 
 
 " The treaty not sworn to and never broken" made Phila- 
 delphia and Pennsylvania famous over the whole civilized 
 world. An event so unprecedented was well calculated to 
 excite universal respect, and the fact that the Independence 
 of the Colonies was declared in the same place doubtless in- 
 spired a higher degree of confidence in its purposes than 
 otherwise would have been entertained. 
 
 This priceless treasure was delivered to the Society by 
 Granville John Penn, with an admirable speech, and received 
 with great formality and speeches, AjDril 13th, 1857. 
 
 176. Warrant to run the line between Chester and 'New 
 
 Castle Counties. 
 This first beginning of the famous Mason and Dixon's line 
 separated Pennsylvania from the Territory, as the three lower 
 counties on Delaware were called. The division was ordered 
 to be made " By a circular line extending according to ye 
 King's Letters Pattents and Deeds of Enfoefiment from the 
 
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 Duke for ye same, and ye sd circular line to be well 
 marked two-thirds part of ye semicircle." 
 
 The warrant is dated 28th of 8 mo. 1701, and signed by William Penn. 
 
 177. Manuscripts of the Proprietary Family. 
 
 This collection of the manuscripts of the family of "William 
 Penn, so important in the history of the State, being recently 
 exposed for sale, and exciting much interest among those in- 
 terested, their purchase was contemplated. After a trial, 
 which resulted in only three or four hundred dollars being 
 subscribed for the purpose, a member of the Society deter- 
 mined to secure them, trusting afterwards to be partly reim- 
 bursed. The failure of the effort led to an informal meeting 
 of some members of the Society, who decided to solicit a 
 fellow member, whose broad views and correct judgment in 
 such affairs were long and well known to them, to under- 
 take to obtain contributions sufficient for the purchase. 
 Upon the presentation of their views, he, conceiving that the 
 separation and dispersion of such a treasury of historical 
 records would reflect great discredit upon the city of Phila- 
 delphia, acceded to the request, and in a short time effected 
 the desired object. On the day, however, on which he de- 
 cided to act, the member of the Society previously alluded 
 to dispatched a telegram to London, made the purchase, and 
 had the manuscripts at once shipped to this city. The sub- 
 scriptions obtained amounted to rather more than five thou- 
 sand dollars, a sum not only sufficient for the purpose, but 
 which left a balance that increased the Permanent Bindins: 
 Fund of the Society from its former amount, two thousand 
 and fifty dollars, to three thousand and fifty dollars. When 
 these manuscripts shall be arranged and bound, a labor that 
 will require a very considerable time, the whole will form 
 probably one hundred volumes. 
 
 178. Among the few printed volumes contained in the pur- 
 
 chase is William Pexn's Bible, with his Book plate 
 and Arms, 1703. 
 
 The contributors to the fund for the purchase of the Penn Manu- 
 scripts, which they still own, but may perliaps deposit with or present to 
 
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 the Society, were Messrs. Alfred Cope, John William Wallace, J. Gil- 
 lingham Fell, John Jordan, Jr., Henry C. Gibson, Thomas A. Scott, 
 Matthew Baird, William Sellers & Co., Clement Biddle, George W. 
 Norris, M.D., Henry C. Lea, Charles E. Smith, Franklin B. Gowen, 
 J. Dickinson Logan, M.D., J. B. Lippincott & Co., Isaac Norris, John 
 J. Smith, E. W. Clark & Co., Eli K. Price, John A. Brown, Law- 
 rence S. Pepper, M.D., Isaac Lea, George W. Childs, William M. Baird, 
 John Famum, John T. Lewis, John J. Thompson, Thomas Sparks, 
 Charles Yamall, Aubrey H. Smith, Evan Randolph, Charles H. Hutch- 
 inson, Ferdinand J. Dreer, Edward C. Knight, William Struthers, 
 Charles J. Peterson, George B. Wood, M. D., J. Francis Fisher, John 
 S. NeAvbold, S. K. Ashton, M.D., Frederick D. Stone, John A. McAl- 
 lister, Benjamin H. Coates, M.D., William J. Horstmann, Archibald 
 Campbell, William T. Carter, Furman Sheppard, J. Dickinson Ser- 
 geant, E. Spencer Miller, Henry C. Townsend, James L. Claghorn, 
 John O. James, David S. Brown, Samuel Chew, George W. Biddle, 
 Charles M. Morris, William P. Cresson, John Clayton, Samuel L. 
 Smedley, John McAllister, Jr., Lewis A. Scott, Henry H. Bingham, 
 Morton McMichael, Edmund Smith, Charles J. Lukens, Townsend 
 Ward, Israel Pemberton, and Admiral James L. Lardner. 
 
 179. Letters of John Adams. 
 
 This volume contains one hundred and twenty-nine letters 
 
 written by John Adams, and five by John Quincy Adams, 
 
 from 1781 to 1829, to Francis Adrienvan der Kemp. It was 
 
 thought that a collection of such great value and interest 
 
 should be adorned with a binding of such elegance as to mark 
 
 the appreciation of a society composed of the cultivated and 
 
 intelligent, and the letters were, therefore, placed in the 
 
 hands of Messrs. Pawson & Nicholson, for that purpose. 
 
 Each letter is inlaid in J. "Whatman's hand-laid paper, made 
 
 about the close of the last century. The workmanship is 
 
 most artistic, and was performed by Mr. James Pawson, in 
 
 the 71st year of his age. The binding is full bhie Turkey 
 
 Morocco, richly gilt. It is but proper to say that Messrs. 
 
 Pawson & Nicholson contributed the considerable sum paid 
 
 them for this beautiful work, towards the fund for improving 
 
 the present hall of the society. 
 
 Presented June 12, 1871, by Mrs. Pauline E. Henry, 7iee Vander 
 Kemp. 
 
 180. Eecords of Births, Marriages, and Deaths of the 
 
 Society of Friends in Pennsylvania. 
 From their origin, it has been the custom of the Society 
 
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 of Friends to record the proceedings of their various Monthly, 
 Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings ; and in each Monthly Meet- 
 ing there was entered in properly prepared books, as they 
 occurred, each birth, marriage, or death, by a Recorder duly 
 appointed for the purpose. These valuable records have been 
 carefully preserved, but the lapse of near two centuries (in- 
 deed the entry of births of more than two hundred years ago 
 may be seen) has multiplied the entries to so great a number 
 that it had long been a matter of very serious labor to make 
 an effective search, unless, indeed, there was a previous 
 knowledge of the date of the event recorded. The knowl- 
 edge acquired from such search was also most partial, for 
 witK time the meetings had become more numerous, and con- 
 sequently, the many voluminous records, so widely scattered, 
 made it simply impossible that any one peraon could possess 
 even a general acquaintance with them. 
 
 These records, transcribed and gathered together, and with 
 full indices, will be found to be essential to those who may 
 have occasion to trace their descent from any of the nume- 
 rous people of the Society of Friends. Even now, when so 
 little is completed, the number of persons who make exami- 
 nations excites constant surprise. 
 
 An idea of the magnitude of the work and of the consider- 
 able labor it involved may be formed from an examination 
 of the bound volume of Chester County, now completed, which 
 contains the records, alphabetically arranged, of ten Monthly 
 Meetings, viz. : Birmingham, Bradford, Centre, Fallowfield, 
 Goshen, Kennett, Londongrove, 'New Garden, !N^ottingham, 
 Penn's Grove, Sadsbury, and Uwchlan. This one book, the 
 labor of Gilbert Cope, of Chester County, is an elephant folio 
 of 614 pages, and contains, in alphabetical order, twenty-four 
 thousand six hundred and forty-nine entries. 
 
 The contributions for the work, as far as it has been effected, hare 
 been made by Messrs. Alfred Cope, J. Gilliugham Fell, and John Jordan, 
 Jr. 
 
 181. Lock of the Bank of St. George, at Genoa, with its 
 Gilded Key. 
 
 When this ancient Bank, which existed before the days of 
 Columbus, was, some twenty years ago, undergoing some 
 
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 alteration, an officer of our navy, happening to pass, requested 
 permission to take this lock. It was cheerfully accorded to 
 him, and he brought it to this city. 
 
 Presented April 13, 1857, by Lieut. George Harrison Hare, U. S. N. 
 
 182. Non-Importatiox Eesolutions of the Merchants 
 
 AND Traders of Philadelphia. 
 The aversion to the Stamp Act found utterance in these 
 proceedings, the determined tone of which reflects credit on 
 the citizens of Philadelphia. Three hundred and seventy- 
 four signatures are appended to the resolutions. 
 
 Presented 8tli of May, 1854, by Mr. William Bradford. 
 
 183. John Brown " Pike," Harper's Ferry, October, 1859. 
 
 Presented June 14, 1869, by Mr. J. Miller McKim. 
 
 184. Marshal Kane "Pike," Baltimore, May, 1861. 
 
 Presented November 11, 1872, by Mr. Charles E. Smith. 
 
 185. Shaving Basin and Ewer of William Penn, with 
 
 his Arms engraved. 
 Presented 18th of July, 1837, by Thomas I. "Wharton. 
 
 186. Declaration of the Members of the Washington 
 
 Benevolent Society of Pennsylvania. 
 
 " We, and each of us, do hereby severally declare that we 
 are firmly attached to the Constitution of the United States, 
 and that of the State of Pennsylvania ; to the principles of 
 a free Republican government, and to those which regulated 
 the public conduct of George Washington. That we will 
 each of us, to the best of our abilities, and so far as may be 
 consistent with our religious principles, preserve the rights 
 and liberty of our country against all foreign and domestic 
 violence, fraud, and usurpation ; and that as members of the 
 Washington Benevolent Society we will in all things com- 
 ply with its regulations, support its principles, and enforce 
 its views." 
 
 This original volume, containing the above Declaration of 
 a Society instituted in 1812, and that was most important 
 
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 in its day, and whose fine hall stood on the west side of 
 Third Street, north of Spruce, has in it the autograph sig- 
 natures of its members. They commence with that of 
 Robert "Wharton, and are in number two thousand six hun- 
 dred and forty-five. 
 
 Presented by Mrs. Julia de Vaux Foulke. 
 
 187. Medal OF "Washin&ton. Obverse: Bust of "Washington, 
 in civil dress, facing to the right. Legend: G. 
 Washington Pres. Unit. Sta. Reverse : The em- 
 blems of authority, civil and military, deposited 
 upon the table of the Union. Legend : Commiss. 
 Resigned ; Presidency Relinq. Exergue. 1797. 
 This medal, with the collar of blue silk to which it is 
 attached, once belonged to Benjamin Thaw, one of the Vice- 
 Presidents of the Washington Benevolent Society. 
 
 Presented December 11th, 1872, by Miss Harriet A. Thaw. 
 
 As to the manuscripts gathered together in the fire-proof 
 apartment, many are bound in volumes, such as that which 
 contains thirty original letters of William Penn ; those of the 
 Logans and the Shippens in five volumes each, the Hamil- 
 tons, Irvines, Potts', and others, and the manuscript volumes 
 of Watson's Annals. 
 
 This catalogue, perhaps already much too long, must now 
 be closed, but not without a word as to one of the greatest 
 American bibliographical treasures. 
 
 188, The Bradford Prayer Book, of 1710. 
 
 It had occurred to no one of this generation that the 
 Prayer Book had ever been printed in the colonies, until Mr. 
 John William Wallace, in his address before the N^ew York 
 Historical Society, on the 20th of May, 1863 (when that 
 Society celebrated Bradford's 200th birth-day), referred to 
 the fact that the records of Trinity Church, !N'ew York, con- 
 tained an order for a loan to William Bradford, for the pur- 
 pose of enabling him to issue such a work, and asserted that 
 the work itself must have issued some time prior to 1714. It 
 was, however, doubted, by many bibliophiles of Kew York, 
 
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 whether the work had ever appeared, and this doubt was 
 not entirely dispelled until 1870, when Mr. John W. Jordan 
 found a copy of the book in the Moravian Church, of this 
 city. And then it was completely dispelled only by sending 
 the book to l^ew York to be seen of all who doubted. It is 
 hardly too much to say that this volume should be ranked as 
 the first of rare American books. 
 
 Presented the 13th of June, 1870, by Mr. John Jordan, Jr. 
 
FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 All legacies that have been received are held as permanent 
 funds. 
 
 Paul Beck's Legacy 
 
 $100 00 
 
 Peter S. DuPonceau's Legacy 
 
 200 00 
 
 Thomas Sergeant's Legacy 
 
 100 00 
 
 George CliamJ«rs's Legacy 
 
 Athenian Instraite, Donation. 
 
 100 00 
 
 850 00 
 
 PUBLICATION FUND • $18,000 00 
 
 Only the interest of this fund is used. A subscription of 
 twenty-five dollars obtains the right to receive during life a 
 copy of each book as it appears. Since its institution, there 
 has been expended, for the cost of publications, more than 
 twelve thousand dollars, all of which had been received as 
 interest from investments. 
 
 The trustees are Messrs. John Jordan, Jr., Aubrey H. Smith, 
 and Fairman Rogers. 
 
 BINDINa FUND • • 
 
 This fund was established in 1861 by the late Dr. Thomas B. 
 Wilson, who presented seven hundred dollars for the purpose. 
 In 1865 a member of the Society added one thousand dollars 
 to it, and in 1871 an additional thousand dollars, the balance of 
 money remaining after the purchase of the Penn Manuscripts, 
 was added. Although so recently commenced, and so small in 
 amount, yet the cost of binding paid for out of the interest of 
 this fund already reaches more than twelve hundred dollars. 
 
 The trustees are Messrs. John Jordan, Jr., Aubrey H. Smith, 
 and Fairman Rogers. 
 
 $3,050 00 
 
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 BUILDING FUND 
 
 . $10,775 00 
 
 In order to provide in some degree for the demands of tlie 
 future, two Funds were created, and were the result of the fol- 
 lowing subscriptions of members of the Society. 
 
 John Jordan, Jr. . 
 
 
 
 
 
 . $1000 00 
 
 Thomas B. Wilson, M.D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 Joseph R. Ingersoll 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 Ferdinand J. Dreer 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 Thomas Sparks 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 G. Craig Heberton, M.D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; 500 00 
 
 George W. Norris, M.D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 H. Pratt McKean 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 S. Morris Wain 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 John Welsh . 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 John William Wallace 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 Joseph S. Lovering 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 Thomas A. Scott . 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 J. Gillingham Fell 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 500 00 
 
 Lawrence S. Pepper, M.D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 250 00 
 
 J. Edgar Thomson 
 
 
 
 
 
 250 00 
 
 William Massey . 
 
 
 
 
 
 . 250 00 
 
 John 0. James 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 William S. Wilson 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 Isaac Norris 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 James C. Hand 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 Horstmann & Sons 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 William Wetherill 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 Thomas Smith 
 
 
 
 
 
 200 00 
 
 Charles Macalester 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Edward Penington, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Henry G. Morris . 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Thomas T. Tasker, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 N. B. Browne 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Wm. P. Brock . 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Wm. Sellers & Co. 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 George T. Lewis . 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 John T. Lewis 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 William H. Kemble 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Stephen Morris 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 00 
 
 Daniel Smith, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 00 
 
 $10,775 00 
 
 Five thousand dollars of this sum were subscribed under a 
 resolution of the Society of August 13th, 1855, and, by the con- 
 ditions of the subscription, the interest accruing therefrom is to 
 be used by the trustees, who are also trustees of the Publication 
 
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 Fund, in the expense of publications until tlie Publication Fund 
 of itself sliall amount to twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 The other and larger portion was subscribed under no condi- 
 tion, but simply "to obtain means for a building for the use of the 
 Society," in accordance with a resolution of the Council of the 
 Society of January 25th, 1869. 
 
 The period is now approaching when the condition attached 
 to the first fund will have been complied with, and, when that 
 time shall have arrived, it Avill no doubt be the desire of the 
 gentlemen whose liberality created the two funds, that they 
 should be united and held, as is desired by the trustees of the 
 fund first raised, by the trustees of the last raised fund, the in- 
 terest accumulated and other subscriptions added, and that 
 there should be imposed upon the Society and the trustees the 
 following condition : That the fund shall only be used in the 
 erection of a fire-proof building, free from debt. 
 
 The trustees of the fund last created are Messrs. John Welsh, 
 Clarence H, Clark, and Henry C. Gibson. 
 
 LIBRARY FUND • . • $1,000 00 
 
 Mr. George Washington Smith, now a Vice-President of the 
 Society, one of its founders A.D. 1825, and during long years of 
 its earlier existence, as still, a faithful and beneficent friend, is 
 understood, as the last page of this pamphlet is going through 
 the press, to have placed in the hands of the President the sum 
 of one thousand dollars, with the view of its becoming a perma- 
 nent fund, to be increased, as is designed, by other members, 
 and the interest to be used in the purchase of books and manu- 
 scripts. The particulars of the trust designated by Mr. Smith 
 for this handsome gift will be put before the Society hereafter. 
 Mr. Smith, in a note inclosing his check, says : — 
 
 " I trust that the Historical Society, with which I have been 
 so long connected, will consider the sum thus given it, as a 
 mark of my good will and of the sincere satisfaction with which 
 I witness the late efforts made through the liberality of certain 
 of its members to place its concerns on a base worthy of its 
 object." 
 
 Much in the nature of a trust, and hardly less important, has 
 been the effort to guard against the possibility of fire and its 
 consequences. With this object the Building Committee, com- 
 posed of Messrs. John William Wallace, John Jordan, Jr., 
 Richard L. Nicholson, and Frederick D. Stone, requested a 
 fellow member of the Society, Mr. Edwin T. Eisenbrey, 902 
 Spruce Street, to assume with them the grave responsibility that 
 such a disaster would impose, and to be the custodian of a key 
 to the building. 
 
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 The sums subscribed for life memberships have been treated in 
 times past as in the nature of ordinary income ; no trust or any- 
 thing in that nature having ever been constituted in regard to 
 them. In the accounts, however, the distinction between the 
 two classes of members has been kept up ; and in the improved 
 fiscal arrangements of the Society it has been suggested to 
 make all contributions for new life memberships in the nature 
 of a trust fund ; and in the same way to devote any subscrip- 
 tions made to replace moneys of this class expended. 
 
 SPRUCE STREET BUILDING. 
 
 In the year 1871, in view of the growing demands for greater 
 accommodation for its library and other collections, and for a 
 sphere of action sufficiently enlarged to meet the wants of a 
 community that showed an increased interest in its labors, the 
 Society adopted measures that seemed to them to be calculated 
 to effect the desired end. The Council have the great satisfac- 
 tion to say that the work undertaken by the Society has so far 
 been entirely successful, and that they can perceive no difficulty 
 in accomplishing the very small part that remains unfinished. 
 
 The building in Spruce Street was obtained, and two com- 
 mittees were appointed : Messrs. John Wm. Wallace, John 
 Jordan, Jr., Richard L. Nicholson, and Frederick D. Stone, as 
 the Building Committee, and Messrs. Adolph E. Borie, John 
 William Wallace, and John Jordan, Jr., for the receipt and dis- 
 bursement of the moneys to be subscribed for its improvement. 
 The following sums have been received and disbursed by them, 
 but their work is not yet finished, as there is yet wanted about 
 six thousand five hundred dollars to complete it. 
 
 Henry C. Gibson $600 00 
 
 John William Wallace 600 00 
 
 Benjamin Marshall 500 00 
 
 John Jordan, Jr 500 00 
 
 M. Baird & Co 500 00 
 
 Adolph E. Borie , 500 00 
 
 J. Gillinghara Fell 500 00 
 
 Alfred Cope 500 00 
 
 Fairman Rogers 500 00 
 
 E. W. Clark & Co 500 00 
 
 Thomas A. Scott 475 00 
 
 John A. McAllister 350 00 
 
 H. Pratt McKean 250 00 
 
 Isaac Norris 250 00 
 
 Edwin T. Eisenbrey 224 00 
 
 Alexander Biddle 200 00 
 
 Carried forward .... $6,949 00 
 
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 Brought forward 
 Henry C. Lea 
 Charles L. Borie . 
 Evan Randolph 
 William J. Horstmann 
 Thomas H. Powers 
 Jessup & Moore 
 Farrel, Herring & Co. 
 James N. Stone 
 Clement Biddle 
 William Weightman 
 Joseph Harrison 
 Isaac Lea 
 
 Charles H. Hutchinson 
 James L, Claghorn 
 Joseph Wm. Miller 
 Edward H. Trotter . 
 William C. Houston 
 J. Francis Fisher . 
 Henry Wiusor 
 Jay Cooke & Co. . 
 Charles H. Muirheid 
 William S. Vaux • . 
 John P. Brock 
 Samuel Chew 
 TJiomas Sparks 
 Charles W. Trotter 
 John O. James 
 Samuel L. Smedley 
 Nathan Hilles 
 Frederick D. Stone 
 Charles E. Smith , 
 A. B. Carver & Co. 
 Wm. Henry Trotter 
 Robert S. Sturgis . 
 Samuel J. Reeves . 
 R. L. & C. L. Nicholson 
 J. E. Kingsley & Co. 
 Joseph F. Sinnott 
 Alexander Johnston 
 John Robbins 
 Horatio G. Jones . 
 George W. Biddle . 
 Cliarles M. Wagner 
 Francis S. Hoffman 
 Francis T. S. Darley 
 Robert Wood & Co. 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 $6,949 00 
 . 200 00 
 . 175 00 
 . 125 00 
 . 100 00 
 . . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 ) 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 . 75 00 
 . 75 00 
 
 . 75 00 
 
 . 75 00 
 
 . 75 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 
 . 50 00 
 50 00 
 
 $10,874 00 
 
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 Brought forward 
 Pawson & Nicholson 
 Richard Ashhurst . 
 Philip S. P. Conner 
 Martha Morris 
 Samuel Welsh 
 H. N. Burroughs . " 
 Caleb Cope 
 George R. Fagan . 
 John Fagan . 
 Edward Battle, Jr. 
 John J. Thompson 
 J. Ross Snowden . 
 J. Edward Carpenter 
 Joseph R. Evans . 
 Francis W. Lewis, M.D 
 John H. Michener . 
 Thomas A. Biddle . 
 Stephen Taylor 
 William P. Jenks . 
 Roger Sherman 
 Oliver Landreth 
 William Purves 
 George Vaux . 
 Mrs. George N. Eckert 
 Benjamin H. Coates 
 Henry Wharton 
 Wm. Harrison Eisenbrey 
 Harmanus NeflF 
 William G. Thomas 
 J. Dickinson Sergeant 
 Field & Hardie 
 J. Sergeant Price . 
 Richard S. Smith . 
 Rev. Wilbur F. Paddock 
 Henry Ashhurst 
 James S. Farmer . 
 Horace Evans 
 William H. Allen . 
 Joseph C. Turnpenny 
 Sarah Marshall 
 Mary Marshall 
 Perkins & Brock . 
 Curwen Stoddart . 
 Morris Hacker 
 Joseph H. Trotter . 
 Charles F. Iseminger 
 
 D, 
 
 D. 
 
 $10,874 00 
 50 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 CO 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 25 00 
 21 96 
 20 00 
 20 00 
 20 00 
 20 00 
 20 00 
 20 00 
 20 00 
 16 68 
 16 66 
 16 66 
 15 00 
 15 00 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 
 Carried forward 
 
 $11,920 96 
 
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 Brought forward . . . . $11,920 96 
 
 Henry B. Benners jO 00 
 
 Edward Ingersoll 10 00 
 
 Henry H. Bingham . . . . * ! 10 00 
 Eugene H. Munday . . . [ [ ! 10 00 
 
 Nathan Middleton .' ' 10 00 
 
 Strickland Kneass ' 10 00 
 
 Sarah P. Morris '...'.'.. 5 OO 
 
 111,985 96 
 
 It is designed to inchide in the final account of the Spruce 
 Street Improvement the following subscriptions received from 
 William Weightman . . . |ooo 00 
 
 Henry Lewis • . . . ! ! ! .' JOO 00 
 
 Stephen P. M. Tasker 100 00 
 
 Charles W. Trotter ....'.'. 100 00 
 George H. Boker . . , . * [ ! 100 00 
 
 Sharpless & Son ' 100 00 
 
 John E. Cope ....'.'.*; 10000 
 
 • Cash,T. C,H JO 00 
 
 $810 00 
 
 The Committee on the Improvement of the building in 
 Spruce Street have not made a final report, but they now 
 state, for the information of members, that the outlay has 
 been — 
 
 Cost of building $11,919 25 
 
 Cases and jobbmg ^ 
 
 Gas fixtures ^^^ ^^ 
 
 Furniture and small fixtures . . * 543 89 
 
 Unsettled account ....::;;: 1,332 33 
 
 TT •, , . $18,143 53 
 
 ^"P^'^^^^™« 500 00 
 
 $18,643 53 
 It will be seen by this statement that the amount received 
 balances the expenditure on the building proper. 
 
 While a greatly increased annual expenditure has natur- 
 ally resulted from the movement recently made, the Council 
 were satisfied that a desirable increase of funds from member- 
 ship and other sources would soon be the result, and be 
 sufiicient to meet such demands. It was designed to provide 
 for the temporary deficiency by continuing the voluntary 
 8ubscri2:)tions. ' 
 
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 COMPARISON OF RESULTS. 
 
 The following brief statement of the receipts of the Society 
 for the ten years ending with 1871, contrasted with the re- 
 ceipts of 1872, will enable each one to form an intelligent 
 opinion as to the wisdom of the direction given to the present 
 labor of the Society, and as to the degree of success that has 
 attended it. 
 
 In the statement, the entire receipts on account of the new 
 work have been placed in 1872, although a portion was 
 received in 1871. 
 
 For tlie ten years from 1862 to 1871, both inclusive, the total 
 
 receipt of annual dues was $15,990 00 
 
 Being an average of $1599 per annum. 
 
 The total receipt from life membership was .... 3,305 00 
 
 Being an average of $330 per annum 
 
 The receipts for the permanent Building Fund were . . 3,050 00 
 
 The receipts for the Publication Fund were .... 500 00 
 
 Total for the ten years . . . . . . . $22,845 00 
 
 For the year 1872 the receipts have been, 
 
 For the Spruce Street Improvement 
 
 For the Penn Manuscripts 
 
 For the Publication Fund 
 
 From annual dues . 
 
 From life membership 
 
 For the Library Fund 
 
 For the permanent Building Fund 
 
 Total for eleven months of 1872 
 
 $11,985 96 
 5,000 00 
 1,500 00 
 2,300 00 
 1,700 00 
 1,000 00 
 875 00 
 
 $24,360 96 
 
 The members of the Society will no doubt be satisfied 
 that the labor which has produced more than ten times the 
 results of the past, has been well directed. 
 
 Dec£HBEr 1st, 1872. 
 
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