PAGE Life of Margaret Shippen, Wife of Benedict Arnold. By Lewis Lithographic Portraits of Albert Newsam. By D. McN. Stauffer. 401 Colonel Elias Boudinot in New York City, February, 1778. By Letters of Rev. Richard Locke and Rev. George Craig, Missionaries in Pennsylvania of the "Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts," London, 1746-1752. By Benjamin F. Owen The Penns and the Taxation of their Estates by the Provincial Assembly. (Continued.) 430 453 467 479 Letter of Instructions of James Logan to James Steel on Proprietary 495 Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775. 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Early History of the University of Pennsylvania from its By GEORGE B. WOOD, M.D., with supplementary chapters by FRED- Copiously illustrated. Price, $1.12. History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania. Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton. 601 pp. By his widow, DEBORAH NORRIS LOGAN, with selections from his correspondence, edited by their great-granddaughter, FRANCES A. LOGAN, with an introduction by CHARLES J. STILLÉ. Philadelphia, 1899. 4to. 207 pp. Illustrated. Price, $2. These volumes were acquired by the Society in the following way: Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution" was published by subscription, and the profit arising therefrom was in part used to assist the Historical Society of Delaware in issuing the Records of Old Swedes Church at Wilmington by subscribing for a number of copies. 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