PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLICATION FUND OF
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

No. 1300 LOCUST STREET.

1912.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVI.

PAGE

William Logan's Journal of a Journey to Georgia, 1745. . . 1, 162

English Translation of Dedication and Preface of Peter Kalm's

Travels. By Adam J. Strohm. . . . . . . . 17

Orderly Book of the Second Pennsylvania Continental Line, Colonel

Henry Bicker. At Valley Forge, March 29-May 27, 1778. By

John W. Jordan. . . . . . . . . 30, 236, 329

Colonel Robert Lettis Hooper, Deputy Quarter-Master-General in

the Continental Army and Vice-President of New Jersey. By

Charles Henry Hart. . . . . . . . . . 60

The First Abolition Society in the United States. By Prof. Edward

Raymond Turner . . . . . . . . . . 92

Tombstone Inscriptions in the Baptist Graveyard at Cape May Court

House, N. J. By Mrs. Emma Steelman Adams. . . . 110, 231

The Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania. By Prof. Edward

Raymond Turner. . . . . . . . . . . 129

Some Additional Information Concerning Ephraim Martin, Esquire,

Colonel of the Fourth New Jersey Regiment of the Continental

Line. By Dr. Edmund J. James. . . . . . . . 143

The Old Barracks, Trenton, N. J. By Vice-Chancellor Edwin R.

Walker. · · · · ·

· 187

Notes of a Journey from Philadelphia to New Madrid, Tennessee,

1790. By John W. Jordan. . . . . . . . . 209

The Mother of “Mary, The Mother of Washington." By Charles

H. Browning. · · · · · · · · · · 217

Five Gossipy Letters . . . . . . . . . . 222

Notes on the Life and Work of Robert Coleman. By Joseph Livingston

Delafield. . .

. . . . . . . . . 226

The Scotch Settlers in Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland. A Contri-

bution to Pennsylvania Genealogy. By William M. Mervine .257

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Itinerary of the Pennsylvania Line from Pennsylvania to South

Carolina, 1781-1782 . . . . . . . . .

Three Letters written at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1778 . . 293

Letter of William Penn to James Logan, 1702. . . . . 303

The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. By Prof. Edward

Raymond Turner . . . . . . . . . . 309

Genealogical Gleanings in Great Britain. By Thomas Allen Glenn . 319

Early Revolutionary Letters of Peter Stretch, a Philadelphia Whig

Merchant. By Francis Bazley Lee. . . . . . . 324

Notes of a Visit to Philadelphia, made by a Moravian Sister in 1810.

By A. R. Beck. . . . . . . . . . . 346

Morton of Calcon Hook. By Thomas Allen Glenn. . . . . 362

Military Letters of Captain Joseph Shippen of the Provincial Service,

1756-1758. . . . . . . . . . . . 367, 385

• Return of the Sick at Lititz Hospital, August 23, 1778. By John W.

Jordan. . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Notes on the Steelman Family of Cinnaminson Township in Bur.

lington County and Greenwich Township in Gloucester County,

New Jersey. By Professor Arthur Adams. . . . . . 464

Letters of Hon. James Wilson to General Horatio Gates, 1776. 473

A Colonial Health Report of Philadelphia, 1764. . . . . 476

Genealogical Notes Regarding the Family of Glen or Glenn. By

Thomas Alen Glenn · · · · · · · · · 480

Notes and Queries . . . . . . . 115, 254, 382, 500

Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . 128, 384, 513

Officers of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania . . . . 619