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this country, the name of the church only is given. This is illustrated by the following extract: Daniel Griffith was received into communion by vertue of a letter from Montgomery, being dated April 30, 1748.' 'Daniel David was received by vertue of a letter from Wales, Nov. 4, 1749.'

"The following is quoted as significant of the location of the church of Montgomery. 'John Morgan and James Williams were aded one from Great Valey, the other from Montgomery, July 3, 1757.' It is hardly necessary to add that, the Great Valley mentioned here is in the adjoining county of Chester.

"The most convincing evidence, however, of the location of the Montgomery mentioned in the church-book, is shown in the recorded movements of Thomas Edmund, and in his will, a copy of which is given in the book. In 1738, Thomas Edmund, and his wife Mary Edmund, removed, and were recommended by letter, to the church in 'Mountgumw.' In 1752, they returned to the Welsh Tract church at Iron Hill. In the will of Thomas Edmond, of Pencader hundred, New Castle county, signed 6 January, 1758, he bequeathed for the benefit of the Baptist Church of Montgomery, in the county of Philadelphia, of which Benjamin Griffith is now minister, two hundred pounds.'

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"David Rees is the first one recorded as coming from Montgomery. The records show that seven others followed him from there between the years 1733 and 1757."

A MEMOIR OF THE FIRST TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES WITH CHRONOLOGICAL DATA. By Rev. Michael Reed Minich, A. M. Philadelphia. 1905. 8vo, pp. 87. Privately printed.

The data collected relating to the ancestry of Michael Hillegas, the first Treasurer of the United States, and his services to the country will be very helpful to the future biographer. By patient research of the records has this only been accomplished. The arms of the family, illuminated, and a portrait of the Treasurer are additions to the text.

CATALOGUE OF THE ENGRAVED WORKS OF DAVID EDWIN. By Mantle Fielding. Philadelphia. 1905. Royal 4o, pp. 61. We have received a copy of this work, which is very attractively gotten up and useful as well. The edition, privately printed, is limited to 100 copies, but a few are for sale by J. O. Wright, 6 E. Forty-second Street, New York. Price $3.

A HISTORY OF OLD PINE STREET, BEING THE RECORD of AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A COLONIAL CHURCH. By Rev. Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. Philadelphia. The John C. Winston Company. 8vo, pp. 366. The history of "Old Pine Street" Presbyterian Church, the third founded in this city, compiled by its eighth pastor, has been received The reverend auhor has industriously collected and admirably presents. the history of the congregation for one hundred and forty years, and his text is illustrated with seventy-two full page portraits of pastors, prominent officers and members, churches, fac similes of early documents and grave stones. The church edifice is the only one of the denomination

preserved in this city, which dates from the colonial period, and its cemetery has the honor of being the resting place of congressmen, and officers and soldiers of the Revolution. During the occupation of the city by the British, a captain of Tarleton's dragoons and a large number of Hessian soldiers were also interred there. The congregation was well represented in the war for independence; its pastor, Rev. George Duffield, was a Chaplain of Congress; William Shippen Jr. Director General Continental Hospitals; Colonels Robert Knox, John Steele, George Latimer, William Linnard, Paul Cox and others of lesser rank served in the army. The preservation of this old historic church and its cemetery, should be a matter of pride to all Presbyterians and patriotic citizens.

LIEUT. COL. JACOB REED.

Proceedings at the Dedication of the Monument erected to his memory in Franconia township, Penna, under the auspices of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, Penna., Oct. 8 1901. Norristown. 1905. 8vo, pp. 198. This volume gives the papers read at the Fall Meeting of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, in Emmanuel's (Leidy's) Union Church. They are, "Lieut. Col. Jacob Reed, of Hatfield Township," by Dr. W. H. Reed; Extracts from the Dedicatory Address by Rev. B. F. Luckenbill; "He fought with Washington," an original poem by Mrs. Findley Broden; "The Leidy Family," by Dr. Reed; tory of Leedy's Church," by Joseph Proctor; "Private Burying Grounds of Franconia Township," by John D. Souder; "Indian Creek Reformed Church," by Dr. Reed; and "Hatfield Township," by Edward Matthews. The book is liberally illustrated, and an acceptable contribution to local history.

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VALLEY FORGE-A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN HEROISM By Frank H Taylor Philadelphia 1905 8vo, pp. 120.

This attractive monograph has been issued under the direction of The Valley Forge Park Commission of Pennsylvania. The illustrations, which are numerous, comprise portraits of the commanders of the Brigades and Divisions, with their headquarters, who were with Washington at the encampment, and an excellent map, with the locations of the various camps is appended. The "Explanatory Notes" comprise the most reliable data extant, some of it published for the first time. The compiler must be congratulated on the thoroughness of his researches among the documents of those who were participants in or witnesses of the events that transpired at Valley Forge.

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The early settlers of the Middle colonies, unlike Virginia and her neighbors to the southward, or New England in the northeast, were not of a homogeneous stock, and the colonial immigration to Pennsylvania probably was more diversified than that of any other of the British North American colonies. The valley of the Delaware was occu pied first by the Swedes, then by the Dutch, and finally by the English. All three of those nationalities contributed their quota to the make-up of the population of Pennsylvania. After the control of the Province had passed into English hands there was a large immigration into Pennsylvania of yet another race from the Palatinate in the valley of the Rhine, known locally as Pennsylvania Dutch. Even the so-called English element was much diversified in its make-up. Contingents of Scotch, Welsh and Scotch-Irish all settled in Pennsylvania. The pure English were largely Quakers in their religious belief, though there was a fair sprinkling of members of the Church of England, and a few Catholics, who left their country to seek new homes in the Commonwealth established here by William Penn. Among the adherents of the English Church who setVOL. XXX.-9

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