PAGE mons; Letitia court; Perspective at Philadelphia; Penn's treaty; the Treaty tree; a female figure drawn in colours by Major André; a pictorial invitation card of General Howe, to the Meschianza; R. Morris' great house. Generally rough sketches, made before it was determined to make accurate drawings. 240.—The first almanac of Philadelphia, (a sheet) 1687. 246.-An engraved picture of six public buildings. 247 to 252, are specimens of old colonial paper. 264. First ground plot plans of the city, in 1793-4, by Davis. 273.-Ancient caricature and poetry, "to wash the blackamoor white." Some city gentlemen are drawn. do.—A caricature of Friends and the Indians. 277.-Portraits of Bishop Allen and Benjamin Lay. 278. The Association battery. 279.-Dock creek and Drawbridge scene. 280.-Pegg's run, and scenery in skating there.* 282.-Letitia house in the court. do. Cherry garden house. 283.-An ancient house at the north-west corner of Front and Race streets. do. The place called Barbadoes lot, where the Baptists and Presbyterians first held worship, corner of Chestnut and Second streets. 284. The portrait of an oddity, known universally by the name of “M. O. Mike, H. A. Harry Hanse, Michael Weaders," and called also, "I see thee first," with some remarks on his character. In my Manuscript Annals, in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, are the following, to wit: PAGE 272.-A specimen sheet of modern bank notes. 276. Specimens of colonial and continental money. 277.-A sheet almanac of Philadelphia, 1687. do. Specimen of the writing of Count Zinzendorf, 1734. 278.-Slips of ancient silk dresses. 279.-An original drawing, by Kosciusko, of Miss Pollock. 296.-Picture and description of Fitch's steamboat. 296.-Gray's ferry bridge, and General Washington's passage there. do.-Cape Henlopen Light house, and description. 342.-A slip of silk, home-made, which gained the premium in 1770, and was made into a wedding dress for Mrs. C. Roberts, in 1774. *The picture, as a skating scene, is more to the ideas in my mind, than the one given in this work. There were difficulties in forming the picture of "things before,” which the present artist could not overcome. PAGE 347.-A picture of the New market, in Southwark, as drawn in 1787. 350.-A caricature print of the revolution; of "Liberty triumphant, or the downfal of oppression." 358.-Likenesses of James Pemberton and Nicholas Waln, in the costume of ancient Friends. 360.-Association battery, and windmill near. 361.-Governor Palmer's house at Treaty tree. do. The place of the Barbadoes lot where the Baptists and Presbyterians first worshipped. 362. The Swedes' church. do. The Slate Roof house of William Penn. 363.-Shippen's great house. 364.-Alms house of Friends. 365.-Old London Coffee house. do. Old Court house, built in 1707. 366.-Fairmount and Schuylkill, in 1789. do.-Bush hill, in 1788. 367.-Slate house, residence of William Penn. 368.-Davis' ground plot plan of Philadelphia, 1793-4. 370. The same, in continuation. 371.-Holme's ground plot of Philadelphia, 1682, with explanatory remarks. 374.-A map of Pennsylvania, in 1787, curious for preserving Indian names of places, and of former frontier forts. 376.-George Heap's map of 1754, of the environs of Philadelphia, curious as showing primitive owners and localities. 378.-Old stone prison, at the corner of Third and High streets. 379.-Swedes' house of Sven Sener, and the first Swedes' church of logs, of 1669. 460.-Triumphal arches for La Fayette, and silk badge, as worn at his visit. LIST OF UNPUBLISHED PAPERS. THESE Comprise such as have been purposely excluded from a publication in my printed Annals. They are, first, remarkable autographs preserved as subjects for inspection by the curious. Secondly, they are papers not expedient to be printed entire, although sufficiently useful to be preserved; and sometimes already occasionally extracted in part, under some of the divisions of the printed Annals. In my Manuscript Annals in the Philadelphia Library, to wit: PAGE 219. Joseph Sansom's description of Philadelphia, in 1803, in print. 245.-A MS. petition and names, praying the king for defence, in 1743. do.-Autograph of Count Zinzendorf, 1742.-Of his daughter Benigna, 1742.-Of Asheton, clerk of court, 1727.-Of Joseph Wilcox, Mayor, 1706.—Of James Logan, secretary, 1702.-Of William Trent, 1706.-Of William Penn.-Of Hannah Penn, 1712.-Of John Penn, in 1825. 253.-Form of a letter, by which inquiries were usually made of aged persons, having thirty-six queries. do.-Autograph of Mary Smith-her description, in four pages of MS., of the primitive settlement of Burlington, to which she was an eye-witness. In my Manuscript Annals in the Historical Society of Penn sylvania, to wit: PAGE 190. Some ancient religious scandal on Friends, by the Keithians. 252.-Autograph of Robert Fairman, of 1715, descriptive of his estate at the Treaty tree.-Singular writing. 380.-Penn's letter, of 1683, descriptive of Philadelphia then. 284.-Robert Turner's letter, of 1685, to William Penn, descriptive of Philadelphia then. 286.-Letter of P. S. Duponceau, Esq., descriptive of the office of secretary of foreign affairs. 290.-Letter of John Penn of Stoke Pogis, 1825. 294.-Autograph letter of Joseph, once King of Spain, first king ever dwelling among us. 298.-Autograph of Dr. Fothergill on Philadelphia topics. 300. Do. of Rev. George Whitfield, 1754. Do. 304. 306.- Do. 310.- Do. 312. Do. of Du Simitiere, the annalist. first writ for the first assembly, 1682. of the Honourable Charles Thomson, being his historical sketch of the leading incidents in the congress of 1774-5. 314.-Autograph Minute by Patrick Robinson, in a rare kind of writing, of 1693, of the proceeding of the council concerning a trespass on Schuylkill. 316.-Autograph Minute of council, of 1698, concerning duties and ports of entry. 318.-Autograph letter of William Penn, 1687, respecting his cottage in Philadelphia. PAGE 322.-Correspondence of James Logan, proving him to have been the author of Cicero's Cato, &c., a thing imputed to Dr. Franklin. 326.-Primitive court records concerning Germantown-an extract. 328-Original account of the cost in detail of the materials and workmanship of the first court house, in 1707-8-cost £616. 332.-Autograph letter of Isaac Norris, of 1704. 334.- Do. and rare old family letter of 1693, by Samuel Flower, showing causes of emigration here to avoid woesand signs and wonders in woful Europe. 340.-Original roll of female patriots, of 1780, of Lower Dublin, with their subscriptions and names to aid the sufferers in the war. 344.-Autograph of Dr. Franklin, in 1784, to C. T., secretary of congress, announcing the peace, and his gratification and advice on the same. 346.-Autograph of Robert Proud, our historian, concerning his birth, age, and personal history. 352.-Prosper Martin's description of his rare spring at Pegg's run, and his diagram to show the supposed former passage there of the river Schuylkill. 354.-Autograph letter of the late Joseph Sansom, Esq., of 1820, giving several facts concerning Philadelphia. 381.-A letter showing the form of inquiries addressed to the aged, by which the facts in this book were attempted to be elicited. 393 to 430.-Reminiscences and diaries of events and incidents at Philadelphia, at the time of the war of Independence, and of the acts of the British army there. 431 to 434.-Revolutionary soldiers-a tale of truth. 435 to 438.-Incidents of the war and its calamities to a familybest known to the author. 447.-Autograph signatures of the first members of "the Penn Association for commemorating the landing,"-and facts concerning the origin of that society. 461.-Autograph letter of General La Fayette of 1824, respecting his public visit to Philadelphia, addressed to Joseph Watson, Esq., city mayor. 459 to 474, contains an extended and graphic description of the public visit of La Fayette to Philadelphia, and many facts to be preserved for some future day. 486.-A printed account of Dr. Franklin's relatives at Nantucket. 490 to 496.-Printed biographical notices by Samuel Preston, Esq., of several memorable persons of Bucks county, in the olden time-such as John Watson, surveyor, Jacob Taylor, mathematician and astronomer, William Satterthwaite, poet and scholar, James Pellar, a genius, Dr. Thomas Watson, a learned and benevolent man, D. Ingham, Nathan Preston, much concerned in Indian affairs, &c. Many local inci dents are described, and the particulars of the "Indian walk" are given. 501.-A singular nomenclature of rare names of Philadelphia. 507.—The Pennsylvania Journal of 1758, containing a warning to Friends of 1758, by the Watchman, and Penn's letter of the 27th of 4th mo., 1710, admonitory. do. A specimen of Humphrey's tory Gazette in Philadelphia, 1777. 508.-Philadelphian demonstrations in 1795, for the Grand canal of New York; being a detail of the facts given by John Thompson, Esq., of his experiment and success in bringing a small schooner from Niagara to Philadelphia. 511.-A poetic description of the Delaware river and contiguous country. 516.-Reminiscences by Mrs. H. 536 to 539.-Some scrapiana of facts of our general history. 544 to 575.-Several MS. letters from Samuel Preston, Esq., generally descriptive of historical events, and persons in Bucks county, say of Thomas Jenks, Thomas Penn, and Lady Jenks, of the Indian walk-of F. Marshall, and his discovery of silver-of Richard Smith, botanist, and traveller among the Indians, of the noted Indian, Isaac Still, and his tribe in Bucks county, and of Frederick Post, the interpreter. 576 to 580.-A detail of facts concerning Godfrey's invention of the quadrant,-in print. Here I would mention, as a closing and general remark, that several communications made to me by aged persons, of all they knew or remembered, have been used by me under various distributions, but the whole together of what they said, which may hereafter interest their immediate friends, may be found in my MS. Annals in the Philadelphia Library-such are those from J. P. Norris, T. Matlack, John Brown, Sarah Shoemaker, Davenport Merrot, Owen Jones, Isaac Parrish, William West, Samuel Richards, Samuel Coates, Thomas Bradford, A. J. Morris. Those by Lang Syne, pages 520 to 530, and by Samuel Preston, are to be found in my MS. Annals in the Historical Society,-also there, Penn's letters to James Harrison, his agent from 1681 to '87, page 164 to 171; the Loganian MSS. at Stenton, pages 222 to 260; Secretary R. Peters' letters to Penns, page 266 to 269; extracts of the minutes of the Association of 1756 for preserving peace with the Indians, pages 180 to 183. CONCLUSION. We come now to our conclusion; not that we have fully said all which could have been written from what we possessed, but that we have given so much as we considered of sufficient importance to interest the mass of readers. |