PREFACE. In closing the first volume of the PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, the editors gladly avail themselves of the opportunity it affords to express their thanks for the hearty co-operation they have met with on every side; this has encouraged them in their task and made their labors almost nominal. The objects of the MAGAZINE, as stated in the announcement made with the first number, are to foster and develop the interest that has been awakened in historical matters, and to furnish the means of inter-communication between those of kindred tastes. How far these ends have been accomplished the volume now completed must attest; to the contributors to it, for their ability and research, belongs whatever credit is bestowed. The kind words which have greeted each number of the MAGAZINE have assured the Trustees of the Publication Fund, that the object for which the money entrusted to them was subscribed, was being promoted, and they have generously allowed the number of pages first decided upon to be considerably augmented. To continue the MAGAZINE in its present form, to add to its attractions, and at the same time to lessen the demands made upon the Publication Fund, are the aims of those who have its management in hand. More money will be expended on the forthcoming volume than is likely to be received for it; but it is hoped that the historical value of the material produced in the volume issued, and its typographical excellence will so commend the enterprise to the public, that the Fund will be materially increased, and even greater expenditure warranted. The organization of the Publication Fund, the list of subscribers to it, and the titles of the books already issued, are to be found at the end of this volume. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. The Hessians in Philadelphia. A German officer's impression of our city. From the Correspondence of Professor Schlözer, of Göttingen, Vol. III. p. 149. Translated by Miss Helen Bell Pittsburgh and Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1782-83. Letters from Ephraim Douglass to Gen. James Irvine. From the Irvine Papers Edward Whalley, the Regicide. By Robert Patterson Robins Baron Stiegel. By the Rev. Jos. Henry Dubbs, of Lancaster, Pa. John Hancock. By Charles Francis Adams Patrick Henry. By William Wirt Henry . Henry Wisner. By Henry W. Bellows, D.D. Francis Lightfoot Lee. By Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain") Memorial Notice of the Rev. William C. Reichel. (With portrait.) Read by John W. Jordan, before the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania, November 13, 1876. Memorial Notice of the Rev. William M. Reynolds, D.D. Read by Townsend Ward before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Nov. Proceedings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 112, 222, 354, 465 Journal of William Black, 1744. Secretary of the Commissioners ap- pointed by Governor Gooch, of Virginia, to unite with those from the Colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, to Treat with the Iroquois or Six Nations of Indians, in reference to the lands west of the Alle- gheny Mountains. Edited by R. Alonzo Brock, Secretary of the Occupation of New York City by the British, 1776. Extracts from the 133, 250 The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, and Christina, Queen of the Swedes, the Goths, and the Vends. A presentation of her portrait to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, April 16, 1877 Notes on the Iroquois and Delaware Indians. Communications from Conrad Weiser to Christopher Saur, which appeared in the years 1746-1749 in his newspaper printed at Germantown, entitled The High German Pennsylvania Historical Writer, or a Collection of Im- portant Events from the Kingdom of Nature and the Church," and . 163, 319 |