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Book Reviews A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692. Transcribed by Michael Ghirelli. (Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Company, 1968. xiv, 106 p. Introduction by M. J. Kaminkow, appendices, indices.) To the genealogist, lists of emigrants to the New World are prime sources for locating European origins. The present volume brings to light a new source: certain manuscript volumes in the Record Office of the City of London known as the Lord Mayor's Waiting Books. As explained in the introduction, the names culled from two of these volumes, Nos. 13 and 14, which cover the years wherein official registration of servants was required, are, for the most part, of young people who wanted to emigrate but lacked the necessary funds to pay for their passage. They therefore agreed to bind themselves to serve for a specific time without pay in return for their passage overseas and for certain emoluments at the end of their service. Either they were bound by their employers to factors in the plantations abroad, or they were transported by sea captains or aguits who then "sold" them to employers in the colonies. Of the nearly one thousand names listed in this present work, by far the greatest number of servants were sent to Jamaica; the second largest number to Virginia; and then in descending scale to Maryland, Barbadoes, Carolina, New England, etc. Pennsylvania was named as the destination in about 25 cases. Taken from Volume 15 of the Lord Mayor's Books are about 40 names of persons who were granted passes by the Lord Mayor to travel beyond the seas. These individuals were not servants, and presumably paid their own passage, as undoubtedly did Joanna Markham, the wife of Captain William Markham, who joined her husband in Philadelphia in 1691 (p. 54). Of interest to students of Philadelphia's colonial history are also the four "glass bottle makers," Joseph Brooke (p. 11), James Harris (p. 41), John Joverell (p. 49), and John Moore (p. 57), all of whom were engaged by Joseph Martin, one of the London committee of the Free Society of Traders to serve the Society in Philadelphia for four years. Brooke and Harris were signed up 4 September 1684, the other two on 8 February and 10 March 1683 (dates which should probably be read as 1683/4). Their hire undoubtedly was in response to Penn's letter of the previous August to the Free Society. The emigrants' names are arranged alphabetically by surname and, in the case of servants, often include parents' names, besides age, place of residence, trade or occupation, to whom bound, length of servitude, and date of indenture. For those to whom passes were granted, the information is limited to destination and date of the pass. There are two appendices. In one, transcripts of actual documents are given; in the other is the pertinent Act of the Privy Council (Colonial) of 13 December 1682, requiring the registration of servants. An index of places mentioned within the British Isles would have been more helpful if it had also included the destinations overseas. An index of the agents listed in the selections from the Lord Mayor's Books completes the volume. HANNAH BENNER ROACH By C. A. Weslager. (Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967. xiii, 303 p. Maps, appendices, index. $7.50.) The English me the Delaware: 1610-1682. No genealogist who works in the Colonial period can expect to do an adequate job without a proper grounding in the local history of his region. In the past three decades 280 Book Reviews 281 interest in Colonial local history has increased tremendously, and a spate of books on a variety of subjects has flowed from the presses of many of the great universities. The subject book covers a little studied period and area, but one of major importance to the understanding of the background and problems encountered in the planting and growth of Penn's Proprietorship. This is not a bare recital of names, dates and places, but a a briskly written narrative that provides "the big picture" of developments from the first "discovery" of Delaware Bay to the arrival of Penn's colonists. Written for the general reader rather than the historian, it provides the foundation that should be a part of the training of all genealogists working in the Delaware Valley area. The author is not new to this field, having published during the past twenty years no less than eight volumes on peoples, place-names, Indians, and archeological materials found in this region, as well as a book on the Richardsons of Delaware, and a study of Philadelphia's cause cilebre, the Henrietta Garrett case. His appendices include previously unpublished (and probably lammed) manuscript material, together with new translations of earlier records which support his words where they are at variance with those of previous writers. He offers new insight into the New Haven Colony involvement on the Delaware, and into the background of the Plowden Patent. His footnotes are collected at the end of the text rather than on pages where citations occur The index is adequate but not exhaustive. If the reader seeks a volume to provide names, places, dates, lists of colonists, of ships and of civil appointments, he will be disappointed. The author had no intention of providing such a work. For such information he refers the reader to the detailed studies of John E. Pomfret's The Province of West New Jersey, 1609-1702 (Princeton University Press, 1916), and to Amandus Johnson's magnificent studies. For the Dutch settlements, he directs the reader to his own previously published study, Dutch Explorers, Traders and Settlers ix the Delaware Valley, 1609-1664 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), written in collaboration with A. R. Dunlap, and to which volume the present work is intended as a companion study. WALTER LEE SHEPPARD, JR. The Four Gospels. Translated into the Pennsylvania German Dialect by Ralph Charles Wood. Daniel Schumacher's Baptismal Register. Translated with an introduction by Frederick S. Weiser. [Volume I, Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society.] (Allentown. Pa.: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1968. 407 p. Illustrations, index. $10.00.) This initial volume continues the Proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, published between 1890 and 1966, and the Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folk.. lore Society, published between 1936 and 1966. In the latter year the two societies merged, and the present work is the first to appear under their corporate name of The Pennsylvania German Society. Of particular interest to genealogists is the presentation of Daniel Schumacher's baptismal register, now made available to those who do not have ready access to the translated transcript of it in the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. In publishing the register, the Society continues the policy of the original Pennsylvania German Society of presenting translated German church records of the eighteenth century. The first of these appeared in 1893, with the publication of the registers of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster. These were followed by the early register of Augustus Lutheran Church, Trappe, of St. Michaelis and Zion Congregation in Philadelphia; the 282 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine early records of the Williams Township Lutheran Congregation in Northampton County; of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Church in Montgomery County; of Tohickon Union Church in Bucks County and, in 1955, of the records of the Dillinger Congregation in the upper Hosensack Valley. The present transcript of the register is preceded by a biographical account of Daniel Schumacher's life by the Reverend Weiser, well worth studying by the researcher, since it provides the framework for the baptismal entries. Schumacher was not a regularly ordained minister sponsored by the rninisterium in Europe, nor was he ever accepted as a member of the Synod in Pennsylvania, organized by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg , Nevertheless, for at least a third of a century, beginning in 1754, he ministered to some twenty congregations in at least four counties of southeastern Pennsylvania: Berks, Schuylkill, Northampton and Lehigh. The baptismal entries give the day of baptism, the name and age of the child, occasionally the date of birth, the place of baptism, the parents' names and those of the sponsors. A few of the church registers contain pages of Fraktur decoration by Schumacher, three of which are reproduced in color in the present work. In that register he placed a small circle next to the name of each child for whom he issued a baptismal certificate done by him. The register shows 233 certificates, and at least 26 confirmation certificates, according to notations in his lists although these are not so indicated in the list of confirmations which follow the baptismal entries. The original register is in the Archives of the Eastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church of America, at the Krauth Memorial Library of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. It is unfortunate that the index does not include the names of sponsors, of ten of significance in establishing family relationships. It is also unfortunate that the present publication falls so far below the high standard established by the earlier publications of both Societies. The typography and binding are uninspired and monotonous, probably because it was printed by a newspaper publishing company, rather than by a publishing house accustomed to putting out imaginatively conceived books keyed to their contents. It is to be hoped that future publications will not duplicate the present format. HANNAH BENNEll ROACH The flicksite Separation: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Schism in Early Nineteenth Century America. By Robert W. Doherty. (Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967. vii, 153 p. Appendices, index. $7.50.) Mr. Doherty acknowledges the assistance in this work of a number of persons, including Frederick B. Tolles and Nicholas B. Wainwright, and has apparently used the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania extensively in his compilation. In this study the author trim to show by an analysis of wealth, occupations, geographical distribution, and other factors, a pattern to explain why the Hicksite separation took place. This reviewer is not convinced that sufficient samples have been used, nor that figures for Hicksite and Orthodox differ sufficiently to prove very much, though the study is of interest since it covers many families settled in the metropolitan area. The tables on pages 36 to 41, and those that follow, would be more useful, particularly to the genealogist, had the exact authorities been cited. This applies also to the interesting appendices (pages 107-149). It is very easy to accept such tables but, without more concrete references, it is totally impossible to verify them. Unfortunately the index is only a little under two pages; of all the thousand and more names appearing na the book, only the names of Elias Hicks and Jonathan Evans are indexed. Book. Reviews 283 Though of little help in establishing lines of descent, the book may be found useful in "fleshing" out a genealogy for the difficult period of the early nineteenth century. Most of the tables are alphabetical by geographic locations, and not too difficult to use for that purpose. In a short paper entitled "Non-Urban Friends and the Hicksite Separation," which preceded the present volume and appeared m Pennsylvania History, Volume XXXIII (1966), 432-445, Mr. Doherty examines the schism in Chester and Delaware Counties, and Is therefore of particular local interest. WALTER LEE SHEPPARD, JR. Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. [Reprinted and excerpted from Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, VIII, IX (Harrisburg, 1896).] Two volumes. viii, 8(14, 602 p. $27.50.) In reprinting these two volumes of Pennsylvania marriages, the Genealogical Publishing Company is performing a great service to researchers in Pennsylvania families. Although two editions of these marriage records have been issued previously — the first in 1878, and the second (from which the present reprint is made, in 1896)—they are becoming scarce and difficult to locate. Except for the brief listing of "Marriages Recorded by the Registrar General of the Province, 1685-1689," in Volume VIII, all of the marriages printed in these two present volumes have been taken from church records. Volume I includes the marriage records of Christ Church, 1709-1806; Old Swedes' Church (Gloria De), 1750-1810, both of Philadelphia. The remainder of Volume I contains the marriage records of churches at Carlisle, Chester, Falkner Swamp, New Hanover, Paxtang and Derry, and the Philadelphia First Baptist and German Reformed churches. Volume II covers the marriages of the First, Second and Third Presbyterian churches of Philadelphia; Moravian marriages of Bethlehem, Emmaus, Lititz, Nazareth; marriages of the Neshaminy and Abington Presbyterian churches! of St. James P. E. church of Perkiomen; and of the Friends Monthly Meetings of Philadelphia, Middletown, Falls, Buckingham, Quakertown, Wrightstown, and Richland. Also included are the marriage records of St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church, St. Paul's P. E. Church of Philadelphia; and the Presbyterian Church of Churchvine, Bucks County. Seemingly, the Genealogical Publishing Company has reprinted this two-volume work as an adjunct to their 1963 reprint of Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania Previous to 1790. Together, these three volumes will be of invaluable aid to the searcher in Pennsylvania marriage records. Most of the marriage records included 'm the current two volumes are in alphabetical order under the names of both the brides and grooms. Lamentable exceptions are the records of St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church in Philadelphia and St. Paul's P. E. Church in Philadelphia, both of which are published in chronological order and without an index. However, these are precisely the form in which they appear in the original editions. The Genealogical Publishing Company has added a table of contents in each of these two volumes and, in so doing, have taken some minor liberties. One is the inclusion of the span of years which the records of each church covers. Another is in stating the geographical locations of the churches whose locations were not so stated in the original editions. Two examples open to question are in Volume I, in which the table of contents lists "Marriage Record of the Reformed Church, Falkner Swamp, Montgomery County. 284 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 1748-1800" and "Marriage Record of the Lutheran Church, New Hanover, Montgomery County, 1745-1809. In view of the fact that Montgomery County was not formed until 1784, the couples married prior to that year were residents of Philadelphia County at the time of their marriage. Such minor liberties do not, however, detract from the basic value of this commendable work. Both of the two previous editions of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810 included, in the second volume, the "List of Officers of the Colonies on the Delaware and the Province of Pennsylvania, 1614-1776." This list completes Volume IX of the original publication but, evidently, the Genealogical Publishing Company regarded the "List" as irrelevant, which it is. In the first volume of the present reprint, an error in printing occurs on page 781, which separates the first and second pages of the Paxtang and Derry Churches, but does not otherwise interfere with the text. On the whole, the print is excellent, the pagination is exact and the green binding is of substantial quality. The work is highly recommended for all searchers in Pennsylvania records. DOROTHEE HUGHES CAROUSSO Corrigenda Brigadier Hogg notes that several errors inadvertently appeared in his account of the Stuart branch of the Penn family which appeared in the last issue of this Magazine: Page 55, 8 lines from the bottom: Read Mrs. Robert Hare Davis, not Dale. Page 156, 21 lines from the bottom: The death of Daisy Matthews was 20 September 1939, not 20 September 1937. Page 157, line 6: Dudley Henry Blayney Alexander died 30 July 1931, not 20 July 1931. Page 160, lines 9, 11 and 18: Read Kenzpston for Kempstone. Page 163, 3 lines from the bottom: Read Lieutenant-General W. C. Bancroft, not Lieutenant Colonel. Page 164, 8 lines from the bottom: Edward Sidney Wilbraham was born 12 August 1860, not 21 August 1869. Page 172, 11 lines from the bottom: Gordon Potter Thome was born 11 October 1958, not 11 October 1959. Page 218, 6 lines from the bottom: Read Brandon Barringer, not Barrington, and L. Wethered Barra!, not Bartell. Brigadier Hogg also paints out that until the Statute of Westminster. defining the status of dominions, came into force in 1930, the Dominions of the British Empire did not have complete independence, and that the King's representative in colonial territories was a governor, not a governor-general. Since Lord Ranfurly served in New Zealand between 1897-1904, before the enactment of the Statute, he was only the Governor, not the Governor General, as incorrectly stated on page 157, line 18, page 161, line 14, and on page 166, line 6. The Garwood Bible record which appeared on page 192 was from family records sent to Mrs. Daisy Lee Andrew Carmichael, not Mrs. Davis Lee Andrew Carmichael. Mr. Dallett notes that according to Pennsylvania Archives, 20d Series, XIX, 410, there was a fifth child, John, born to William and Frances (Bradshaw) Assheton, who was deceased by 27 10m 1703, and who was omitted in the account of that family in the No. 2 Issue of Volume XXV, 122, of this Magazine.