Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting, March 1, 1909

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, AT THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 1, 1909. Your Board of Directors have to report to this the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Society, that the woik of collecting and preserving church and other records of value has been going on steadily during the past year. The following work has been accomplished since the annual meeting, March 2, 1908. 1. Indexed Vol. III of the Publications of the Society. 2. Records of Reformed Church, Whitpain Township, 1764-1860, indexed and bound. 3. Baptisms, 1831-1884, from records of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, indexed and bound. 4. Marriages, Burials, Confirmations and Communicants, 1828-1884, from the same, indexed and bound. 5. Card catalogue of St. Peter's Church, made for the Church. 6. Records of Abington Presbyterian Church, indexed and bound. 7. Copying of the records of Salem, N. J. Monthly Meeting completed, eleven volumes, and all but one indexed. 8. Material collected and copied for the fourth volume of our publications, now in the printer's hands. 9. Old Families of Philadelphia, by Frank Willing Leach, published in The North American, mounted up to date. 10. List of Women Petitioners against Tithes, 1659: type-written copy made by Gilbert Cope. Mr. Cope and Mr. Hough members of your Board, are both engaged in copying and collecting some original (115 ) 116 Seventeenth Annual Report. church and tombstone records, which will be reported at the next annual meeting. The following gifts, which are gratefully acknowledged, have been received during the past year : 1. Record and Memorial of The Bevan Family in America, presented by Mrs. Augusta Lawler, Miss Emily Bell, Miss Laura Bell and Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker. 2. Minutes and Proceedings of The First Reunion of the Trexler Family, held at Kutztown, Berks County, Penna. 3. Bulletin of The Chester County Historical Society, 1908, presented by Gilbert Cope. 4. Atkinson Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, presented by Oliver Hough. 5. Annual Report of The American Historical Association, 1906, presented by Smithsonian Institution. 6. Transactions of the Kansas Historical Society, 1907— 1908. 7. Printed List of the Records of the meetings constituting the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, held at 15th & Race Streets, Philadelphia : presented by Morgan Bunting. 8. Report of Librarian of Congress, 1908; also list of publications issued since 1897. 9. Annals of Iowa. 10. Bulletin of the New York Public Library. 11. Essex Institute Historical Collections. At the last annual meeting of the Society, March 2, 1908, the members had the pleasure of listening to a most interesting address by Miss Jane Campbell on "The Historic Churches of Philadelphia," illustrated by stereopticon views. The Board reconvened after the annual meeting and re-elected Rear Admiral Edward Shippen, M. D., U. S. N. (retired), President. Col. J. Granville Leach and Richard McCall Cadwalader, Vice-Presidents. Seventeenth Annual Report. 117 Edward S. Sayres, Recording Secretary. C. Howard Colket, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Our collections are now all nicely housed in the new steel fire-proof cases installed by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and we can feel certain that they are as secure as human foresight can provide. These collections are much sought after for original sources of information, not only by our own members but by others, and the wear on them has in some cases been so great as to necessitate rebinding. The Board have to report with regret that since the last annual meeting they have lost by death four valuable members, viz.: Messrs. Joseph G. Darlington, Samuel R. Shipley, William H. Jenks and Charles Hartshorne. Mr. Jenks was at one time a member of your Board and a memoir of him is herewith appended. Resignations during the year have been 8: dropped from membership, 1: elected, 6: making a membership at present of 254, of whom 29 are life members. The Treasurer's report, which will be presented this evening, will show the Society in good financial standing. The Publication Committee have now in charge another issue, which will appear shortly. Our thanks are as usual due to the Council, Librarian, Curator and Staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for many courtesies and kindnesses shown us during the year. Miss Bunting has also given close and careful attention to her work as transcriber and clerk for the Society. All of which is respectfully submitted on behalf of the Board of Directors, by EDWARD SHIPPEN, M. D., President. EDWARD S. SAYRES, Recording Secretary. THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Report of Treasurer for Fiscal Year Ending February 27, 1909. PKRMANENT FUND. Receipts. $25 84 87 Balance on hand March 1, 1908 Interest on deposits $26 71 Balance on hand March 1, 1909 (The investments are: $2000 Elec. & People's 4's ; 20 eh. Phila. Trac. Co. ) CURRENT FUND. Receipts. $576 84 Balance on hand March 1, 1908 $1175 00 Received for dues 160 00 Income from investments 19 00 Interest on deposits 4 50 Publications sold Special contribution for copying Salem, N. J., Friends' 5 00 Records 1363 50 $1940 34 Payments. $916 50 59 64 129 95 376 00 27 17 Copying Records Binding Records Expenses of Annual Meeting Cost of Publication, Vol. III, No. 3 Stationery, postage and sundries 1509 26 Balance on hand March 1, 1909 C. HOWARD COLKET, Audited and found correct, Philada., 27 February, 1909. STEVENSON H. Wriamt, JAMES EMLEN, Auditing Commitka. ( 118 ) $431 08 Treasurer.