Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol 1, No 1, Title and Contents

No. 1. VOL. I. publications Of fee (taalngiral Inrirtij of Pennsylvania Sanuarg, 1895 flliscellang No. 1 f / 4 'c i OEKi r. LOGICAL ! J PHILADELPHIA PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY THE WICKERSHAM PRINTING CO., LANCASTER, PA. 5 88 2 » * : TBK PUBLICATION COMMITTER or TBE GENEALOGICAL SOCIITT or PBNNBYLTANIA MOST REBPECTPULLY DBDIOATI TBK FOLLOWING PAGB8 TO EDWARD SBIPPEN, M. D., U. S. N., PRBSIDRNT or TBK SOCIITT. JANUARY, 1895. CONTENTS. FAQ* The Sailing of the Ship “ Submission ” in 1682, with a true copy of the Vessel's Log Inscriptions on Some Ancient Tombstones, formerly in the Burial Ground of the First Presbyterian Chnrch on Bank Street. Illustrated. John Hart, Governor of Maryland, 1714-1720 Some Data concerning the taking of Wolves in New Castle County, in 1676, and a Reprint of the Taxables Notices of the Justices of New Castle 1 ... 14 28 29 35 ? Jn TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. THE Board of Directors of the Society has long thought it desirable to place before you some part of the valuable papers from time to time received, and which, if bound up in the regular manuscript volumes of our collections, might not be so available or interesting as if published. Lack of sufficient funds for such a purpose has prevented printing until the present month, when the following pages are issued at a trifling cost, and will, if approved, be continued periodically. The committee on publication have, in selecting the fol¬ lowing articles for the first number, borne in mind that the primary object of the Society has always been to collect original records and material for genealogical and historical research rather than to turn their attention to the building of pedigrees, an undertaking which can only be successfully accomplished after all of our early records, such as church registers, deeds, wills, very old family documents, copies of tombstones and similar archives, have been gathered, in¬ dexed, and placed at the disposal of those interested in such work. After this has been done, family history, properly speaking, can be compiled with certainty, and the avoid¬ ance of those errors which are sure to creep in when the author is not familiar with the original sources of genea¬ logical information. The committee have at their disposal a number of inter¬ esting documents, which a lack of encouragement alone will prevent them from printing in the near future ; and in this connection they especially request that you will submit to them your approval or disapproval of the present departure from the path heretofore followed by the Society. January, 1895. L. TAYLOR DICKSON, Committee on P. S. P. CONNER, Publication. THOMAS ALLEN GLENN, } r »