Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OP THE GENEA¬ LOGICAL SOCIETY OP PENNSYLVANIA BEAD AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 7, 1921 To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: The Board of Directors begs to submit the following report for the past year, which has been remarkably successful. At the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Society held March 1, 1920, the following officers and directors were elected: President, J. Granville Leach. Vice-Presidents, Charles P. Keith, Edward S. Sayres, John F. Lewis. Kecording Secretary, Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary, Edward Bobins. Treasurer, C. Howard Oolket. Historian, Ogden D. Wilkinson. Directors, to serve three years, Norris S. Barratt, William S. Lloyd, David Milne. After the election, Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett of Boston and London de¬ livered an exceedingly interesting, informing and scholarly address, il¬ lustrated with lantern slides, on “ Ancestor Hunting in England ”. The usual supper for the members and guests followed. Becognizing the importance of the Society becoming an incorporated body, the Board of Directors made application to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 5, for a charter, which was duly granted, April 9th, 1920. In this connection it should be noted that the proceedings were con¬ ducted by Edward 8. Sayres, Esq., one of the vice-presidents of the Society, that the master appointed to pass upon the application, Alfred G. Baker Lewis, Esq., is also a member of the Society, and that both gentlemen gave their services without charge. At a regular monthy meeting of the Board of Directors held April 19, 1920, Miss May Atherton Leach was formally elected Editor of the Publications of the Society, she having aeted in this capacity since 1915. At the following meeting, May 17, 1920, the death of Mr. William Supplee Lloyd, a faithful and efficient member of the Board, was noted with keen regret and profound sorrow. At the meeting of January 17, 1921, the passing of Miss Anne Hannum Cresson, a learned genealogist, a valued friend, a member of the Society since September 16, 1894, and a member of the Associate Com¬ mittee of Women, was announced with a deep sense of loss. At the following meeting, held February 21, 1921, announcement was unoffi(113) Twenty-ninth Annual Report. 114 daily made of Miss Cresson's legacy of $1,000 to the Society. This bequest when received, will be known as The Anne Hannum Cresson Memorial Fund. During the year the names of 95 new members have been enrolled. This progress is in large measure, due to the activity of the Associate Committee of Women, whose report to the Board is submitted. In connection with this gratifying increase in the membership the Board is under obligation to various individual members of the Society, among whom Mrs. M. Stanton Taylor, merits special mention, she having secured thirteen members during the year. The Membership of the Society is as follows : Number of members, March 1, 1920 . . Deaths during the year Resignations . Dropped from the roll . .. 327 11 2 3 16 Elected and qualified during the year 311 95 Number of members, March 1, 1921 406 The membership is classified as follows: Honorary Life Active Publication Fund . 6 112 272 16 406 The following were transferred from active to life membership: Mrs. Louis F. Benson J. Brooks Bloodgood Parker During the year the additions to membership were : Caleb J. Milne, Jr. Mrs. Frank Battles (life member) Mrs. Harrison S. Morris Mrs. Ernest Law Miss Fanny A. Shortridge CoL Edwin van Deusen Selden Mrs. J. Stevenson Mitchell Mrs. James S. Lovatt Walter F. Estlack Albert Cook Myers Miss Arabel Wilson Clark (life member) Mrs. G. Wilbur Taylor William B. Montague Mrs. John Gribbel Hon. T. Lawrence Eyre Mrs. Robert B. Lewis Mrs. Edward Woolman Miss E. Josephine Brazier (life member) Mrs. Augustus Thomas (life member) Mrs. Charles S. Hinchman Miss Ethel Roads MTS. E. Hamilton Bell Twmty-ninth Annual Report . Mrs. Fred A. Payne Mrs. W. Ludwig Baker John J. Raskob Miss Florence L. Gregory Rev. Paul Sturtevant Howe Dr. Mary P. H. Hough Charles Ross Hamilton Mrs. N. Allen Stockton Dr. Francis E. Stewart George McC. H. Good (life member) Mrs. Robert Sayre Brodhead Percy McGraw Mann Walter C. Harris Eugene M. Nichols • Edgar J. Pershing Miss Margaret Howell Bart ram John Scott, Jr. Mrs. J. Howe Adams Mrs. Frank B. Black (life member) S. K. Brecht Miss Nina Lea Alvin P. McCarter (life member) Mrs. William W. Porter Mrs. Alvin Lewis Roberts Joseph R. Grundy Miss Elizabeth G. Owen Mrs. Francis X. Dercum Mrs. M. Cecil Embry Mrs. George Fritz Chandler Dr. Joseph de Bonneville Abbott (life member) Miss S. Elizabeth Gilpin Mrs. William Henry Sayen Mrs. Albert B Weimer Hon. Charles F. Gummey Edwin J. Dewey Mrs. Eugene Flower Marsh Charles McFadden, Jr. (life member) Hon. George Henderson J. Harold Wickersham Miss Sarah D. Williams (life member) 115 Mrs. Edward O. Shakespeare Dr. D. H. Bradley Francis F. Milne, Jr. (life member) Miss Helen Louise Coates Mrs. Frederick R. Gerry William E. Montague C. H. Landenberger Henry Bucher Swope Miss Louisa B. Clar* Frederic Schoff Mrs. George Corson Mrs. Thomas S. Salford Miss Juliet F. Heyl Mrs. Florence M. Gregory Dr. Ralph E. Getelman Mrs. Henry D. Emack Mrs. Arthur H. Lea Mrs A. L. Mulhern Col. John S. Muckle Miss Susan Gregg Gibson Daniel Baugh Miss Sarah Brinton Davis Miss Marguerite Agnew Adams Mrs. Alfred Barker Mrs. D. Webster Shelly Mrs. Joseph B. Hutchinson William Ritters on King Miss Caroline J. Porter (life member) Arthur H. Lea Craig N. Ligget Mrs. Houston Dunn Houston Dunn Mrs. T. Hudson Rich Hon. Hampton L. Carson (life member) George Corson Countess of Santa Eulalia Miss Mary Vanuxem Mrs. J. Bertram Lippincott Mrs. John L. Fry burg George Fritz Chandler (life member) Twenty-ninth Annual Report. 116 With profound regret the Board reports the death during the year of the following named members: Robert P. Snowden, died March 14, 1920. Mias Prances Anne Roberts, (life member) died March 31, 1920. Eugene Delano (life member) died April 2, 1920. William H. Scott, died April 12, 1920. William S. Lloyd (life member), died May 5, 1920. Charles W. Lord, Jr., died July 23, 1920. Miss Margaretta Hutchinson, died August, 1920. Horace L. Haldeman, died October 27, 1920. Miss Anne H. Cresson (life member), died January 15, 1921. George M. Newhall, died January 25, 1921. Daniel Baugh, died February 27, 1921. The Collections of the Society now number 387 volumes, of which the following were added during the year : Troth Papers, Vol. X. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York, York County, Pennsylvania, Yol. II, Baptisms 1776-1801; Marriages 1735-1798; Burials 1748-1794. Vol. Ill, Baptisms 1802-1824; Yol. IV., Baptisms 1825-1852; Yol. V., Baptisms 1853-1867, 1871-1882; Marriages 1809-1881. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Ardmore, Montgomery County, Penn¬ sylvania, Baptisms 1773-1920; Marriages 1835-1920; Burials 1834-1920. Fenwick Papers, Volumes I, II, III, IV. (Type-written). Supreme Court Records, Vol. XLV. Records of the Tenth and the Spruce Street Presbyterian Churches. The accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby grate¬ fully tendered, are: American Catholic Historical Society, Records of the Society, Volume XXXI, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. American Historical Association. Proceedings of the Fourteenth] Annual Conference of Historical Societies. Avery, Samuel Putnam. The Avery, Fairchild and Park Families, compiled by the donor. Bell, Miss Laura. Some Geographical Names and their Significance, by the donor. Bratten, William Lynford. A genealogy of Home, Main, Priest, Young, Mace, Poole and Bratten Families, compiled by the donor. (Type¬ written) Brown, Col. William Carey. George Brown Chart. Busch, Miers. Social Register, Philadelphia, 1919, 1920; Summer 1920. Callahan, Griffith C. Inscriptions on Tombstones at St. James Church, Kingsessing, Philadelphia. Cresson, Miss Anne H. Queries and Answers from the New York Mail and Express, February 1897 to March 1898. Dicks, Mrs. Lee Guice. Bible records. . Twenty-ninth Annual Report. 117 DuPont, Col. Henry A, The Story of the Huguenots, by the donor. Historical Department of Iowa. Annals of Iowa, April, July and October, 1920. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The. Photographs of wills, mar¬ riage certificates and inventories of Ashbridge, Yarn all and Whitelock families; Chart of Wildes family of Burlington County, New Jersey; The Stout Family; Facts about the Shannon Family; Adam and Eve Oenealogy; Col. William Denny Pedigree; Historical Sketch of the Mattson Family. Jenkins, Charles F. My Ancestors, by Norman Penny. Kirk, John A. Early History of the Kirk Family. Library of Congress. List of Beferences on the Treaty Making Power; American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress, 1919, second edition; Publications Issued by the Library since 1897; Report, 1920. Ljungstedt, Mrs. Olof A. Marriage License Bonds of Berkeley Bounty, West Virginia. Meaeham, Mrs. Ida L. Notes on Hathaway and other families. Moore, Dr. Data about Brown and Priest families; A Partial History of the Descendants of Neale McKay. Onondaga Historical Association. Annual volume of 1914. 1915; Re¬ volutionary Soldiers of Onondaga County, New York; Official Record of Indiana Conference at Syracuse, 1919; Moravian Journals! in Central New York; Bibliography of Syracuse History. Parker, Mrs. Alvin A. Map of Philadelphia, 1834. Reinhold, Prof. Eli S. In re Captain Martin Royer Reinhold. Sellers, Edwin Jaquett. Fenwick Genealogical Notes; Records of the Jaquett Family; De Witt and other families. Stewart, Frank H. Rose Family of Salem County, New Jersey; Article on Grave of John Fenwick. Turner, Rev. C. H. B. Court Records of Delaware. Welch, Mrs. Ashbel. Members of the First Presbyterian Church, Stockton, New Jersey, 1867-1888. Respectfully submitted, J. GRANVILLE LEACH, President. ERNEST SPOPPORD, Recording Secretary.