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296.--Gray's Ferry bridge, and General Washington's passage there.

do. Cape Henlopen Lighthouse-and description.

342.-A slip of silk, home-made, which gained the premium in 1770, and was made into a wedding dress for Mrs. C. Roberts, in 1774.

347.-A picture of the new market in Southwark, as drawn in

1787.

350.-A caricature print of the Revolution-of "Liberty triumphant, or the downfall of oppression."

358. Likenesses of James Pemberton and Nicholas Waln, in the costume of ancient Friends.

360.-Association Battery, and windmill near. 361.-Governor Palmer's house at treaty tree.

do. The place of the Barbadoes lot where the Baptists and Presbyterians first worshipped.

362.-The Swedes' church.

do. The slate roof house of Wm. Penn.

363.-Shippen's great house. 364.--Almshouse of Friends. 365.--Old London Coffee-house.

do. Old Court-house--built 1707.

366.--Fair Mount and Schuylkill in 1789.

do. Bush-hill in 1788.

367.--Slate house, residence of Wm. Penn.

368.--Davis' ground plot plan of Philadelphia, 1798-4. 370.--The same, in continuation.

371.-Holm's ground plot of Philadelphia, 1682, with explanatory remarks.

374.-A map of Pennsylvania in 1787-curious for preserving Indian names of places, and of former frontier forts. 376.-George Heap's map of 1754, of the environs of Philadel

phia-curious as showing primitive owners and localities. 378.--Old stone prison at the corner of Third and High streets. 379--Swedes' house of Sven Sener, and the first Swedes' church of logs, of 1669.

460.--Triumphal arches for La Fayette, and silk badge, as worn at his visit.

LIST OF

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS.

THESE comprise such as have been purposely excluded from a publication in my printed Annals. They are, first, remarkable auographs preserved as subjects for inspection by the curious. Secndly, they are papers not expedient to be printed entire, although ufficiently useful to be preserved, and sometimes already occaionally extracted in part, under some of the divisions of the printd Annals.

In my Manuscript Annals in the Philadelphia Library, to wit:

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219. Joseph Sansom's description of Philadelphia, in 1803in print. 245.-A MS. petition and names, praying the King for defence, in 1743.

do. Autograph of Count Zinzendorf, 1742.—Of his daughter Benigna, 1742.-Of Asheton, clerk of court, 1727.-Of Joseph Wilcox, Mayor, 1706.-Of James Logan, Secretary, 1702.-Of Wm. Trent, 1706.-Of Wm. Penn.-Of Hannah Penn, 1712,-Of John Penn, in 1825.

253.-Form of a letter, by which inquiries were usually made of aged persons, having 36 queries.

do. Autograph of Mary Smith-her description, in 4 pages of MS. of the primitive settlement of Burlington, to which she was an eye-witness.

my Manuscript Annals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, to wit:

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190. Some ancient religious scandal on Friends, by the Keithians.

252.--Autograph of Robert Fairman, of 1715, descriptive of his estate at the treaty tree.-Singular writing.

280.--Penn's letter of 1683, descriptive of Philadelphia then. 284.-Robert Turner's letter of 1685, to Wm. Penn, descriptive of Philadelphia then.

286.--Letter of P. S. Duponceau, Esq. descriptive of the office of Secretary of foreign affairs. 290.-Letter of John Penn of Stoke Pogis, 1825.

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294.--Autograph letter of Joseph--once king of Spain--first king ever dwelling among us.

298.-Autograph of Dr. Fothergill on Philadelphia topics. do. of Rev. George Whitefield, 1754.

300.304.-

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306.

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810.

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312.- do.

of Rev. John Wesley, 1772.

of Du Simitiere-the Annalist.

First writ for the first Assembly, 1682. of the Honourable Charles Thomson, being his historical sketch of the leading incidents in the Congress of 1774-5.

314.-- do. Minute by Patrick Robinson, in a rare kind of writing of 1693--of the proceeding of the Council concerning a trespass on Schuylkill.

316.- do. Minute of Council of 1698, concerning duties and ports of entry.

318.-- do. Letter of Wm. Penn, 1687, respecting his cottage in Philadelphia.

322.--Correspondence of James Logan, proving him to have been the author of Cicero's Cato, &c.-a thing imputed to Dr. Franklin.

326.-Primitive court records concerning Germantown--an extract.

328.-Original account of the cost in detail of the materials and workmanship of the first court-house in 1707-8-cost 616£. 332.-Autograph letter of Isaac Norris, of 1704.

334.- do. and rare old family letter of 1693, by Samuel Flower, showing causes of emigration here to avoid woesand signs and wonders in woful Europe.

340.-Original roll of female patriots of 1780, of Lower Dublin, with their subscriptions and names to aid the sufferers in the war.

344.-Autograph of Dr. Franklin in 1784, to C. T. Secretary of Congress, announcing the peace, and his gratification and advice on the same.

346.--Autograph of Robert Proud-our historian--concerning his birth, age, and personal history.

352.--Prosper Martin's description of his rare spring at Pegg's run, and his diagram to show the supposed former passage there of the river Schuylkill.

354.-Autograph letter of the late Joseph Sansom, Esq. of 1820. giving several facts concerning Philadelphia.

381.-A letter showing the form of inquiries addressed to the aged, by which the facts in this book were attempted to be elicited.

393 to 430.-Reminiscences and diaries of events and incidents at Philadelphia, at the time of the war of Independence, and of the acts of the British army there.

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431 to 434.-Revolutionary soldiers--a tale of truth.

435 to 438.-Incidents of the war and its calamities to a family-best known to the author.

447.-Autograph signatures of the first members of "the Penn Association for commemorating the landing,"—and facts concerning the origin of that Society.

461.-Autograph letter of General La Fayette of 1824, respecting his public visit to Philadelphia, addressed to Joseph Watson, Esq. City Mayor.

459 to 474, contains an extended and graphic description of the public visit of La Fayette to Philadelphia, and many facts to be preserved for some future day.

486.-A printed account of Dr. Franklin's relatives at Nantucket. 490 to 496-Printed biographical notices by Sam. Preston, Esq. of several memorable persons of Bucks county, in the olden time-such as John Watson, surveyor, Jacob Taylor, mathematician and astronomer, William Satterthwaite, poet and scholar, James Pellar, a genius, Dr. Thomas Watson, a learned and benevolent man, D. Ingham, Nathan Preston, much concerned in Indian affairs, &c. Many local incidents are described, and the particulars of the "Indian Walk" are given.

501.-A singular nomenclature of rare names of Philadelphia. 507.-The Pennsylvania Journal of 1758, containing a warning to Friends of 1758, by the Watchman, and Penn's letter of the 27th of 4 mo. 1710, admonitory.

do. A specimen of Humphrey's tory Gazette in Philadelphia,

1777.

508.-Philadelphian demonstrations in 1795, for the grand canal of New York; being a detail of the facts given by John Thomson, Esq. of his experiment and success in bringing a small schooner from Niagara to Philadelphia.

511.-A poetic description of the Delaware river and contiguous country.

516.-Reminiscences by Mrs. H.

536 to 539-Some scrapiana of facts of our general history. 544 to 575.-Several MS. letters from Samuel Preston, Esq. generally descriptive of historical events, and persons in Bucks county, say of Thomas Jenks, Thomas Penn, and Lady Jenks, of the Indian Walk-of E. Marshall, and his discovery of silver-of Richard Smith, botanist and traveller among the Indians.-of the noted Indian, Isaac Still, and his tribe in Bucks county, and of Frederick Post, the interpreter.

576 to 580.-A detail of facts concerning Godfrey's invention of the quadrant,-in print.

Here I would mention as a closing and general remark, that

several communications made to me by aged persons of all they knew or remembered, have been used by me under various distributions, but the whole together of what they said, which may hereaf ter interest their immediate friends, may be found in my MS. Annals in the Philadelphia Library-such are those from J. P. Norris, T. Matlack, John Brown, Sarah Shoemaker, Davenport Merrot, Owen Jones, Isaac Parish, William West, Samuel Richards, Samuel Coates, Thomas Bradford, A. J. Morris. Those by Lang Syne, pages 520 to 530, and by Samuel Preston, are to be found in my MS. Annals in the Historical Society,-also there, Penn's letters to James Harrison, his agent from 1681 to '87, page 164 to 171; the Loganian MSS. at Stenton, pages 222 to 260; Secretary R. Peters' letters to Penns, page 266 to 269; extracts of the minutes of the Association of 1756 for preserving peace with the Indians, pages 180 to 183.

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