months they helped to organize fifteen county lyceums, fifty township lyceums, and one hundred and twenty family lyceums.

Mr. Rupp felt, as a good citizen, in duty bound to use all the light given to him and all the power he could exert for the promotion of good government. While he never sought office, he was fully alive to the political issues of the nation. Taking sides with the Whig or National Republican party, he engaged quite actively in the presidential campaign of 1827 for John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. While at Harrisburg, he reported the proceedings of the Senate for a newspaper, and earned some money-he states this fact himself in his diary-by writing speeches for members of both houses. The next presidential campaign found him likewise a spirited partisan. He was a delegate to the Republican Convention that met at Harrisburg May 29, 1832, and favored the nomination of Henry Clay.

Mr. Rupp kept a diary upwards of fifty years, noting down all that concerned him or attracted his notice. His written memoirs, based on it, contain also many of his addresses, the more important part of his correspondence, and display the whole course of his long and useful life, the most faithful portrait that he could leave to his family, to which he clung with affectionate love. Upon the turning of a new leaf in his life, either on his birthday or New Year's day, it was his custom to dot down the devout thoughts that filled his soul. Let us take leave of our departed friend and fellow-member by listening to one of these self-communions, which admits us to the inmost recess of his good and honest heart. On the 10th of July, 1866, he writes: "To-day I enter on my sixty-fourth year. I have great cause to praise God for thousands of temporal and spiritual blessings. I have suffered very little sickness. Vigor of body and mind remain unimpaired. To what cause have I to attribute all this but to a God who blessed me with a strong constitution. and a will to abstain from anything detrimental to my health? I have had no anxious thoughts about the morrow,' no

anxiety to lay up dollars and cents for the sake of dollars and cents. I am well assured with industry and economy and the blessing of my Creator I shall not want any of the necessaries of life. My natural wants are few. Luxu

ries I do not desire."

The following are the published writings of Mr. Rupp :

1. Geschichte der Märtyrer, nach dem ausführlichen Original des Ehrw. Johann Fox und anderer kurz gefasst, besonders für den gemeinen deutschen Mann in den Ver. Staaten von Nord-America aus dem Englischen übersetzt von I. Daniel Rupp. 514 pp. Cincinnati, 1830. New edition, 1832.

2. Collection of Choice Sermons, by the Rev. J. C. Albertus Helfenstein. Translated from the German by I. Daniel Rupp. 261 pp. Carlisle, 1832.

3. Discipline of the Evangelical Association in the United States. Translated from the German by I. Daniel Rupp. 218 pp. Harrisburg, 1832.

4. The Wandering Soul. Originally written in Dutch by John Philip Schabalie. Translated into German by B. B. Brechbill. Translated into English by I. D. Rupp. 504 pp. Philadelphia, 1833 (stereotyped).

5. A Foundation and Instruction of the Saving Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ, briefly compiled from the Word of God. Translated from the Dutch into the German by Menno Simon. Translated into English by I. D. Rupp. 480 pp. Lancaster, 1835.

6. Das ursprüngliche Christenthum, oder eine Vertheidigung des Worts Gottes, von Peter Nead. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von I. Daniel Rupp. 306 pp. Harrisburg, 1836.

7. The Stolen Child, or Heinrich von Eichenfels. Translated from the German by I. D. Rupp. 216 pp. Harrisburg, 1836.

8. The Lyceum Spelling-Book. An improved method to teach children to think and read, etc. By I. Daniel Rupp. 240 pp. Harrisburg, 1836.

9. The Voyages and Five Years' Captivity in Algiers of Dr.

G. S. F. Pfeiffer, with an Appendix giving a True Description of the Customs, Manners and Habits of the Different Inhabitants of the Country of Algiers. Translated from the 2d German edition by I. D. Rupp. 398 pp. Harrisburg, 1836.

10. The Geographical Catechism of Pennsylvania and the Western States. With maps. By I. Daniel Rupp. 384 pp. Harrisburg, 1836.

11. The Practical Farmer. By an association of practical farmers of Cumberland County, Pa. Edited by I. D. Rupp. 288 pp. Mechanicsburg, 1837.

12. The Bloody Theatre, or Martyr's Mirror, of the Defenceless Christians who suffered and were put to Death for the Testimony of Jesus their Saviour from the Time of Christ till the Year 1660. By Thieleman J. van Bracht. Translated into German, from which it is translated, compared with the original Dutch by I. Daniel Rupp. 1048 pp.

13. The Homœopathic Horse Doctor, by Dr. Busch. Translated from the original German manuscript by I. D. Rupp. 208 pp. Carlisle, 1842.

14. The Farmer's Complete Farrier. By I. D. Rupp. 416 pp. Harrisburg, 1843, and Lancaster, 1847.

15. History of Lancaster County, to which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of Pennsylvania. Compiled from authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp. 528 pp. Lancaster, 1844.

16. He Pasa Ekklesia. An original history of the religious denominations at present existing in the United States. By eminent professors, ministers, and lay members of the respective denominations. Projected, compiled, and arranged by I. D. Rupp. 734 pp. royal 8vo. Philadelphia, 1844.

17. History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon, containing a Brief Account of the Indians, Murders, and Massacres by them, etc. By I. Daniel Rupp. 516 pp. Lancaster, 1844.

18. History of York County from 1719 to 1845, with an Appendix, Topography, Statistics, etc. By I. D. Rupp. 256 pp. Lancaster, 1845.

19. History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill Counties, containing a Brief History of the First Settlers, etc. By I. Daniel Rupp. 568 pp. Harrisburg, 1845.

20. The History and Geography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties. By I. Daniel Rupp. 594 pp. Lancaster, 1845.

21. Early History of Western Pennsylvania and of the West and Western Expeditions and Campaigns, etc. By a gentleman of the bar. 752 pp. large octavo. Harrisburg, 1846.

22. History and Topography of Northumberland, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Union, Columbia, Juniata, and Union Counties, Pa. By I. Daniel Rupp. 566 pp. Lancaster, 1847.

23. The Catechism, or Plain Instructions from the Sacred Scriptures, etc. Published by the Christian Communion called Mennonites in Waldeck. Translated from the German by I. Daniel Rupp. 72 pp. Lancaster, 1849.

24. A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, etc. By I. Daniel Rupp. 405 pp. Harrisburg.

The same.

Second revised edition with German translation. Philadelphia, 1876.

25. Short Quotations Concerning the Christian Doctrine of Faith according to the Testimony of the Sacred Scriptures. By Rev. Christopher Schultz (Pastor among the Schwenkfelders). Translated by I. Daniel Rupp. Skippackville,

1863.

Manuscripts.

a. Original Fireside History of German and Swiss Immigrants in Pennsylvania.

b. Monograph of German Mercenaries, especially of the Hessian Mercenaries in the British Service.

c. Defunct Scots in Pennsylvania.

d. Quinque Lingual Nomenclature, in English, Latin, Greek, German, and French.

LIST OF THE TAXABLES OF CHESTNUT, MIDDLE, AND SOUTH WARDS, PHILADELPHIA, 1754.

BY WILLIAM SAVERY.

Philadelphia in 1704 was divided into ten wards. The eastern front of the Delaware, from Vine to Walnut Streets, was in two divisions, Lower and Upper Delaware Wards. Their western boundary was Front Street, with High (Market) Street as the dividing line. From Walnut to Mulberry (Arch) Streets, and from Front to Second Streets, contained three wards, Walnut, Chestnut, and High. Mulberry Ward occupied the whole space between Front and Seventh Streets and Vine and Mulberry Streets. South, Middle, and North Wards (in the former stood the State-House) were formed out of the space between Mulberry and Walnut and Second and Seventh Streets. Dock Ward embraced all that portion of the city between the Delaware and Seventh Street and Walnut and Cedar Streets. From the Assessor's Book for the year 1754, we have compiled the names of the taxables of Chestnut, South, and Middle Wards, under the " Tax of Two pence on the pound and six Shillingshead Laid on the Estates of the Freeholders & Inhabitants of the City of Philadelphia for Regulating and paving several bad places in the Streets, discharging certain Debts due from the City, and the Remainder of the said Tax to be Apply'd to such Publick Uses as the Magistrates and Assessors shall hereafter Direct." Joseph Lownes, Jacob Lewis, Bartholomew Penrose, and Joseph Watkins, the assessors, on August 20, 1754, made their return, which was confirmed by Charles Willing, Mayor; Tench Francis, Recorder; Benjamin Shoemaker and Benjamin Franklin, Magistrates, who thereupon appointed Joseph Trotter Treasurer, and William Savery Collector.