circular of a Philadelphia banker issued in April of 1822: Massachusetts, Boston, par; country generally, 2@3. New Hampshire, generally, 2@3. Rhode Island, 1; Connecticut, 2. New York, city banks par; Newburg, 1; Bank of Columbia, Hudson, 1; Bank of Albany, par; Lansingburg, Orange, Catskill, and Utica banks, 14; Auburn, Ontario, and Plattsburg banks, 2 @ 24. New Jersey, State banks at Newark, Elizabethtown, Brunswick, and Trenton, par; Camden, Mount Holly, and Cumberland, par. Pennsylvania, Germantown, Delaware City, Chester, Farmers' Bank of Lancaster, Easton, Norristown, Farmers' Bank, Bucks County, Harrisburg, New Hope, Reading, par; Lancaster Bank, 1; Swatara, 1; York, 1; Gettysburg, 14; Pittsburgh, 14 @ 2; Carlisle, 1 @ 2. District of Columbia,; Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria, 5. Vermont, State banks, 2. Ohio, old bank at Chillicothe, 5. Virginia, Farmers' Bank and branches, 2; Bank of Virginia and branches, 1; Bank of the Valley and branches, 1. Delaware, Farmers' Bank and branches, par; Delaware, Wilmington, and Brandywine banks, par; Com. Bank of Delaware, 1; Branch of ditto at Milford, 4. Maryland, Baltimore,; City Bank, 24; Annapolis and branches, 2; Westminster, 1; Havre de Grace, 1; Hagerstown, 1; Frederick County Bank, 2; Conococheague, 21; Caroline Bank at Denton, 121; Elkton, par. North Carolina, State Bank and branches, 24; Cape Fear, 3; Newbern, 3. South Carolina, generally, 14. Georgia, State banks generally, 14. BRADFORD'S JOURNAL.-The following letter, addressed to "Messu" William and Thomas Bradford, Printers, in Philadelphia," and "To be delivered by the Lancaster Post who is also to bring the News Papers within subscribed for in the York Packet." "GENTLEMEN. "YORK April the 6th 1775. "In order to assist in supporting so successful a Paper as yours-We the Subscribers do request you to send each of us a News Paper Weekly, and that you inclose the same in a Packet with Messrs Joseph Donaldson, George Irwin, Robert McPherson, Thomas Hartley, William Leas, John Fisher, David Cautler and George Lewis Letters Papers .. directed to Mr. Rudolph Spangler in York Town. This Packet is to be sent by the Lancaster Post. The Spirit of Liberty which appears in your Publication has gained you many Friends in this County. So that ere long we expect your Subscribers will increase much in this Part of the Province. We are Gentlemen Your THE INDIANA COMPANY.-We are indebted to Mr. William Fisher Lewis for the following copy of a call for a special meeting of the Company, addressed to the Vice-President, Thomas Wharton: "SIR. "PHILADA. September 1778. "We conceive it necessary to have as early a Meeting of the Proprietors of Indiana, as their Constitution will admit; to make Choice of a Presi dent in Place of Joseph Galloway Esq., & to determine on Matters of the greatest Importance to the Proprietors. We therefore beg the favour of you to call a meeting of the said Proprietors, to be held at the Indian Queen Tavern in the City of Philad" on the third day of May next, or as Early as possible. "We are with Respect Sir "Your most obedient Servants "THOS BOND, "JOSEPH SIMON, “AND. LEVY, "TRENT, FRANKS, SIMON & LEVY on behalf of self and the other Executors of Robert Callendar Decd." WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.-Paul Leicester Ford, of 97 Clark Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., being engaged in the preparation of an edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, and desiring to make it as complete as possible, requests that any one possessing any of Jefferson's letters or manuscripts will communicate with him. Or if such persons will either loan these to Mr. Ford for a few days, he will guarantee their safe return; or if they will have them copied at his expense, and will enclose a bill, he will most gratefully pay for the copying, and give due credit for such assistance in the work. A QUAINT RECORD.-" John Wendel Pretius, husband of the present widow Christine, who on the 2d. June 1774, twelve miles hence, at Flowertown, mounting a wild mare which would return home to her colt, accidently came under the beast, and very ill and deadly wounded, departed on the 1st Sunday after Trinity, the 5th. of June, about 10 o'clock in the night. The corpse was brought the day following to this town and taken in view by the Coroner and Jury: the 7th of June, and after six o'clock in the afternoon was buried, in the 55th year of his age.” FRANKLINIANA.-The following is taken from S. P. Moore's Tax List for Philadelphia County, 1765: "Benjamin Franklin S° side High Street bet 3 & 4th £10." T. S. Queries. VICKLORD OR VICKROY.-Can any one tell me anything concerning an officer of the Revolution by the name of Vicklord or Vickroy? What was his rank, under whom did he serve, and in what battles did he participate? An ancestor, from Western Pennsylvania, who was at Trenton and Yorktown, served under such an officer. If something more of his revolutionary record could be learned through that of his colonel, brigade, or corps, it would give great pleasure to those interested. INQUIRER. AMERICAN EDITION OF THE SPECTATOR.-When, where, and by whom was the first American edition of The Spectator published? H. E. SAFFEN. Rebeckah Saffen, daughter of Thomas and Mary Saffen, was born in Newark, N. J., September 22, 1769, and married November 7, 1790, John J., son of Josiah Crane, of Newark. She died in New York October 26, 1847. John J. Crane was born March 8, 1767, and died in July, 1808. Persons who can furnish any information with regard to the Saffen family will greatly oblige by communicating with Replies. C. SIDNEY CRANE, 41 West Forty-fifth Street, New York. THE DOYLESTOWN DEMOCRAT'S MOTTO.-[PENNA. MAG., Vol. XIV. p. 333.]—The author of the motto was Judge Story, and in the first volume of his biography (p. 127) by his son, W. W. Story, will be found the following: "The motto which the Salem Register adopted in the year 1802, and still retains, was also written by my father: "Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Judge Story was then a young lawyer, and was living at Salem, where he was a frequent writer for the local Republican paper, and so came to furnish its motto,-which is still kept at the head of the editorial page. It is an excellent one, certainly, and we may not only hope that the Register has lived up to it during all these years, but wish also that the press generally might adopt and honor it. The Doylestown Democrat, it is to be hoped, did not find it too high a standard, and drop it on that account, after (as stated) a few years' trial! H. M. J. Book Notices. THE POLITICAL BEGINNINGS OF KENTUCKY. By John Mason Brown. Louisville: John P. Morton & Co. 4to, 263 pp. Price, $2.50. This handsome volume, printed on heavy laid paper, with broad margins, forms No. 6 of the publications of the "Filson Club." It is the most scholarly and valuable production that the club has issued, and, as we read its interesting pages, we are impressed with the great loss we have suffered in the death of its accomplished author. Colonel Brown fortunately completed his work before his death, and placed the manuscript in the hands of the printers, who, in accordance with his wishes, have published it just as he left it. The book treats of the Indian title, Henderson's purchase, and the organization of the Transylvania Company, as well as the efforts that were made to have the district it claimed represented in the Continental Congress in 1775. There is also a full account of the erection of the county of Illinois (now the State of Kentucky) by the Legislature of Virginia, and the efforts that were made for a separate political organization, resulting in the formation of a new State. The alarm that spread over the West and Southwest at the beginning of the present century, when it was feared that a free navigation of the Mississippi River would be denied VOL. XIV.-29 the inhabitants of those sections by the Spanish government, is well told; but probably the most interesting and important portion of the work is that which treats of the Spanish, French, and British intrigues, in which attempts were made to separate the Western country from the United States. In writing this portion Colonel Brown enjoyed a special advantage, as he fortunately secured copies from foreign archives of the despatches which the representatives of foreign governments in this country sent home to their authorities. The despatches of Dorchester, Miro, and Gardoqui have thus been laid under contribution, and the revelations they make are interesting in the extreme. The account of the effort made in 1790 to prohibit slavery in Kentucky is also very interesting. The narrative is brought down to 1792, which Colonel Brown says closes the first period of the political beginnings of Kentucky. It is to be regretted that he was not spared to write the second period, for which he had collected considerable material. This would have continued the story to 1807, and would have included such topics as the organization of executive and legislative powers, the mission of Power and other Spanish emissaries, and their attempts upon Sebastian, Nicholas, and Murray, the ferment that grew out of the alien and sedition laws and excise legislation, the excitement fomented by Genêt and other French agents, the remodelling of the Constitution in 1799, the acquisition of Louisiana, and the arrest and trial of Aaron Burr. The subject is a rich one that should tempt some member of the Filson Club to continue the work of Colonel Brown. MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF THE CATTELL FAMILY IN ENgLand.— Prof. W. P. Phillimore, in "A Calendar of Wills relating to the Counties of Northampton and Rutland, Proved in the Court of the Archdeacon of Northampton, 1510 to 1652," gives an account of the late Thomas William Cattell, a native of Coventry, born in June, 1809, and that his ancestors long resided in Northamptonshire. He practised medicine in Liverpool, and later in life turned his attention to genealogical pursuits. "In the first instance, like most other genealogists, Mr. Cattell first turned his attention to the history of his own name and family, his collections about which are remarkably complete, and are nearly all embodied in some eight or ten manuscript volumes, forming, in fact, an elaborate register of the name. In doing this he not only niade exhaustive searches at Northampton Probate Registry, the Record Office, Somerset House, and through innumerable parish registers, but also undertook the very tedious work of extracting all the modern Cattell entries in the Records of the Registrar-General, a task the like of which has seldom, if ever, been done before. Mr. Cattell made abstracts of some hundreds of Northamptonshire wills, chiefly relating to yeoman families in the western half of that county; these, which he indexed very fully, are now in the editor's possession." MEETINGS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1890. There being no quorum present on the evening of January 13, no meeting was held. A special meeting was held on Monday evening, February 3, Brinton Coxe, Esq., presiding, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the organization of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chairman introduced Hampton L. Carson, Esq., who read a paper giving a graphic description of the opening of the first session of the court in New York; a brief history of several important cases; and concluded with interesting accounts of the more distinguished justices who had presided over or assisted at the sittings of the court during the past century. On motion of John K. Valentine, Esq., a vote of thanks was tendered. A stated meeting of the Society was held March 10, Vice-President Samuel W. Pennypacker in the chair. A valuable statistical and historical paper was read by Francis N. Thorpe, Ph.D., on "Recent Constitution-making in the United States." On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered. Nominations for officers to be voted for at the next stated meeting being in order, J. Granville Leach, Esq., nominated the following: |