OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY • OF PENNSYLVANIA, VOL. I. BEING A REPUBLICATION. EDITED BY EDWARD ARMSTRONG, MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA: 1826. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., FOR THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. MICHIGA ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE Historical Society of Pennsylvania commences the publication of its transactions with the present number, and with the expectation of being able to issue a work of equal size every six months. From the miscellaneous nature of the subjects, it is obvious that an adherence to chronological order would not be easy. The Society does not undertake to compose a history; its desire is to collect materials for history. Remote and recent periods will, therefore, sometimes be found in immediate contact or anachronous succession: the transactious of the seventeenth century may follow those of the nineteenth. But, although historical order is impossible, the want of it, it is hoped, will not impair the interest which such collections usually excite; and the variety of the facts may compensate for the irregularity of the arrangement. (~) The Circular Letter already extensively communicated is included in the present publication; and it is requested that every reader will consider it addressed to himself. On a general compliance with the wishes expressed in it, the Society founds its hopes of permanence and useful ness. With the second half-volume an index to the whole will be given. PHILADELPHIA, December, 1825. |