Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Volume 49 (Fall/Winter 2014)

PGM Editor : Jane Benner, PGMeditor@genpa.org

Publications Committee:
Jane Benner, PGMeditor@genpa.org
Deborah Coombe, Editor@genpa.org
Valerie-Anne Lutz, Admin@genpa.org

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Annual index to Volume 49

Fall/Winter 2014 (Volume 49, Number 4)

Letter to Members

Records of Naturalization and Divorce in the Oldest Extant Docket of the Court of Common Pleas, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

contributed by Norman Douglas Nicol, PhD

In this article, records of a genealogical interest are transcribed from the earliest extant docket book of the Court of Common Pleas for Luzerne County. The two main naturalization records exhibited here pertain to persons who figure large in the history of the region, whereas the divorce records are illustrative of court actions of this nature in the early nineteenth century.

Links to original images from article, courtesy of the board of directors of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

Ayers, Daniel (p. 299)

Homet, Charles (page 30)

Secor, John (page 69) (page 70)

von Storch, Henry (page 336) (page 337)

Withy, Amasa (page 193) (page 194) (page 195)

Young, Tamar (page 229) (page 330)

David Bradford of Pennsylvania and Louisiana, A Leader of the Whiskey Rebellion: Part II: Career and Family

by Gale Ion Harris, PhD, FASG

David Bradford was a successful attorney of Washington County in southwestern Pennsylvania before he became a leading figure in the 1790s’ insurgency traditionally known as the Whiskey Rebellion. In this continuation from the previous issue, the author recounts David Bradford’s career and offers a summary of his descendants.

Fall 2014 (Volume 49, Number 3)

Letter to Members – From the Whiskey Rebellion to Eastern State Penitentiary
 
David Bradford of Pennsylvania and Louisiana, A Leader of the Whiskey Rebellion: Part I: Parents and Siblings
by Gale Ion Harris, PhD, FASG

David Bradford was a successful attorney of Washington County in southwestern Pennsylvania before he became a leading figure in the 1790s’ insurgency traditionally known as the Whiskey Rebellion. In this article, the author offers an account of David Bradford’s family, beginning with his father, James, and including evidence of David’s activities in Ohio and Virginia. Look for Part II, dealing with David Bradford’s own career and family, in the next issue.

Keeney Family Record: Cumberland and Philadelphia Counties
contributed by Aaron Goodwin

Donated to the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, these records document the births, marriages, and deaths of the descendants of Abel Keeney (b. 1792) and his wife Delilah Mass Hogner (b. 1794).  
Online only: Keeney Family Record – PDF of original records

Thomas, John, and Francis Baldwin of Chester County: A Rare DNA Marker
by Donn Devine, CG, FNGS

Thomas, John, and Francis Baldwin came to America in 1682. But unlike legendary brothers of so many undocumented accounts who went off in separate directions, these three all settled in Chester County, and through much of the next century, many of their descendants continued to reside there, in Delaware County, or in adjoining New Castle County. Lines of descent from John and Francis during the 18th and 19th century are well documented, but nothing is known of some of the third brother Thomas’s mid-18th century descendants. This study uses DNA from the male Y chromosome and builds on two ongoing independent Baldwin searches to help identify various Baldwin descendants.

Genealogical Gleanings from the Eastern State Penitentiary Moral Instructor’s Book A, 1836-1840
contributed by Valerie-Anne Lutz

Although most records from the Eastern State Penitentiary records are held there or at the Pennsylvania State Archives, seven volumes reside at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library in Philadelphia. Here, we offer an extract from the admissions records in Book A from 1836 to 1840, held at APS, focusing on content of genealogical interest: prisoners’ names, age, race, religion, place of birth or nativity, location of offense, prisoner number and date admitted.  Note: Book actually begins in 1829.
Online only: Name Index with links to original pages on the American Philosophical Society website and PDFs of the complete records of this book online at APS

Summer 2014 (Volume 49, Number 2)

Table of Contents

Letter to Members: Good News for Print Fans

Genealogical Gleanings from the Records of the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, 1889

contributed by Maureen Whyte

The Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon opened in 1889 to house young males who were first offenders. Transcribed here are some genealogical gleanings from the reformatory’s records from February to April 1889, but the original records (available here online) offer a lot of other details about inmates.

Online only: Original pages from the Industrial Reformatory records

The German Origins of George Felty (Hans Jerg Veltin) of Lebanon County Part II: Maternal Ancestry

by Clifford L. Stott, AG, CG, FASG

A complement to a 2011 PGM article about the paternal ancestry of George Felty (Hans Jerg Veltin), the maternal ancestry has been documented in this article.

Online special: The German Origins of George Felty (Hans Jerg Veltin) of Lebanon County Part I: Paternal Ancestry by Clifford L. Stott, AG, CG, FASG 

Jones Family Record: Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties 

contributed by Aaron Goodwin

1841 birth is rec­orded in it and whose signature is dated 16 February 1900, following a statement of provenance for some of the information. Two certificates of removal received at the Philadelphia Monthly Meet­ing on the same day, one referenced in the Bible record, provide addi­tional information regarding the origins of the immigrant family.

School Tax List, 1890, Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

contributed by Jane Benner

John F. Walt, president of the school board of directors for Colebrookdale school district, issued a warrant 18 October 1890 to James B. Endy to collect a tax on behalf of the school board.

Spring 2014 (Volume 49, Number 1)

Table of Contents

Letter to Members: Moving PGM into the Digital World

The Cash-Leacock Bible

contributed by Michael J. Leclerc

Given to Mary (Cash) Leacock by her father, Caleb Cash, this Bible commences with the record of Mary’s marriage to John Leacock at Christ’s Church in 1715.

Catalogue of the Nursery at Nazareth

contributed by Sandra M. Hewlett, CG

A chance discovery of well-preserved 18th century Moravian documents in the Northampton County manuscript collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania revealed a list of children in the nursery at Nazareth circa 1758.

Bishop-Henshall Bible Record, Philadelphia

contributed by Jane Benner

Marriages, births, and deaths from the author’s family, including Bishop, Henshall, Lehman, and others.

Online only: Original pages from the Bishop-Henshall Bible

Births and Baptisms Recorded at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia 1792-1817

contributed by Leslie B. Potter, JD

A continuation from PGM 48:120, this listing covers births and baptisms at St. Thomas from 1808 to 1817.

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