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 America 409 The State Library Bulletin, History No. 4 (University of the State of New York) is an historical sketch of Slavery in New York, by Judge A. Judd Northrup. Rev. Dr. Walton M. Battershall has written A History of St. Peter's Church in the City of Albany (Albany, Fort Orange Press, Brandow Printing Co.). St. Peter's is described in the introduction as a centre of English missionary work among the Iroquois, while its records furnish material for the colonial and the post-revolutionary period. Beside pieces continued from the last number, the October issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of Hist<ry contains Colonel Elias Boudinot's notes of two conferences held by the ."American and British commission- ers to settle a general cartel for the exchange of prisoners of war in 1778, Du Coudray's observations (July, 1777) on the forts intended for the defense of the two passages of the River Delaware, and a facsimile of a number of the first German newspaper published in Pennsylvania. This was the Philadelphische Zeitung, of which Franklin printed a few numbers in 1732, but of which no copy had ever been discovered till lately. Upon the miscellaneous letters and brief documents which form so rich a portion of the contents of this journal we seldom have space to comment. In the present number we notice two letters of Jasper Yeates advocating the selection of Lancaster as the federal capital in 1789, and one of Samuel Wharton, 1775, urging his brother Thomas to take several members of Congress into partnership in the "Indiana" grant if neces- sary, in order to secure a validation of that grant by Congress. Mr. F. R. Diffenderffer has published (New Era Printing Co., Lan- caster, Penn. ) The German Immigration into Pennsylvania through the Port of Philadelphia, ijoo-i7JS- ^I''- Diffenderffer published several years ago a monograph entitled The German Exodus to England. Mr. Aksel G. S. Josephson, of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, has in preparation a bibliography of New Sweden. The September Publications of the Southern History Association contains the concluding portion of the journal of Thomas Nicholson, the Quaker preacher, and an account of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia. The October number of the Virginia Magazine of History contains much interesting matter. Of a dozen letters of Jefferson here printed, those to Richard Henry Lee are of considerable interest. The install- ment of Nicholson papers includes, among others, some which describe a barring-out at the College of William and Mary in 1702. The Sains- bury abstracts relate chiefly to the foundation of Maryland. The editor prints some interesting papers gleaned in a tour among the old county court-houses ; one of them shows the noted John Saffin selling a Spanish mulatto named Antonio to Ralph Wormeley of Virginia, to be free at the end of ten years.