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 630 N'otes a7id Nezvs son and East Rivers ; also the military works on Long Island and parts of the Jersey shore. A limited number of facsimile copies will be pub- lished, for subscribers only, by B. F. Stevens (London). The Reform Club of New York City has published a History of Tam- matiy Hall by Mr. Gustavus Myers. The Histoiy of Westchester County, by Mr. Frederick Shonnard and Mr. W. VV. Spooner (New York History Co.), contains a careful ac- count of the early English and Dutch settlements, and is chiefly con- cerned with the period preceding the Revolution. Vol. XX. of the A^e^a Jersey Archives is Vol. IV. of Mr. Nelson's Newspaper Extracts, extending from 1756 to 1761. A History of Printers and Printing in New Jersey prior to 1801, intended for this volume, is deferred, but will probably appear in connection with Vol. XXIII., the next volume to be devoted to newspaper extracts. It will be remembered that Mr. Nelson has heretofore brought his account of newspapers and early printing, in alphabetical order of states, down through New Hampshire. Vol. XXI. is a calendar, prepared by Mr. Berthold Fernow, of the records in the office of the secretary of state of New Jersey relating to the period 1664-1703, ending with the union of East and West Jersey. There must be six or seven thousand docu- ments here summarized. They furnish a large body of fresh material for the student of government, land-purchases and land -grants in the Jersies. In the January number of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Mr. Lewis Burd Walker continues his biography of Margaret Shippen, wife of Benedict Arnold. Among the interesting documents printed is a journal kept by Col. Elias Boudinot, commissary -general of prisoners, while sojourning in the city of New York in February, 177S, looking after the welfare of the American prisoners and arranging ex- changes ; also letters of Rev. Percival Locke and Rev. George Craig, missionaries of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, written from Lancaster, Penn., 1746-52. The annual report of the treasurer of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows the society to possess property to the amount of §289,638. The Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-lJjO, with their Early History in Ireland, by Mr. Albert Cook Myers, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (published by the author), will shortly appear. The author has made use of printed and manuscript col- lections relating to his subject in Dublin, Paris and London, as well as of the Friends' Historical Library of Swarthmore College, the largest collection of Friends' books in America, and other similar material. In the November number of the Publications of the Southern History Association we note a body of reminiscences of Southern frontier life in Revolutionary days, prepared about 1842 for Dr. Lyman C. Draper, by Col. William Martin,- of Smith County, Tennessee, the oldest son of General Joseph Martin. The father may, in part, be regarded as the