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 America 63 1 source of the narratives; but the son, also, born in 1765, remembered the period in question. In the January issue of the same journal Mr. Ernest A. Smith, of Allegheny College, begins a valuable series of articles on the history of the Confederate Treasury. The Virginia Historical Society reports that its catalogue of manu- scripts is nearly printed. General G. W. Custis Lee has deposited with the Society a large collection of manuscripts relating to the Parke, Cus- tis, Washington and Lee families. Major Powhatan Ellis has presented much valuable material, printed and manuscript, among the latter being a part of the papers of Governor and Senator Powhatan Ellis. The January number of the Virginia Magazine of History contains some interesting letters of Harrison Gray and Harrison Gray, jr., loyal- ists of Boston ; the usual instalment of notes from the early records of the Council and General Court ; and a list of members of the House of Burgesses, supplementing and furnishing a guide to all previous lists. The Nicholson-Blair documents now published bring the affair up to the re- turn of Blair and the recall of Nicholson ; those from the McDonald collection relate to the deposition of Governor Harvey. The will of Mary Washington's mother, Mrs. Mary Hewes, is printed. Numbers 10, n, and 12, completing the eighteenth volume of the /I'hns Hopkins University Studies, form a study of the jjart played by the Baptists in the struggle for religious freedom in Virginia, by Mr. Wil- liam T. Thorn. A map, traced from the Lewis map which is prefixed to Jefferson's Notes on Virginia (1794), accompanies the volume and il- lustrates the growth of the Baptist churches between 1770 and 1776. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine for January continues the papers of the First Council of Safety of that state, and those relating to the mission of Colonel John Laurens in Europe, 1781. The genealogical section deals with the Barnwell family. No. 7 of the Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina consists mainly of an historical sketch of the Huguenot Congregations of South Carolina, by the late Daniel Ravenel, with notes by the late W. G. De Saussure (Charleston, pp. 74). Messrs. M. F. Mansfield and Co. announce Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, by Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, edited by the Rev. Arthur W. Eaton. Mr. Thomas M. Owen has been elected Director of the Department of. Archives and History in the state of Alabama, which was established by an act of February 27. The American Historical Magazine for October (Nashville, Tenn.) contained a body of records of Washington Coujity, Tennessee, begin- ning with the establishment of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions by North Carolina in 1778 and coming down to 1790, to be continued in the later issues of the magazine.