[797] Information and Direction To Such Persons as are inclined to America, more Especially Those related to the Province of Pennsylvania. Folio, 4 pp.
The title of this tract is given in Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ Books, under date of 1681. It is reprinted, with a fac-simile of the half-title, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History, iv. 329, from a copy in possession of Mr. Henry C. Murphy. An edition was published at Amsterdam in 1686, which is given on a following page.
[798] There is a copy of the original tract in Harvard College Library. Its title is as follows,—
The Articles, Settlement, and Offices of the Free Society of Traders in Pennsilvania: Agreed upon by divers Merchants and others for the better Improvement and Government of Trade in that Province. London: Printed for Benjamin Clark, folio, 14 pp., 1682.
[799] Copies of it are in the British Museum and in the Friends’ Library, London. It is reprinted in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, vi. 176, from a transcript obtained from the British Museum.
[800] A Letter from William Penn, Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that Province, residing in London. To which is added An Account of the City of Philadelphia, etc. Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway Lane in Shoreditch, and at several Stationers’ in London, folio, 10 pp., 1683.
A copy of the edition, with list of property holders, is in the Library of the New York Historical Society. It has been lately reprinted by Coleman, of London. Copies of the edition, which does not contain the list of purchasers, are in the Philadelphia Library and in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is reprinted in Proud’s History of Pennsylvania, i. 246; Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania, i. 432; Janney’s Life of Penn, p. 238; and in the various editions of Penn’s collected Works. Menzies’ copy sold for $65. Harvard College Library has a copy without the list; another is in the Carter-Brown Library. Cf. Rich’s Catalogue of 1832, no. 403.
[801] Missive van William Penn, Eygenaar en Gouverneur van Pennsylvania, in America. Geschreven aan de Commissarissen van de Vrye Societeyt der Handelaars, op de selve Provintie, binnen London resideerende. Waar by noch gevoeght is een Beschrijving van de Hooft-Stadt Philadelphia, etc. Amsterdam: Gedrukt voor Jacob Claus, 1684, 4º, 23 pp.
A copy is in the Carter-Brown Library, Catalogue, vol. ii. no. 1,293, and in the O’Callaghan Catalogue, no. 1,816 ($20). The one in the Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania lacks the map. It contains, in addition to what is in the London edition, a letter from Thomas Paschall, dated from Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1683 (N. S.), the first, we believe, dated from that locality. This letter will be found translated in Pennsylvania Magazine of History, vi. 322.
[802] Beschreibung der in America new-erfunden Provinz Pensylvanien. Derer Inwohner Gesetz Arth Sitten und Gebrauch: auch samlicher reviren des Landes sonderlich der haupt-stadt Philadelphia. (Hamburg.) Henrich Heuss, 1684, 4º, 32 pp. Carter-Brown Catalogue, vol. ii. no. 1,295.