[838] Coleman, James, bookseller. Catalogue of Original Deeds, Charters, Copies of Royal Grants, petitions, Original Letters, etc., of William Penn and his Family. July, 1870. Also Supplement. London, 1870, 8º, 32, 12 pp.
Also see The Penn Papers. Description of a large Collection of Original Letters, Manuscript Documents, Charters, Grants, Printed Papers, rare Books and Pamphlets relating to the Celebrated William Penn, to the early History of Pennsylvania, and incidentally to other parts of America, dating from the latter part of the 17th to the end of the 18th century, lately in the possession of a surviving descendant of William Penn, now the property of Edward G. Allen. London, 1870.
Also see Original Deeds and Charters, State and Boundary Documents, Letters, Maps, and Charts, also Books and Papers relating to America, the Penn Family, and the Quakers, many of them from the Penn Library. July, 1876. London, 1876, 8º, 24 pp.
[839] The published address delivered upon their presentation to the Historical Society is entitled Proceedings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the Presentation of the Penn Papers, and Address of Craig Biddle, March 10, 1873, Philadelphia, 1873, 8º, 30 pp. Cf. Catalogue of Paintings, etc., belonging to the Pennsylvania Historical Society, no. 177.
[840] Mr. Whitehead informs me that the papers in the Library of the New Jersey Historical Society consist of 17 parts (no. 10 missing), and are called, “The History of the Colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania in America. From the time of their first discovery to the year 1721. Together with an Appendix containing several occurrences that have happened since, down to the present time. Undertaken at the desire of the Yearly Meeting of the people called Quakers, of the said Colonies, and published by their order. By——. Psal. cv. 12. 13. 14, when they were but a few, etc.” Several of the passages, marked “Transfer to History of Friends,” correspond to the Philadelphia manuscript, which is apparently the portion designated as the second part in the author’s scheme, as thus detailed by himself in the New Jersey manuscript: “The History of the Province of Pennsylvania in two parts. Part I. The time and manner of the grants of territories, the arrival of settlers, a general view of the original state of the country and of the public proceedings in legislation, and other matters for the first forty years after the settlement made under William Penn. Part II. The introduction and some account of the religious progress of the people called Quakers therein, including the like account respecting the same people in New Jersey as constituting one Yearly Meeting.”
[841] The History of Pennsylvania in North America, from ... 1681 till after the year 1742, with an Introduction respecting the Life of W. Penn, ... the Religious Society of the People called Quakers, with the First Rise ... of West New Jersey, and ... the Dutch and Swedes in Delaware; to which is added a Brief Description of the said Province, 1760-1770. Philadelphia, 1797-1798.
[842] A biographical notice of him by the Rev. Charles West Thomson will be found in vol. i. of the Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (2d ed. p. 417), together with some verses which show the sympathies of a Loyalist. He was born in 1728, and died in 1813. A Portrait after a pencil sketch is noted in the Catalogue of Paintings, etc., belonging to the Pennsylvania Historical Society, no. 86.
[843] Philadelphia, 1829.
[844] London, 1854; vol. i. appearing in 1850. The work was never completed.
[845] Harrisburg, 1876; 2d ed., Philadelphia, 1880.