[585] A method, prevailing widely at present, of forcing local pride and business enterprise into partnership has produced in New York, as it has in other States, a series of county histories which may find in future antiquaries more respect than historical students at present feel for them. The work of some of the local historical societies, like those of Ulster, Oneida, Cayuga, and Buffalo, is conducted in general in a better spirit, and its genuine antiquarian zeal is exemplified in such books as J. R. Simms’s Frontiersmen of New York (1882-83), and in the conglomerate History of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley, by Jonathan Pearson and others; edited by J. W. MacMurray. (Albany, 1883.)
[586] Vol. III. p. 510. For record of the governors from 1682 to 1863, see Hist. Mag., viii. 266; and the summarized Governors of Pennsylvania, 1609-1873, by Wm. C. Armor. (Norwich, Conn., 1874.) Another official enumeration is Charles P. Keith’s Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania who held office between 1733 and 1776, and those earlier Councillors who were some time chief magistrates of the province, and their descendants. (Philadelphia, 1883.)
[587] In addition to those named in Vol. III. p. 510, and as coming more particularly within the period under consideration, a few may be named:—
From 1844 to 1846 Mr. I. Daniel Rupp issued various books of local interest: Hist. of Lancaster Co. (Lancaster, 1844); History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill Counties (Harrisburg, 1845); History of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties (Lancaster, 1846); and Early Hist. of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, 1846).
The others may be arranged in order of publication: C. W. Carter and A. J. Glossbrener’s York County (1834); Neville B. Craig’s Pittsburg (1851); George Chambers’s Tribute to Irish and Scotch early settlers of Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, 1856); U. J. Jones’s Juniata Valley (1856); H. Hollister’s Lackawanna Valley (1857); J. F. Meginness’s West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna (1857); Geo. H. Morgan’s Annals of Harrisburg (Harrisburg, 1858); Stewart Pearce’s Annals of Luzerne County, from the first settlement of Wyoming to 1860 (Philad., 1860); J. I. Mombert’s Lancaster County (1869); Alfred Creigh’s Washington County (1870); Alexander Harris’s Biog. Hist. of Lancaster County (1872); S. W. Pennypacker’s Annals of Phœnixville to 1871 (Philad., 1872); Emily C. Blackman’s Susquehanna County (Philad., 1873); John Hill Martin’s Bethlehem, with an account of the Moravian Church (Philad., 1873); A. W. Taylor’s Indiana County (1876); S. J. M. Eaton’s Venango County (1876); John Blair Linn’s Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pa., 1755-1855 (Harrisburg, 1877); H. G. Ashmead’s Hist. sketch of Chester (1883).
The histories of Wyoming, deriving most of their interest from later events, will be mentioned in Vol. VI. The local references can be picked out of F. B. Perkins’s Check List of Amer. Local History. The Pennsylvania Mag. of History and Egle’s Notes and Queries (1881, etc.), with its continuation, the Historical Register, make current records of local research.
[588] Vol. III. p. 509.
[589] Cf. the long list of titles under Philadelphia, prepared by C. R. Hildeburn, in Sabin’s Dict. of books relating to America (vol. xiv. p. 524), and lesser monographs, like James Mease’s Picture of Philadelphia (1811); Daniel Bowen’s Hist. of Philadelphia (1839); Harper’s Monthly (Apr., 1876); J. T. Headley in Scribner’s Monthly (vol. ii.); A Sylvan City, or quaint corners in Philadelphia (Philad., 1883); Hamersley’s Philad. Illustrated (1871).
The evidence of an organized government in Philadelphia prior to the charter of incorporation given by Penn in 1701 is presented in the Penna. Mag. of History (Apr., 1886, p. 61). There is a graphic description of Philadelphia about 1750 in the Life of Bampfylde Moore Carew.
[590] Vol. III. pp. 454-55. Some of the earlier collections of New Jersey laws are noted in the Brinley Catal., ii. no. 3,583, etc. Cf. titles in Sabin, vol. xiii.