commenced the study of medicine, and as I am the oldest surgeon in the neighborhood, it has been my lot to continue to operate, as my health and nerve are yet good in my 69th year. * I send you a pamphlet on the Duties of the Citizen to the Republic; a Sermon delivered by order of the Presbytery of Miami, by W. C. Anderson, D. D., Minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1848, From the Virginia Historical Society.-The Virginia Historical Register and Literary Advertiser, for April and July, 1848. From the New England Historical and Genealogical Society.-The New England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, for July, 1848. From Benjamin Dubois, M. D., of Ohio,-A Sermon entitled "The Republic and Duties of the Citizen;" by W. C. Anderson, D. D., of Dayton, Ohio. From Mr. Charles T. Day.-Acts of the Seventy Second Legislature of New Jersey, 1848. Journal of the Senate of New Jersey, for 1848. Minutes of Votes and Proceedings of General Assembly, for 1848. From Hon. Dudley S. Gregory.-Message of the President of the U. States, with correspondence therewith communicated between the Secretary of War and other Officers of the Government on the subject of the Mexican War. The Congressional Globe and various public documents. From Benjamin F. Thompson, Esq., of Hempstead, L. I.—Catalogue of New York State Library. Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Cromwell. De Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Smith's History of New York. Moulton's History of New York. The Puritans and their Principles, by E. Hall. Coffin's History of Newbury. Sabine's American Loyalists. Taylor's History of University of Dublin. From Major J. D. Graham, U. S. Topographical Engineers.-Three Newspapers containing communications in answer to certain charges of Col. Thos. H. Benton. From W. A. Whitehead.-Journal of the Senate of Florida at its second session, 1840. Journal of the Legislative Assembly of Florida at its eighteenth session, 1840. Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution for the People of Florida, held at St. Joseph's, Dec. 1838. American Almanac, 1845. From W. A. Whitehead, on deposit and subject to his order.-The New York Mercury, from Sept. 1830 to Dec. 1843, in eight bound vols. The Congressional Globe and Appendix, from Dec. 1834 to Feb. 1841, in eight bound volumes. From Hon. John M. White, of Woodbury, N. J.-A Silver Medal struck in honor of Washington, 1787. From Hon. J. F. Randolph.-Executive and Congressional Documents and other State Papers-about 100 bound volumes. From Hon. Jacob W. Miller-Various Public Documents. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM FRANKLIN, GOVERNOR FROM 1763 TO 1776, BY WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD. READ BEFORE THE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, September 27th, 1848. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. * GENTLEMEN-Although I have consented to occupy a part of your time at this meeting, yet I feel that I should ask your indulgence for the imperfections which may be observed in what I am about to read. For being only a portion of a manuscript of miscellaneous gleanings in the forgotten past, prepared with no view of being laid before the Society, it is in some respects of a different character from what it would have been had it been designed for a distinct paper. It may however afford some information not generally known respecting the individual of whom it treats, and serve to refresh the memory of those already to some extent acquainted with his life and character. Dr. Franklin, identified with so much that is interesting in the history of America had one son. That son, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, was Governor of New Jersey at the period when, through the blessing of Providence upon earnest self devoting efforts, our country was happily enabled to throw off the oppressive burdens which the short sighted policy of England's rulers would have fastened upon her, and assumed 'among the nations of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled her.' William Franklin was born in the Province of Pennsylvania in 1731 --but of his youth little is known. He early showed a marked predilection for books, which his father of course encouraged; but with advancing years the quiet walks of an academic life appear to have lost their charms in some measure, and a disposition was manifested by him to seek employment in the stirring pursuits of a military career. Disappointed in an attempt made to connect himself clandestinely with a privateer fitting out at Philadelphia, he was subsequently gratified by the receipt of a commission in the Pennsylvania forces, and served in one or more campaigns on the northern frontier before he was of age, rising from a subordinate station to the rank of Captain. This *Contributions to the Local History of Perth Amboy, and surrounding country." |