CONTENTS. PROCEEDINGS Of Meeting at Newark, May 16th, 1850 Letter of Major-General Baron Steuben to Officers of the New Jersey Line, Tables of the Sittings of the Provincial Assemblies, and names of members Orders of Generals Schuyler and Sullivan to Colonel Jonathan Dayton, 1776 PROCEEDINGS of Meeting at Morristown, September 12th, 1850 The Robbery of the Treasury in 1768, by W. A. Whitehead The Hollanders in New Jersey, by Rev. Abraham Messler, D.D. PROCEEDINGS of Meeting at Trenton, January 23rd, 1851 The American Union, and the Perils to which it has been exposed, by J. P. Letters of Joseph Sherwood, Provincial Agent - PROCEEDINGS of Meeting at Newark, May 15th, 1851 Letter from Major F. Barber, 1776 Letter from Joseph Shippen, jun., 1752 Selections from Correspondence of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling THE SOCIETY met this day at 11 o'clock in their room in the Library Building, the PRESIDENT in the chair; the Hon. JAMES PARKER, Vice President, being also present. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, the Corresponding Secretary laid upon the table a large number of letters received since January, drawing attention particularly to communications from the Rev. GEORGE PIERSON, of Florida, N. Y.; Rev. THOMAS ROBBINS, D. D. of Hartford, Conn.; A. L. ELWYN, M. D., of Philadelphia; Hon. RICH'D S. COXE, and Messrs. PETER Force and J. F. CALDWELL, of Washington city; EDWARD D. MANSFIELD, Esq., Rev. S. W. FISHER, and Mr. EDWARD MILLS, of Cincinnati; Rev. STEPHEN DODD, of East Haven, Conn.; Messrs. JOSEPH H. CRANE, of Dayton, and A. B. NORTON, of Mount Vernon, Ohio: M. ALEX. VATTEMARE, Hon. GEORGE BANCROFT, and Messrs. A. B. DURAND and CHARLES A. DAVIS, of New York; Mr. Thos. D. JAMES, of Albany; Messrs. PETER LOTT, of Quincy, Ill., ALEX. HAMILTON, of St. Louis, Mo., and Rev. E. FAIRCHILD, D. D.-in acknowledgment of their election as Corresponding or Honorary members; and from the Amer. Phil. Society-Missouri Hist. Society-Regents of N. Y. University, and other institutions on matters connected with the operations of the Society. He also stated that since the Annual Meeting the engraved diplomas for the Honorary, Corresponding, and Life Members of the Society had been distributed, and he had received from many of them |