TO AMERICAN HISTORY. 1858. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., FOR THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. ON the 13th of February, 1854, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania established a Publication Fund; by the terms of which any person, on the payment of twenty dollars, becomes entitled to receive a copy of all future publications of the Society during the term of his life. The money thus received is invested on a special trust, and the interest only is to be expended in publication. The fund already amounts to thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. The first volume published under this system was the History of Braddock's Expedition, which forms the fifth volume of the Memoirs of the Society. The one now presented has for its second title, Memoirs, Vol. VI.; and it is designed, at some future time, to reprint the four preceding volumes. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. |