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Creek plate: "The leaden plate deposited at this point has never been found, and some zealous antiquarian living in the vicinity might, from the record now given, be able to restore it to light after a repose of more than a century and a quarter."

Five years ago, when I was at Franklin, especially interested in this plate, I inquired particularly of Rev. Dr. Eaton and other local antiquarians, and was assured that there was no evidence that the plate located at the Indian God Rock was ever found. If it was, the silence on the subject has been most profound. When the Pt. Pleasant plate at the confluence of the Ohio and Kena

wha was discovered by Mr. Beall in 1846, and its description and fac-simile given in the Olden Times, and various other historical works, no mention was made of the second plate having been found fourteen years before by Andrew Shall. If Mr. Lambing has evidence of the finding, it will be a matter of great interest to those who have examined the De Celeron history.

HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN

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THE FIRST PIECE OF ARTILLERY (xi. 360)-It is claimed that cannon were cast in England as early as 1335 by one John Owen, but the Encyc. Britt., says none were made in England before 1551. So it is claimed that cannon and cannon balls were made in Massachusetts in 1664, though within ten years later Massachusetts ordered the purchase of sixty great guns here from abroad. It is also asserted that in 1748 cannon of light calibre were made by boring in Massachusetts about 1748. It is certain that large and small arms of fine quality were made in the colonies before the Revo

lution. As early as 1774 many of the military companies of Rhode Island were armed with home-made muskets, and in that year sixty heavy cannon were cast by order of the State. When the Revolution began, Holmes says, two cannon belonging to Boston and two belonging to Massachusetts "constituted the whole train of artillery possessed by the British Colonies of N. A." (ii. 369.)

HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN

AN ARMY DUEL. JENIFFER-GASSOWAY (iii. 638) This query of Mr. Craig's has remained long unanswered. The Lieut. Daniel of St. Thomas Jeniffer who fought the duel with Ensign Wm. Pitt Gassoway at Legionville in 1793 (the latter receiving a wound from which he died the same day) was doubtless the uncle of the Daniel Jeniffer to whom Mr. Craig refers. This "Daniel" was only two years old in 1793. It is a singular fact that all who bore the name of "Daniel of St. Thomas" Jeniffer died without issue.

Daniel Jeniffer M.D. of Charles Co.

Md. had among other children.

1. Daniel2 6 1727. d 1795.

2. Daniel of St. Thomas. b. 1729. He was a Mem: Genl : Assembly of Md, and of the Council in 1774. In 1776 President of the Md: Council of Safety, and in 1779 was addressed by Washington in a letter as "President of the Senate at Annapolis" Del: to the Continental: Congress 1778-1782. Mem of the Convention which framed the Federal: Constitution and signed that instrument. Elected to that body May 26, 1787, the delegates first elected in April having, with one exception, declined to serve. His name heads

the list of subs, June 16, 1780,

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Members of the Senate and House of Delegates" to aid in clothing and arming the Maryland troops for $2.000. he d. unm. 1. Daniel26 1727. m. Elizh Hanson and had

3. Daniel of St. Thomas. 3 b. 1753. d. s. p. evidently the one who fought the duel.

4. Daniel Jr3 M.D. Served 5 years in Revolutionary Army. Physician and Surg. Genl Hospital. Mem Md Soc of the Cincinnati, m Sarah Craik dau Dr James Craik, then of Charles Co, Md, where he was a Judge and a physician of large practice, before he moved to Mt Vernon. Dr Jenifir had with others

5. Daniel of St. Thomas. b. 1789. d. s. p. 1822.

6. Daniel b. Apl. 15 1791. d. Dec 18.

1855. Lawyer. Mem: Md: Leg: Rep U. S. Cong: 1831-3 and 183541 then appointed Minister to Austria m Miss Campbell and had, with others,

7. Daniel of St. Thomas 5. 1814. d. s. p. 1843.

8. Daniel 5 m Miss Risteard and had

9. Daniel, et al:

H. E. H.

SOCIETIES

RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETYAt its regular quarterly meeting, July 1, President Gammell in the chair, Mr. Moses B. J. Goddard read a valuable and interesting paper on "The Voyages and Wreck of the Ann and Hope," an historic trading ship in early American commerce. Mr. Goddard said:

The old ship Ann and Hope was built by Col. Benjamin Tallman, at the shipyard on the west side of the river above the Point Street bridge and just below the steam mill. Brown and Ives commenced collecting materials for the new ship March 11, 1795, which was completed in May, 1798, and named after Ann, the wife of Nicholas Brown, and Hope, the wife of Thomas P. Ives.

President Gammell stated that Gen. Cullum, retired officer of the United. States Army, had recently published an excellent and valuable paper (in the MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY) On the early defenses of Narragansett Bay, both in colonial and revolutionary times. Mr. Gammell also spoke very highly of Mr. William E. Foster's recent publication on Stephen Hopkins.

SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, NEW YORK-The anniversary meeting of the State Society of the Cincinnati was held July 4, at Delmonico's. Hon. Hamilton Fish presided, as he has done for thirty consecutive years. The business part of the meeting concluded with the election of officers, as follows: President, Hamilton Fish; Vice-President, William S. Popham; Secretary, John Schuyler; Treasurer, Alexander James Clinton; Assistant Treasurer, Edward William

Tapp; Chaplain, Rev. Mancius Holmes Hutton; Standing Committee, Pierre Van Cortlandt, General John Cochrane, Thomas W. Chrystie, Anthony Walton White Evans, Charles Scott McKnight, Alexander Hamilton, Matthew Clarkson and William Henry Crosby. Delegates to the General Society, Hamilton Fish, William S. Popham, John Cochrane, John Schuyler and Alexander James Clinton. The Society then proceeded to the great dining hall, where an elegant banquet was served.

CINCINNATI OF NEW JERSEY - The Society held its annual meeting, July 4, 1884, at Princeton, N. J., a large number of members attending. Sixteen persons were elected hereditary members in right of their ancestors. A dinner was given at the University Hotel. The officers for the ensuing year are: President, Colonel Clifford Stanley Sims; Vice-President, William Bowen Buck; Secretary, Francis Barber Ogden; Assistant-Secretary, Wm. Chetwood Spencer; Treasurer, Dr. Herman Burgin; Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Samuel Moore Shute, D.D. Standing Committee-Wm. Lloyd, Chairman; Francis Barber, Hon. John. Fitch, John Clark Sims, Robert Morris Boggs, Rear-Admiral Charles Henry Baldwin, of the United States Navy. Delegates to the General Society-Colonel Clifford Stanley Sims, Hon. John Fitch (City of New York), Francis Barber Ogden, Hon. John Thompson Nixon, William Bowen Buck. Alternates- RearAdmiral Charles Henry Baldwin, of the United States Navy; Hon. Joseph Griffiths Scott, and others.

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF AMERICA

We publish for the public convenience the following list of Historical Societies in this country, carefully collated within the past few weeks by the indefatigable Secretary of the Oneida Historical Society, General C. W. Darling.

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