he wrote to James Logan, as late as 1719-20, in the style of a Friend; so also did Thomas Penn as late as 1726. The service of plate bestowed by John Penn to the church at Lewistown is still there.

William Aubrey and Lætitia his wife.

He appears to have been a pressing man of business as a merchant, pretty roughly quarrelling both with William Penn and James Logan about his wife's portion, in an unreasonable manner. It appears that he would have come over to Pennsylvania, but that "his wife's regards for the country was at low ebb." They never had any children.

I have seen a copy of the certificate, granted by the female part of the Friends' Meeting in Philadelphia to Lætitia Penn, dated the 27th of 7 mo. 1701, which reads in part thus, to wit:

"These may certify that Lætitia Penn, &c. has for good order sake desired a certificate from us, and we can freely certify to all whom it may concern that she hath well behaved herself here, very soberly and according to the good instructions which she hath received in the way of truth, being well inclined, courteously carriaged, and sweetly tempered in her conversation amongst us, and also a diligent comer to Meetings, and hope, hath plentifully received of the dew which hath fallen upon God's people to her settlement and establishment in the same." It also set forth that she was under no marriage engagements to the best of their knowledge and belief.*

The natural disposition of Lætitia was gay and sportive. As an instance of her girlish spirits, when she was with her father at Evans' place at Gwynned, seeing the men at threshing, she desired to try her hand at the use of the flail, which, to her great surprise, brought such a racket about her head and shoulders, she was obliged to run into the house in tears and expose her playful freak to her father.

She lived a widow several years after the death of Mr. Aubrey, and had often occasion to correspond with James Logan, upon her landed concerns remaining in this country.

*Letitia, while a girl in Philadelphia, was claimed as pledged to him by William Masters; --it was denied; but in time afterwards, it occurred that a governor Pegu married a Miss Masters, a descendant.

Note-Ann Penn survived her husband, and married Alexander Durdin,-1767. In Wil

liam 3d the male branch by his first wife became extinct.

The Penn Family of the Royal Tudor-Race.

As a sequel to the foregoing genealogical table I here annex some facts, derived from Hugh David, an early emigrant, which go to show that William Penn said his house was descended of that royal race.

Hugh David came into this country with William Penn about the year 1700, and lived in Gwynned, a place settled principally by emigrants from Wales; he related an anecdote of the Penn family, perhaps known only to few, as follows:

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They, being both on board the same ship, often conversed togethWilliam Penn, observing a goat knawing a broom which was laying on the ship's deck, called out: Hugh, dost thou observe the goat? see, what hardy fellows the Welsh are, how they can feed on a broom; however, Hugh, I am a Welshman myself, and will relate by how strange a circumstance our family lost their name: My grandfather* was named John Tudor, and lived upon the top of a hill or mountain in Wales; he was generally called John Penmunnith, which in English is John on the top of the hill; he removed from Wales into Ireland, where he acquired considerable property. Upon his return into his own country he was addressed by his old friends and neighbours, not in their former way, but by the name of Mr. Penn. He afterwards removed to London, where be continued to reside, under the name of John Penn; which has since been the family name.

These relations of Hugh David were told by him to a respectable Friend, who gave them in MS. to Robert Proud; and withal they are confirmed by the fact of Mr. David's declaring it again in some MS. lines of poetry prepared as a compliment to Thomas Penn on his arrival in 1732, and now preserved in my MS. Annals in the City Library, page 187, with some elucidatory remarks.

Hugh David's verses addressed to Thomas Penn.

For the love of him that now deceased be
I salute his loyal one of three,

That ruleth here in glory so serene—
A branch of Tudor, alias Thomas Penn.

From Anglesie, an Isle in rich array,
There did a prince the English sceptre sway;
Out of that stem, I do believe no less,
There sprung a branch to rule this wilderness.

May Sion's King rule thy heart,-amen!
So I wish to all the race of Penn,
That they may never of his favour miss
Who is the door to everlasting bliss.

* Robert Proud, in MS. says it was probably his great grandfather, for his grandfather's name appears to have been Giles Penn,

THE following facts concerning several individuals of the Penn family, descended of the founder, are such as I occasionally met with in various readings,-to wit:

1724-Mrs. Gulielma Maria Fell, granddaughter of the famous Quaker, Sir William Penn, was publicly baptised in the parish church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, in October last.-London Gazette.

1732-This year one of the proprictaries, Thomas Penn, made his visit to Pennsylvania, and was received with much pomp and state,-probably in such manner as to give him some personal embarrassment. His former habits, for some years, had not been accustomed to ride aloft amidst the hozanna's of the people; for both he and his brother, after the death of their father, and the difficulties of their mother, had been placed with a kinsman, a linen draper, in Bristol.

I found the following description of his arrival and reception in 1732, in the " Caribbeana," a Barbadoes publication of Kreimer's. It purports to be a letter from a young lady to her father in Barbadoes. I have extracted as follows, viz:

"He landed at Chester, when our Governor, having notice of it, went to meet him, and carried so many gentlemen with him, and so many joined them on the road, that they made a body of 800 horse. They paid him their compliments and staid till he was ready to set out."

"The poor man, who had never been treated but as a private man in England, and, far from expecting such a reception, was so surprised at it, that he was entirely at a loss how to behave; and I was told, when he took a glass of wine in his hand he trembled so, he was scarcely able to hold it. At length he recovered himself and returned their compliments. He reached here at four o'clock in the afternoon. The windows and balconies [mark, the houses then had them,] were filled with ladies, and the streets with the mob, to see him pass. Before he arrived a boy came running and cried the proprietor was coming on horseback, and a sceptre was carried before him in the Governor's coach! [It was a crutch of a lame man therein; and the person on horseback was probably the servant behind the coach!] When arrived, he was entertained at the Governor's house, where he stays ever