BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

MARRIAGE NOTICES IN THE SOUTH-CAROLINA GAZETTE AND ITS SUCCESSORS. (1732-1801.) Compiled and edited by A. S. Salley, Jr. From the files in the library of the Charleston Library Society, Charleston, S. C. Albany, N. Y. Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1902. 8vo, pp. 174, cloth.

Reviewing one's own book (and acknowledging the review) is rather unusual, but, as this is merely a compilation and as the literary merits and demerits of the work will not enter into the discussion of it and as it is desired to give some account of the history of The South-Carolina Gazette, I hope I may be pardoned for this seeming egotism.

The South-Carolina Gazette is the first paper published in the province of South Carolina of which any files are known to be in existence, although it was not the first paper published in the province. It made its first appearance Saturday, January 8, 1732, and lived an almost uninterrupted career until 1802 when it ceased to exist; and an almost complete file for the entire seventy years of its existence is owned by the Charleston Library Society, which, although not organized until 1748, managed to secure nearly every paper published in the sixteen years prior to that date, and from that file exclusively I have abstracted these interesting and valuable marriage notices containing the names of about one thousand and sixty couples, nearly all of whom were South Carolinians, but there are a few from other States. The first proprietor of the Gazette was T. Whitmarsh who died before the paper had existed for two years, and the next proprietor was Lewis Timothy, who is said to have been a Hollander

and a protegé of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia before removing to South Carolina. Timothy acquired the paper about the begining of 1734 and it remained under the proprietorship of his family until its end, one of its last proprietors being Peter Timothy Marchant great-grandson of Lewis Timothy. Lewis Timothy was killed by accident in 1738 and his wife Elizabeth, with the assistance of her son Peter, conducted the paper for several years. This was, perhaps, the first instance of a woman in journalism in America. The next proprietor was Peter Timothy who continued to be either a proprietor or the sole proprietor until the siege of Charles Town in 1780, when, in February, the paper suspended publication. Timothy was an active revolutionist and upon the British capture of Charles Town he was taken prisoner and, later, sent into exile in St. Augustine. After his release he was lost at sea, without having a chance to resume the publication of his paper, but his widow, Mrs. Ann Timothy, revived it in 1783 and, under her own name, conducted it for several years when she, as had been the case with her mother-in-law, was succeeded by her son, Benjamin Franklin Timothy. The latter, with various business associates, conducted the paper until its final suspension. Its place in Charleston was taken by the Charleston Courier, and Peter Timothy Marchant was one of the earliest proprietors of that journal, which also ran for just seventy years when it was consolidated with The News, so that The News and Courier, at present the leading daily of Charleston may be said to have first come into existence in 1732. The Gazette underwent five changes of title during its existence, but the "South Carolina" and the "Gazette" were retained in each title.

The volume under consideration shows every change of title that took place, every change of proprietorship as it took place and notes all breaks in the Charleston Library Society's files. Many of the marriage notices were of people

who were either distinguished then or subsequently became so, and many of them give us hints of the history of the social life and conditions in South Carolina at the time. The mechanical execution of the volume is not altogether satisfactory to me, and I have myself to blame for some blunders in copy and on proof-sheets, but, taken as a whole, I believe that the work will prove valuable to the genealogist and the student of South Carolina history.

A. S. SALLEY, JR.

GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF THE DINWIDDIE CLAN OF NORTHWESTERN INDIANA, by T. H. Ball, editor and publisher, Crown Point, Ind. 12 mo., pp. 120, many illus., 1902, cloth, $1.50.

Beginning with David Dinwiddie who came to this country from Ireland about 1740 Mr. Ball has traced the family lines of this local branch to the last day of 1900, giving us a compact, orderly arrangement, with clear statements as to sources, mingled with sensible observations on difficulties and dangers of such work, and with safe reflections on life. He points out that tho "a man has no choice as to his ancestry," it is yet "desirable for any one to have back of himself a good ancestral line." With such views he might have been tempted to make up worthy forefathers, but names as "my best and first class authorities" "the old family Bible," "the will of David Dinwiddie," and "the Cuthbertson sketch." All the material was gathered by Oscar Dinwiddie who labored at the task for 25 years, and then turned over his accumulations to Mr. Ball who quaintly disclaims perfect accuracy in spelling as so many names came to him like music, "with variations." He thinks tho that even if there are over a hundred different forms, they all relate to one progenitor if records could be found ancient enough. It turns out that one of President Roosevelt's grandmothers was a Dunwoody. The Scotland Dinwiddies, "other Din

widdies" in U. S., letters of commendation, an index of one page, complete the book.

The PUBLICATIONS of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. 10, contains amongst other valuable historical papers, one of special interest to Southern readers: "The Jews of Georgia in Colonial Times" by Leon Hühner, A. M., LL. B. The story of the Jews of Georgia has been written several times and Mr. Hühner's article is for the most part familiar to students of the history of that State, being largely a restatement of previously published facts. Mr. Hühner differs from the English writer Picciotto as to the part played by the London Jewish community in the emigration of the Jews to Savannah in 1733. It is a pity that the documents in the British Public Record Office were not consulted. These documents would probably settle the question conclusively. Mr. Hühner claims that there were two sets of Jewish emigrants, one of German Jews, assisted by the London community and another, of Portuguese Jews, who came at their own expense. From the discrepancy in the dates in the Trustees' entries and Sheftall's diary-the former giving the date of the Jews' arrival as July 7 and the latter as July 11-he argues that the two parties must have come in separate vessels. This is purely surmise and is not borne out by the record of ship arrivals at Savannah in July, 1733. The main value of the paper lies in the attention which the author calls to references to German Jews in Urlsperger's Ausfuhrliche Nachrichten, the only sources of information concerning them. There are many statements to which exception must be taken. The London committee was probably not composed of the persons mentioned by Mr. Hühner (p. 67). The reasons given for the Jews leaving Georgia in 1741 are contradictory (pp. 82, 3, 4 & 6.). Mr.

'See Elzas Documents relative to a proposed settlement of Jews in South Carolina, p. 13.

Hühner confuses the name Ottolenghi of Georgia with that of Cttolengui of Charleston and misquotes the Charleston Year Book (p. 90.). We might make a number of further objections, but space forbids.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, IN VIRGINIA. By Rev. Edgar Woods. (Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, Printers. 1901. O., pp. iv+412.)

This valuable study in the history of the older Virginia counties is well done. It is based on the public records and treats the earlier generations with much more fulness than the later ones. There are sections on each of the dominant Protestant churches, a short account of the University and something on reconstruction, although the Civil war, strange as it may seem, occupies little space. The appendixes give valuable lists of names of county officers, representatives, and soldiers while one gives what we do not remember to have seen anywhere else, a list of emigrants from this country to other States in which Kentucky is far ahead of all others. More than half the volume is given up to family data although not arranged in genealogical form. It includes notes on the families of Abell, Alphin, Anderson, Ballard, Barclay, Barksdale, Bibb, Boaz, Bowcock, Bowen, Bramham, Brand, Brockman, Brooks, Burch, Burnley, Buster, Carr, Carter, Clark, Clarkson, Cochran, Cole, Coles, Craven, Dabney, Davis, Dawson, Dickerson, Duke, Durrett, Dyer, Early, Everette, Ficklin, Fretwel, Fry, Garland, Garrett, Garth, Gentry, Gilmer, Gooch, Goodman, Grayson, Hamner, Hardin, Harper, Harris, Hart, Harvey, Henderson, Henig, Hopkins, Hudson, Hughes, Irvin, Jameson, Jefferson, Jones, Jouet, Kerr, Key, Kinkead, Kinsloving, Leake, Levy, Lewis, Lindsay, Lynch, McGehee, Magruder, Martin, Massie, Maupin, Mays, Meriwether, Michie, Mills, Minor, Moon, Moore, Moorman, Morris, Nicholas, Norris, Peyton, Randolph, Rea, Rives, Rodes, Rodgers, Scott, Shelton, Smith, Southall, Stockton, Suddarth, Sumter, Sutherland, Terrell, Thomas,