Excerpt from Friends Miscellany, Vol. 7: Being a Collection of Essays and Fragments, Biographical, Religious, Epistolary, Narrative, and Historical; Designed for the Promotion of Piety and Virtue, to Preserve in Remembrance the Characters and Views of Exemplary Individuals, and to Rescue From Ob Advertisement. A number of papershaving come into the posses sion of the compiler Of these Annals, throwing light upon the early history of the Pemberton fami ly, and their settlement in Pennsylvania, he thought he could not make a better use of them, than to trace the events which are now given to the reader. Yet, from ancient papers, it is sometimes no easy matter to gain the information we desire; and there fore, in the perusal of the following account, let it be recollected, that as it respects those points in which a deficiency may appear, - from the darkness and obscurity of the events of early times, in which he had but little to guide him, - such as a casual re mark in an old Almanac, - a hint in a letter, or an allusion in a memorandum, - he has gathered these few particulars of the days that are past. Nor is it apprehended, that in the perusal of these Annals, the reader, who is desirous to gain knowledge and instruction from the lives and characters of those who have endeavoured to fill up their measure of duty in ages past, will be disappointed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.