West, a son of Benjamin's brother William," whose daughter's family lives near Alexandria, Virginia. What is the name and residence? Mrs. Harriet Morris Livingston, of Los Angeles, California, says her great-grandmother was Elizabeth Morris, sister of Benjamin West. Cannot some of your readers supply additional data to these suggestive clues? It is a subject both of interest and importance, connected as it is with the Pennsylvanian President of the Royal Academy of Arts of Great Britain. HISTORIOGRAPHER. Replies. LAZARUS FINNEY.-First Lieutenant Lazarus Finney was commissioned May 5, 1777, and attached to the Fourth Company, Second Battalion (Colonel Evan Evans) of Chester County Militia. He was also commissioned in April of 1778 first lieutenant of the New London Company attached to the Second Battalion Chester County Militia, commanded by Colonel Evan Evans. Lieutenant Finney was not attached to the Pennsylvania Line. Consult "Pennsylvania Archives," Second Series, Vol. XIII., for rosters of Chester County Associators and Militia, and "Pennsylvania Archives," Third Series, Vol. VI., for reports of County Lieutenants of Chester County.-ED. PENNA. MAG. ROBERT BOGLE, "WAITER."-It belongs to local history, at least, to say that this individual was one of the notables of Philadelphia, since there was neither funeral, wedding, nor party complete in its details without the efficient aid of " Major Bogle," and he was a familiar figure on our streets laden with portentous notes of life or death. Major Bogle was small of stature and neat in person and address. He fell heir to the sobriquet of "Major" by a sort of common consent, probably from his calling and character as "Major-Domo" on all occasions of important gatherings. He died on Saturday, March 4, 1837, in the sixty-third year of his age. BOWMAN (PENNA. MAG., Vol. XX. p. 573).-The Revolutionary services of Joseph Bowman, of New Braintree, Massachusetts, will be found in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," Vol. II. p. 353. Additional data may be found in Paige's "History of Hardwick.' THOMAS. A. DICKINSON. Book Notices. GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF A PART OF THE NEWBURY ADAMS FAMILY, FORMERLY OF DEVONSHIRE, ENGLAND. By Smith Adams, Calais, Maine, 1895. 61 pp. Mr. Adams, in his neat little work, gives the results of his genealogical researches relating to the descendants of Robert Adams and his wife Eleanor, the first American ancestors of the Newbury Adams family, who came first to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635, and then settled in Newbury in 1640. Robert Adams was born in Devonshire, England, in 1601, and died here in 1682, and his wife Eleanor in 1677. They had five sons and four daughters, who, with the exception of one son, left descendants. THE PALATINE OR GERMAN IMMIGRATION TO NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. By Rev. Sanford H. Cobb. Wilkes-Barre, 1897. This is a paper read before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and is a brief statement of the more important facts contained in a much larger manuscript, entitled "The Story of the Palatines: An Episode in Colonial History," which the author hopes to publish in book form with maps and numerous quotations from original documents and authorities. EARLY SETTLERS OF NANTUCKET: THEIR ASSOCIATES AND DESCENDANTS. Compiled by Lydia S. Hinchman. Philadelphia, 1896. 158 pp. 8vo, cloth. Price, $2.00. 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