Pennsbury Manor

6 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION it has been impossible to make the huge search that would perhaps bring the information to light—no single problem of this kind is important enough to justify the effort and expense. But now, all at once, the answers to a multitude of such problems, which have troubled a multitude of workers in the past, are ready at hand. An illegible personal name in an old MS Quaker letter can be deciphered by the use of the index and the references in the text ; a person known to have lived in a given place at a given time, but later lost from sight, can be followed by the record of his certificate of removal. In fact, the same advantages accruing to users of the preceding volumes are now available for an additional and very important area. Friends' Historical Association is vitally interested in the progress of Wade Hinshaw's monumental work, and bespeaks the loyal support of all those interested in making our Quaker records available and preserving them for future workers. PENNSBURY MANOR TTTILLIAM PENN'S country residence, begun in 1683, fell * * into complete decay upon the withdrawal of his family from the colony. But in 1932 the Warner Company, which then owned the land, presented about ten acres to the State ; and since then there has been ceaseless activity not only to mark the site of the "William Penn Farm" but to restore the building itself. This restoration involved laborious archaeological research, in order that the restoration might be as faithful as humanly possible. About $237,000 of public money was made available; and in April 1938 the actual construction began. In the fall of 1939 the main building and adjacent buildings were completed. The task of furnishing the interior as a historical museum, and of grading and planting according to Penn's plans, still remains to be done; but the project is so far advanced that completion is assured. Pennsbury has been frequently mentioned in these pages, notably in an article by Albert Cook Myers in vol. 23 p. 61 ff ; it is mentioned now because it has reached a stage at which it invites visit and inspection. It lies about 25 miles above Philadelphia on the Delaware, near Tullytown, between Bristol and Trenton, and not far from Falls Meeting. ...