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The Society would call the attention of members and correspondents, to the following subjects :1. Topographical Sketches of towns and villages, including an account of their soil, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, natural curiosities and statistics. 2. Sketches of the history of the settlement and rise of such towns and villages; and of the introduction and progress of commerce, manufactures, and the arts, in them. 3. Biographical Notices of original settlers, revolutionary patriots, and other distinguished men who have resided in this State. 4. Original letters and documents, and papers illustrating any of these subjects; particularlj those which shew the private habits, manners or pursuits of our ancestors, or are connected with the general history of this State. 5. Sermons, orations, occasional discourses and addresses, books, pamphlets, almanacs and newspapers, printed in this State; and manuscripts, especially those written by persons born or residing in this State. 6. Accounts of the Indian tribes which formerly inhabited any part of this State, their numbers and condition when first visited by the whites their general character and peculiar customs and manners, theij wars and treaties, and their original grants to our ancestors. 7. The Indian names of the towns, rivers, islands, bays, and other remarkable places within this State, and the traditional import of those names. 8. Besides these, the Society will receive donations of anj other books, pamphlets, manuscripts and printed documents.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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