THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

A LIST OF THE ORIGINAL LANCASTER SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER TURNPIKE. When I wrote my article on "The First Long Turnpike in the United States," I was convinced that somewhere among the almost forgotten records of the State there must be a list of the

, and he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in June, 1786, and to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on January 8, 1787. He began the practice of the law at Sun- bury, and then coming to Lancaster, he was admitted there at the May term of 1787. He was a delegate to the Constitutional

The Lancaster Stage Dispatch Lancaster, in the early days, was one of the busiest, if not the very busiest, stage town in the United States, and, as the old geographies tell us, it was also the largest inland city. As far back as 1754, Governor Pownall, in describing the main roads around

OCCASIONED BY A PETITION TO ASSEMBLY FOR A TURNPIKE-ROAD FROM PHILADELPHIA TO WRIGHTS- FERRY ON SUSQUEHANNA, HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO THE TRUE FRIENDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Having long observed, with real concern, that our Inattention to the Im- provement of Public Roads and other Inland Communications, between the

same on July 31, 1766, the following ad- vertisement appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal : �The members of the Juliana Library Company in Lancaster are desired to meet on the 15th day of September next at the Library Room at three o'clock in the afternoon to chuse directors, treasurer and librarian

same on July 31, 1766, the following ad- vertisement appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal : �The members of the Juliana Library Company in Lancaster are desired to meet on the 15th day of September next at the Library Room at three o'clock in the afternoon to chuse directors, treasurer and librarian

proof, but, like many other things, is established by famiiy tradition. Nearby„ the first white child, Daniel Lefever, the son of Isaac and Katharine Lefever, was born in 1713. The minutes of the Land Commissioners of the Province of Pennsylvania state: "That the late Commissioners, having granted ten