, William, 1715-1774. Indians of North America. Fur trade--United States. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [305]-326 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9

- chanted bow in the Arabian story that took its strength from the arm that �drew it. In a child's hand it was a toy to shoot at birds; in the hand of a war- rior it sent its shaft through shield and cuirass; but when drawn by the arm of a giant sent aloft a shaft that kindled with its swiftness and left a

report made to the Senate of the United States, said: "The Lancaster road, the first extensive turn- pike that was com pleted in the United States, is the first link of the great west- ern communication from Philadelphia." �ink and paper it can have had when it came from the press, it now turns up in the

United States. He was born in Boston in 1703. Early in life he entered the employ of James Logan, and later became his partner in business. He was elected Mayor of Philadelphia in 1744. He was also Judge of the County Court. In 1752 he came to Lancaster, where he resided until his death, in 1781. He

, 1792, the "Phila- delphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company" was incorporated. It was finished in 1794, and was not only the first turnpike in the county and State, but also in the United States. It has already received ample treatment in our proceedings, and nothing further need be said concerning

it really could not matter much if the "high finks" continued one day or three days, nights included. If so much good living and good-fel- lowship was to be got out of a little tavern, what possibilities seemed to �be held out in a big, four-story build- ing, especially adapted to such pur- poses

, more venerable, less splendid, but quite as striking; uni- forms that had seen service in the war of 1812; coats that bore unmistakable traces of the fashions of a much earlier day. They were rendered still more striking from having descended from diminutive sires to sons who deserved a place in the

for ours, their descendants, pass down to us in tangible form the story of their lives and times. The student of our early local history is confronted all along the way with un- settled questions, matters merely hinted at and doubts without number, the solving of which will always re- main to vex and

the map founded upon it, lies �before me as I write. It is printed in red on a piece of line woolen cloth, 21 by 25 inches in size. In the left-hand corner, at the top, there is a portrait of Washington, and underneath it the words PRESIDENT Of the United States of AMERICA. In the right-hand corner