by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June

. The government of the United States under our Federal Constitution, in theory and ideal at least, makes possible the happy and har- monious living, together in peace, of a free people. We are fighting for self-preservation. The free and innocent men, women, and children of four continents, Europe

CATHOLIC CHURCH Excluding the French, Spanish and Maryland settlements, St. Mary's Parish was the fourth Catholic congregation in chronological order in what now constitutes the United States. St. Joseph's Chapel, Philadelphia, the chapels in Conewago, in what is now Adams County, and Goshenhoppen, Berks

charter for his land in 1681, and formulated his Frame of Government in 1682. He arrived in Pennsylvania on his first visit, �October 29, 1682, and returned to England August 12, 1684. He came again to Pennsylvania December 1, 1699, hoping to spend all his remaining days here, but circumstances forced him

. �FAR IN THE WILDS A writer at Philadelphia, in 1775, states: "There was a road to Lancaster, of which we sometimes heard as a place 'far in wilds remote from public view,' which might be reached in three days' journey." 25 But what a delightful haven Lancaster proved to be to Philadelphians and others

Rennette, b. Aug. 17, 1784. William Paul, b. Jan. 30, 1786, d. Dec. 31, 1845. Caroline Amelia, b. Oct. 18, 1787, d. Dec. 17, 1793. Henry Richard, b. Aug. 24, 1789, d. July 12, 1790.* Henry David, b. March 24, 1791.* Richard Augustus, b. Oct. 24, 1792, major in the army of the United States, died at

grounds, at Prince and Vine streets. He was a hatter by trade. By June 1, 1753, we find that he had built a house on lot #12 in York town, but in 1754 he paid taxes on two lots in this town. He died January, 1775. 16 See Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteemth Century, Bining, 1938, pp. 37, 43

postal service: "Nothing in the government of the United States is calculated to excite more admiration, nothing in itself is more stupendous, than the immense machinery of the Post Office establishment, and its widespread branches. Over this prodigious space, the post routes extend, diverge and traverse

four miles east of Downingtown.) THE NORRIS COMPANY From 1863 until October, 1868, the Norris brothers, Edward and James, secured the Works and conducted a prosperous business. They built locomo- tives for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Millholland camel-back types for the Philadelphia and Reading