articles came some of what we offer as sustaining evidence. The "Dutch" mill stood about twenty miles from the county seat, near the present site of New Holland, where Mill Creek crosses Old Peter's Road. Originally built, in 1717, by Theodorus Eaby, founder of the prolific Eby-Eaby clan, it passed through

of the Poor and Employment to be classified as a hospital from its inception. This classification allows it to lay claim to being the second oldest hospital in the United States in continuous service, being antedated only by the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, which was established fifty years

, not because marl, commonly called clay, abounds in the area, but in honor of Henry Clay of Ashland ; the man Andrew Jackson regretted he had not hanged. Now where, within the ninety-four-year life span of a country wood turner, did the flash of genius strike and cause a simple workman at a treadle

government, why is it not of equal importance to the smaller streams, and communities through which they flow. If they were a convenience and economic value then, why should the once thriving flour and grist mills of those generations become a losing proposition and most of the mills go to decay? Story of

, was the seventh son of John Grubb who came to this country from Cornwall, Wales, and landed in New Jersey in 1677. He mar- ried Frances Vane and there were nine children born of this marriage, Peter I, being the seventh son. John died at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in 1708. Peter Grubb I, first married

almost the same time rumors of copper being found just west of Susquehanna sent sur- veyors from both Pennsylvania and Maryland scurrying through the woods to stake out claims on the possibly rich mine sites.17 This conjuction of circumstances led to Governor Sir William Keith's purchase of James Logan's

- ferred in his diary to "Brother Billy Henry of Lancaster"; ever since in 1771 the same musicianly Grubé taught young Bill Henrya to play, the primitive piano of the day; through the Jordans of Philadelphia and the Henrys of Nazareth , Pennsylvania, the writer's family and the descendants of William have

, all that one would expect to find in a gracious, college- bred man, supplied the legal talent and culture, necessary for their activities; while Mr. Cameron, orphaned early in life, his education acquired through the medium of his trade—printing, and the rougher tutoring of experience, provided the

Affairs where it slept." (7) His balloons VESPERUS and COMET carried him through to 1846, when on August 8 of that year he ascended from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and came down to within speaking distance of persons below. He took notes of the trip: "Talking to people below as I passed along. Dogs