Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1765. His father, Robert Fulton, had come to Lancaster in 1735 and occupied a house on Penn Square directly across that Square from the lot in 1760 taken over by William Henry. In February, 1765, this Robert Fulton sold this residence and

young Englishman, doubtless with foxhunting ex- perience, was taking the Lancaster County fences. And those two Pennsylvania Dutch meals evidently impressed him ; and with "cyder, toddy and beer"! "July 3. The prospect of the ensuing harvest is very prom- ising. Rye is already fit for cutting ; currants

) History of Lancaster County, Ellis and Evans, 1883. All of the records of the Camerons in this book were doubtless written by Samuel Evans (born 1823), who lived at Columbia and was a member of the Donegal Presbyterian Church. As a contemporary and neighbor of Simon Cam- eron, Samuel Evans must have been