letter, still in the Stanhope's family records, are drawings of Fulton's first plans for steam navigation. In 1796, Fulton published a "Treatise on Canal Navigation". Of this he sent copies to Governor Mifflin of Pennsylvania and to George Washington, President of the United States, urging their

length induced by the urgency and respectability of those who pressed the claims of Mrs. Moore to grant her a commission. Her accounts with the General Post Office were always so regularly and accurately settled that she received the thanks of the Department." Lancaster's Ann Moore was the first woman

. Later she was sent to a boarding school in Lancaster kept by the Misses Crawford. Here she complained in letters to her uncle of "the strict rules, early hours, brown sugar in the tea and restrictions in dress." Here she was not very happy, as she was a mischievous and high spirited girl, who loved to

concealed. But later some of the records have been brought to light. It seems there were three routes used by the slaves in eastern Pennsylvania. One was through Delaware, another was about where the Conowingo Bridge now crosses the Susquehanna from Maryland and the third was at Columbia. The great depot at