the ecclesiastical archives of Holland. �Among these investigators the Rev. William J. Hinke, of Philadelphia, was peculiarly successful; and it is due to his untiring research that new light has been cast on the beginnings of the Reformed Church in Lancaster county. In our present paper we shall

and naturally took the lead in an un- lettered community. Many of them laid great stress on their descent, and �Michael schlatter, of the Reformed Church, never issued a marriage cer- tificate without impressing it with his coat of arms. With all this, the fact is evident that, as the Colonial history

this letter off by the �22nd. Our friends, the Sharplesses, sailed then. I was prevented by many interruptions to send you this before this week's mail. Please direct in future to the care of James W. Tacker, Banker, Bartholomew House, Barthol- omew Lane, London—the letters will always reach us through

original research, and can only hope to present the facts which are now accessible in such a way as to give us a more vivid impres- sion of the personality of a celebrated man. Birthplace and Parentage. James Ross was born in Oxford (now Upper Oxford) township, Ches- ter county, May 18, 1744. It has, in

the present, to recall facts which are recorded in general history, it has been said that "history needs to be continu- ally rewritten and retold," and to re- late the main events of a career whose splendor our forefathers desired to perpetuate cannot fail to prove inter- esting in these latter days

, in Maryland, all in hope of living in re- tirement from the world and thus be- coming prepared for the speedy com- ing of the Lord. The history of these brotherhoods is interesting, but it is not properly included in our present theme. We have merely mentioned them to show how the way was pre- pared