SOME HELFFENSTEIN LETTERS. The Reverend John C. Albertus Helffen- stein was pastor of the Reformed Church of Lancaster from 1776 to 1779. He was born in the Palatinate, February 16, 1748, and died at Germantown, Pa., May 17, 1790. He was the sou of the Rev. Peter Helffenstein, Superintendent of

of ministers who deserve to be entitled the found- ers of old Franklin College. Of course, it may be said, in a gen- eral way, that the whole movement sprang from Benjamin Franklin's ef- forts to anglicize and educate the Pennsylvania Germans, and that the infant institution was therefore prop- erly

" i n " d e n o t i n g the feminine gender. The ring, the hymn book and the dictionary in four languages were left in the possession of Judge Ege's family for befriending the Baron in his last days. This ring tells the tale and beyond a doubt the Woods in and around Philadelphia all came from the