: "I went into town (Lancaster must have been a very small place when the corner of Lime and Orange streets was consid- ered out of town), an alarm being spread that some of Howe's Light Horse had been seen at Pequea church." It was a false alarm. Such rumors were everyday occurrences, and gene- rally

- versity of Cambridge. He became the rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1775. He adhered to the cause of the Colonies at the breaking out of the Revolution, and made the opening prayer at the First Congress, Septem- ber 7, 1774. After reading a Psalm, he concluded with an extempore invoca- tion of