, having enlisted while a student at Princeton. He was the author of the famous "Newburg Letters," which created such a sensa- tion at the time. He was a voluminous author and a United States Senator. The Col. Henry Bouquet who is spoken of in this letter was an Eng- lish soldier, but born in Switzerland

Yorktown, When Washington took farewell of his officers at New York, Knox was the first to advance and receive his parting embrace. He was made a Ma- jor General after the surrender of Yorktown,and in 1785 he was appoint- ed by Congress Secretary of War, and held that office eleven years. The Navy

for 1857, page 278.) At a joint meeting of the School Trustees and the Trustees of the Lu- theran Church, held on May 23, 1857, it was resolved that the school house property, real estate and furniture, as desks and benches, should be sold at public sale on June 20, 1857. At the said sale the property

village of New Holland, Lancaster county, offering a reward of $100 for the discovery and conviction of the person or persons concerned in entering the church about the 15th or 16th of December, 1819, and destroying the new organ of the church, by re- moving and despoiling the pipes thereof, and taking

letter from the father to his son in America : SINSHEiM, June 3, 1772. MY DEAR Sox : Though it grieves me greatly to live separate from you, and that I can entertain no hope of ever visit- ing you in America, I yet rejoice in your fortunate change of circumstances. May God grant us all a new heart so

COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD. On the 15th day of December, 1774, James Crawford was elected from Han- over, Pa., as one of the sixty freehold- ers' committee to "observe the conduct of all persons touching the general as- sociation of the General Congress" .... .."which committee shall divide into

too busy to marry, but in 1830 he was married to Miss Annie Johnson. Seven children blessed this union—Charles N., now living in Philadelphia and unmarried ; James C., died in infancy ; Margaret A., married to �Robert H. Hodson, and living near New London, in Chester county ; William H. married to

Mercer resided close to Buyerstown. He came from Pough- keepsie, New York State. He married a daughter of William Hamilton, who owned several hundred acres of land along Pequea creek, north of Buyers- town. In 1777 he was Major in Col- �onel John Boyd's Battalion. He also occupied prominent positions in