h a d b e e n n a m e d b y t h e p i u n eers, and several of them had been recognized as townships by the county of Chester, which claimed jurisdiction over all this region; but when the county of Lancaster was established by the co- lonial legislature, it was one of the first acts of the Court to

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

OLD FRANKLIN COLLEGE. In our investigations into the begin- ning of the literary and social life of Lancaster county, the early days of old Franklin College should not be for- gotten. That an institution of ad- vanced grade Should have been found- ed in Lancaster one hundred and eleven years ago