JAMES ROSS, LATINIST. Two years ago, when the history of old Franklin College was written, we were greatly in want of information concerning the personal history of Prof. James Ross, who was a teacher in that institution one hundred years ago. We had of course, the brief no- tices contained in the

was proprietor; the Lancaster Society of Literature and Science; the Conserva- tory of Arts and Sciences; the Co- lumbia, Pennsylvania, Library Com- pany; Miss Jordan's Circulating Library; the Juvenile Society's Library; the Athenaeum; and the plates of the Mechanics' Library Association, and other

were imme- diately interested for personal reasons hesitated to publish all the particulars. Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of American Biography" (1887) briefly says that "the story is told in several ways," but that "it is generally accepted that the Empress was taken to the residence of Dr. Thomas W. Evans

township, now Delaware county, Octo- ber 20, 1692. His daughter, Bridget, �was married at Friends' Meeting to Griffith Niles, who was also born in Wales in 1670. Jeane was married to James James, November 17, 1692. Martha about the same time married Joseph Todd. These three daughters, with their

whose names appear are not accredited with ownership of any lots, leaving 341 lot holders. Some of these have more than one lot, and thus there may have �been 500 houses at the time, as Pow- nall states. These Hamilton lots were of pretty good size, 40 by 240 feet, I think. They would accommodate two