Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of

Owen, signed and sealed the early deeds for Lancaster county lands. They are good examples of penmanship, as it is not taught in our later day schools—for boys. Driven from Boston by persecution of the Quakers, Edward Shippen's third marriage later separated him from the Society of Friends in Phila

Wood- hull came here as the first pastor of the Presbyterian Church—and when it had no mansard-roofed manse in �sight—E. Shippen, Esq., was "one of the leading men among the Presby- terians," and when George Whitfield visited America in 1754 the Shippens were his staunchest friends. When Lancaster—then

the outer wall that have held them for three-quarters of a century, there was a project pending to complete the ornaments of the east front of the Capitol by giving some sculptor an- other commission to execute two new groups for the outside, to the left and right of the broad steps that now lead down