weavers from the Palatine, and Andrew Strayer came to Skip- pack. Mr. Pennypacker also states that (p. 169) Gottschalk, in his ac- count of the growth of Germantown, says: "In 1709 some brethren and sis- �ters came to us from the Palatinate, so that by 1712 our community at Germantown, extending to

defeated Gal- braith. Wright had his friends use a "short ballot;" and this, instead of helping him, was his undoing. Those tickets under the law could not be counted. This is the first use of a short ballot in Pennsylvania. �law required each voter to vote for four members of Assembly. Wright had a number

, Hon. Jacob Hibshman, and also give some account of his public, political and patriotic career on other questions aside from those arising in his Congressional career. Our county was opposed to compro- mises of any kind on the subject of slavery, in any section of the United States, and at any time. In

- tablishing complete title records of real estate. When we consider that for one hundred years Philadelphia was the only port of el try of the United States, through which the Ger- man-Swiss population swept into this country; and that from the valleys of the Susquehanna and the Schuylkill, these sturdy

frontier point in eastern Pennsylvania. Some of the roughest and hardest American life occurred there. Wright established his ferry at this point on the river, and as soon as civilization opened west of the river this became the most famous ferry in America west of Philadelphia and New York. Nearly all the

shillings per hundred weight. Household goods, boxes, etc., at the cheapest rates. The same to be performed by WILLIAM ATLEE, JOSEPH YEATES." Slavery in Pennsylvania did not extend alone to the negro race. An adver- tisement in the issue of June 26, 1740, states that "a Dutch servant man and his wife are to