The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

, and perhaps included in all as many as 60,000 souls.13 But sending them to her outlying provinces was not all Great Britain did for these unfortunate people. Before the crowning stroke came, she had many of them claiming her assistance. Home and lands had been sacrificed through their loyalty to the

continually sitting ; and so numerous were the convictions, that the names of those cashiered were sent to Congress in " Many of the surgeons," said Washington, " are very great rascals, countenancing the men to sham complaints to exempt them from duty, and often receiving bribes to certify to indispositions

their exampler New nations, like new settlements, are always in need of credit. That was the case with the colonies. They were rich in undeveloped resources, and continually in debt to the mother country. The little specie they re- ceived from foreign nations was sent away to pay Great Britain for what

and excellence of its labors, compare with the work done by our society. I mean original work in local history. As I went over it all in the past few weeks, I am amazed at its extent, great variety and general ex- cellence. It is undeniable that there are some weak spots. There has been too much

law governing such cases, thousands of years before Columbus sailed the seas, I hold that their ideas of what constitutes a river are equal to, and quite as deserving of attention as our own. In proof of the idea I have here ad- �vanced I shall take it upon myself to call up some of the great historic