, coming up through southern Chester county, and incidentally, along the bor- der of Lancaster, and some have the idea that an old gentleman by the name of Thomas Garrett, in the city of Wilmington, had much to do with giv- ing them direction to their friends in Pennsylvania. Another channel seems to have

received his education at John Beck's Academy, Lititz, Lancaster county. At an early age he showed great talent as a portrait painter. His father sent him to Italy to perfect himself in the art of portrait painting, where he took lessons from the first masters of Italy. While in that country he was taken

Early Lancaster Artists JOHN JAY LIBHART Merchant, Druggist, Judge and Artist. The ancestors of John Jay Libhart emigrated to America about the year 1728, and settled in York county, then on the frontier of Pennsylvania civili- zation, in or near the village of Hel- lam. His father, Henry Liebhart

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

those regions. Those Western peo- ple apply to us now for the early his- tory of their race, and will do so more and more. We, here in Lancaster county, hold a much more dignified and eminent place, historically, socio- logically,genealogically and economic- ally, than we now realize. Great uni

Early Local Historical Items. In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for the month of October, 1907, and for the month of December, 1910, may be found lists of certain items of early Lancaster county history gleaned from the ,"American Weekly Mer- cury," the earliest

, blacksmiths, Conestoga wagon builders and nearby fulling mills gave employment to many per- sons, and an air of prosperity was evident to the traveler. The Pennsylvania Gazeteer of 1798 thus describes the town at that date: "A post town in Caernarvon township, Lancaster county, Pa., distant twenty miles from

many of the foremost men of old Lancaster, came from England. He was a justice of the peace, register and surveyor and an early member of St. James', where his memorial tombstone is yet to be read of all men in the robing room. The monument to Edward Shippen is in the churchyard, behind the chan- cel