. Philadelphia, 1888. Buell, A. C. William Penn. Clarkson, Thomas. Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn. London, 1813. Colonial Records, vol. 2, p. 253. Fisher, J. F. The True William Penn. Philadelphia, 1900. Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. 1, p. 400. Janney, Samuel Macpherson. The

Pound, New York, 1932, p. 190. 9 Pennsylvania Magazine Of History and Biography, vol. 9, p. 67. 10 Ibid, p. 74. WERE IMPORTED BRICKS USED IN COLONIAL AMERICA? 85 are Partners, and set to making Bricks this Year, and they are very good.”11 In 1690, John Goodson wrote to his friends, John and S. Dew, that

ground on which to erect a church building but we have no definite date as to when the first building was erected. No records give the early history of the church; baptisms, marriages and burials were not recorded until 1821, although there were minutes prior to this period. Robert Fulton's father led

town; the houses were chiefly of frame filled in with stone, of logs, and a few of stone The Lancaster town was too large, at an early period, in proportion to the population of the surrounding 14 Halle Reports, Vol. 1, p. 542. 15 Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Y ear 1750, p

Counties, 1845, pp. 339 to 344. 3 Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County, 1869, p. 171. 4 Proceedings Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 38, opp. p. 8; History of St. James' Church, Lancaster, Pa., p. 29. We question whether the local Springs were known as Rocky Springs in colonial times

. 398. 2 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 36, p. 226. 3 Tradition tells us that this youthful post rider, Christian Wolf, while in Philadelphia in 1777, awaiting the mail for the journey to Lancaster, learned of the adoption by Congress of an American flag. He hastened on the return

victories no less renowned than those of war"; but have we not always hastened to heap encomiums upon our famous sons outstanding in wars or in the forefront of political affairs and statecraft, often forgetting to honor the craftsmen of the shop and forge and record their achievements? Lancaster has

, in the neighborhood of his home. He was selected by Colonel Thomas A. Scott as engineer of the United States military railroads in Northern Virginia, with headquarters at Alexandria. In October, 1861, he was transferred to the Pittsburgh Divi- sion, Pennsylvania Railroad, where he remained until

confidence that, no matter what the future has in store, we will be able to cope with it and preserve the heritage of our forefathers." Dr. Klein's Address Dr. H. M. J. Klein, Professor of the Department of History at Franklin and Marshall College, and formerly acting-president of the institution, was the