Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Bicentennial of the James Wright House and the Sesquicentennial of the Borough of Columbia, Pennsylvania By ELIZABETH F, G, HIESTAND a Five Great Granddaughter of John Wright Paraphrasing the words of the old familiar song, "The sun shone bright on the old

Wright's Ferry (Columbia), and funneled into Philadelphia. Penn had rough-charted plans for syphoning river traffic up the Con- estoga and down the Schuylkill rivers, after having made a canoe trip, and short portage, over the suggested route, with recommendations for improving �the channels in the

JOHN PEARSON'S DESCRIPTION OF LANCASTER AND COLUMBIA IN 1801 John Pearson believed that the "various abilities and different pursuits of men" should be exerted for "the information and instruction of the whole." He was one of the founders and ardent supporters of "the Friendly Society for diffusing

information of them. RIDING ON THE COLUMBIA AND PHILA- DELPHIA RAILROAD By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is a small volume con of 148 pages, published, in 1836, by Grigg and Elliott, 9 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. The book is entitled, "A pleasant

MEETING IN COLUMBIA IN MEMORY OF CHARLES CARROLL By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XXXIV, p. 180, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "Resolu- tion on the Death of Charles Carroll, 1 Signer of the Declaration of Independence." Since that

left it by will to her nephew, Samuel Wright, who occupied it, and laid out the town of Columbia in 1788 and Columbia Extended in 1795, Jonathan Mifflin married Susannah Wright, daughter of James II in 1800, and went to live at "Woodbine," General Ewing's country seat in York County, but they came home