the Susquehanna with Samuel Blunston and Robert Barber, and with them taking up grants of land from William Penn, and settling there in what is now Columbia, He had been largely instrumental in having this part of what was then Chester County created into a separate county called Lancaster, after the

Friedsam know that his house can hold all the brethren and all the sisters, who are invited at the same time through Father Friedsam. If he informs them that his house can hold only a portion of them, then he has permission both to invite and to select his guests. If any love-feast is made within the

. Herbert H. Beck and C. H. Martin of the Lancaster County Historical Society; Rev. Arlington Gerhard of Philadelphia ; Rev. John B. Bucher of Ephrata, and the writer. Talks were also given by teachers who served at the old and the new Clay Schoolhouses. On such occasions, it is customary to give a history