by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June

pioneers, these English colonies were preserved and extended to include what finally constituted the union of forty-eight sovereign states. Following the Revolutionary War, this Northwest Territory (the land extending from Ohio to Minnesota) was ceded to the United States at the Treaty of Paris, September

, series 1, vol. 1, p. 67. �states, "I have made a discovery of about a hundred miles west, and find those back lands richer in soil, woods, and fountains, than that by Delaware; especially upon the Susquehanna river." To which Buck adds: "Certainly a pretty good judgment respecting the present Lancaster

protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork

platform, members of the armed forces of the present war — marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen — marched to the forefront of the stage, with the national, state and city flags, and remained in position of salute, while the audience rose and sang the national anthem. The invocation was given by the Rev

people was much too large. The first United States census in 1790 gave Lancaster 3373; but then Reading had only 2235, York 2079, and Harrisburg 875. So this largest inland city was holding its own, yet it had its critics. One correspondent in the Lancaster Zeitung of July 27, 1791, writing about the

CATHOLIC CHURCH Excluding the French, Spanish and Maryland settlements, St. Mary's Parish was the fourth Catholic congregation in chronological order in what now constitutes the United States. St. Joseph's Chapel, Philadelphia, the chapels in Conewago, in what is now Adams County, and Goshenhoppen, Berks

Tables nor Long pipes to amuse you." 3 2 Rupp's History, p. 291. 3 From a postscript in a letter, dated June 9, 1744 from Cookson to Richard Peters, secretary of the Provincial Assembly. S�e Yearbook of the Historical Society of York County, 1941. - THE BOROUGH FATHERS 47 The Indians still hovered about

set them up in vacant places, and having gleaned the town, silently stole away." Many are familiar with Mathew B. Brady's gallery on wheels as he followed the fortunes of the Union Army in the field, and gave us a pictorial history of the great conflict. One such wagon 12 Lancaster Intelligencer