on West King Street, but no record is found of his pottery or its products. It is thought that his son, John, was a surgeon in the Revolu- tionary War. The name Swab, later anglicized to Swope, persists 1 Isaiah 64:8, "We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the works of thy hand

of full support in the present world crisis, and added: "Because men will fight valiantly only for ideals which they understand and in which they believe, it is imperative that the ancient altar fires of freedom that burned so fiercely in the Lancastrians of an early day should now be rekindled in

Shippen wrote to James Hamil- ton in Philadelphia, regarding an alarm at midnight the day previous, of a threatened Indian attack. After three hundred men had gathered in Penn Square, it was found how poorly equipped they were for such an eventuality, for among them there were but fifty guns and little

. This was done with ceremony. The record states: "His men were drawn up in order, Louis XV was proclaimed lord of all that region; the arms were stamped on a sheet of tin, nailed to a tree; a plate of lead was buried at the foot, and the notary of the expedition drew up a formal act of the whole

Places as is herein after directed." 1 Besides the names mentioned in the charter, other leading men of the town in 1742 were George Gibson, Michael and Bernard Hubley, Jacob Lough­ man, Casper Shaffner, Ulrich Reigart, Michael Hook, James Webb, George Hoffman, Joseph Pugh, Robert Thompson and a few