daughter of Nicholas and Catharine Hauer was baptized. In later life she moved to Frederick, Maryland, and became known to fame as Barbara Fritchie. The Rev. John Conrad Albert Helffenstein ministered to the congregation during the trying times of the Revolution, and often preached to the Hessian prisoners

Social Life in Lancaster Borough By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER It was Benjamin Rush writing in 1789 on the "Manners and Customs of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania," 1 who called attention to the fact that the description given by Tacitus of the German Village of the first cen- tury A.D

effect of which, we are persuaded, is reflected later in the Bill of Rights of the Federal Con- stitution, and helped to guide us as a state in "Virtue, Liberty, Independence." REFERENCES: Buck, William Joseph. William Penn in America. Giving, as far as pos- sible, his day to day life in America

in Pennsylvania, p. 301. 11 Rupp, p. 243. 12 Halle Reports, Vol. 1, p. 145. 13 John Galt's "Life and Times of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London." Philadelphia, 1816, p. •7. �A CHANGE OF OFFICEHOLDERS For the first eight years of borough life, the town was almost solely

the Pennsylvania Assembly (1776-1790) in State Library at Har- risburg. A Bibliography of the Separate and Collected Works of Philip Freneau to- gether with an Account of his Newspapers, V. H. Paltsits, New York, 1903. *Cited in Dictionary of American Biography account of Francis Bailey, Printer. �