paper would not be complete without a sequel. No more camp meet- ings were held in the Hamaker grove at Manheim after 1868, as Mr. Hamaker was done with a crowd of 20,000 people in one day despoiling his crops. In 1869 the encampment was moved to Mount Lebanon in Lebanon County, and sometime during the

he had been elected to the State Assembly in 1831 and had been so intimately associated with the common school system of Pennsylvania that he had gained the title "Father of the Pennsylvania Common Schools." It was in 1835, while he was Secretary of the Commonwealth, that he had been called upon to

collectors of the excise tax could not be condoned, and the majesty of the law had to be maintained. 2 William Michael was a member of this company. After a call for militia by the President, Michael in his diary wrote: "According to a requisi- tion of the President, such numbers of the most respectable

Store or Shop-keeping or exercise the Business of an Apothecary." The shop in Bethlehem was begun in 1743 by Dr. Frederick Otto, and to-day more than two hundred years later, this store still thrives under the title of Rau's Drug Store, in the original building where it was begun. Surely, in point of

American soil; and these were the remainder of 29,867 men which was the total number of Hessians who fought under the banner of England. Five hundred and forty-eight (548) had been killed in battle and 1,652 died of wounds and disease. Not all of the German mercenaries who were left in America at the close

during the Revolutionary War. The Jonathan Potts Collection is particularly rich in such letters ; and because of this, it seems appropriate to first tell you something about Jonathan Potts. He was born in the year 1745 at Colebrookdale (Popo- dickon) in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and as a youth