is dull reading; but interspersed throughout are letters, mem- oranda and receipts which greatly assist us in visualizing Lancaster Borough, when it was indeed the hub of Pennsylvania political life and activity. The following items, arranged chronologically, are from the papers of Governor McKean

state politics. President Judge of the Berks County Courts, he was projected into the political arena by his father-in-law, Joseph Heister, Revolutionary War veteran and former member of Congress and of both houses of the state assembly. Proving the foregone conclusion of the editor of the Lancaster

feel on the subject of a special providence superintending the affairs of our world, I am content to let it remain under the great disposer of events, who has so evidently directed our affairs to the present happy period. 3 The tellers were James Boyd and Caspar Shaffner, Jr. 4 Historical Society of

. When Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capital By GEORGE L. HEIGES Philadelphia's Loss — Lancaster's Gain The frame of government for William Penn's colony in the new world was published in 1681. At the same time the colony was fittingly named "PENNSYLVANIA" by King Charles II. In October, 1682, the