." (Most visitors to early Lancaster over- estimated its population. The first official census of the United States, 1790, credited the town with 3773.) "The country round here is esteemed the most fertile in Pennsylvania for grain. The most material want experienced at Lancaster is that of a river— though

his two sons, Simon and John, and their wives (McKenzie sisters), came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1775. They are reported to have been on the same ship with Colin McFarquhar, who was headed toward his pastorate at the Donegal Church, Lancaster County.3 They had been farmers in Scotland