province in America with hope and longing. Henry Baird in his "Huguenot Emigration to America" says: "There were no emigrants whom William Penn desired more ardently for his plantations on the Delaware and Susquehanna than the persecuted Huguenots. Many of them had heard of the advantages of Pennsylvania

ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

their way to freedom in the northern states and Canada. Paul A. W. Wallace, in his new work, "Pennsylvania, The Seed Of The Nation," refers to the so-called Underground Railroad, which operated from the eastern seaboard as far west as the borders of Ohio. It was par- ticularly active in Pennsylvania and

published in numerous books and articles throughout two hundred years. Mr. John W. W. Loose, secretary of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, has kindly contributed sketches to illustrate the steamboat engine which Fulton invented. For this I am very grate- ful, as it requires a special understanding

of Para- dise, Pa., and the widow of Wiliam Dickson, the founder, with his broth- er Robert) of the Lancaster Intelligencer, the only Democratic newspaper in Pennsylvania between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from 1799 to 1823. They had opened their printing office in Lancaster in 1796. In 1806 Wil

the election of her husband, Andrew Galbraith, as a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. The Galbraith family was an ancient and honorable one, rooted in the famous Lenox clan of Scotland, and James and John Galbraith, like many of the other early settlers in Donegal township in the

, Pa.: Penn- sylvania State University Press, 1962. Moore, John Bassett (ed.). The Works of James Buchanan. 12 vols. New York: An- tiquarian Press, Ltd., reprinted 1960. Shenk, John. "Wheatland Landscape," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 67 (1963), 93-100. Taylor, Lloyd C., Jr