%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

"That William Henry had the honor of originat- ing the idea and of building the first steamboat ever built in the United States." Robert Fulton, who is generally given credit for being the first success- fully to commercialize the application of steam to navigation, was born in what was then Little

Flying Camp, and on April 11, 1777, he was elected Director General of all the Military Hospitals for the Armies of the United States. On May 11, 1780, he was elected Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, which position he held until 1806. He was president of the . College

erected 5 The map of Fulton Township, in the County Commissioners' Office, shows 5.4 miles. 6 Pennsylvania—Political, Governmental, Military and Civil. F. A. God- charles, 1933. 7 R. H. Heindel, Pennsylvania History, VI, January, 1939. 8 Thomas D. Cope, Pennsylvania History, October, 1939. �came to be

wherein they stood, for the wives of their owners or in honor of various presidents of the United States. 1 Clarion Furnace, built 1828. Stood on Clarion river, just west of the mouth of Little Toby creek. Thirty feet high, by eight feet across the bosh. Owners, Henry Bear and Christian Myers; afterwards

. Finding that not all of the emigrants who continued to arrive were fitted for the restrictions and self- denials of these communities, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg re- solved to provide a third church settlement in Pennsylvania, found- ed on more liberal lines. In this community the congregation would be

that of Leman. As were those of none of his predecessors, his rifles were used from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Furthermore, he not only made far greater numbers of superior rifles than any of our gunsmiths,—and that at a time when the states were first all being generally settled, but he never failed

excitement, with their misery and suffering. The church diary told that "In the event of an officer's death we should be expected to give him a more honorable burial place than that is where all are huddled indiscriminately underground." How well that entry recorded the facts! The soldiers were found lying

, late Prisoner of War to the United States of AMERICA, of the Second Part, for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty Dollars, paid for his Liberation by the said Party of the first part, to the Use of Said States and for the further Consideration of the Con- dition hereafter mentioned, doth covenant

- tween the lines. "Nov. 10. Our troops have evacuated Rhode Island (after hav- ing kept possession three years against the united attempts of France and America) and are retired to York. Various are the con- jectures on this manoeuvre—for my own part it is beyond compre- �hension. However it has answered