struggles with Maryland cen- tered here. Two bandits, named Lowe, terrorized everybody a year or more, until a body of constables from Lancaster county shot and crippled them in their cabins Just opposite Co- lumbia. About 1732, nearly 200 Mary- landers appeared opposite the present Columbia and began to

its possibilities were brought into mind, by accidentally running across the report of the debate in the United States Senate in 1836, the last year of Jackson's Administration, when the award of a monumental work in front of the Capitol building, in Washington, to a particular Italian sculptor, was

legal visitor of this trust should be that Society. I beg that you and those who follow you will not deem it a pre- sumption in that Society to exercise such visitorial care and concern at all times, as is just and right, to see well to it that the memorial be kept fresh and free from tarnish and de

coal-carrying cross-country railroad from Columbia, on the Sus- quehanna, to tidewater on the Dela- ware; and by grace of Joshua Scott, his map, I succeeded in locating my division, extending through Manor, Conestoga, Pequea, Providence, Dru- more and Colerain townships, to the border of Chester county

Hempfield : The Beginning of Columbia On the occasion of the observance of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the laying- out and disposal of lots in the town of Colum- bia, by Samuel Wright, it seems to me fitting that I, his senior grandson, shall put on record an authentic statement

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory