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

Washington here (with the daily dead and dying all about him and the yellow spots of graves ever in- creasing) often breathed in prayerful devotion the same thoughts that Lincoln later uttered at Gettysburg. We can feel that Washington many times said- "We have brought forth on this continent a new nation

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