the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of cer- tain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing much of the printing for the Ephrata com- munity before it procured its own press, and for the other religious sects in the State. Lancaster county was the

INTRODUCTORY. As was to be expected from a popu- lation so conglomerate as that which comprised the early and later set- tlers of Lancaster county and city, German, Scotch-Irish and Quakers, Protestants, Catholics, with a sprink- ling of Jews, and, perhaps, still other nationalities, it was a

LANGDON CHEVES. Lancaster county is justly proud os the long roll of eminent men who have from time to time lived within her borders. These may naturally be divided into several groups. First, those who were born here and lived most os their lives elsewhere, like Robert Fulton, David Ramsey, the

pedigree os the Shippen samily may to found in Dr. Egle's an- nual volume of Notes and Queries, sor 1896, srom page 181 to 186, all the sacts having been carefully recorded by Judge Jasper Yeates, of this city, as they were given him by Edward Shippen, of Lancaster, on April 10, �1775, slx years before the