Philadelphia merchants the Hatboro Library record throws ". . . light on the cultural background and intellectual ambitions . . ." of the province's social leaders; 6 it does not, however, indicate what sorts of material most Pennsylvanians read. It is in answer to this objection that Patrick Orr's inventory

regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

the British fleet in American waters on March 8, 1748. It was in part as follows: "We need not tell You, who are so well acquainted with the Condition of the Colonies, that the Majority of the Assembly consisting o Quakers, their Princi ples wou'd �never suffer them to put this provihce in a posture

writes from England to Logan: "I hereby order thee to dissolve the Susquehanna pur- chase " (Logan Correspondence, Vol. 2, p. 234). To this Penn adds one last lament, September 11, 1708, as to his whole Susquehanna project: "Be careful that no sales be hereafter made of my estate like the Sasquehan- nagh

Lancaster's Contribution to Cape Verde Islands in the Famine of 1832 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the autumn of 1832, information reached Lancaster that the inhabitants of the Cape Verde Islands were in a most distressed condition. They had had no rain for two years, their crops had failed, and

. Jacob Duche. In the issue of May 22, the estate notice in the estate of Thomas Musgrove fixes his late residence in Lampeter Township. In the issue of May 29, General Stanwix announces that a certain number of wagons are necessary to take provisions to Pittsburgh from Lancaster, Carlisle ; and that such

at a great de- preciation, and ou the ending of the estate, a reductiou of more thau half was ascertained, out of which the children were to be supported. I was put as an apprentice to the hatting business, when I was not quite twelve years old. On the day of the expiration of my apprenticeship. I

from Sadsbury in 1744. Elizabeth was taken from Warwick in 1757. Mount Joy constituted the twenty-fourth township of the county; it was taken from Donegal in 1759 or 1767. No more new township's were formed or organized previous to 1800. It may be of interest to know how many elec- tion districts

. Richard Hayes, 1 lot; John Hopson, 1 lot; George Huts, 1 lot; Isaac Har- ris, tenant to Wm. Bowsman; John Hart, 1/ 4 lot; William Henry, tenant to Leonard Bender, 1 lot; Kunedrad Heavlisp, 1 lot; John Hopson, ex. of E. Smout's estate, 1 lot; John Chris- topher Haine, 1/2 lot; Henry Helm, 1 lot; John