BRONZE TABLET TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN* By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The fine service rendered by John Wright, pioneer ferryman, and one of the foremost builders of a transportation link that opened the great West to early settlers, was fittingly recognized on Tuesday morning

Historical Society; rather a difficult task wording it so as to honor the father, John Wright, through the son, James, The tablet reads as follows: "Wright Mansion, Built 1738-41 by James, a son of John Wright, 1667-1749, The enterprising and resourceful pioneer who in 1729 named Lancaster County and in 1730

Conestogoe, that is, in the neighborhood of Columbia. One thing that seems to point to that fact is that in September, 1727. he writes a letter to James Logan giving an ac- count of the killing of Thomas Wright by the Indians at Snaketown, about forty miles above Conestogoe (3 C., p 285). On the first of

. Citizens of Columbia, I beg your leave here and now to bring to your minds the services of the real pioneer of this town and the "Father of Lan- caster county"—John Wright. �From 1718 to 1726 he was in public life in old Chester, Chester county, of which county we were then a part. He was a justice of the

political leaders of the province at Philadelphia. (Pa. Arch. 314). An- drew Galbraith this year had a hard political fight with John Wright and barely secured election, standing lowest in the vote. Had not Wright's friends used a ticket which could not be counted, because not correct in form, he might have