Pennsylvania in Book of Deeds No. 3, page 23, etc. We, the subscribers, surviving relations of Sohaes, within named, do hereby acknowledge to have received from the Honorable John Penn, Esq., three hundred dollars over and above the within mentioned consideration of two hundred pounds, in full satisfaction of

Legislature, a Judge of our Courts, and later that masterful me- chanic and engineer, William Brown, engineer-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and likewise the present representative in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from this county, J. Hay Brown, formerly of the Bar of Lancaster county. Still

Pennsylvania, is called Woods Bridge, after the leading Quaker family of that section, who have long been promi- nent in Lancaster County history. It is on a road but little travelled and in poor repair, leading from Wrightsville over into Cecil County, Md. The bridge was built in 1890, and is one hundrcd and

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

signers to �the deed are William Whiteside, Eliza- beth Whiteside, John Whiteside, then resident of Cincinnati, and Lucy Whiteside, to William Wright, of Lan- caster, Pa. It may be noted here that some of the interests had been bought out and transferred to some of the grantors above named. Congressman

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

, of Allegheny, Pa.; Mrs. Salome Darling, of Sterling, Illinois; Elam Bowman, of Atglen, Pa. It is believed that none of these are living at this date. THOMAS BURROWES—The father of the great Thomas H. Burrowes, famous as the founder of the public school system of Pennsylvania, was a clockmaker in

province to be hereunto affixed. Witness: William Denny, Esq. by virtue of a commission from Thomas Penn, Esq., true and absolute proprietors of the province of Pennsylvania, etc." However, there seems to be an anomaly in the date and date of recording, as we shall see hereafter, for we find in the Book 3

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the