or Tories, as they are generally called now, was quite small, I soon found that the proposed arti- cle would necessarily be a very brief one, owing to the scanty records that were accessible to me at that time, and I partially gave up the project and laid aside what I had prepared, uncertain whether

is said to cost ten times as much as it did then. SAMUEL BRENEISER was a clockmaker at Adamstown and made a good many clocks, which are still in use in the northwest part of our county and over in Berks county. He was among the later manufacturers, and seems to have been located at different times at