prayers, set her apart in early faith for Himself." Her father, the Rev. John Car- michael, born in the Highlands of Scotland, October 17, 1728, and died on the 15th day of November, 1785. He was distinguished for his love for his adopted land, and aided whenever an opportunity presented itself in the

JOHN LANDIS, PAINTER. The first of a series of historical papers bearing on early Lancaster portrait painters, as arranged for by a joint committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Iris Club, which is planning for the portraiture exhibition in November, were submitted at the

THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEN, JOHN A. SUTTER. As a citizen of the town in which the subject of this sketch spent the last years of his life, and in which lie his remains and those of his wife, I have been prompted, as a testimony of my regard for his memory, to contribute this sketch of his life to the

Early Lancaster Artists JOHN JAY LIBHART Merchant, Druggist, Judge and Artist. The ancestors of John Jay Libhart emigrated to America about the year 1728, and settled in York county, then on the frontier of Pennsylvania civili- zation, in or near the village of Hel- lam. His father, Henry Liebhart

THE SLAVERY QUESTION During the Terms of Office of John Whitehill and Robert Jenkins, Con- gressmen from Lancaster County from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811, Respectively. This paper is to consider the sla- very situation at that period of time which included the twenty-year limit of the tolerance

March 29, 1735 (do., p. 228). The list naturalized were most largely from Philadelphia, but it con- tained a few from Bucks and Chester and from Lancaster county. John George Beard, John Casper Stover, Michael Weidler, Frederick Eber- sheid, Peter Ensminger, Jacob Kersh- berger, Jacob Byerly, Jacob