Lancaster was the last civilized outpost on the western frontier during the French and Indian wars its workshops already were turning out wagons, guns, clothing and numerous items for the protection of the Pennsylvania hinterland. Who can say how many of those artisans and mechanics "invented" day-by-day

years. She was a birth-right Quaker, but John West was not. He came to Pennsylvania in 1714, but only joined the Meeting about 1759. It is said by Harris, in his Biographical History, that Benjamin West came to Lancaster in 1749, and that, while there, at the suggestion of William Henry, he painted his