, however, returning them to Virginia, where they arrived just as another English party was about starting up to their assistance. In 1640 another English party made ²Jenkin's History of Pennsylvanta; vol, I, p, 72. Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal; vol, I. �its appearance on the river, This time they

roster of the battery commanded by Captain W. W. Nevin during the war of the Rebellion. �May 16, 1887. The Executive Committee met at the Board of Trade rooms, a number of members being present. Dr. Dubbs exhibited some interesting documents bearing on the history of Franklin and Marshall College. Peter

. "Uncertainty rapidly pervaded the country; in 1738 the New England currency was worth one hundred for five hundred; that of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary- land, one hundred for one hundred and sixty or seventy, or two hundred; of South Carolina, one for eight; while of North Carolina, the paper

surveys, tools, lumber and seeds, fully $100,000 were spent in two years and a half, and about $4,500,000 in transportation, provisions, clothing, etc., during the first two and a half years.15 In Canada proper things proceeded much along the same lines. Land surveys began in 1783, and eight townships

Maj. Wertz wrltes to Prest. Whalebleat, that there are 19 tons of powder in Lancaster and a new powder house needed.30 In October, 1776, New York advised the Pennsylvania Council of Safety about 33 persons for safety, mostly charged with treasonable practices.31 On October 26, 1776, Lieut. Col. Wm

earliest record of his artistic life that I have found dates back to about the year 1820, when, at the age of twenty-two years, he opened a studio in the bor- ough of Marietta, where the late Judge John J. Liebhart became one of his students, acquiring no little pro- ficiency in portrait painting, and one

promise, and those best qualified to estimate his abilities felt assured that in time his name would stand high in the role of our native artists. His progress in his chosen profes- sion was both rapid and steady, and the prospect of reaching a lasting place among Pennsylvania artists un- usually