history of Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century and is the author of several articles on that period. �

salutation the gentlemen (as they called themselves) sallied out sword in hand and routed the mobile [mob]. I am in hopes it will not end so quietly as the vanquish'd denounce vengeance." For nearly a century later the local "Fourth" was a day of heavy drinking. "July 10. The mob rose this even—and paraded

, teaching the grammar grade. One day "the greatest show on earth" arrived at McGrann's Park, Now "Dad" Stamy did not wish the boys to miss more time from their studies than necessary to view the stupendous street pa- rade, so he delegated six boys to station themselves at wide intervals from the entrance to

director. Manny's diary is full of the home and its children. 1 His biography by S. S. Rathvon appears in Alexander Harris' Biograph- ical History of Lancaster County, 1872, pp. 346-56. 2 A year earlier she had lived on West Chestnut Street which accounts for Manny attending the West Ward School. �With Mrs

-offering, in the editorship of the Philadelphia Press —intended to be the main pro-adminis- tration paper." 6 Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. V, p. 132. 7 A Biographical History of Lancaster County, p. 208. Personal letter to author of essay from Dr. Philip Shriver Klein, De- partment of History