president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best

." (Most visitors to early Lancaster over- estimated its population. The first official census of the United States, 1790, credited the town with 3773.) "The country round here is esteemed the most fertile in Pennsylvania for grain. The most material want experienced at Lancaster is that of a river— though