appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

more joyous pastoral note that she was amid the green pastures and by the still waters of Donegal; and one poem of this pe- riod proves by its title that she was detained on the further—I dare no longer say the York county—shore of the Susquehanna, February, 1807, by the breaking up of the rce. �It may

official capacity, participating in a treaty making with the Indians. He resided for some years at Lancaster, Pa. where his second and third children were born. For a much longer per- iod and until 1768 he ma de his resi- dence at Carlisle, and was appointed by Governor Hamilton Judge of the Court of

. Its outlines can still be traced. In that house were born, and out from under its lintels passed into the active world, three lads who were to become conspicuous in public affairs, and to win fame from the country, to be reflected upon the county of their birth. David Ramsay. The most conspicuous of