Justice Ellis Lewis' daughter, Mrs. James Wiley. Prior to that, associ- ated with it are such names as the Cassatts, Brintons and Thomas McEl- rath, partner of Horace Greeley in the ownership of the New York Tri- bune, who gave it its varied arbori- culture and decorated its lawn with the marble statuary

THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to

inquisition indented taken at Sadsbury township, in the county of Lancaster, the 11th day of Septem- ber, A. D. 1851, before me, Joseph D. Pownall, Esq., for the county of Lan- caster, upon the view of the body of a man then and there lying dead, sup- posed to be Edward Gorsuch, of Balti- more county

THE SLAVES. h H t d a d Its ·Proprietor - An Old and Prominent The Gorsuc omes ea n Maryland Family - The Runaways Absent for Nearly Two Years Before They were Pursuec1 - The Warrants and Attempted Exe- cution. In Baltimore County, Maryland, on the west side 0£ the york and Baltimore turnpike, south 0

were manumitted. Interesting corrobora- tion of this is supplied by the article of manumission of Giles Wallis, of whlch follows a literal copy. It ap- pears the age of thirty-one was the period of freedom: To all whom it may concern, Be it known that I, Edward Gorsuch, of Baltimore county, and State