some loyalists into Pennsylvania in order to remove them from the scene of their operations. In April, 1776, the North Carolina "Committee of Secrecy, War and Intelligence" noti- fied the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety that they had judged it expe- �dient to remove some prisoners lately taken, 'to

Revolution adhered to the cause of the King and the crown were as honest and sincere as those who took part with the Colonial cause. They had sworn loyalty to Great Britain. They did not, even in a majority of cases, approve of the ac- tions of the British Government tow- ard the Colonies, but they regarded

natives was at once accurate and easy. Had the Quaker Government of Pennsylvania early shown like wis- dom, there would have been far less �cause for trouble and misunderstand- ings with the natives. Almost the only reliable interpreter Pennsylvania had in early provincial days was John Conrad Weiser, who

Politics 75 Years Ago. The following letters deserve consid- erations for two reasons. They were written by one of the most distin- guished men this county ever produced to one still more distinguished in the annals of the State and the nation. Both the writer of them and the re- ceiver were

were at work on the Virginia and Pennsylvania borders. A letter from Washington to him shows them to have been on cordial terms. But things were changed now. He says: "I was now to see a man with whom I had formerly been upon a footing of in- timacy, I may say friendship. Politics might induce us to

on the drawing. NO. 1. THE OLD STORE HOUSE. The first one of the ten is the build- ing on the extreme left, standing out boldly. It is what was known then and in later times as the old "Store House." It was built by the State of Pennsylvania at an early period of the Revolutionary. War, for the

the clothing for the Pennsylvania line was made here. Officials were continually at work se- curing cloth and linen and leather, and having them made up for the use of the soldiers in the camp. Here is a letter from Commissary Lang, who was on such duty at that time. It is dated at Lancaster, on

and toasted the new Consti- tution, after which the procession re- �"Eighth. The Memory of the Offi- cers and soldiers Who Have Fallen in Defense of America. "Ninth. Pennsylvania. "Tenth. May Only Those Ameri- cans Enjoy Freedom Who Are Ready to Die for Its Defense. "Eleventh. Liberty Triumphant

Between Martin Bowman and Elizabeth his wife of the Town- ship of Lebanon in the County of Lan- caster and Province of Pennsylvania, of the one part and Abraham Miller of Lebanon Township county and prov- ince aforesaid of the other part— Whereas William Penn formerly of London and then of Dublin, Esquire