borough form of government. Their efforts were unsuccessful. Lancaster remained the third city in Pennsylvania, and 29 years later Reading became the fourth city. Mayors elected by the councils were John Passmore, Samuel Carpenter, Nathaniel Lightner, and John Mathiot, all Democrats. The city councils

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

, November 29, 1777 On Sunday the 23rd instant died at this place, Joseph Parker, Esquire, many years a member of the General assembly of Pennsylvania, also a mem- ber of the late committee of Safety and of the Committee of. Inspection for the City of Philadelphia; and on Tuesday the 25th his remains were

Met in Philadelphia on the 30th of December, 1849 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The General Committee, 1850), pp. 1-8. 3. Louis Hartz, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania, 1776-1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948), p. 15; Victor S. Clark, History of Manufactures in the United