Who Was Jacob Hibshman, the Con- gressman from Lancaster County? John Gerhard Hibshman was a native of Switzerland, and came to this country in 1732, at the age of 19 years. Five years later, returning to his native land for his wife, he sailed on the ship St. Andrew, September 24, 1737, from

Pequea Colony. We may add another word on this point which furnishes the strongest proof that the 1709 company which Guy brought over in his ship was not the Pequea colony, and that theie was not one of the Lancaster county names among them. Nor were the six remaining Mennonite families (whom �Jacob

, married to John Frey. Revolutionary Record of Jacob Krug. Jacob Krug was a Captain in Colonel Matthias Slough's battalion of Lancas- ter county militia. This battalion was among the first of the soldiers from Lancaster county to join the "Flying Camp" in the Jerseys. On August 27, 1776, he was in the

more. The land to which he was entitled in these war- rants he had located on both sides of the Conestoga Creek in one tract, near the head of the creek, in the neighborhood of Spring Grove. now Earl township, Lancaster county. (See Taylor papers, Pennsylvania Histor- ical Society.) He built his house

. Barton a man of resolution and valor. He died in Carlisle on De- cember 14, 1772. Col. Alexander Lowrey, of this county, married the widow of Hermanus Alricks, upon a second marriage, and is the ancestor of our distinguished historian of Lan- caster county, samuel Evans, of Co• lumbia. �file:///Volumes

. John Whitehill, a Congressman. The son of James Whitehill, the pioneer, was born December 11, 1729, in Salisbury township, Lancaster �county. He married August 13, 1755, Ann Sanderson. John Whitehill was a zealous patriot, and was prominent in serving on committees at the time of the Revolution

with the early history of this county. He had the distinction of being the first Judge, and of giving the new country the name of Lancaster. He was also a preacher in the Society of �Friends. John Wright filled the office of Justice of the Peace, as well as in the Assembly of Chester county, where he