largely in Done- gal township, and was engaged in the New Jersey campaign, in the summer of 1776. While at Bordentown, three or four of his companies were assigned to the "Flying Camp," a body of troops authorized by Act of the Continental Congress, and which rendered valuable service in the battles of

nomenclature, few of us ever heard. By an Act passed by the General Assembly, on September 20, 1765, it was enacted "That the said borough shall be and hereby is divided into four wards in the manner following: That is to say, all that part of the said borough to the north of King street and to the east of

period playing the same part which we have seen it did in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Here is an extract from the Bowman deed, referring back to the original Penn deed: THIS INDENTURE, Made The Six- teenth Day of July, In the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty Four