, Franklin, Pa.; The Yankee, Lafayette, N. J.; The Censor, Philadelphia; The Chatter-Box,Charles City, Iowa; Wise and Otherwise, Mari- etta, Ohio; The Dart, Providence, R. I.; The Spry, Richland, Lebanon county, Pa.; The Rolling Billow, Nor- folk, Va.; The Will o' the Wisp, Ap- pleton, Wis.; Sense and

Ellicott referred to in the above quotation from one of Jef- ferson's letters was in his day and generation one of the notables of this country, and one of Lancaster's most distinguished citizens, being at once a surveyor, civil engineer and mathe- matician, and distinguished in each of these branches of

French and Indian wars, and also in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Gen- eral Assembly sor many years. He died in 1790. He first married Perth Bayly, a sister of the Hon. John Bayly, member of the Supreme Execu- tive Council srom this county. His second wrse was the widow os Rev. Joseph

still the largest landed proprietors in Pennsylvania. It will be remember- ed that two Manors had been sur- veyed for Penn within the present limits of this county; Conestoga Manor in 1717-1718, containing 16,000 acres, and Hempfield Manor, in 1720, containing 2,816 acres. At the close of the

AN EARLY ROAD PETITION. It is hardly necessary for me to say to this audience that the earliest roads used by the first settlers in this country were probably the paths trav- ersed by the Indians in going to and fro over the country, and that when real wagon roads were "laid out," as it was called