life, have added lustre to the family escutcheon; and his later descendant, John Houston Merrill, adorns the profession of his forbears. The Linn family, of much eminence in Central Pennsylvania, had repre- sentatives named John B. Linn and James Merrill Linn. I may add that as the elder of the

must have been, for it is also noted (p. 23) that "there was paid to Stephen Atkinson, 5th month, 30th day, 1722, £2 for' two wolss." It is of this man, and of the fulling mill which he built, with a few notes concerning others os the same name, gathered srom the old deeds, �records and wills os a long