thus he became a brother-in-law of that other famous native Lancaster countian, Rev. Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, of Pequea, who married Witherspoon's eldest daughter when he was President of Hampden-Sydney and before his call to Princeton. After the death of the first Mrs. Ramsay her bereaved husband

official capacity, participating in a treaty making with the Indians. He resided for some years at Lancaster, Pa. where his second and third children were born. For a much longer per- iod and until 1768 he ma de his resi- dence at Carlisle, and was appointed by Governor Hamilton Judge of the Court of

resigned his Judgeship to become Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, which he also resigned, and in 1821 settled down to the prac- tice of law in Lancaster. In 1817 he declined the portfolio of the War De- partment in President Monroe's Cabi- net. In 1832 he was the candidate of the Anti-Masonic party for

REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

ter- ritory covered in the plan os the so- ciety. Lancaster county as now bounded stretches from the Octoraro on the southeast to the Conewago on the northwest; from the Brecknock sorest on the northeast to the slate hills of Peach Bottom on the Southwest. With- in these boundaries there have been

genealogy and private life to show his public career in its true niche and to give it inter- pretation. I took the advice of a senior mem- ber of this society and inquired of Mr. B. F. Owen, of Reading, who is an authority on Thomas Edwards and on that section of early Lancaster county generally. Mr. Owen