not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

maintained under the auspices os the Chicago University, and Henry Clay acknowledged that in his efforts to organize a United States bank he drew largely on Merrill's ideas. It was this Samuel Merrill to whom Thaddeus Stevens, besore he had de- termined to locate in Pennsylvania, wrote the sollowing letter

Margaret Atkinson, signed by mark, September 7, 1798, witnesses Jacob Moyer and John W. Kittera, proved August 4, 1803 (Book H, p. 345), she directs that "the house and a certain Plantation in tenure of George Ross, in Lampeter township," be sold, and on the deed recorded (Book T, p. 44) it states that

baked at home and that bake- ovens were in consequence as much or a necessity as the dwellings them- selves. But during the past fall the oven was torn down, and, as I happen- ed along soon afterward, I secured one of the tiles with which the bake house or oven was covered. Tiled roofs, like thatched