, prisoners of war during the American Revolution. However, it is perhaps less well known that the barracks were already fifteen years old at the outbreak of the Revolution. The barracks were built by the Pennsylvania provincial government near the end of the French and Indian War in response to com- plaints

BUFFALOES IN PENNSYLVANIA The following brief article on the Buffalo in Pennsylvania is Chapter IX of a book published in Philadelphia under the title of "Progressive Penn- sylvania." The author is Mr. James M. Swank, who for thirty-five years has been the general manager of the American Iron and

further differ- ences, the tract of land lying between �the Bay of Delaware and the Eastern Sea, on the one side, and the Chesa- peake Bay on the other, be divided into equal parts by a line from the latitude of Cape Henlopen to the 40th degree of north latitude, the southern boundary of Pennsylvania by

Proprietaries and Gov- ernours in chief of the province of Pennsylvania,a certain Tract of Land situated on Tulpehocken creek of 5,165 acres, who by their Patent did erect it into a Manor, and named it the Manor of Plumton." It has been suggested that this name was given on account of the many wild plum trees

persons who are one or more years in arrears are re- quired to pay their quit rents, and, in default, the receiver of quit rents or- ders a distress to be made immediate- iy, in pursuance of law. In the issue of October 4, 1739, the election figures of Pennsylvania are set forth. However, only those of

Penn- sylvania its first newspaper a good many years before New York had any newspaper at all. Pennsylvania's next newspaper was the Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in Philadel- phia by Ben Franklin in 1728. The Mercury ran until 1745, and the Gazette until after the Revolution. The series of

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

, 1880-1883. Superintendent of Public Schools, Lancaster County, 1883-1911. Member Public Service Commis- ;ion, Pennsylvania, 1911-1923. Died, 1925. M. J. Brecht M. J. Brecht 1877. 1921. �Rye .T.r.11:t Popot:ALNIAN:4 -For: tit itfov::thit.00.0i*su :0 . 04)00.6.444.1k4.44:,. .0 * 0. '4'.44aY .iirtf01.A

famly moved to South Carolina prior to 1751. In April 1753 he was dead. George Lewis was, on April 10, 1742, a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Dickinson vs. Lewis John Shry (or Story) and John Rutledge, in the County of Chester, and Province of Pennsylvania, "traders," executed their bond to

County and prior to 1750 removed to Augusta County, Virginia. Montgomery vs. Cochran, Court Papers 390. "I, James Craige, in London Grove and County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania" executed his bond to William Hartley, merchant, for 221b., dated 25 Feb. 1736-37, signed James Craig. (See Hartley