, that on the 3rd of March 1779, I, with the officers of the regiment were again prisoners and we were sent to Bethlehem in the province of Pennsylvania. "On account of some difficulties I had with my brother officers, I re- signed my commission as chaplain, and assumed charge of several congrega- tions

, at Hotel Wallace, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, which bears on its face a plate marked "Made in London, 1674." This clock is an eight-day, shows the seconds, minutes, hours and days of the month, but not the moon movements. It is difficult to determine definitely just what date the first clocks were made

was de- scribed as a "beautiful ascent" by one paper; and "in the handsomest possible style," by another. The balloon was exploded, converted into a parachute and the descent was successful. During the next twelve years, Mr. Wise made numerous ascents through- out eastern Pennsylvania and in other

Salisbury township slave owner's plantation, even though he might have been born while slavery was legal in Pennsylvania. Although he had no education, he often displayed a keen knowl- edge of human nature ; and by his natural adaptability to his sur- roundings, he managed to keep himself in the kindly

Peter Bezaillion's Road By MARTIN HERVIN BRACKBILL The fur trails, used by traders in their journeys from seaports to In- dian towns in the interior in their trade for peltries, the earliest and for a long time the most prosperous enterprise of the middle colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New

Horsemen sent by Government to northern part of State to repress Fries' Insurrection. Also in active field service in Whiskey Insurrection in Pa. Harris' Biog. Hist., p. 330. Catalogue, Loan Exhibition of Hist. & Contemporary Portraits in Lancas- ter Co., Pennsylvania, p. 38. Buried in Caernarvon

repair. John Woodhull evidently had considerable private means because his meager salary of slightly over $600 per year could not have per- mitted him to build the mansion which he erected while a pastor in Lancas- ter County. This large edifice still stands just south of the Pennsylvania railroad, a

, and inventor, was born in Little Britain, now Fulton, Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1765.3 The next year, the family returned to the town of Lancaster, where they had formerly resided, and where his father had been a useful and important citizen.4 He was a founder of the First