early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

leading to Philadelphia across Conestoga Creek, having now made report in the words and figures following, viz.: 'To the Worshipful Justices of the General Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held at Lancaster for the county of Lancaster on the first Tuesday in August next, we, the subscribers ap

incidents in our local history. As matters of ac- curate record, they are fit to be pre- served in our annals and to be chron- icled with the transactions of the So- ciety. On page 20 of the "History," in describing the Gorsuch homestead and estate, it is stated that certain of the slaves attached thereto

third is that of Henry Robert Reed, his fath- er, dated 1816. Mr. Ford's portrait was painted in 1812, and is, therefore, one of the earliest of the artist's works. A very considerable cluster of Eich- holtz portraits and the relations of a notable Lancaster family have been traced to and through Mr

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family