Pennsylvanians, Benjamin Franklin, was the promoter and proprietor of the first printing establishment in the city of Lancaster. His name was not known in the matter at the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of certain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing

building in this county, and the country et large. A New Highway Called For. The foregoing brief account of the early road making has been prepared as introductory to an attempt made by the people of this city and county in 1770 to have a new King's highway built between Lancaster and Philadel- phia, by a

city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr

of the old Conestoga Manor. His mother's name was Susanna Howard, a sister of Gordon Howard, a promi- nent Indian trader. She was married early in the eighteenth century, proba- bly about 1708, to James Patterson, in Ireland. Her husband died in 1735. Mrs. Patterson was married a second time in 1736

, Miss Spangler, of Ephrata, and by her placed on sale among her archaeological and other bric-a-brac. S. M. Sener, of our So- ciety, saw it there, and it naturally interested him. The price asked was $2, and he got an option on it. He decided, however, that he did not want it, and his interest in it

command suffered heavy losses. It will be remembered that sev- eral hundred of the wounded at the bat- tle of Brandywine were removed to the Cloister Hospital at Ephrata, where more than one hundred and fifty died and were buried at Mount Zion. Whether any of the Donegal boys were among these still

efforts to retain what he al- ready had, hence the establishment of an office in this city to do German as well as English printing. James Chattin was sent here by Franklin with a printing outfit in 1751. All the issues of his office so far as known were almanacs. Then Miller & Holland were put in charge

Wharton House, in Philadelphia, during Lord Howe's occupation of that city, demonstrated the English love of amusement and pageantry, and what a hold it had upon the people. If further evidence was needed of the prevalence of theatrical performances throughout the country at that time, I think it would be

the city of New York. It became the property of President Steinman the moment his eyes rested on it. The character of this document is strangely interesting, and its contents �are now for t he f i rst ti me gi ven t o the public. Where it passed the two hundred years of its existence is be- yond even