each one of us to be faithful to our God, our Church, and our Country. �ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hiram G. Troop, Sr. was born in Gap, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1897. He graduated from Paradise High School and Millersville Normal School (class of 1918). In 1919 he was elected principal of Bart High School

of Ohio, who had been a member of the United States Supreme Court since 1839, although seventy- five years of age in 1860, still had a very definite ambition to reach the White House and in fact was the choice of Thaddeus Stevens, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the convention. Enroute to

AARON ESHLEMAN Towards the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth, painted, in England, Rey- nolds, Romney, Lawrence. After them, in America, painted Gilbert Stu- art. After Gilbert Stuart painted Eichholtz; after Eichholtz painted Bannade; after Bannade painted Aaron

saw him again when on review below Fort Harrison. I was a member of the 22nd Regiment, Colored Pennsylvania In- fantry. We were at Richmond, and while enroute to Petersburg got a dis- patch to come to Washington, for the funeral. General Draper was in com- mand. In the procession about one square from

, he was referred to as "Virginia John," to distinguish him from a first cousin of the same name in Pennsylvania. His son, Abraham, accompanied the family to Virginia, where he purchased land in 1773 and sold it in 1780, when incited by narratives of his kinsman, Daniel Boone, whom he followed to the

selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

leading from Lancaster to the city of Philadelphia. Then they adjourned until to morrow. "August 10.—The Commissioners and Assessors met according to ad- journment and allowed orders from No. 1 to No. 10, page 110. Then they went to Conestoga Creek to view same in order to make a plan of a bridge

and coasts from the 40th degree to the 46th degree. Acadia, from its earliest settlement by De Monts, had for a century been repeatedly taken by the English and lost or restored by them. By the treaty of Utrecht, May 22, 1713, France finally surrendered to Great Britain "all Acadia." This vague

an outstanding point in colonial America. It was the most important crossroad of the eighteenth century—a crossroad of the expanding current of human affairs and the great current of nature, the for- midable Susquehanna, which blocked or retarded travel and traffic into the budding South and the

Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in