belonging to a Fuller, by "WILLIAM CHAMBERS. "Lancaster Township, "9th Day of 10 Month. 1789." It was on the south bank of the Conestoga, between Reigart's and Graesf's landings. Slavery, Jewelry and Storms. On December 9th, 1789, I find a long address to the public by the Pennsylvania Society for the Aboli

Petition. "To the Honorable John Penn Es- quire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and coun- ties of New Castle, Kent and sus- sex on Delaware, and his Honor- able Council-- The Petition of divers Inhabitants �of the County of Lancaster Humbly Shewetn That the great Road from the upper

harmony as to give it at once that ease and softness essential to the art. The picture (the one the contemporary describes) is one on rich blue silk, and is intended as a banner for the Washington Fire Company of Louisville, Kentucky. The back of the canvas represents the Washington family, which is not a

DATE STONES. As a rule, the early German settlers in Pennsylvania were not much given to self-laudation or praise- They were too busy in cutting down the forests, tearing out the stumps and carting off the stones that often covered their lands to give much attention to less material things

Pennsylvania. Among these newcomers were the Galbraith brothers, John and James. �The former tarried in Philadelphia, but James sought the inviting lands beyond the Conestoga. As soon as he had sheltered his family under a home roof he organized a church. In less than two years, it is said, a meeting house

covenant between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay , Rhode lsland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina , South Carolina and Georgia. Translated from the German, 1 vol., 16mo., 16 pages." ln this year he also

attending the "Mischianza" in the way of dress and adornment may have led the Congress to pass the above resolu- tion, for although the costs were for the most part borne by the English officers, the women in attendance were almost exclusively natives of Philadel- phia, and the expenses attending the

occurrence is laid in Lan- caster nearly three-quarters of a cen- tury ago, it is presented here as a proper supplement to the articles on "Early Lancaster Playbills and Play- houses," published in our proceedings for November, 1902. When I first read the story as told by Mr. Murdoch, I confess I was

the planting of a colony of white men �within the present borders of Lancas- ter county. In June of that year, Gov- ernor Gookin and several members of the Assembly visited the Indians at Conestoga, and †he Governor made the following brief address to the red men assembled, after having made them

in the year 1804. Lancaster being then the Capital of Pennsylvania, the electors met in this city, "in the Senate Chamber," in torn down in 1853, which stood on the the old Court House, built in 1787 and site of the monument now erected on the public square. The session of the Board lasted two days