remaininv canvases, one landscape and two portraits, are all the authen- tic material at hand. Facts concerning people are rarely as interesting to us as gossip; because gossip, being more or less personal, must always be related to romance, and hence, in capable hands, some- times rises into the sphere of

con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

AFTERMATH SUPPLEMEN- TARY TO CHRISTIANA RIOT, 1851 Since the publication, under the auspices of this Society, sixty years after the event, of the History of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851, the author has obtain- ed considerable detailed information bearing on those famous