the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain daybooks for the mill and farm. Creator: Brubaker and Gibbons families of Bird-in-Hand, Pa. Conditions for Access: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

. Samuel Humes; of Dr. Sam- uel Humes, a son, and of another son, William Humes, who married Miss Harriet Church, of Philadelphia, and was a member of the company of State. Fencibles in the War of 1812, commanded by Hartman Kuhn, a Phil adelphia descendant of Adam Simon Kuhn, a conspicuous figure in old

and resided at Locust Grove in later years, was familiar with many of these circumstances. Having heard �his father, John Wiley, relate the same, to whom Mr. Sherer had de- scribed his New York journey, desir- ing to confirm the details, wrote to my uncle, the late Prof. S. S. Halde- man (1812-1880

, others obscured by rust and decay. But the words and figures given above tell the whole story. The iron plate is believed to be part of the kind of stoves used in those �days in which cord wood was burned, and when wood was cheap and plenti- ful and houses cold. The history of the plate amounts to this

sections of the country. It is cheerful to recall a Congressional discussion that involved more attractive topics than tariffs and treaties, battles with red Indians and wars upon United States banks. About the time Persico's statues, designed for the Capitol ex- terior, were transferred to the niches in