Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

was in that year that our nation came close to actual conflict with Mexico, and the following year-1917- saw the United States entering the European War—now called World War I—on the side of the Allies. In this same period the management of the General Hospital made the first major appeal for funds in

1787 and was currently (since 1794) a United States Senator. All then was in readiness for the campaign preceding the election which would decide whether Thomas McKean or James Ross was to be inaugurated Governor of Pennsylvania at Lancaster in Decem- ber of the year seventeen hundred ninety-nine. It