Col, John Connolly, It was my intention to prepare an article for our Society on the Loyalists of the country during the Revolution- ary era, singling out the more notable ones of Pennsylvania for notice in de- tail, but my researches resulted in such a mass of material as precluded all idea of

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

the extent and the direc- tion it took in order to show that when George Gibson and Lancaster †own loomed up the county throughout the greater part of its extent was 5 Colonial Records . vol. 2, D. 533. �dotted with the farms and homes of German, Scotch-Irish and Quaker set- tlers. One Rudy Mayer

was a matter of many years before all the Cloister buildings were erected. F. R. D. Account of the Society of Dunkards in Pennsylvania. Communicated by a British Officer to the Editor of the Edinburgh Magazine. Sir, Edin. April 27, 1786. The whole road, from Lancaster to Ephrata, affords a variety of

testator, was a well-to-do farmer, owning two large farms, besides much gear of other kinds. His liberal treatment of his surviving wife was no doubt a tribute to her assistance in the accu- mulation of his estate. F. R. D. The Will. "In the Name of God Amen. I, Henry Hartman, of Lampeter Town- ship, in

eminent voy- ager, commander and ruler, Samuel de Champlain. The narratives of the latter's voyages and operations in New France are our main source of information, A number of other writ- ers, especially the Jesuit Fathers, who came in contact with him; Francis Parkman, the eminent historian; John