not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

the Authority of the King or Parliament of Great Britain, nor to or with any person or persons unfriendly to the United States of America, knowing them to be such, nor take up Arms, or employ or procure any other person or per- sons to take up Arms against the said States, or aid or assist the Enemies

Colonel in the French and In- dian War. In 1777 he was appointed Lieutenant of Militia. He died at the age of eighty-three years after seeing all his sons officers in the War of the Revolution. From the union of Galbraith and Bartram there came Bartram Gal- braith, whose name appears conspicu- ously upon

Reidesil as a reward for his services. People excited and had to be convinced to the contrary. Lancaster was the largest inland town in the United States. containing �about 3,000 Germans and Scotch-Irish. Most of the houses had an elevation before the front door and were entered by ascending high steps

Matlack be appointed Secretary of this meeting. "On motion, The act of Congress en- titled, 'An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States and declaring the officer who shall act as President in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President

- eral narratives left. us by the early visitors to the Cloister. ln Volume IV. of our Papers and Proceedings we gave place to the excellent letters written by the somewhat celebrated D. Jacob Duche, D. D., who made the prayer at the opening of the first Con- gress in 1774. In 1771 he paid a visit to the

country, and related the story of what he had seen of distant regions and of what he had suffered in his journey- ings." 15 "Faust's German Element in the United States, Vol. 1, p. 310. 15Butterfield, p. 98. �Champlain also informed Brulé that he was about to sail for France, and assured him that he would

): Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: [185]-202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no