business and accumulated wealth, becoming the owner of large tracts of the best land in Donegal. He was, in every sense, a leading citizen,to whom the community looked up with implicit confidence and great respect. When the struggle for independence commenced, he took an active and ef- fective part on the

his- torians, who accept tradition for facts, who jump at conclusions and so con- found fiction with facts as to cast sus- picion on all they say. Truth is said to lie at the bottom of a well, but no one knows how deep that well is until he tries to hoist the truth into the light. With this

duly elected and returned to be Electors of a President �and Vice President of the United States, for the term of four years next ensuing the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, agreeabiy to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Pennsylvania

that effect. Neither was the Brotherhood, as a body, inclined to- wards the British crown. There is abundant evidence to the contrary. It is well known that Prior Miller was on close terms with the Colonial Gov- ernment. Whether the legend that he translated the Declaration of Inde- pendence into seven

, after eight years of continuous service in the wilder- ness, he joined his Indian friends, who were ready to make their annual trading trip to the French settle- ments, and on July 7 "greeted Cham- plain at the town of Three Rivers, after nearly a three years' absence since parting with him in the Huron

the Government since Revolutionary times, and the question arose over the disposition of the stores in them at the period in question. �General Knox was born in Boston, on July 25, 1750, and was well edu- cated in the schools of that city. He early evinced a taste for military at- fairs and at the age

days. Marshall records in his diary on February 27, 1777, as follows: "News is General Wayne is gone with his brigade and four pieces of cannon into Billingsport." A week later he adds: "Accounts to-day are that Gen- eral Wayne, in the Jerseys, attacked a foraging party of General Howe's there, killed