here by Franklin with a printing outfit in 1751. All the issues of his office so sar as known were an almanac. Then Miller & Holland were put in charge. The enterprise does not seem to have been on a paying basis, so in 1753 Franklin sold the entire plant to Holland for £200. Evidently Holland could

AN EARLY ROAD PETITION. It is hardly necessary for me to say to this audience that the earliest roads used by the first settlers in this country were probably the paths trav- ersed by the Indians in going to and fro over the country, and that when real wagon roads were "laid out," as it was called

enjoy im- munity from schism. At an early day the "Old Light" and the "New Light" controversy dismembered con- gregations very much as other schisms rend the churches one hundred and fifty years later. With their brain and their brawn and the general excellency of their character they were not without

county on a p o r t i o n o f t h e i d e n t i c a l g r o u n d whereon our goodly county was after- wards laid out. Yet such are the facts as they are definitely and clearly es- tablished by a document unknown to any of us until a few short months ago, when it was sent to me for sale by a dealer in

as is known. It was not until 1783-84 that we come to the first post-revolutionary statement. (18) It is by a German traveler, John David Schopf, who made a tour of the Mid- dle States in those years and publish- ed an acccunt of the same. He says: "Among the interior cities of all North America

EPHRATA COMMUNITY 128 YEARS AGO. The writer of the following letters was the celebrated Jacob Duche, D. D., born in Philadelphia in 1737. He was a man of liberal education, and a graduate of the College of Philadel- phia (now the University of Pennsyl- vania), and he also studied at the Uni

EXTRACT FROM AN OLD WILL. As showing the minuteness with which even the will of the average farmer-citizen was drawn up and his goods disposed of a hundred years ago, and also how the surviving wife was taken care of in the adjustment of estates, the following example is offered. Mr. Hartman, the

country, which was claimed, and, in fact, occupied by the Dutch on Manhattan Island and the adjacent territory, Plowden came over, remained several years, mostly in Virginia, did nothing, and went back to England without ever having settled a single soul on his "paper " of New Albion. �Next came an