individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth

demanded $95,500. The claim was finally settled in 1810 by the payment of $1,314.20. See ibid, vol. 2, pp. 113, 114. 4 This and following quotations were taken from the work of Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews, "Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters," New York, 1908. Copy in Fackenthal Library. �exertions

massacres by Indians occur- ring during the days of the French and Indian War. This starts with an account of the attack on Rocky Springs. Now, whether Rupp 2 and Mombert 3 thought it referred to the local Springs is of course open to question, but later historians have assumed that it was the local Rocky

, �and made a tour of the county and some other parts of the state, continuing his business as an itinerant daguerreotypist for many years. When the war broke out in 1861, though fifty-one years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was hurt badly in a charge in

time had come for organizing a Lutheran congregation. Being well acquainted 1 Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Tappert and Doberstein, Phila., 1942, p. 492. 2 Ibid, p. 532. Memorial Volume, Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, 1861, p. 44. 4 Diary of the Rev. F. A. C. Muhlenberg, from the Lutheran

later in iron- mongery, with a store on North Queen Street. On April 2, 1778, Jasper Yeates as treasurer paid to Paul Zantzinger ten shillings "for two pounds of nails for boarding the windows and putting up new pales" at St. James's Church, when the rector was forced to close 1 Pennsylvania German

; he was a captain of Associators in 1748, and commissary in the French and Indian War.21 JOHN FREDERICK LINNENBURGER (F RIED LUNBERGER) #427 came to America on the ship Thistle of Glasgow, on June 19, 1730, and qualified August 29, 1730. From the Trinity Church records we find that he was married on

. 398. 2 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 36, p. 226. 3 Tradition tells us that this youthful post rider, Christian Wolf, while in Philadelphia in 1777, awaiting the mail for the journey to Lancaster, learned of the adoption by Congress of an American flag. He hastened on the return

Company, of which Major Light was clerks—which office remained in the family for four genera- tions,—was located just across the street from the rear of his residence. Another major—John Andre, widely known in American history as an enemy and a spy—was housed as a prisoner of war in this block in the year