- stances and the limitations of the paper to confine myself to the original township of Little Britain, which now includes Fulton township, originally a portion of the same. Within its limits and boundaries live the descendants of the people who have probably done �more in the making of history for

eight years. He afterwards moved to Harrisburg and became a prominent citizen there, having been treasurer of Dauphin county, where he died, Dec. 3, 1839, leaving six children to sur- vive •him. Just when John Hoff took over his father's business is not apparent, but he seems to have worked for his

. Hence it seemed a wise dispensa- tion that the destinies of our country were in the hands of this second gen- eration when the crucial period of its history came upon us; and that fact answers the query how and why this colony was able to battle successfully with the mother country, and, in the end, to