1857 he went to Kentucky— if there was a Kentucky in 1857. How- ever, he left his wife and two children in Lancaster. In this act he can claim kinship with many artists and some geniuses. If one have great im- agination and can forget his canvases they can hear him talking to Shakes- peare (a genius, G

, "Whereas, it hath been represented to this House by the petitions of a considerable num- ber of the inhabitants of the county of Lancaster, that the erecting of a good and substantial bridge across the Con- estogoe Creek, on the great road lead- ing from the city of Philadelphia to the borough of Lancaster

poor, gave these exiles not only relief; but the con- solations which he as a minister of God could impart. According to Thompson �Westcott, more than half of these people died within a short time after their ar- rival in Philadelphia. In Lancaster County. In the early part of 1756 a number of these