instruction and employment in the two large houses erected on either side of the Church. Records of the times, in the German language, were kept in a congrega- tion diary, in the minutes of the Collegium, and in the separate diaries of the Brethren's and Sisters' Houses. This paper is largely a presentation

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best