TheBeginningsofArtificialRoadsin Pennsylvania. Some time ago I came across an article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette of February 20, 1772, signed " Clericus." It indicated that the first move looking towards the building of a turnpike from Philadelphia to Lan- caster had originated among the

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

born in Kent county, in the State of Dela- ware, on March 7, 1793. After a pre- liminary education in Newark Acad- emy he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, and graduated there in 1812. He then began the study of law in the office of Hon. H. M. Ridgely, of Do- ver, in the State of Delaware, and he

Philadelphia, made reference to the town in these words: "Lan- caster, a pretty considerable town, increasing fast and growing rich; a. manufactory here of saddles and. pack-saddles; also of guns; a very con_ siderable stage town in the way by two roads to the back road and In- dian country; about 500 houses

A LIST OF THE ORIGINAL LANCASTER SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER TURNPIKE. When I wrote my article on "The First Long Turnpike in the United States," I was convinced that somewhere among the almost forgotten records of the State there must be a list of the

Wesphalia. From that time on until 1661, when Cardinal Mazarin died and the King himself assumed control, his country and those about it enjoyed a period of peace. The fertile fields, which border both banks of the Rhine, brought forth their plenteous harvests, and while oppression to some extent yet ruled

originally owned by General Edward Hand, and the other by Alexander Scott. The authenticity of these two pictures and several more that I have seen may prove worth pursuing the search. It is hardly necessary to state that General Edward Hand occupied a foremost figure in Lancaster Borough and County during