, and I will briefly relate them. The Act of April 2, 1811, P. L. 223, declared that, "Whereas, it appears that there is due to the Common- wealth from the estate of William Henry, deceased, formerly treasurer of Lancaster county, the sum of $12,018.34, being part of the arrears of State tax due from

know much about this publication, though some of the volumes have been carefully preserved. Messrs. Ferd A. and Henry C. Demuth have the only full file which I have seen; but,of the second volume, one copy belongs to Miss Sue Jeffries, having come to her from Miss Susan Hambright, a daughter of William

unwearied Assiduity with which foreign Princes and States are Promoting the commercial interests of their Dominions," and Countries which we cannot suppose that the vigilant and public spirit of Pennsylvania will now drop asleep and suffer a very valuable Part of her Staple Commodity to be wrested out of

by the traders to what was then the far west, beyond the Ohio. William Trent was a son of Judge William Trent. The latter was a judge in this province and chief justice in New Jersey, and he was the founder of the city of Trenton. The subject of this article was born on February 13, 1715, but his

Commonwealth of $12,018.34. The County of Lancaster was indebted in a considerable sum to William Henry, and it was provided by the Act of 1811 that $10,418.34 of this judgment should be credited to the county in the purchase of Witmer's Bridge, and this was accordingly done. �From this time on until the

I. EXTRACTS FROM MORAVIAN DIARIES AT BETHLEHEM (Relating to Early Events in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Made by Dr. John W. Jordan and Sent by Him to Hon. Charles I. Landis, at Lancaster, Pa. DIARY I. 1768 Feby. 12 Hopson & Henry with 2 other citizens settled a dispute with Mel- choir Schneieder and

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

practice of the law, and he con- tinues at this time to follow his pro- fession. Henry Clay Brubaker. Henry Clay Brubaker was born in West Earl township, Lancaster coun- ty, on March 5, 1843. When quite a young boy, his father moved to Lan- caster city, and it was there that he lived during the greater