, 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

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

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

give to you the result of my inquiries concerning this subject. I know you will pardon all deficiencies. Dr. Julius F. Sachse, in his inter- esting article, entitled "Wayside Inns on the Lancaster Pike," published in volumes 21 and 22 of the proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, says that in

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

Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. n July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with some particu- larity, because I shall