individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth

one of the commissioners to run the line between that state and Pennsylvania (the exten- sion of the Mason and Dixon Line). With him were Rittenhouse, Peters and Nevill, and as an associate to these commissioners a youth of but nineteen years, Benjamin S. Barton, son of the Rev. Thomas Barton, both of

floor 9% ft. high; second floor 9 ft. The sash of the windows to be 24 lights each 8 x 10 inches. Stone and sand were quarried on the farm. Tradition has it that red, white and blue glass in the transom above the main entrance was from the Stiegel glass works at Manheim. This house was erected in 1800

his two sons, Simon and John, and their wives (McKenzie sisters), came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1775. They are reported to have been on the same ship with Colin McFarquhar, who was headed toward his pastorate at the Donegal Church, Lancaster County.3 They had been farmers in Scotland

rotting organic matter, then surely the tiny forms wiggling under the lens did have their origin in non-living matter! The germ theory of contagion was hardly new; Lucretius, about 60 B.C., sug- gested diseases are contagious, and Ovid, writing several decades later, observed, "Bodies rot on the ground

of the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania, located at the corner of West King and Prince streets, in Lancaster City, and Joseph Ogilby, Jr. They associated themselves as Jacob Miller & Company, in the business of carding, etc., for a period of ten years and six months. Each of the parties paid, upon the day

here we have the germ of an idea, even as Fulton's, which was a forward step in transportation progress. With a seeming touch of pride, Daniel Keller usually gave his address as "of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," but this land- lubber, this builder of ships and arks, was quite a gadabout, traveling

THE EARLIEST USE OF THE TERM C Conestoga �Early Source Material This interesting material for the first chapter in a history of the Conestoga Wagon is to be found in James Logan's Account Book 1712-1719 and James Logan's Ledger 1720-27. Both of these documents have been available to the public for

-Milling Industry, pp. 95-96. 37 G. and D. Bathe, Oliver Evans; A Chronicle of Early American En- gineering, p. 12. 38 Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, II, 150-151. 39 Kuhlman, The Flour Milling Industry, pp. 96-101; C. and D. Bathe, Oliver Evans; A Chronicle of Early American Engineering, pp. 13

, hatters, wash, fish and tea kettles, bake-pans, sauce-pans, etc. etc. which he is determined to sell as low as any person can sell in Philadelphia, Lancaster, or elsewhere. PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, July 14, 1771 Many of the German immigrants who came to Lancaster County during the eighteenth century were