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

protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork

set them up in vacant places, and having gleaned the town, silently stole away." Many are familiar with Mathew B. Brady's gallery on wheels as he followed the fortunes of the Union Army in the field, and gave us a pictorial history of the great conflict. One such wagon 12 Lancaster Intelligencer

sick, preaching and baptizing. Saturday, February 27, he journeyed to "Mr. [Henry William] Stiegel's iron works. Preached there on Psalm 22: 26, 27, and spent the night."1 On Sunday, he rode seven miles with Mr. Stiegel to Ephrata, and then three miles more to the "Canes- toge" church, where he also

others. James Hamilton laid out the town of Lancaster at the request of the proprietaries, but there is no record of a petition direct from the citizens for establishing a borough. Perhaps Hamilton's influence shows here. In and about Lancaster, as early as 1730, we find some licensed, at a tax of twenty

. 398. 2 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 36, p. 226. 3 Tradition tells us that this youthful post rider, Christian Wolf, while in Philadelphia in 1777, awaiting the mail for the journey to Lancaster, learned of the adoption by Congress of an American flag. He hastened on the return