well as pleasing account. " The Preserva- tion and Improvement of Public Roads," says he, " have always been objects of the internal Police of almost all civilized States : And perhaps it would be no Exaggeration to assert, that Schemes of this kind have more or less been attended to, in Proportion to

BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS VISIT TO LANCASTER. By Hon. Charles I. Landis. How history is falsified by careless writers is proverbial. An illustration of this well-known fact will be seen in the recent History of Lancaster County, wherein it is stated that the first Court House built in Lancaster in

Gratz acquired a joint interest in this land. As the title of Trent passed to Joseph Simon, it was in litigation between the executors and heirs of Simon and Gratz for many years, finally reaching the Supreme Court of the United States. Joseph Simon, as is known to all of you, lived in the Borough of

paid by the State or United States Government, amounting to Three Hundred and Twenty Dollars. The Corporation having but small income, the funds are exhausted. They therefore solicit the aid of the county in reimbursing the above expenditures or any part of them." Thereupon "the Grand Jury granted the

., without exception, go to Philada., and whoever would not obey might expect it would not fare well with them. 1777 DIARY III. Jan'y 4 In the evening 900 Hessian prisoners of war were brought here and quartered in the Barracks. Jan'y 12 This week several thousand soldiers passed through the town to join 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

, four volumes known as "Smith's Laws on Pennsylvania." In �1812, volume 5 was issued, and in 1822 volumes 6 and 7. He also was the author of a treatise called "Land Laws of Pennsylvania." He was married to Mary, daughter of Judge Jasper Yeates, and when he came to Lancaster, he purchased a tract of land

data concerning it. It has also, through him, been mentioned in Ellis & Evans' History of Lan- caster County. But the magazine has long since been discontinued, and rare copies are only to be found in the hands of a few col- lectors. Then, too, additional information has since come to light, which