minutes, to obtain their assistance in the premises." The Gen- eral Assembly evidently refused the petition, and no further action was taken by the county authorities as such. A little later, an attempt appears to have been made to accomplish the object by means of a lottery; but this effort must also

TheBeginningsofArtificialRoadsin Pennsylvania. Some time ago I came across an article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette of February 20, 1772, signed " Clericus." It indicated that the first move looking towards the building of a turnpike from Philadelphia to Lan- caster had originated among the

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Landis, Charles Israel, 1856-1932. Title: Captain William Trent, an Indian trader / by Hon. Charles I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Trent, William, 1715-1787? United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster

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

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

"Judge E. G. Bradford, of York," and states that his "remains were accompanied to the grave by a portion of his bereaved family and a numerous concourse of friends." Pennsylvania Hall, which was opened in 1831, is one of the leading hotels in Pottsville. Judge Bradford was in- terred in an old cemetery

The Lancaster Stage Dispatch Lancaster, in the early days, was one of the busiest, if not the very busiest, stage town in the United States, and, as the old geographies tell us, it was also the largest inland city. As far back as 1754, Governor Pownall, in describing the main roads around

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

of their prosperity, purpose to emigrate from Steinweiler, in the Mayoralty of Billigheim, High Bailwick Germersheim, via Holland and England, to the Island of Pennsylvania, to reside there; they have requested an accridited certificate that they have left the Town of Steinweiler with the knowledge