, Franklin, Pa.; The Yankee, Lafayette, N. J.; The Censor, Philadelphia; The Chatter-Box,Charles City, Iowa; Wise and Otherwise, Mari- etta, Ohio; The Dart, Providence, R. I.; The Spry, Richland, Lebanon county, Pa.; The Rolling Billow, Nor- folk, Va.; The Will o' the Wisp, Ap- pleton, Wis.; Sense and

knowledge. He was born of Quaker parentage, in Bucks county, on January 24, 1754. ln 1770 his father bought a large tract of land on the Patapsco river, in Mary- land, where, a few years later, he founded the town of "Ellicott's Mills." Young Ellicott was married in 1775 to a Miss Sarah Brown, and removed

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the