George Hammonds, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley and Joshua Hammonds. I have good reason to believe they are in Chester or Berks county. I shall be obliged if you will send me this requisition as soon as possible. Address me at, therefore, Baltimore Co., Md. I wish you to appoint Dickinson Gorsuch to go for them

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

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

difficult to find even a single great work in any one of the thousands of homes in this city and county which have the char- acteristics of culture, taste and refine- ment. This is somewhat due to the fact that wealth has never centered here; and no pre-eminent artist has ever sprung from or been nurtured

Lancaster county, where, it will be remembered, he preached both at Pequea and Leacock Presby- terian churches. Our diarist seems to have been a man of many parts, Funerals and frolics had like attractions for him. He mingled with jockeys and gentle- men; one day he went with joy to hear a woman preach, and