person. Mr. Tolles' biography of James Logan is a much needed introduction to an al- most unknown period of Pennsylvania colonial history, a much needed introduction to the man who, more than any other, directed Pennsylvania politics and policy in that period, the man who fought bitterly throughout his

an Inland Town we do not perceive ourselves inferior to any within the Dominion of the United States." Our pride lingers ; we ask no Federal loans for schools or other public works. We are sufficient unto ourselves ; content to be the capital of a properous and proficient American agriculture

ammunition. And this in a town noted for rifle makers. This was also a false report, but it proved the stimulus needed by the citizens to move them to construct a block house or stockade. The following statement alone should settle the controversy as to the site of the Rocky Springs massacre : In the History

, �and made a tour of the county and some other parts of the state, continuing his business as an itinerant daguerreotypist for many years. When the war broke out in 1861, though fifty-one years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was hurt badly in a charge in

time had come for organizing a Lutheran congregation. Being well acquainted 1 Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Tappert and Doberstein, Phila., 1942, p. 492. 2 Ibid, p. 532. Memorial Volume, Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, 1861, p. 44. 4 Diary of the Rev. F. A. C. Muhlenberg, from the Lutheran

Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 10, p. 203. 4 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties, 1845, pp. 412, 413, 419. �11, �eminent property, and that officer was Captain Paul Zantzinger. A company of the Flying Camp was commanded by him in the Fall of 1777. He was a soldier in Captain John

region from the mid-thirties to 1753. He was commissioned a justice of the peace on November 22, 1738. He held the office of chief burgess in 1742�43, and continuous from 1745 to 1749. In 1744 he was prothonotary and register of the county, and for a long period he was one of the Proprietary Surveyors. 4

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

Company, of which Major Light was clerks—which office remained in the family for four genera- tions,—was located just across the street from the rear of his residence. Another major—John Andre, widely known in American history as an enemy and a spy—was housed as a prisoner of war in this block in the year