-reaching consequences, in the affairs of four of these families : the Colemans, the Jacobs, the Hopkins, and the Jenkins. Robert Coleman, Ann,s father, was born near Castle Finn, County Donegal, in Ireland and migrated to America in 1764 when a young man of sixteen. Curiously the Coleman homestead in

, between North Queen and North Duke Streets. In 1759 he occupied a house belonging to to John Woods, the exact position of which cannot be found.6 It was during his occupancy of the house of Isaac Whitelock, in the first block of East Orange Street, that William Henry married Ann Wood. Though Francis

. Amos' son, Henry F., ran a banking business in the Salisbury Inn named "The Sign of John Adam" and another son, Jasper Yeates Slaymaker, was a successful attorney in Lancaster. Amos' youngest daughter was also named Hannah. She was later to be a fairly well known artist. The Fleming family figures

about John Pearson's early life. He grew up in a strict Quaker family and married Ann Bevan on December 15, 1763. She died on July 1, 1775, and he then married Sarah Johnson, During the American Revolution contrary to the doctrine of the Friends, he undoubtedly served in the military, for the