it termed, "a beautiful one," and one which was centrally located for all use- ful purposes.22 A week later the Intelligencer ended the saga of search for a court house site when it related that the Commissioners had pur- chased the East King and North Duke Streets properties for $31,- 000., of which

. Hendricks, Allen G. Thurman, Samuel J. Randall, and Grover Cleveland. 21 However, after taking an active role in national cam- paigns from 1880-1892, he became disenchanted with his party. His conservatism would not allow him to accept William Jennings Bry- an's crusade for "free silver."22 In 1886, Hensel

of property for Pennsylvania, having accepted "Lord Baltimore's line" as valid, had taken possession down to that line by settling land that far south in the early 1700s. 22 In the 1720s the Pennsylvania commissioners continued to recognize that bound- ary; they agreed to settlements north of those