selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

.) English Scholar's Library, Birming- ham, England, 1884. Talbot, George 1684 "Conference Between Col. George Talbot of Maryland and William Penn," in Narratives of Early Maryland. Clayton C. Hall (ed). Scribner's N. Y. 1910, pip. 437-448. Wallace, Paul A. W. 1961 Indians in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania

the election of her husband, Andrew Galbraith, as a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. The Galbraith family was an ancient and honorable one, rooted in the famous Lenox clan of Scotland, and James and John Galbraith, like many of the other early settlers in Donegal township in the

left France, as did many others, during the religious persecutions after the Edict of Nantes. A letter from their pastor, Le Sauvage, which is now in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania files in Philadelphia, testifies that they were members of his congregation at Alencon. They had a fine and

settlers of Darby and John Bevan, an eminent Welsh Quaker preacher and friend of William Penn. All these men served in the Pennsylvania Assemblies and were prominent in the political life of the Colony. Ann's father had died a few months before she was born. Mrs. Wood married for her second husband Joseph

the state and national levels. The purpose of my study is to make a microscopic investigation of political Antimasonry on the local level, namely in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In writing this paper, I have had three major objectives in mind. First, I shall show the role played by the Lancaster