The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

some loyalists into Pennsylvania in order to remove them from the scene of their operations. In April, 1776, the North Carolina "Committee of Secrecy, War and Intelligence" noti- fied the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety that they had judged it expe- �dient to remove some prisoners lately taken, 'to