Office of Pennsylvania, October 3, 1801, to April 4, 1809. Trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., June 17, 1813. A booklet, called the "Development of the United States Cap- itol," issued as House Document, No. 35, of the 71st Congress, 1st Session, 1929, completely ignores, except for the survey

the Academy of Penn­ sylvania and the University of Edinburgh. Adam held the Professorship of 13 From Trinity Lutheran burial records. THE BOROUGH FATHERS 53 Botany and Materia Medica, and afterwards of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, retiring in 1797. Frederick

first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of

Pennsylvania Arms, on East King Street, which was his headquarters for the stay. By 1830 changes were made at the Red Lion (Cooper House), for the spacious ball room was altered into a theatre, and here the noted actor, Joe Jefferson performed. Before the close of the Civil War the military indulged in a Grand

Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during

1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power