appropriate way to treat the subject will be, first, to describe the King's Highway, which preceded the Turnpike, and then to give a narra- tive of the Turnpike itself. I will then follow, at a later time, with a sketch of the prominent houses and locations along the Turnpike Road, during the period that the

-known road in our county and State at that period,* because it introduces a number other well-known historical charac- ters; because, if we accept its state- ments, it shows that the good men and true of that early day were sometimes capable of a little sharp practice when the occasion offered; because

future. The copy has been carefully compared by me, and I believe it is correct. A return of subscriptions to the turnpike road from Philadelphia to Lan- caster, received in the borough of Lancaster on the 4th and 5th days of June A. D., 1792. Order of Subscrip- tion Subscribers' Names. Date of Num