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

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