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                             DAILY STORIES
                                   OF
                              PENNSYLVANIA


             Prepared for publication in the leading daily
                       newspapers of the State by

                         FREDERIC A. GODCHARLES
                          MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA

          FORMER REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, STATE
             SENATOR, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,
               MEMBER HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA,
                  HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY,
                  HISTORICAL SOCIETY LYCOMING COUNTY,
                               AND OTHERS


               Author of _Freemasonry in Northumberland_
                  _and Snyder Counties, Pennsylvania_


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                              MILTON, PA.
                                  1924








                            COPYRIGHTED 1924
                                   BY
                         FREDERIC A. GODCHARLES

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                Printed in the United States of America




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                  THESE DAILY STORIES OF PENNSYLVANIA
                            ARE DEDICATED TO

                               MY MOTHER

                    THROUGH WHOM I AM DESCENDED FROM
                   SOME OF ITS EARLIEST PIONEERS AND
                   PATRIOTS AND FROM WHOM I INHERITED
                  MUCH LOVE FOR THE STORY OF MY NATIVE
                                 STATE.

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                       PRINCIPAL SOURCES UTILIZED

    Archives of Pennsylvania.
    Colonial Records of Pennsylvania.
    Hazard’s Annals of Philadelphia.
    Egle’s History of Pennsylvania.
    Gordon’s History of Pennsylvania.
    Cornell’s History of Pennsylvania.
    Day’s Historical Collection.
    Shimmel’s Pennsylvania.
    Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania.
    Pennypacker’s Pennsylvania The Keystone.
    The Shippen Papers.
    Loudon’s Indian Narratives.
    Sachse’s German Pietists.
    Rupp’s County Histories.
    Magazine of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
    American Magazine of History.
    Egle’s Notes and Queries.
    Harvey’s Wilkes Barre.
    Miner’s History of Wyoming.
    Jenkin’s Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal.
    Scharf and Westcott’s History of Philadelphia.
    Lossing’s Field Book of the Revolution.
    On the Frontier with Colonel Antes.
    Meginness’ Otzinachson.
    Linn’s Annals of Buffalo Valley.
    Hassler’s Old Westmoreland.
    Fisher’s Making of Pennsylvania.
    McClure’s Old Time Notes.
    Parkman’s Works.
    Shoemaker’s Folklore, Legends and Mountain Stories.
    Jones’ Juniata Valley.
    Prowell’s York County.
    Smull’s Legislative Hand Book.
    Journal of Christopher Gist.
    Journal of William Maclay.
    Journal of Samuel Maclay.
    Journal of Rev. Charles Beatty.
    Scrap Books of Thirty Years’ Preparation.
    Annual Reports State Federation of Historical Societies.
    And others.

                              INTRODUCTION


The Daily Stories of Pennsylvania were published in the newspapers under
the title “Today’s Story in Pennsylvania History,” and there has been a
genuine demand for their publication in book form.

During all his active life the author has been impressed with the
unparalleled influence of Pennsylvania in the development of affairs
which have resulted in the United States of America.

Since youth he has carefully preserved dates and facts of historical
importance and has so arranged this data that it made possible these
stories, each of which appeared on t