ley and William Bowsman Twenty pounds for the use of the Juliana Library in Lancaster, on condition that the above gentlemen give their bond to the Treasurer for the same payable in twelve months with interest.”

It will be observed that the first item in the account is: "1766. Nov'r 2'd. To paid men assisting in mooveing the Company's effects to my House, 5 s." Where William Henry's house was has been the subject of some dispute. Mr. Diffenderffer says that it was the house formerly No. 8 East King Street, now covered by Watt & Shand's dry goods store. While every one has great confidence in his investigations, the facts as I have found them point to a different conclusion. This number was the second house on East King Street from Penn Square. The original lot contained in front on King Street 23 feet, and extended in depth 66 feet. It was deeded by James Hamilton to John Young on October 22, 1746. On April 1, 1760, Young gave a mortgage on it to Paul Weitzel, Robert Fulton and David Stout, for £.100, and the property was probably sold on this mortgage by the Sheriff to Francis Sanderson. On April 12, 1762, Francis Sanderson and Margaret, his wife, conveyed it to John Henry and Peter Lane. John Henry was a gunsmith. He was a brother of William Henry, and was for several years one of the justices of the county courts. He died intestate in 1777. His interest in this property descended to his wife and their three minor children. On August 24, 1778, Peter Lane conveyed his undivided half to Elizabeth Henry, the widow and administratrix of John Henry, and to the guardians of the minors, and the property remained in the family until January 29, 1847, when it was conveyed under proceedings in partition to David Hostetter. John Henry had a son, William, who subsequently moved to Baltimore. I have thought that the similarity in names has confused him with his distinguished uncle, William Henry, the Judge, and has given rise to the er

roneous conclusion. If the library was ever kept in this house, it must have been before 1761, or at a much later period. William Henry, Sr., could never have resided there, except as a renter, and that is exceedingly doubtful. It is certain that the property never belonged to him. The store of Simon & Henry, on property owned by Joseph Simon, in which he was a partner for many years, stood next door on the west, on the corner of Centre Square and King Street, and it is possible, and it may be said to be probable, that the library was first opened at that place in 1759, and from thence was transferred to the Price house. While I must, however, admit that I can find no definite proof to sustain this view; I can, I think, prove just where William Henry's house was located.

On February 7, 1760, Alexander Steadman conveyed to William Henry, in consideration of £.350, "all that piece or parcel of ground situate in the Borough of Lancaster, containing in breadth in front to the Market Place 22 feet 2 inches, together with the brick dwelling house and kitchen erected and standing thereon, and running the same breadth 125 feet to a 14 ft. alley." Andrew Hamilton had deeded to certain Trustees, for market purposes, a lot of ground 120 feet square located at the northwest corner of Centre Square and King Street (now West King Street). Thereafter the markets were held and a market house erected along the King Street side of this plot and extending northward about 30 feet. The balance of the lot was used as an open square, on which facing southward other lots were laid out on the Hamilton plan. This open space was the "Market Place" referred to in the above deed. In the original front of the house on the above lot, there were said to have been two windows and a door and William Henry made some improvements on it as soon as he obtained the title. One, writing the life of William Henry, has stated that his house was built of stone.

This is incorrect. All the deeds mention it as a brick house. William Henry never owned any other property in the Borough of Lancaster than this one. In 1754, he was a tenant of Leonard Bender, and in 1756 of Isaac Whitelock. Leonard Bender owned two properties: One, which he purchased from Bernard Hubley, on the west side of North Queen Street, near Orange Street (located at about Miller's drug store); and the other, which he purchased from Dr. Abraham Neff, located on the south side of East Orange Street, at the southeast corner of what is now East Orange Street and Jefferson Alley, almost opposite the residence of Chief Justice J. Hay Brown. Isaac Whitelock had lots on East Orange Street, between North Queen and North Duke Streets. In 1759, Mr. Henry was a tenant of John Woods. I have not ascertained where this house was situated. These facts are shown by the assessment lists for the respective years. William Henry died on December 15, 1786, at the age of fifty-seven years. He left an unsigned will, dated 1786. It was proven on December 23, 1786. (See Will Book E, p. 392.) His executors, named therein, were Ann Henry, his wife, and William Henry and John Joseph Henry, his sons. In this will, he provided: "Item. I do authorize and empower my executors hereinafter named, or any two of them, to make sale of my house and lot in the Borough of Lancaster, with the appurtenances, and convey to the purchasers or purchaser thereof an estate in fee simple Ann Henry, his widow, died on March 8, 1799. She occupied this house until the time of her death. Thereupon, William Henry and John Joseph Henry, as surviving executors, attempted to sell it by virtue of the power contained in their father's will. Objection was made that they had no power to make a deed as executors, because the will was not signed. Proceedings in partition were, therefore, had in the Orphans' Court of Lancaster County, and the

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property was awarded to William Henry, of Nazareth, at a valuation, as the eldest son. Following this, a deed was made by all the parties interested in the estate to William Kirkpatrick, on May 26, 1809. Kirkpatrick and his wife, by deed dated October 2, 1818, conveyed the property to Catharine Grimler, who was the sister of the mother of the Honorable Henry G. Long, deceased; and Catharine Grimler, by deed dated March 31, 1840, conveyed it to John W. Forney, afterwards of the Philadelphia Press. At this place, Benjamin and Henry Grimler published a German newspaper, Der Wahre Americaner, and here subsequently John W. Forney published the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal. John W. Forney, on March 28, 1854, conveyed the property to the City of Lancaster and it is now covered by the City Market.

John Joseph Henry, in his "Campaign against Quebec," says: "In the summer and winter of 1777 and 1778 he (Thomas Paine) was an inmate of my father's house as well as the late David Rittenhouse, the State Treasurer, and John Hart, a member of the then Executive Council. * Mr. D. Rittenhouse inhabited the front room on the upper story, where was the library. There he kept the office of the treasury of Pennsylvania. The room of Mr. Hart and Mr. Paine was to the left as you come to the stair's head entering the library."

The Library was conducted under its charter until the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Thereby, all corporations, municipal and otherwise, drawing their authority from the Crown of Great Britain, became immediately dissolved. From that time on until the year 1783, the company held no elections, and its members ceased further proceedings under the original charter. On September 6, 1783, however, the General Assembly passed an Act, entitled "An Act to Re-Establish the Corporation of The Juliana Library Company in Lancaster, in the County of Lancaster"

(Section XI, Statutes at Large, p. 107). This Act recites, among other things, that "whereas the members of the said company have, since the Declaration of Independence, ceased to hold elections and discontinued further proceedings under their charter, inasmuch as it derived its existence from the authority of the Crown of Great Britain, and have humbly prayed the Legislature, by the petition of the late surviving directors of the said company, to restore to them all the rights, liberties, powers and privileges by them held under their former charter, and establish their estate and interest in the property by them acquired or purchased under the same. And whereas, it is highly evident that the advancement of knowledge and useful learning is peculiarly important to the well being of governments formed on democratical principles." It then proceeded to restore to the former members of the company all the "rights, liberties, powers and privileges" enumerated in the original charter, and it further enacted that, until the 15th day of September ensuing, the day of the annual election, William Augustus Atlee, Jasper Yeates, William Bausman, Bernhard Hubley, John Hopson, John Hubley, William Henry, John Craig, Matthias Slough, Sebastian Graff and James Burd should be the directors, Paul Weitzell the treasurer, and John Henry the librarian. The original name of the company was continued. Paul Weitzell, abovementioned, was the father of George Weitzell, the last librarian, and John Henry was John Joseph Henry, subsequently the second President Judge of the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Diffenderffer says that the library was moved from William Henry's house to No. 1 Centre Square, which is now the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. This seems to be a mistake.

On October 6, 1784, the following notice appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette: