. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . efore returning. He accord-ingly left the vessel in company with a friend by thename of Godfrey Fritchey, and started on foot on atour of observation. They traversed Middle Penn-sylvania, which was not then, as now, the gardenspot of the world, but was sparsely settled, and thewhole country deeply impressed with the desolationand devastation consequent upon the Revolutionarywar. Visions of the home beyond the sea, how-ever, beckoned them to return, and they turned theirfoots
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . efore returning. He accord-ingly left the vessel in company with a friend by thename of Godfrey Fritchey, and started on foot on atour of observation. They traversed Middle Penn-sylvania, which was not then, as now, the gardenspot of the world, but was sparsely settled, and thewhole country deeply impressed with the desolationand devastation consequent upon the Revolutionarywar. Visions of the home beyond the sea, how-ever, beckoned them to return, and they turned theirfootsteps towards Philadelphia with a view of find-ing a vessel to carry them home. At the Trappe, in Montgomery County, in Penn-sylvania, they fell in with a gentleman by the nameof Messemer or Minsker, who was proprietor of aninn at that place, who, learning that the subject ofthis sketch was a thoroughly-educated German phy-sician, succeeded in persuading him to tarry withhim, as he had a sick wife, who had been bedriddenfor a long time, and upon whom he had expendedquite a sum of money to physicians, to little or no. 3V^~7^^^^ c^>&i f^Z^T
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