. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. g completely the plateauwhich formed the summit of the gentle melancholy stole over me, asI read the names and inscriptions onthe tombstones where Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Suddenly I saw a marble pillar instriking contrast to the humble gravesaround it, and approaching read thisinscription: In loving memory ofRobert Sydney Hunt, captain RoyalNavy, suddenly called home Aug
. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. g completely the plateauwhich formed the summit of the gentle melancholy stole over me, asI read the names and inscriptions onthe tombstones where Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Suddenly I saw a marble pillar instriking contrast to the humble gravesaround it, and approaching read thisinscription: In loving memory ofRobert Sydney Hunt, captain RoyalNavy, suddenly called home August3, 1907, aged 63 : An revoir. I 16-18. How was it that this distinguishedEnglishman came to be buried in thislittle graveyard, so far away from theMadding crowds ignoble strife? Iknow not, but surely no more beauti-ful place can be imagined than thisdelectable mountain, from which tobe called home. NOTE.—For a detailed discussion of theEarly Swiss Settlements of Pennsylvania,see my German and Swiss Settlements ofColonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the So-called Pennsylvania Dutch. The Frederick Scholl Family By Mrs. C D. Fretz, Sellersville, HE distinguished Ameri-can, Edward Everettwrote There is no manof any culture who doesnot take some interest inwhat was done by hisforefathers and as theaim of your magazine isto encourage historic research and per-petuate the memory of the Germanand Swiss pioneers, a short history ofthe Frederick Scholl family is sub-mitted herewith. In 1734 Frederick Scholl and forty-five other German inhabitants ofBucks county petitioned to be natural-ized, so as to hold land and transmitthe same to their children. He had ar-rived at Philadelphia in the ship JamesGoodwill from Rotterdam, Septembernth, 1728. He came from the Palati-nate, and first settled in Milford town-ship, Bucks county. Peter Scholl wasalso a resident there at the same time,and some of his descendants think hewas a brother of our ancestor. Some years later Frederick
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