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age of eight years we find him with the family fleeing
the country at night. A year and more thereafter we
find him employed as a shepherd boy near Berthelsdorf,
in Saxony, book in hand, translating from Latin
into German extracts from the "Zehen Haupt Verfolgungen
Der Ersten Christen." At the age of sixteen
he was on the British ship St. Andrew, a close
observer and recorder of the events of a five months'
voyage to the land of Penn. At the age of eighteen
we find him and his two brothers in a dense wood
forty-two miles north of Philadelphia, two miles west
of what is now the borough of East Greenville, selecting
a site for their future home, which they found at
a spring where the bear and deer at first seemed inclined
to dispute possession. Here, in 1736, with the
assistance of Melchior Neuman, carpenter, they commenced
felling the tall oaks, rolling them on a scaffold
over a trench, sawed them by hand into three-inch
plank, whereof the outside walls of their capacious two-story
house was constructed. Wagon-wheels were
made of the same article, horse collars skilfully plaited
of straw, traces of hemp, grubbing hoe preceded the
plough with wooden mould-board; no saw-mill was
within reach, no grist-mill within fifteen miles. For
clothing the Schultz's raised their own flax and wool,
spun it with the aid of a single spindle (without wheel
or machinery of any kind), erected a weavers' loom,
wove the yarn into cloth. When the supply exceeded
the wants they took it to Philadelphia, and, on one occasion,
sold it to the Governor of the Province at eight
shillings per yard. The Governor spoke very highly
of their linen, which encouraged them not a little.
The three brothers lived together in peace and harmony,
and at the end of about ten years, under the