LANCASTER TOWNSTEAD. Copyrighted May, 1901, by S. M. Sener. "Out upon Time! It will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before." On February 6, 1729, the settlers in the back districts of Chester county, of the province of Pennsylvania, prayed the Council of the province for a divi

in person or by Attorney legally constituted." In the issue of the Lancaster In- telligencer of December 23, 1815, ap- peared the following, showing that the value of a bridge at McCall's Ferry was tried and proven, although there is none there to-day: "We have the pleasure of stating that the bridge

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has

Cooper's Hotel on many occasions. The late Alfred Sanderson some few years since stated in an article on �"Theatres in Lancaster," that he had witnessed the erection of the first building actually devoted to theatrical performances in this city. It was the Landis Theatre and Museum, on West Chestnut street

more volumes of the "Colo- nial Records" and "State Archives." They are the account books of John Hubley and John Miller, Commission- ers of Purchases in Lancaster during the Revolutionary times. The account book of John Hubley is the property of Mr. George Steinman, President of our Society, and that

, he entered the office of Hon. James Hop- kins, as a law student. He was admit- ted to the practice of his profession in 1797. He married, December 18, 1809. Elizabeth Alexander (nee Gilpin), a widow, who died March 1, 1814, and was interred at Lancaster. John mar- ried a second time, January 2, 1817

is haunted. For nearly a score of years an old log house, situated along the Manheim and Lancaster pike, near Mechanics- ville, had the reputation of being haunted by spirits. Tradition states that the last tenants of the house were disturbed by strange noises, accom panted by the peculiar habit to