. Cookson, costs of prosecution of two pounds eighteen shillings, and that he was to be publicly whipped with twenty one lashes laid well on his bare back. When it was found that Kennedy did not �116 JOURNAL have the means to pay his fine and costs, he was sold to the highest bidder to earn funds to make

mechanical genius in Lancaster County was William Henry. Henry's abilities in gunsmithing and his outstanding contributions to winning the American Revolution have been described well by Samuel Dyke and others of the gunsmithing fraternity. The manufacture of guns obviously presented numerous challenges to

cember 1918 that all Lancaster County breweries ceased making beer, Saturday midnight, 30 November 1918. One brewery was said to have had 10,000 barrels of beer on hand. Sales of beer were re­ quired to cease 1 July 1919. By this time, only five breweries were left, the Bube Brewery in Mount Joy, last

Klein History of Lancaster County, biographical section, describes the gentleman thus: "On the long roster of honored names of Lancaster County . . . the name of stands among the leaders . . . a citizen whose benevolences were far wider than his diversions, and a man whose every relation in life

literature available to Lancaster Countians 125 to 250 years ago. Lancaster County's antecedent was Chester County, one of Penn's original three counties. The first permanent community located in what was to become Lancaster County was settled in 1710. From 1710 until 1729 when Lancaster County was erected