GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

unveiling of the tablet to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, at the home of D. Paul Hershey, located on the old Newport Road, one mile north of Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Oc- tober 11th, 1936. The actual unveiling was done by Mary Jane Hershey, the ten- year-old daughter of Mrs. Sue Snyder Hershey, whose family

cele- brate the Sesqui-Centennial Anniversary of one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Other events which added to the significance of the great occasion in- cluded the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Historical Association which were held on the College Campus October 15

which has been unveiled this day. �Senator Grundy has so ably and profoundly given us the history of Eastern Pennsylvania, leading up to the establishment of John Wright's Ferry that there remains little to be said on that subject, It is true that the Susquehanna. River at one time marked the western

desiring to become an Inhabitant in the new Town or village called Lititz situate in the Township of War- wick in the County of Lancaster in the Province of Pennsylvania, must agree strictly to observe & adhere to, viz : 1. Forasmuch as the fundamental Plan & original Design of building the Congregation

governor, through the following letter : "Lancaster, Pa., "May 25th, 1812. "To His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief: "During the long space of time wherein other nations, under the scourge of ambitious and profligate princes, have been the victims of destructive wars, 1 Pennsylvania Archives, Second

of the First Regiment, Second Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Brigadier General John Addams, from September 1st, 1814, to November 1st, 1814. George Hitzelberger, Captain, Second Regiment, Second Brigade. Samuel Wright, Fourth Sergeant. Robert Reed, First Corporal. George Bacastose

names of the past which are fast disappearing from the community -Wallace, Yundt, Kinzer and Rutt. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION In recent years, descendants of German settlers of Lancaster count-.{, Pa., and of Rowan and other counties, of North Carolina, have exchanged notes containing the statement

house, built after his plans, still stands some- what altered opposite the General Sutter Hotel, formerly the Lititz Springs Hotel. Records in the California State Library show that Sutter was invested with a commission of major general in the State Militia in February, 1853. �A NATION-WIDE CELEBRATION