properties, the Fiere family simply had to take flight into Germany. On leaving France, they were accompanied by a youth named Isaac Lefevre, all of whose family being Protestants, had been put to death. He carried with him one heirloom, the family Bible, which was preserved by his descendants of Lancaster

ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

settled in Lancaster County- Introduction For more than two hundred and fifty years the name LeTort has clung to a little cross roads in Manor Township, Lancaster County. No one in the neighborhood could tell you where the name came from. No one named LeTort lives there now. Historians of Lancaster are