Life of William, Penn. Philadelphia, 1852. Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County. Description of the Prov- ince, pp. 59-71; Frames of Government, pp. 16-45 Appendix. Pound, Arthur. The Penns of Pennsylvania and England. New York, 1932. Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties. Lancaster

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

the days of old, and thousands of worshipers, as of yore, Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. — Psalm 100:4. �SOURCES OF MATERIAL Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 438, et seq. Klein's History of Lancaster County, vol. 2, p. 703, et seq. Memorial

the archives of the Comptroller of New York City. Albany followed a few months later. In 1691 Philadelphia was organized under a borough charter. Then Annapolis in 1696, Perth Amboy 1718, Williamsburg 1722, Norfolk 1736, Richmond (Virginia) and Lancaster (Pennsylvania) in 1742, and Trenton (New Jersey

the Post Office in King's Street." (See fac-simile on page 4.) In 1756, the Pennsylvania Gazette advertised a list of unclaimed letters for Lancaster County folks held "at the post office in Lancaster." Previously, 1738 and 1741, the lists of letters were held at Philadelphia. Post roads were few in

Locomotives—Made in Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY As stated in the constitution of this Society, its object is, among other ramifications, to mark the growth and progress of population, wealth, educa- tion, agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce in the city and county. "Peace hath her

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

, p. 368. Rupp's History of Y ork County, pp. 561, 563. 7 Hazard's Register, Vol. 5, p. 115. 8 The complete charter is printed in Hazard's Register, Vol. 3, p. 397. 9 Ellis and Evans' History, p. 372. �"The inhabitants are chiefly High-Dutch, Scotch-Irish, some few English families, and unbelieving

. HARTMAN was born two and a half miles east of Harrisburg, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1830. His father, who was a �farmer, died when Samuel was a mere child leaving the mother penniless with eight children—five boys and three girls—looking to her for support. An uncle of the children brought