weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

. A. page 505. Recorder's office, Lancaster. • Patent Book A., Vol. 16, page 138. Recorded in Harrisburg, Patent Rolls. Later the West half of it was conveyed to Joseph Staman by Edward Smout and wife, Elizabeth, May 1, 1751, in which deed it was described for the first time as being in Hempfield

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the

original principles of the grooved bore and rotary bullets to the sources of the Rhine, and its earliest manufacture to the Alps mountain of Switzerland. The Swiss colony that settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1721, came from the Canton of Basle or Basel. They were all mountaineers and most of them

and Sovereign, and issue only 'in the name " Pennsylvania." See Docket of Court Quarter Sessions Lancaster County No. 3, August and November terms, 1777. During his long service as Justice of the Peace and Judge from 1735 to 1780, he lived and made his home in Earl Township, on his farm deeded to him

, Lancaster, York, Adams counties and the Cumberland valley, thence to the lumber and coal fields of central Pennsylvania, and on into the stock grazing and grain growing plains of the Western reserve, as called at that day. The surveys as made by local people along the lines in more or less broken succession

Pennsylvania, is called Woods Bridge, after the leading Quaker family of that section, who have long been promi- nent in Lancaster County history. It is on a road but little travelled and in poor repair, leading from Wrightsville over into Cecil County, Md. The bridge was built in 1890, and is one hundrcd and

occasion of the Unveiling of Bronze Markers, in the Watt & Shand Store Building, on the site of the White Swan Tavern. THE WHITE SWAN TAVERN It is a fact well known to all who are at all familiar with the early settlement of Lancaster City and its choosing as the County seat of Lan- caster County as it

water nides from view the old familiar haunts when the black bass and salmon in spring and summer, the wild duck by thousands through fall and winter and the shad and herring were all legitimate prey for the riverman and the farmer folk of the Lower End. Exetensive office buildings house the Engineering

exposure, whether used in the masts and spars of our fleets of sailing ships of that day ; or as building lumber in millions of our houses, barns, bridges, mills and factories, the quality of the Pennsylvania white pine at that day has never been equalled since by any lumber grown in the east. This wood

Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant