Moravian Church of Lancaster. He served as the first pastor of this congregation, and directed the building of their first church edifice on Orange Street in 1746. Rev. Nyberg's activities extended to the town of Lititz, where he first preached to Lutherans, Reformed, Mennonites and Moravians in the year

laying out this Manor, but after Penn's death and when his three younger sons assumed control of the province in the 1730's, this Manor became their personal property and the original reason for it appears to have been lost sight of. SOIL IN THE MANOR RICH The land for the most part was flat and well

-78." Vol. XXIII, pp. 5-14. �northeast of the actual site, started the rumor that he had come upon evidences of the soldiers' remains ; which was rather generally ac- cepted. Near the place of the Kahl brickyard and along Main street Congress erected a memorial monument to the soldiers of the

to the principles and policy which estab- lished the Federal government. He was eminently possessed of those affec- tions and charities which sweeten domestic life. To the affluent, hospitality opened his portal; and charity never suffered it to close upon the indigent, without having relieved their

size of the ear of corn, which was driven through with a mallet. One cause of so much complaint about farming to-day is, that few who are engaged in it have any conception of the hard hand labor, the self reliance and economy that had to be practiced a few gen- erations ago. What are considered

mentioned, married a daughter of Mr. Rhoddy, who died in the year 1733. He directed his executors to build a grist mill along Conewago creek for his son, Alexander Rhoddy, within two years after his desth. In 1745, James Rhoddy, son of above, sold the mills and 350 acres to John Forry and Joseph Sherrick

quite an interest in our local Indian history, and was our earliest collector of Indian curios. His collection was bequeathed to the Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th and Race streets, Phila- delphia, Pa. There seems to be quite a difference of opinion found in old records as to when this tribe of

area of 973 square miles, or 623,720 acres, of which more than 500,000 acres are cultivated land, divided into 9,000 farms, whose assessed valuation in 1896 was $87,262,990, and the annual products, according to the census of 1890, aggre- gated $7,657,790. It is interesting to note that the county

the resolution, 47 yeas to 7 noes. The Petition. MARTICK TOWNSHIP. To the Honorable the Representatives of the freemen of the State of Pennsylvania this Memorial Humbly Sheweth : That your Memorialists are of Opinion that frequent Changes in Government have a tendency to weaken it, and to Create