%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

., and other land marks of a similar nature, lakes and rivers and streams. �This Deed was the resultant fruit of a Treaty held at Fort Stanwix and embodied in its recitals the conclusions reached by said Treaty. It will be noted it was made and executed some six years after the United States or Colonies

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

mill promptly determines the direction of the roads which must lead to it. Hostelries, churches, villages follow later, on the road system primarily and largely dependent upon the position of the mills. After 1710, through a period vague in local history, the famous Hans Herr pioneers and their

wherein they stood, for the wives of their owners or in honor of various presidents of the United States. 1 Clarion Furnace, built 1828. Stood on Clarion river, just west of the mouth of Little Toby creek. Thirty feet high, by eight feet across the bosh. Owners, Henry Bear and Christian Myers; afterwards

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the

the United States. This lot was sent to St. Louis for the Indian trade. This order brought many others, for the rifles were found to be of such excellent quality that their fame soon spread, and orders began to pour in from almost every state and territory in the Union, especially from those of the

members. They represent an experiment in organization and control of an idealized community life, which is of intense interest in the history �of America. Who the authors of these regulations were, we know not; but we can surmise that the practical mind of Spangenberg played an important part in their