Brethren's Church or Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) . He came to Pennsylvania in 1741, preached at Germantown for some time, established congregations at Beth- lehem, Nazareth and Lititz, promoted Christian communistic set- tlements, and preached at different points in Lancaster County, Pa. Zinzendorf

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

, that he spent the prime of his life in Lancaster County and that he gave Pennsylvania two sons who followed closely in his footsteps. While he is also well known as an educator and a clergyman, I am concerned chiefly in his career as a scientist. We must admit that Frederick Valentine Melsheimer was

Slough's mill first stood on this site. The Rock below Humes' factory is known to us as Indian Rock in Williamson Park. Coleman's saw mill, owned by William and Edward Coleman, was at First Lock, later known as Levan's mill. All these are shown on Scott's Map of Lancaster County, 1843. THE WATER .SUPPLY OF

insect is so extremely rare in Pennsylvania that the late Rev. F. V. Melsheimer, the parent of Entomolgy in this country, and a very industrious collector, found but two individuals in eighteen years." This insect, though rare, is mentioned in the Coleoptera listed in Rupp's History of Lancaster County

December, 1847, and were buried on the same day. I History of Lancaster County, by Ellis and Evans, 1883, page 374. 2 An Authentic History of Lancaster County, by J. I. Mombert, D.D., 1869, page 426. �Others living in this block were Herman Hirsh, Philip A. Metzger, Susan Carpenter Frazer, Elizabeth B

, ·but ,remained silent about the repentant Shawne·e. See Conrad Weiser to Secretary Peters, 4 August 1748, Clement Z. Weiser, The Life of John Conrad Weiser (Reading, 1876), 168; and Walton, Conrad Weiser, 32, 126. •• GeoTge P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania A History (New York, 1926), II, 637. •• Voiwiler

fee simple, to be held of the said manor so as no further tenures shall be created, but further alienations shall be held of the same lord and his heirs of whom the alien did then before hold." The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1735, by letters patent, recorded at Philadelphia in