that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

father and son in the country. WILLIAM CLARK. William Clark was born February 18th, 1774, in that part of Lancaster county now comprised in Dauphin county. He served as captain of militia in Dauphin county soon after that county was erected. Later, he moved to Crawford county, Pa., where he became an

PROPOSALS TO ERECT CONESTOGA AND OTHER COUNTIES FROM LANCASTER By C. H. MARTIN W ITH the erection of Lebanon county, in 1813, the last modifi- cation of the boundaries of Lancaster county was made. Starting shortly thereafter, and extending over a period of twenty years, numerous attempts were made

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

experience of the late George W. Hensel, of Quarryville, Pa., father of the late William Uhler Hensel and George W. Hensel, 4 The original of this letter is preserved in the archives of The Lancaster County Historical Society. �Jr., is another proof of the considerate heart of the Emancipator. Uriah Uhler, a

. Sensenig was stricken and died in January, 1907. He was buried in the Gillingham family graveyard at Morrisville, Pa. I take pleasure in presenting to this Society, the first copy of the New Complete Arithmetic by Sensenig and Anderson, received from the printers, SiIver, Burdett & Co., New York, so

, Secretary." Other documentary evidence or reference to these Indians is found in the Diary of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, which �entry was made by Bernhard Adam Grube, a missionary among the Indians, and a Great, Great Grandfather of the President of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Herbert H