1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power

individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth

houses on East King Street, it brings to mind the names of those once actively engaged at these places. In imagination we can see the spirits of William L. Peiper (cashier of the Lancaster County National Bank) and John N. Lane, merchant, in ani- mated conversation on the work of the wrecking crews

Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly M. Luther Heisey Long before the Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly became famous the art of dancing is mentioned in the early archives of Lancaster County. When Witham Marche attended the Commissioers Treaty gathering in Lancaster he kept an interesting diary

M. LUTHER HEISEY EARLY SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Recently-purchased copies of Taylor's surveys provide a mine of data for the research worker in the Society's library. The extent of lands is listed in this article. In Manuscript Book No. 76213, Chester County Historical Society, made by Isaac

. 11 Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 574. 12 For a complete story see the Monthly Bulletin of the State Department of Internal Affairs, January 1954. �be obtained by the party of gay picnickers from Columbia caught in a heavy storm on Goose Island. With the advent of late spring and a

; as usual the Lancaster delegation had the largest num- ber present for a county historical s0ciety, 12. Dr. Landis Tanger, former president of Millersville State Teachers College, died, aged eighty-two years. �16, The Lancaster County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution met

, attended a reunion of choir members of St. James' Episcopal Church. Jan. 11. B. Snavely Garber received a Master Farmer medal awarded by the "Pennsylvania Farmer," in recogniton of achievement "in agriculture and citizen- ship." Jan. 13. Riding high as usual, Lancaster County farmers captured 39 cham