avoided. The Dispensary of St. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of

INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES IN THE GRAVEYARD ADJOINING ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, LANCASTER. * COPIED BY WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 1. In memory of / James Bolger. / A native of the County / Kilkenny, Ire- land. / Died July 24, 1860. / Aged 52 years. / Be ye also ready, for in such / an hour as ye think not

STEINMETZ The following names of soldiers from Lancaster county, Pa., who served in the War of 1812, were copied from a military docket in the prothonotary's office in the court house at Reading, Pa., and are a continuation of similar important information to be found in Vol. XXXVI, pp. 161-165, of the Pro­

MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the

: b. Feb. 1, 1769; d. June 26, 1816, in 48th year. Wife, Dorothy Hand. Served as major in Pa. Militia, 1797. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 4, pp. 468, 588. Pvt. in Capt. Shippen's Co., the "Lancaster County Dragoons." Klein's Hist. of Lancaster Co., Pa., Vol. 2, p. 596. Buried in St. James's Episcopal

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

ORIG- INAL BUILDING OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Rev. Richard Locke, a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, with headquar- ters in London, England, came to Lancaster early in October, 1744. Episcopalians living in this vicinity, held a

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scholarly attainments wrote the word in the form stated above, is strong evidence that that was the correct way to use it. When the bell was purchased in 1770, in England, it was cast with the following inscription, by order of the vestry: "St. James's Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1770." It bore this

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