Provincial, Continental and Federal Revenues of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. (By C. H. MARTIN) The first reference found to Provincial taxes after the formation of Lancaster Co. in 1729, in which the county figured conspicuously, was in 1736 at which time many Palatines had settled west of the

pages of marriages at Christ's Church and the First Presby- terian Church at Philadelphia and other nearby places are given. About 140 pages of early naturalizations in Pennsylvania are given in this volume, showing their seven years residence etc., etc. There are about 4,500 of these. These extend from

60 head of cattle were also sent. (8 Haz. 456). The Pensylvania Gazette also had a news article on this surprising ability of these German-Swiss farmers to give their aid and it also states that they could have doubled the said teams, etc. In 1760 the county had 5,631 taxables about 5,200 of whom

rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

above worthies, because of the lapse of time and the dearth of material. However, if their military service was connected with American Independence, every scrap of information about them is of precious value. American Inde- pendence is the greatest event of the world since the Protestant Reformation

, Mrs. Charles Bohm and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that

"troops of hogs", to sell bristles to him. He pays one shilling of Pennsylvania money per pound for combed bristles. In the issue of March 13, there appears the "American Remembranc- er" which sets out a list of 40 events, conditions, etc., and instances of England's broken promises which Americans are

mortifying task of repeating. It gives us exceeding pain to be under the neceessity of being thus far particular. Many threats were thrown out against the committee, that burning and some acts of outrage were apprehended. A second smaller party met before the same house where the soldiers had assembled about