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

names of the past which are fast disappearing from the community -Wallace, Yundt, Kinzer and Rutt. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION In recent years, descendants of German settlers of Lancaster count-.{, Pa., and of Rowan and other counties, of North Carolina, have exchanged notes containing the statement

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

' Biog. History, p. 478. "Life and Public Services of James Buchanan," by R. G. Horton, pp. 20, 21. Buried in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. Bronze marker. BURNS, Anthony T.: d. May 18, 1833; aged 42 years. Pvt. under Capt. Michael Spangler and Col. Maxwell Kennedy. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 8