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

have settled in Pennsylvania — the Germans. — 4 St. L., 391. Returns for Lancaster County, James Galbraith, Sheriff, and John Morris, Coroner. — 4 C., 669. 1744 John Armstrong murdered near Lancaster, (West of Lancaster) by Delaware Indians—Daniel Cookson sends word to the Governor—the Five Nations

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

TWO NOTABLE MINING INDUSTRIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY By H. Luther Willig While the bounteous harvests of her fair fields have made Lancaster County as the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania" her past mining industries have added additional luster to her name through the discovery of the rare minerals

Population of Lancaster County in 1800 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE first official census of the United States was made in 1790, by order of Congress. Ten years later, another census was taken. In The Intel- ligencer and Weekly Advertiser of May 6th, 1801, appears the following: Agreeably to the

: The invasion of Pennsylvania, by the Confederates under General Robert E. Lee, and its effect upon Lancaster and York Counties / by George Reeser Prowell. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. York County

by the Associate Church of Pennsylvania. After a pastorate of twenty years at Oxford, Pa. he accepted a call to Chartiers and Buffalo, Washington County in 1782, where he spent the remainder of his life. He had much to do with the incipient measures which finally resulted in the establishing of