William T. Barry by Citizens of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Hon. William T. Barry, the able and efficient Postmaster General of the United States, arrived in Lancaster on Mon- day, October 17th, 1831, and took lodgings at Graeff's hotel, corner of North Queen and West Orange streets [site of

Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXERCISES INCIDENT TO THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLET IN HIS MEMORY By M. LUTHER HEISEY The clear skies and crisp atmosphere of a delightful October day brought together an assembly of several hundred people to the celebration incident to the

McKean." Resolution on the Death of Charles Carroll, Signer of the Declaration of Independence By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER C HARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton, Md., the last survivor of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, died in Baltimore, November 14th, 1832, in the ninety-sixth year

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

Street. This cost was estimated by the building inspector to be $1,000 and there was an inspector’s fee of six dollars. 18 August 1967. Insurance Title from Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company from Alpheaus S. Groff and his wife to Watt and Shand for the building on 19 South Queen Street for

Co- calico Township. According to the deed, it was originally a part of a 2000- acre tract for which a land warrant was granted to Charles Jones, the elder, and Charles Jones, the younger, by William Penn, on September 27th, 1681; said tract to be taken up in the Province of Pennsylvania. On November

REPEAL OF LAW PROVID- ING FOR A NIGHT WATCH By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the manuscripts department of The Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, 1300 Locust street, Philadelphia, is an original paper,' yellow with age, which contains the following : "To the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, Lieutenant

on the peasantry about him, that traditions of this baronial display would live on. Nor was he known as 'baron' only by the farmers and townsfolk; that he used this title himself is attested by one of his stove plates, upon which is still to be read �in enduring cast iron 'Baron Stiegel ist der Mann

pious mind to observe the human voice, with its admirable powers of melody, consecrated to the noble purpose of celebrating the wonders of creating and redeeming love !" Meetings on Currency By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Wednesday, January 28th, 1818, a meeting of citizens of the borough of Lancaster

"The Lancaster Union" of 1839 An Anti-Masonic Newspaper By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS April 16, 1839, marks the transition of the ownership and editorship of "The Lancaster Union" from the former editor, Carpenter McCleery to Alex- ander H. Hood, who purchased the paper at that time. Volume