Penn- sylvania, but there still remain a number of facts that could be present- ed from the side of the Germans. For a scholarly presentation of the early German emigration and settlements, I would refer to a work by Anton Eickhoff, entitled: 'Die Deutschen in Pennsylvanien, oder Anfang der Aus

of a family member. No date. Letter from Philip Wager to Adam Reigart, Jr., merchant recounting an evening stroll near his store. Talked to Doctor Halmuth, also met a gentleman and lady and spoke with them in German. No date. Letter from Philip Wager to Adam Reigart with words of condolence after the

accustomed to call all the German soldiers in the service of George III. during our Revolution- ary War Hessians, they were not all from that country, but from various minor German States, as the following table shows: The number of troops sent to Amer- ica by each of the German States, and the number

marker for The Site of Conestoga Indian Town of the Historic Conestoga Indians. 13 September 1924. Folder 25 Biographical information for David Bachman Landis from History of Lancaster County. The following items are housed in Oversized Box 17: Certificate of membership for the Pennsylvania German

in English. In fact, the Dunkers (German) were the first people in Pennsylvania who availed themselves of the art preservative. Not only was the first newspaper printed in Lancas- ter, of which a cut is reproduced at the head of this article, printed both in the German and English languages, but at

HEMP AND HOP GROWING IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1775. The most proper Land for raising Hemp is a rich and light soil, free from Ponds and stagnated Waters. This should be broken up in the Fall of the year, which will greatly contribute to meliorate ye soil, and to render ye Spring Tillage more

THE FAMOUS SPEECHOF HON. THADDEUS STEVENS OF PENNSYLVANIA IN OPPOSITION TO THE REPEAL OF THE COMMON SCHOOL LAW OF 1834, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 11, 1835 PUBLISHED BY THE THADDEUS STEVENS MEMORIAL ASS0CIAT10N OF PHILADELPHIA 1904 �" I will be satisfied if my epitaph

quote freely from his excellent articles, pub- lished during the present year in sev- eral religious periodicals. On a tablet in front of the First Re- formed Church on Orange street, in this city, we have all read the inscrip- tion: "Founded in 1736." That this is the correct date of the erection of

which they give the titles, and inform me they have been omitted in my enumeration of the pub- lications of the German printers of Lancaster. This paper deals only with the publications in the "German lan- guage" that came from their. presses, and "omits their English ones." Some of these printers, like