of the Lancaster County Historical Society: We, the undersigned commit- tee appointed to make arrange- ments for and hold the recent Robert Fulton Celebration in this County, respectfully report : Nothing which the Lancaster County Historical Society has ever done will reflect more credit upon it nor

Col. Jacob Cooke's battalion in 1783. Capt. Joseph Work. Capt. Joseph Work resided about one mile and a-half east of the church. He was a Captain in the Flying Camp in 1776 and at the battle of Brandy- wine. He was a Sheriff of Lancaster county from 1779 to 1781, and a mem- ber of the Assembly from

genealogy and private life to show his public career in its true niche and to give it inter- pretation. I took the advice of a senior mem- ber of this society and inquired of Mr. B. F. Owen, of Reading, who is an authority on Thomas Edwards and on that section of early Lancaster county generally. Mr. Owen

ter- ritory covered in the plan os the so- ciety. Lancaster county as now bounded stretches from the Octoraro on the southeast to the Conewago on the northwest; from the Brecknock sorest on the northeast to the slate hills of Peach Bottom on the Southwest. With- in these boundaries there have been

, and lived in Burlington, N. J.; Elizabeth, Jonathan, and Charles, the subject of this sketch, born in Phila- delphia, August 21, 1742. Charles Hall must have been quite a young man when he came to Lancaster to live. He combined with his business of goldsmith and silversmith *hat of watchmaker. In

E., thus became interested in voice culture; afterward a student at Millersville and one of the two first lady graduates from the Normal School. Miss Hartman subse- quently was first assistant teacher of the Girls' High School, Lancaster, and among the branches taught was music. The Bethel Church of

Lancaster Book Plates. Many years ago a friendly book- binder gave me several engraved labels which he had taken from the cast-off covers of ancient books. They were too pretty, he said, to be thrown away, but he did not know what to do with them. Most of these labels, besides the name of some

were sent to Don- egal in 1720 and 1721. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Evans, Samuel, 1823-1908. Title: Some early Indian traders / by Samuel Evans. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Fur traders--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County

Shock's, on Front street, Harrisburg, where a number of members of the Legislature also boarded- Mr- Shock went on Greer's bond- John Shock was the father of the late Col- Samuel Shock, of Colum- bia. Mr- Greer's bill for the session of 1814-15 was $927-50, at the rate of $1-50 per page- Mr- Greer got

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has