sufficient affluence in this county to have indulged in such a luxury prior to the Revolution, and houses were generally not of a kind or character to either require or accommodate them in their furnishings. 2. All clock makers procured their raw material already turned out or turned in blank form from

and forge, Pool farm and forge, Federal Hall, White Hall, Hampden, the Clymer farm in Berks county, mills, houses, etc. His landed possessions totaled 9,000 acres, farms and woodlands. His personal property represented a value of over $282,000. His farms all contained, on an average, hundreds of acres

REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a

abused their functions, and have cruelly and un- justly administered the law. Rarely, however, have such instances arisen. The history of our own and every other county is marked by upright lawgivers, who, like beacons on the shore, have given notice of the rocks �and shallows which lie along the way

. Military Record. Among those serving from Lancas- ter county during the Revolutionary period we note the following: Peter Elser, served in Capt. John Feathers' company, under command of. Col. John Huber, in the years 1778 and '79. (Pa. Archives, series V, Vol. vii, pages 874 and 897). Geo. Weachter, was a

Lancaster county and in bringing its name to the forefront, as the home of patriots, scholars and statesmen, than any other section of like extent or ter- ritory within our county's limits. Not only have they made the name of Lancaster county famous throughout the boundaries of our State, but its fame is

. But it was not. Pro- fessor Smith in his late excellent book says, page 146, that these reach- ed America and located at Skippack. Dr. J. G. DeHoop Scheffer, of the Am- sterdam College, says (Vol. 2, Pa. Mag. of Hist., etc., pp. 117 and 120), this company of 1709 came from Worms and Frankenthal. But

application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

out, containing 275 pages and fifteen illustrations. Volume IX-1905. Old officers elected as usual. The scheme to compile a bibliography or Lancaster county imprints adopted. The society made a fall outing to Read- �ing and was very handsomely entertained by the Berks County Historical Society. Volume

John Swenk upon the banks of the river to regale themselves, and after toasting the new constitution, retired to the borough in the most perfect harmony. July 9 Almost a column is given to the 4th of July demonstration in this bor- ough and a like space is given to a similar celebration in Strasburg on