made through Penn- sylvania, instead of using the old one made memorable by the Braddock- Washington expedition. His forces were attacked at Loyal Hanna by the �French and Indians, but he repulsed them and was present when the fort was captured. In 1763 he was in com- mand at Philadelphia, and in that

--Octorara Valley (Pa. and Md.)--History. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--19th century. Octoraro Creek (Pa. and Md.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: [103]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

school houses of the early part of the present century deserve a pass- i n g n o t i c e . T h e y w e r e f r e q u e n t l y abandoned dwellings, the owners of which by thrift and economy having been enabled to erect more pretentious structures. They were heated by an extensive fireplace on the open

and carousing. 0, Americans, where is now your virtue? 0, Washington, where is your cour- age?" On December 29 we have this brief, but important bit of information: "Visited in the evening by Dr. Yeard- well, who told me they had made a hospital at Ephrata, in which were near two hundred and forty

HISTORY OF THE DONEGAL CHURCH. The early history of Donegal Church is involved in obscurity by reason of the fact that none of the records prior to 1786 can be found, and those immediately sub- sequent are only fragmentary ; all that can be authenticated is to be gleaned from the records of

village of New Holland, Lancaster county, offering a reward of $100 for the discovery and conviction of the person or persons concerned in entering the church about the 15th or 16th of December, 1819, and destroying the new organ of the church, by re- moving and despoiling the pipes thereof, and taking

A PETITION FROM MARTIC TOWNSHIP. To understand more fully the griev- ances which caused it to be signed and presented, it will be necessary to go back a year or two. In the spring of 1776 the Continental Congress advised each colony and province to take immediate measures to frame a new form of

WHEN WAS STRASBURG ERECTED INTO A TOWNSHIP? When I came to arrange some stray notes pertaining to the early settlement of the locality embraced within the limits of Strasburg township as it was bounded one hundred and sixty-five years ago, I found a good many snags in my way. Some of the earliest

REMINISCENCES OF PARADISE TOWNSHIP. Before attempting to give au accoupt of the early history and traditions of Paradise, Lancaster county, I desire to state to those especially who were present at the meeting, November 18, at the Stevens House, of the Ferree and Lefevre families, that it will be

GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. In thumbing over "Rupp's History of Lancaster County" several weeks ago for, perhaps, the five hundredth time, I once more came upon the Gen- eral Wayne letters, printed on pages 412 to 420. Like a good many more persons, I had never questioned the fact that as they bore the