know as a facsimile label. The letters "FOUR" and figures "4" became "ONE" and "1"; "INTERNAL REVENUE" vertically at the right end was replaced with "OF AMERICA". The inscription on the left tablet was: "$0.01 Lancaster, Pa. July 1st, 1883 On demand, for value received we pro- mise to pay the bearer

state- ment recently told me by C. H. Martin to the effect that the above mentioned were the first real estate agents in Lancaster County. Hans Boyer emigrated to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, and in 1736 purchased 200 acres of land, which were a part of a tract of 5,000

returned home, Harriet spent in Lancaster. His regiment, the gallant old 79th Pennsylvania Volunteers had been mustered out of service. �The Manheim boys of the regiment returned home. The next day Harriet noted a sale of government horses. As follows every war, the government had surplus property to sell

that time discontinued the use of such "Babylonian trash" and tore down the spire. Until the steeple of the Old Log Church was completed the bell hung on the hickory tree near the courthouse under which the Indians held their councils and which gave the settlement its first name of Hickory Town. An

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CONGREGATION AT MANHEIM, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. Contents: 1. The Baptisms 2. The Confirmations 3. The Weddings 4. The Burials 5. The Communicants 6. The Church rules, together with the order of business of the Elders and Trustees and the parishioners, are herein set forth, began in an

erection of a new building. A deed on record at the courthouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, shows that the land on which the church was built was given on December 20, 1819, by Jacob Snyder (Schneder) and wife to the German Presbyterian Church.25 Organization of the First Congregation Mast and Simpson26 say

Henry Harbaugh in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In October, 1851, when Henry Harbaugh, who had been pastor of First Reformed Church for a little over a year, preached a series of "Centenary Sermons"1 in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the stone building in which the

. James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the United States in President Coolidge's administration, at Lititz, Pa., about twenty years ago. Mr. Beck was a Lancaster Countian, a native of Lititz, and a first cousin of our Society's President, Dr. Herbert H. Beck. His familiarity with records of the United

part of Pennsylvania approx- imately seventy miles west of Philadelphia. Its land is rich in agricultural value. Throughout the county there are many small, clean, prosperous com- munities. Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is located about a mile from Lancaster City. It is a beautiful estate with

others. James Hamilton laid out the town of Lancaster at the request of the proprietaries, but there is no record of a petition direct from the citizens for establishing a borough. Perhaps Hamilton's influence shows here. In and about Lancaster, as early as 1730, we find some licensed, at a tax of twenty