. 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

some Friends �to give them a visit and to consider how far they may be capable to hold and keep meeting for worship with reputation." On May 1, 1754, James Hamilton deeded to Peter Worrall, Isaac White- lock, and Thomas Poultney, "trustees of the Quaker Society in Lancaster borough," two lots of ground

Lancaster from Philadelphia. The black squirrel was a dark phase of the gray. The stump ear gray squirrels were a variety of the fox squirrel.46 42 Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. S. N. Rhoads. 43 Ibid. 44 Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lancaster County. 45 Historical Sketch of the Three

, Palatines, English, and Scotch-Irish. Many of them had come to Penn's Woods with their families to escape tyranny, intolerance, and every form of injustice. Thomas Cookson, the first burgess, had come to Lancaster in 1740. Sebastian Graff had moved here several years before the incorporation. Some of the

Schools and education in the &rough 01 Lancaster By P. M. HARBOLD An Act of the Provincial Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, passed February 6, 1730, permitted "any religious society of Protestants . . . to purchase or establish houses for schools, etc." In the spirit of this Act, the