materials relating to the history of Lancaster county, and that the time has come for the organization of a County Historical Soci- ety, herewith take the liberty of inviting you, as one known to be interested in the subject, to meet with them on Tuesday, November 16th, 1886, at 10 o'clock, a. m. in the

eminent voy- ager, commander and ruler, Samuel de Champlain. The narratives of the latter's voyages and operations in New France are our main source of information, A number of other writ- ers, especially the Jesuit Fathers, who came in contact with him; Francis Parkman, the eminent historian; John

paper / by Frank R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American loyalists. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 155-166 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

in 1782.9 Gouverneur Morris thought it was doubtful whether more than one half the people of New York " were even in really 5 Lecky's History of England in. Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3, p. 479. 6 Flick's Loyalists in N. Y., p. 150. 7 Works of John Adams, Vol. 10, pp. 63-110. 8 Works of John Adams, Vol

Into New York and North Carolina, from the given sum subtract one-sev- enth and double the remainder. A more cumbersome and perplexing monetary system than the above can hardly be imagined. The wonder is that it should, have been tolerated until well on in the nineteenth cen- �file:///Volumes/LCHS

desirable patronage was not forthcoming. That he did this lower class of work well may be taken for granted, but we have also strong testimony to the tact. In an appreciative, but all too meagre, biographical sketch of him in Harris' Biographical History of Lan- caster County we find the following, which is

. Marianna G. Brubaker. Doubtless still other pictures from the brush of Mr. Warfel could be found in the rural neighborhood where the greater part of his life was passed. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833

the account already given. Citizens at Churchtown, Mor- gantown and beyond were visited and interviewed, and on the return the "Forest" country was traversed, and old men living in the neighborhood were carefully questioned, and their information carefully sifted and com- pared with what I personally