Shaffner, Esquire, Second Burgess, Jacob Krug, John Hubley, Jacob Frey, George Musser and William Ross, Assistants, it is concluded and agreed that the Commissioners of the County of Lancaster, with the approbation of the Judges of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, may erect a Building

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

position. May 2, 1814, Edward Davies, church warden, for the church, invest- ed in the stock of the Union Bank of Lancaster, $250, five shares at $50 per share. The above bank not going into operation, the $250 was returned to the church with $4.00 interest. Not a word is mentioned in the record book of

THE SUN FIRE COMPANY, The following interesting compila- tion from the minutes of the Sun Fire Company of Lancaster was written by the late Ferdinand A. Demuth, who was a member of the Historical Society: In compiling these extracts from the minutes of the Sun Fire Company, the writer has taken

as a Citizen": The committee in charge of this celebration has prepared and published a complete genealogy of the Hand family. This and the very compre- hensive and accurate chronology of the leading events in the history of Lancaster, relating it to the Revolu- tionary War, render it unnecessary, in