the word used for Brother Albrecht's (sometimes Albright) trade, which is significant, for Büchse means rifle, not gun. By 1771 Lancaster rifles had become famous throughout the colonies. It is interesting that gunsmith William Henry of Lancaster sent his fourteen-year-old son to nearby Lititz for an

of the careers of two great Lancaster County statesmen, Thaddeus Stevens and Simon Cameron, reveals much in common. Stevens a power in the House of Representatives ; Cameron a power in the Senate. Both were national figures in their day, and both were strong factors in the preservation of the Union

known record, from a British observer, covering so long a period in Lancaster, to com- pare with that in the Journal of Ensign Thomas Hughes. Thomas Hughes (1759-1790), leaving Eton School in 1774, enlisted in the 53d Regiment. Shortly afterward he purchased an ensigncy,2 and in April 1776 his regiment