INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the

having been held in Carpenter's Hall. He was also a member of the committee that met in the State House in April, 1775, to con- sider what measures should be adopt- ed in view of the "critical affairs of America." His "Remembrancer" furnishes �abundant evidence of his interest and energy in these various

. �����������@�@@@��@���������@���������������������������@�@������� I England, Lancashire. Prior to this the land formed part of $ I Chester county, which, with Philadelphia and Bucks composed I i the three original counties of the Province. At the time of its I i erection into a separate county, Lancaster included all the conn- I I try to the north and west, now

three races—the hot Irish blood mixes with the colder Dutch in their calm, English veins, and some of them—their chief, for in- stance—are splendid fighters. There he is at this moment riding up hill from his quarters in the valley. A man of medium height and strong of frame, he sits his horse well, and

Philadelphia, in 1816. It is found on page 47: "In the town of Lancaster, a place at that time (circa A. D., 1750) remark- able for its wealth, and which had the reputation of possessing the best and most intelligent Society to be then found in America. It was chiefly in- habited by Germans, who, of all people

the Lancaster Gazette. It had its birth in 1752 and was a fort- nightly publication, printed in alternate columns of Gcrman and English, by Miller & Holland. It went out of exist- ence the following year. No one was found courageous enough to start a new paper until the well-known printer, Francis