period that have come down to us. Indeed, I know of nothing of a similar nature concern- ing Lancaster city and county at the period covered by this diary that is at all comparable with it. He was an educated man, a man of affairs, much concerned and connected with what was going on around him, a person

county. But I wish to direct attention to another point. Lancaster was almost exclusively a German community in the last century, just as it has largely been in the present one. Read over the names of the men who have published papers in this city. Miller—and he was the first of all—Al- brecht, Lahti

that there are to-day many substantial stone dwelling houses stand- • • • �� ing all over the county and in Lancaster city, whose stronir and durable walls have bid defiance to the storms of a • . - � . • century and a half, and even more, and are to-day substantial, imposing buildings, good for a few

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

NEW HOLLAND SCHOOL HOUSE One short month ago Dr. Dubbs read before this Society the history of an early educational movement in this city, which not only reflects infinite credit on the intelligent, able and self- sacrificing men who organized it, but which, by a reflected light, sheds a halo of

Office, 17th April, 1791, Sir: By some mistake I find your let- ter of the 18th of January last has not been answered. +A paper written by Frank R. Diffenderffer and read before the Lancaster County Historical Society on June 2, 1899. �An expectation of some general arsenals being permanently estab

LANCASTER IN 1760, Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker,of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadel- phia, several days ago sent me the fol- lowing extract which he found in John Galt's "Life and Times of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, of London," a volume which was published in

GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. In thumbing over "Rupp's History of Lancaster County" several weeks ago for, perhaps, the five hundredth time, I once more came upon the Gen- eral Wayne letters, printed on pages 412 to 420. Like a good many more persons, I had never questioned the fact that as they bore the