. The Church of God also held camp- meetings on these same grounds, later in the season, during 1885 and 1886. This church now owns its own camp- woods at Central Manor, and its an- nual services are growing in interest. .From "Sketch of Camp-Meetings," in "The Landis Family of Lancaster County," 1888

Lancaster County in honor of the achievements of any of her sons. The clear, cool day had very much to do with bringing out the immense throng which teemed about the old stone house in Fulton township where Robert Fulton was born, and in Pyle's meadow nearby, where tradition says that he loved to play as a

LANCASTER COUNTY LOYALISTS The idea of preparing an article for our society on the Loyalists of Lancas- ter county during the Revolutionary struggle occurred to me several years ago, and I at once began to gather such material towards that purpose as I could find. As the number of these Loyalists

Col. Jacob Cooke's battalion in 1783. Capt. Joseph Work. Capt. Joseph Work resided about one mile and a-half east of the church. He was a Captain in the Flying Camp in 1776 and at the battle of Brandy- wine. He was a Sheriff of Lancaster county from 1779 to 1781, and a mem- ber of the Assembly from

genealogy and private life to show his public career in its true niche and to give it inter- pretation. I took the advice of a senior mem- ber of this society and inquired of Mr. B. F. Owen, of Reading, who is an authority on Thomas Edwards and on that section of early Lancaster county generally. Mr. Owen

papers, private memoranda and public annals, old fur- niture and older china, land-marks and sign-boards—a thousand tokens are to be noted on the road to a fitting, true and complete history os Lancaster county. This work, when finished, must be a literary and historical achievement, without a taint of

Counties of New- castle, Kent and sussex, an Dela- ware. "To Jacob snearer (Highest credi- tor of Theophelus England dec'd), of the County of Lancaster. "Greeting." The letters recite that the Admini- strator shall make a true and perfect inventory of the goods and chattels, etc., of the deceased, and

belonging to the Hamilton family, but, though this family owned much property in Lan- caster county, they never resided with- in its limits. Among the early book-plates which certainly belong to Lancaster, I think �I should give the preference to that of Judge William Augustus Atlee. It bears the family

had a tavern, which stood a few yards east of Mr. Engle's dwell- ing. A beautiful spribg ran near the dwellibg. The "Peters Road" passed in front of the tavern, abd crossed the creek at Martin's mill. Campbell was an Indian trader, and when the county was organized he was the first con- stable of

Notes on Colonel Houssacker, At the May meeting the writer read a short paper on an "Old Road Petition," and in commenting upon the names at- tached thereto, remarked that from their large number and the prominent character of many of their owners, a good article might be written. Among the rest he