ter- ritory covered in the plan os the so- ciety. Lancaster county as now bounded stretches from the Octoraro on the southeast to the Conewago on the northwest; from the Brecknock sorest on the northeast to the slate hills of Peach Bottom on the Southwest. With- in these boundaries there have been

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

resigned his Judgeship to become Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, which he also resigned, and in 1821 settled down to the prac- tice of law in Lancaster. In 1817 he declined the portfolio of the War De- partment in President Monroe's Cabi- net. In 1832 he was the candidate of the Anti-Masonic party for

Tour Through the Northeastern Section of Lancaster County. Continuously since 1882, inclusive, W. U. Hensel has organized and participated in annual, and some years semi-annual, drives over Lancaster county, the party often comprising strangers, who in this novel way have a much more deliberate

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

Christiana riot in lower Lancaster county in 1851 when Gorsuch,the slave- holder, was shot dead and his son seri- ously wounded by their fleeing bonds- man in a melee with his assembled sympathizers of different colors. In reply I had the following letter:, Glimpsewood, Dublin, N. H., September 3, 1899. Dear

Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster. In a notable passage of one of the finest outbursts of modern oratory, a great man, on a great occasion, stand- ing in a great place, suggested that while it reeked little what he and his colleagues said, where they then stood, the world could never forget

thus he became a brother-in-law of that other famous native Lancaster countian, Rev. Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, of Pequea, who married Witherspoon's eldest daughter when he was President of Hampden-Sydney and before his call to Princeton. After the death of the first Mrs. Ramsay her bereaved husband