will please to deliver to the order of the Hon. Council of Pennsylvania, one hundred common Rifles (without Bayonets), if you have or can procure that number speedily. A light Corps from Camp is expected at Lancaster & you will keep in view the providing them with what they want for further �Business

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

AN EARLY NEWSPAPER The importance and value of news- papers in the study of local history can not well be overrated. They come next in importance to the original records of State and county. In more recent times they have lost somewhat of their value from the coloring given to public questions as

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

Petition. "To the Honorable John Penn Es- quire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and coun- ties of New Castle, Kent and sus- sex on Delaware, and his Honor- able Council-- The Petition of divers Inhabitants �of the County of Lancaster Humbly Shewetn That the great Road from the upper

something about the last one of its kind still in active operation in Lancaster county, and which was visited by the writer one day this week. The First One. Before I speak of this mill, a glance at these mills a century ago and more will not be out of place. So far as the writer knows, the first fulling

sought relaxation from their toils, but to which,through their influence, peo- ple from all over the State and beyond it might be drawn for the same pur- pose. But they not only thought about it—they acted. Four miles southwest of Lancaster city, on the banks of the Conestoga, stood an old-time tavern

German language, unless we make an exception to a short-lived one, like Franklin's, published in Phil- adelphia, in 1748, by G. Armbruster, known only by name, not a single copy being in existence, so far as known. An interesting communication from Mr. D. B. Landis, of Lancaster, directs my attention to

Martin and Ann Meylin built that "palace of sand- stone" in West Lampeter township, in 1740, one of the stateliest of all the early houses erected in Lancaster county, with its gambrel roof and shingled cornices around the differ- �entstories,theMennoniteBishopof that d- y, Hans Tschantz, with the eld

Loyalists were at- tainted from our county. Their names were Michael Whitman, of Cocalico township; George Reine. of Earl town- ship; John Reine, his brother, also of Earl; Ingelholt Holsinger, Michael Worman, Francis Sanderson,Christian Voight, of Lancaster borough; Henry Skyles, of Salisbury; James Hender