abreast with the age and keeping in faithful touch of the needs of the unfortunate brethren. In religious life and activity you are banner bearers. The Friends' Society took hold here as early as 1726. The Methodists, who have been worshippers here about 125 years, first acquired their own church in 1803

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

before them, so that the inhabitants were in great distress. Upon this intelligence the officers imme- diately warned the militia, who convened three companies and a troop of horse and bravely resolved to march against the enemy, and on Tuesday they set out commanded by proper officers and attended with

Philadelphia and through Chester county, etc. About this time he reached Lancaster county and preached at Pequea, in the Presbyterian Church, but the paper does not have an account of this. In the issue of March 11, 1740, there is an account of Benjamin Sterrett, going home from a neighbor's house, found dead

lads rashly thrust a hanger through a crevice near the door, and wounded him so that he died in a few hours." The older people of our day remember very well the custom in some of the remote parts of the county, of barring out the teacher when school adjourned for the Christmas season, and not allowing

Wright and John Coyle (Koyle). While their �votes do not appear, those receiving the highest vote can be ascertained from the fact that in the records the one receiving the highest vote stood first, and so on down to the lowest, who stood last. Thus we see that while Galbraith stood last in 1732, having