and improve on the type of rifle they knew in their fatherland. The result was the Long Rifle, later known as the Kentucky rifle. This long rifle soon became famous and was credited with winning the French and Indian War, and the War of the Revolution. So important had the manufacture of the Kentucky

Francis Bailey and he was a printer. He also was a native of Lancaster County and a most prominent and colorful character of Lan- caster's Revolutionary period. Yet, oddly enough, you will find little men- tion of him in the published local history of that period. This was the man who first bestowed upon

Shenandoah Valley was Louis Michell, a Swiss, who ived in Chester Co., now Lancaster Co., Pa., in the period of 1706-7, as shown by the Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, in the month of February, 1707. See Vol. 3. He was acting on behalf of George Ritter and others, of berne, Switzerland

period, ca. 1600-1775. Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1921 Description: 147-155 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.25 Location: LCHSJL

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

, John W. Title: Old Trinity Steeple / by John W. Lippold. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Spires. Lutherans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lutheran Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Church architecture. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

, John Clement, 1876-1940. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 3-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 1