from Lancaster to Manheim, containing a set of silver mounted surgeon's instruments. Twenty dollars offered. John Penell of Little Britain township offers seven dollars reward for the apprehension of John Robison, apprehended for desertion. Wednesday, January 28, 1778 Lancaster, January 8, 1778 Notice

Feb. 28, 1776, he advises that he has just published for sale, at the Printing and Post Office in King street, "Common Sense" addressed to the inhabitants of America with an appendix to the people called Quakers. This item is important; first as a proof that "Com- mon Sense" was printed here during

of September 27 there is announcement by John Douglass that he refuses longer to be a candidate for Assembly. The election returns of the several past years would seem to show that he was a favorite. He is no doubt a character, whose career ought to be written up. In the same issue several political

laid out here, were called for (in the petitions to Court, to h ave them surveyed, etc.,) for the purpose of access to churches and to mills. Next, in importance to these two objects, was the desire of access to marlc- ets. These three purposes and desires were the reasons for practically all of the

Wright's Ferry."—that he "came to this country in 1728, when quite young, and served his time as James Annesly, with a farmer on the Lancaster Road. For some cause he ran away from his master; and was caught and confined in the jail at Columbia. He was a fine singer and the neighbors frequently visited the

(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

preserves, in our archives and publications, woman's first efforts locally, in political self-government. The year 1920 was the first year the ballot was given to the women in all parts of our country and at that date women began voting in this county. The registry assessors' returns, for that year, in

THE ORIGINAL "TURTLE TAUBE" OF THE EPHRATA CLOISTERS The original manuscript of the "Turtle Taube" one of the most treasured documents in the world, written by the brethren in the Ephrata Cloisters more than a century and a half ago, has been turned over to the Congressional Library in Washington