weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

and Sovereign, and issue only 'in the name " Pennsylvania." See Docket of Court Quarter Sessions Lancaster County No. 3, August and November terms, 1777. During his long service as Justice of the Peace and Judge from 1735 to 1780, he lived and made his home in Earl Township, on his farm deeded to him

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

I. THE OLD WOODEN COVERED BRIDGES OF THE OCTORARO By D. F. Magee, Esq. When in about 1905 the engineering corps and the executive officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company selected the Octoraro Creek as the sole source of their supply of pure water for their engines in use on the eastern

movement and looked straight from their eyes. Within one week after the first call on June 14 Congress made another call for two more Companies from Pennsylvania; and at this call two Com- panies were raised in Lancaster County and went to the front under Captains Ross and Smith, each man of the Company

, grew up in the Borough of Lancaster. Foremost among the good ones, the White Swan stepped into the list in 1730, just about the time when our County was dropping its swaddling clothes, and assuming its posi- tion as the leading inland town in Pennsylvania, surrounded as it was by a big growing county

covered by this business, railroads and canals were practically unknown and even after their development were totally inadequate to handle this kind of traffic. As Lancaster County then included in its territory all of the land in the �Susquehanna Valley for some miles above Harris' Ferry and Clark's

from Lancaster County, but then a private in Steele's company, writes in his history of the expedition the following account of the fight before and over the walls of Quebec: "Col. Arnold, heading the forlorn hope, advanced perhaps one hundred yards in advance of the main body. After him fol l owed

entries in his Diary From June 27, 1777, To September 24, 1781. Marked By The Lancaster County Historical Society 1927. This was to commemorate for all time the fact that there lived in our City for a period of years Christopher Marshall, the Quaker Patriot of the Revolution who took most active interest