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

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

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

: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 91-94 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

followed the emigrant trail south to the Carolinas and west of the Ohio River Country. The Swiss emigrants who entered the wilderness of Pennsylvania, and settled where the City of Lancaster now stands, were riflemen, and Rupp in his history of Lancaster County at page seventy-four and five , mentions that

Princes, the Old and the New Albert K. Hostetter BENEDICTION Rev. H. W. Haring Opening and closing with singing of National airs Brubaker's Orchestral Music throughout the session. Paper read before a meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society, by D. F. Magee, Esq., December 3, 1924, on the

, it is believed, at the time of the founding of Old St. James in pre-revolutionary times. Such trees are rare in Lancaster today. And in more modern times the homes of many of our most noted men, Judges Livingston, Brubaker, Justice J. Hay Brown, Col. Brenneman awhile back. that splendid citizen

seemed to defy the inroads of decay and the writer hereof knows of several houses in our county and a number of our covered bridges that have stood for 100 years, and in several instances the houses for con- siderably greater periods. Yet the timber in them of white pine is perfectly sound today, and