: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

persecuted Hussites at his Barony of Lititz. The suggestion to honor Zinzendorf and mark this old house came to The Lancaster County Historical Society from one of its members, Samuel H. Ranck, noted librarian of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doubtless the historical facts and importance of the place were brought

, Pennsylvania." Charles Keller, who lived in Lancaster County "near the Susque- hanna," bought land in 1748 in old Frederick County, Virginia, and there in 1756 he was killed by the Indians. His widow with the children returned to Lancaster County. Daniel may have been the youngest member of this family. His

. 1777. 4 Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 12, p. 272. �tinental cause all escaped across the river, excepting our dashing Daniel, who was apprehended and incarcerated at Carlisle, and there repenting of his mis- deeds or lamenting his confinement, turned State's evidence, and

signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

likely site, and from a sense of loyalty to his city, Henry E. Leman, who died May 12, 1887, had decreed in·his will that the factory was not to be sold, except to the city of Lancaster for a wat~r- works site. The·water committee did not avail themselves of this offer. · �22 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL

occupied by the home of Miss Gertrude Hensel Haldy, the record- ing secretary of our Lancaster County Historical Society. Drs. Abram Breneman, senior and junior, grandfather and father of Major Henry R. Breneman, lived in the house later occupied by A. Herr Smith and his sister, Eliza. Both doctors died in

Long Level) derives its name from "a kettle on a long upright object," or some say, "at the place of the boiling kettle." Or, guneu-long, and gehilla-banks or bluffs; probably signifying extensive bluffs (D. H. Landis). Conestoga derived from Kanastoge, "at the place of the immersed pole." (Hewitt). Or

pleasant farewell, for his two youngest daughters, Nancy and Rachel, had come from Lancaster to bid him good-bye. �Working For Pennsylvania Ellicott was employed on many occasions by the Keystone State. In 1786, he surveyed the boundary of Pennsylvania and New York from the Delaware River to the ninetieth