Stewart Herbert and Thomas Herbert as officers in the Army. HUBLEY, ADAM, JR.- HUBLEY, BERNARD This family is well known to students of Lancaster history. No reference to their services in the Revolutionary Army is necessary here. Adam died in Philadelphia of yellow fever in May, 1798. Bernard removed to

that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

PROPOSALS TO ERECT CONESTOGA AND OTHER COUNTIES FROM LANCASTER By C. H. MARTIN W ITH the erection of Lebanon county, in 1813, the last modifi- cation of the boundaries of Lancaster county was made. Starting shortly thereafter, and extending over a period of twenty years, numerous attempts were made

Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

born in that section of Lancaster county now known as "Carrols' Delight," in Adams county, in 1744. He graduated at Princeton in �1773, and studied theology. He was licensed to preach at Donegal Presby- terian church, in 1777. Later, he was a missionary in Virginia and the sec- tion west of the

, he was referred to as "Virginia John," to distinguish him from a first cousin of the same name in Pennsylvania. His son, Abraham, accompanied the family to Virginia, where he purchased land in 1773 and sold it in 1780, when incited by narratives of his kinsman, Daniel Boone, whom he followed to the

. Warrants for this land were signed September 22, 1717, to the following, (here are given twelve names) among whom were : Christian Hearsey and Hans Pupather. This quite definitely fixes the emigration of Andrew Hershey with his sons, Andrew and Benjamin in 1717. The land surveyed for them was located near