with Pennsylvania. The petition was copied from Bishop Perry's work which accounts for the error creeping into the pages of the Journal of The Lancaster County His- torical Society. A photostat copy of the original petition now in the archives of the S. P. G., in London, reveals that its correct date

Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

Wolf, Jr., David Summy, Lewis Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved

CONESTOGA By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 75-113, of the Proceedings of The Lan- Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster." In that paper the author, the late William Uhler Hensel, Esq., de- scribed, in minute

, as the country became developed. It is not known when the first horse-race was run in Lancaster borough and county? Information on the subject is quite meager; and most of the 1 In a paper entitled, "Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lan- caster County," written by Herbert H. Beck and

A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HUGH W. NEVIN Aviation, we hear on every side, is in its infancy. Although our modern transport ships fly through the air with the greatest of ease, crossing the continent between dawn and dusk, joining the north and the south by hours, crossing the

Record of Soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of Others Who Gave Service During the Period of 1784 -1815 By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS and ELEANORE J. FULTON. Note—The following comprehensive list of soldiers, who served their country as active participants in the War of