Companion in Arms of General Washing- ton. Captain of Troop of Light Horse of Lancaster County. Com- missioned by the Governor, March 25, 1793. In 1798, he was ap- pointed Major-General in Provisional Army. Harris' Biog. Hist. of Lancaster Co., p. 268. Ellis and Evans' Hist. of Lancaster Co., p. 45. Pa

know who are the prime movers in any great movement and this will be revealed in the account of The "Great Fourth of July Celebration and Dinner to THADDEUS STEVENS, Esq." "A very large number of Democratic Antimasonic citizens of Lancaster County, assembled at Dern's Hotel, in the City of Lancaster

coming to Lancaster. No one knew more of the history being made in Pennsylvania during the Revolution than did Timothy Matlack, who served on many committees and as a delegate to many conventions. He knew much of the inside history and the transactions of the Continental Congress during the early years

circulated paper. "Amos Gilbert, Alexander H. Hood, Benjamin Herr and Henry Spiehlman, met one evening in the early part of the winter 1830-31, at the store of George Hoffman, Esq., in Strasburg, Lancaster county. The conversation turning upon the qualifications of teachers, the mode in which the children of