GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

to stamp the barrels and locks of his pieces—H. E. Leman, Lancaster, Pa. Most of our other makers, if they marked their guns at all, and many of them did not, used their names only, without their town. Leman was an advertiser of his rifles and of Lancaster. Thus properly identified, Leman rifles are

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

. This would place him in his mother's arms when the flight was made in 1621. This was a century be- fore the persecuted followers of the martyr, John Hus, were be- friended and reorganized into the modern Moravian Church by Count Zinzendorf at Herrnhut, Saxony. Zittau is not far from Herrnhut and