: 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

of fifty dollars. On Friday, October 27th, a sweepstakes, open to any horse, mare or gelding carrying a feather, except the winners of the preceding days, was advertised. The horses were to be entered with Peter Diller, and the fee was one shilling in the pound.(8) At Hinkletown, Lancaster county, a

had lived in the town all of his life, did not know the exact site of the graveyard; nor did anyone else. It was only known that of the 120 privates and non-commissioned officers of the Continental army who died in the Brethren's House between Dec. 19, 1777, and Aug. 28, 1778, 110 had been buried

great inland peninsula between the Delaware and Susquehanna is brought before The Lancaster County Historical Society. Herrman's map of the Lower Susquehanna Valley was pub- lished with a paper entitled "The Location of the Susquehanna Fort" by D. H. Landis, in Vol. XIV, pp. 81-117, of the Proceed- ings

latter pronunciation was correct, and he had cousins in Lancaster County who spelled their name Leaman. However, he was regularly called "lemon" by his local contempora- ries, and his descendants still retain that name. As a child of * James C. Leman, a son of the riflemaker, furnished valuable data on

the Lancaster Courthouse, December, 1742, offered to donate his entire farm in Warwick Township for the use of the church. This tract of land, which Klein had obtained from the Penns in three proprietary patents of 296 acres in 1741, 32 in 1747 and 182 in 1755, eventu- ally amounted to 491 acres; for