bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

, by himself or his family, to name another in his stead, but continued to return his name till he died, Coupled with his services in the Legislature, he was appointed a Judge of the Courts of Lancaster and Chester Counties, He served in this capacity for twenty years, In his station of Judge for

persecuted Hussites at his Barony of Lititz. The suggestion to honor Zinzendorf and mark this old house came to The Lancaster County Historical Society from one of its members, Samuel H. Ranck, noted librarian of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doubtless the historical facts and importance of the place were brought

College. Each October for many years, the Lancaster County Historical Society has been marking some of the many points of real historical interest in this locality. Throughout various sections of Lancaster County, beautiful bronze tablets carry historical messages, and designate for succeeding generations

Lancaster, and as for want of powers corporate, we may be subjected to inconvenience in the pursuit of our charitable objects: KNOW YE, that in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to confer on certain 4 Lancaster Journal, Friday, May 20th, 1831

descendant of Muhlenberg, placed the wreath on Muhlenberg's grave. The Rev. A. B. MacIntosh, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, offered prayer. Victor J. Ault, Eagle Boy Scout, member of troop 22, sounded taps at each grave, and Herbert Kraybill was the flag bearer. Lancaster County had an additional five

the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and unanimously approved. It was signed by

The Female Benevolent Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society for December, 1907, Vol. XI, pp. 363-421, appears an interest- ing article, prepared by the late Mrs. James D. Landis, on the Female Benevolent Society of Lancaster

foreign power or resort to arms for the defense of all that can be held dear to freemen, the officers of the militia of Lancaster county, —feeling themselves happy under the influence of a government of their own choice, mild and equal in its operation, and perfectly satisfied that it has been, and