EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to

United States, whose remains repose under a modest monu- ment in the Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. �Headed by Mayor James H. Ross and a group of representative citizens, the party left the center of the city at 9 A. M., and were met at the Buchanan tomb by a large group of interested spectators

Pennsylvania (1797) and reappeared in Rupp's History of Lancaster County (1845), a Swedish missionary was stationed at the Indian village of Conestoga about 1710. This is the story as it appears in Proud's history: "In or about the year of our Lord, 1710, a Swedish missionary preached a sermon, at an Indian

United States. By order G. Washington, H. Knox, Sec. President. A manuscript, on file with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of great interest to Lancaster is a membership roster, dated Lancaster August 1, 1783, captioned, 3rd Penna. Regiment, Members of the Cincinnati Society. The manuscript bears

Philadelphia 577 barrels of corn meal and 100 barrels of flour. A part of the flour and corn meal from Lancaster city and county was dispatched to Ire- land in the following vessels,— (the barrels being marked by order of the committee in Philadelphia, "Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Dona- tion")—the brig "St

MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the

away," was the early home of this mysterious stranger. Let those who i.!re inclined to "dream dreams," work out their own solution of the problem, "Where did Black Jim pass his slave days?" MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN