among the Surveys then made on Conestogo and Pequea Creeks in the County now called Lancaster. In pur- suance of which said Warrent there was Surveyed in part of the quantity therein mentioned on the Tenth day of May Anno 1719 a certain Tract of Land within the said County Beginning at a white Oak by

Early Historical Record of Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim, Pa. By REV. J. F. KNITTLE, Ph.D. It was Solomon, the King of wisdom of Israel, who, in reviewing his life, declared that "Of the making of many books there is no end," and we might apply that statement today and say that of the writing of

spent in Exeter Township, Berks County, the place of his birth. After completing the course of the common country school of his day, he studied for a period of five years under the Rev. F. L. Herman, a Reformed pastor of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1820 he was licensed and ordained by the Synod