accurate record of who was sinning and where. A large collection of his notebooks rests in the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society. One must admire the persistence and tenacity of the Law and Order Society agents as they went about their unpopular business. With the arrival of Prohibition

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

confirmed by the court of quarter sessions. In 1730 Andrew Hamilton and his son, James, began proceedings to acquire a large tract of land lying astride Lancaster and Manheim Townships. On a portion of this tract James Hamilton would lay out a town which he called Lancaster. During the following few years