LANCASTER COUNTY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY By William Frederic Worner. In 1727 or 28, when Benjamin Franklin was about twenty-two years of age, he influenced a number of well-informed men in Philadelphia to unite with with him in forming a club to be named the "Junto." He states

BRONZE TABLET ON ST. JAMES'S CHURCH By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE memory of ten Lancaster patriots who served America during the Revolutionary War is commemorated by a hand- some bronze tablet, four feet long by two feet and a half wide, which was placed on the south wall of St. James's Protestant

dollars reward. Jacob Awl of Paxton Township, Lancaster County offered twenty dollars reward for the return of his negro man named Joe and the black mare he took with him. Wednesday, December 17, 1777 and also volume 11 Colonial Records page 369 BY THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE COMMON- WEALTH OF

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

the verdure of the forests, the murmur of the water, and the melody of birds all conspired to fill my mind with vast and elevated conceptions." On leaving Lancaster, Mr. Ashe proceeded toward Harrisburg. He state: that he did not stop there. Matthew Clarkson in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER M

Lancaster in 1776 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MONG the rare books in the private library of the Hon. Charles I. Landis, President Judge of the Courts of Lancaster county and a for- mer president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, is one en- titled, "The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774

JOHN MARSHALL IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner John Marshall, one of the greatest among the great Virginians of his day and generation, won fame in a field in which there is but little of dramatic incident to relate,—that of the Supreme Court of the United States, of which, for more than

, to meet in Lancaster, Pa. To prevent them from being captured by the British, the governmental documents and the small amount of money then in the treasury, were sent to Bethlehem in wagons, carefully guarded by troops. Shortly after midnight, September 18th, or, more correctly, very early on morning

A REVOLUTIONARY LETTER. By William Frederic Worner. In April, 1923, Mr. George S. Franklin presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society a copy of Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, published in 1883. It contains many unusual drawings, rare photographs, val- uable manuscripts, old

ANTHONY WAYNE IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. General Anthony Wayne, who had won distinction in several battles of the Revolution and had displayed remarkable skill and courage in the capture of Stony Point on the Hudson, was ordered to command the first detachment of Pennsylvania troops