- film: Roll 1, Public Records Office, London. C.O. 5/1233 (Pa. Material, 1689-1707) F.O. 353/59, 353/60, in the Division of Archives, Pennsyl- vania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. �Accessions to L. C.H.S. Library By Salinda M. Matt The following accessions to our Library have been

special engine, and coach. While the train stopped at the draped depot, a committee of the Patriot Daughters, consisting of Mrs. Rosina Hubley, Mrs. James M. Hopkins, Mrs. Harry Kendig, Mrs. D. W. Patterson, Mrs. Bartran A. Shaeffer, Mrs. Sarah Hubley and Mrs. M. D. Holbrook, placed a magnificent bouquet

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

. Jacob Slough's tavern on Fri- day evening, February 28th, 1817. Robert Coleman was appointed chairman, and Samuel Carpenter, Esq., secretary. A society was organized ; and a committee, consisting of Samuel White, Joseph Ogilby and James Humes, was appointed to prepare a constitution1. The Lancaster

display 127 works of American artists and among the names since become fa- miliar are those of Rembrandt and James Peale, Wurtmiller, Sully and Stuart. Raphael, Anna and Maria Peale all had works on exhibition. The Birches, Thomas and William, figure in this catalogue, and Denis A. Volo- zan seems to have

and Mr. Blanch- ard." Some accounts of Stevens' en- try into Pennsylvania narrate that he came here with James Merrill and John Blanchard. This letter proves that they preceded him; they were un- doubtedly his forerunners. Both these Vermonters achieved local fame. John Blanchard became �a noted

by Five Nations Iroquois (Wissler, 1940; Hunt, 1960), which led to their ultimate disorganization as a people (Talbot, 1684 and Wal- lace, 1961). Among the Iroquois, a tribe actually involved may have been the Seneca. On this score, a Jesuit Relation of 1675 records the elation of the Senaca over

protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork

in writing it "James's." That the local congregation has been referred to as "St. James's" church for generations, is clearly proven by written records, legal documents, and published papers. We trust that these proofs, which cannot be successfully con- troverted, will serve to dispose of the claim

, January 4. 1842. �Elizabeth Huber Reigart. Mr. Reigart was postmaster of Lan- caster from 1853 to 1856; he with Dr. Fahnestock were among the first to notify James Buchanan of his nomination for the presi- dency, driving to the latter's home at Wheatland for that purpose on June 6, 1856. Dr. Fahnestock