Jones ,surveyed the land for the site of Lancaster, finishing the work in May, 1730. James Hamilton had Roger Hunt also survey the plot, and it is claimed that Hunt built the first house in the town after it had been plotted.2° In 1739 Roger Hunt lived on the west side of the Brandywine at Down­ ingtown

workers, appearing on the platform attired in the uniform of Revolutionary War sol- diers, in front of the huge reproduction of the Seal of the City of Lancaster. �President Roosevelt Sends Congratulations THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 9, 1942 Dear Mayor Cary: There is a peculiar inspiration to be

early period. In 1757 to 1765, he was the man who kept the Court House clock in order, for which he received compensation at the rate of four pounds per year. About 1748 Wilmer Atkinson, a cutler by trade, came to Lancaster from Baltimore, though report has it he was born in Lancaster, and soon

to build a road from Lancaster to Safe Harbor; also from Lititz to Lancaster.—From the Lancaster Intelligencer, March 1, 1865. 7 See Vol. 27, p. 75, for a full account of this railroad. The writer had the pleasure of attending the celebration at Fulton House on September 21, 1909, when a tablet in

insisted upon its legal right to carry all the mail. In the Lancaster directories, we find Mr. Barr listed as follows: in 1857, "Barr, Elias, news agent, home Orange Street near North Queen Street;" in 1858 to 1870, "Barr's Book Store, 29 East King Street, opposite Court House," or "Elias Barr & Co., 31

LOCAL NAMES ON AMERICAN SHIPS When Samuel M. Sener wrote in our papers, vol. 3, p. 14, about the USS Lancaster, as the oldest ship in the United States Navy, no doubt he had in mind the active ships; for lying in port, one at Newport, Rhode Island, the other at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, were the

traffic noises, the assembly repaired to the high school auditorium, where the full program was followed. In presenting the tablet to the borough of New Holland, Dr. Beck, for the Lancaster County Historical Society, declared, "We have been the first to commemorate, honor, revive and perpetuate the memory

St. Mary's as being "very fine" and the priest's house adjoining as being "elegant and very convenient, with a garden attached." The early itinerant missionaries traveled on horseback, then in later years by carriage. Father DeBarth had a gig made by a Mr. Brown, car- riage maker of Lancaster. He

Daniel Keller - Lancaster County Boat Builder &at Rudder BY M. LUTHER HEISEY The name and fame of Robert Fulton, the Lancaster County boy who successfully applied steam to navigation, is known throughout the length and breadth of the nation. Before the launching of the Clermont in the Hudson in