July celebration in 1779, but no satisfactory conclusion was reached. The question has since been referred to that veteran antiquarian, Mr. John F. Sehner, who was prompt to shed a flood of light on the subject. He is the owner of the only copy of the "Lancaster Zeitung and Anzeigs Nachrichten" still

, one, John Gibson. This man Gibson was the son of Lancaster's first inn keeper, "Hickory Tree" Gib- son. He and Connolly had been school- mates at Lancaster, hence the lat- ter's confidence in him. With that letter also went one from Con- nolly, who expressed his Tory senti- ments very freely

Wyoming county. He says: "Here at (Thornbottom) we met John Jhones; he gave us all information, and 'seemed an active and intelligent man. He has made hardly any sugar this year—his kettles having come too late—but he proposes to tap 2,000 trees next Spring Mr. Nicholson has 12,000 acres, 3,000 of which

Lancaster Miscellany. 1839. The Old Guard, (or 1840). The Age. Semi-Weekly Gazette. 1840. The Buckeye. Wahre Demokrat. 1842. Semi-Weekly Gazette. 1843. The Saturday Express; changed in 1853 to Saturday Evening Express. 1844. The Mill Boy. The Workingman's Press. Lancaster Democrat. The Moral Reformer

Reading Adler and the Lancaster Volksfreund, one the German Democratic Bible of Berks,and the other was the German Bible of Lancaster; and Baer's Lancaster Ger- man Almanac was equal in importance in the German homes or the Old Guard to Franklin's 'Poor Richard's Al- manac' of the olden time." �As John

, lath mill, miller's house and fifteen acres and sixteen perches of land, in two tracts, were bought at Lock No. 3 of the Conestoga Navigation Company. lt also included the surplus water power of the Cones- toga river at that point, beyond what was needed for the canal and the mills. The sum paid for

. Intelligencer and Weekly Ad- vertiser, founded by Robert and William Dickson. (File in State Library. (1792 and 1794 are erroneously given as the dates of the founding of this paper.) 1799. Der Lancaster Correspondent. 1805. The Constitutional Democrat, founded in July, 1805, by John Matthews. File in State

the above- mentioned five thousand acres are part of the fifty thousand acres which Wil- liam Penn in 1682 conveyed in fee �simple to Sir John Fagg. The deed, in addition,mentions two further sales of the land by still other deeds, the last by Jacob Miller, and in the latest one, dated 1770, the sale