and General Advertiser, a Philadelphia News- paper, whose ancient files are preserved in the Congressional Library, such items of Lancaster County content and interest as are to be found therein, and has kindly given the same to the present compiler to be used to fill the gap just mentioned. The items

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

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

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

erty. The inquiry arises whether this was the location of The Sign of the Two Highlandmen? Very likely it was, though Ross is named in 1779 as a merchant." Mr. Cresswell writes: "This [Lancaster] is a large town, but the situation is disagreeable between two hills, several good buildings and some

FISHER AMES IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner Fisher Ames, American statesman, orator and political writer, the youngest son of Nathaniel Ames, a physician, was born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758. He was a precocious scholar and was graduated from Harvard college at the early age of sixteen

84. WISE, ANDREW LANCASTER EXAMINER AND HERALD, Wednesday, March 29th, 1848. "Died, in West Earl township, on the 16th instant, Andrew Wise, a sol- dier of the Revolution, aged 88 years, 4 months and 8 days." 85. WISLAR, MICHAEL LANCASTER JOURNAL, Friday, October 15th, 1824. "Died, on the 15th