LANCASTER TOWNSTEAD. Copyrighted May, 1901, by S. M. Sener. "Out upon Time! It will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before." On February 6, 1729, the settlers in the back districts of Chester county, of the province of Pennsylvania, prayed the Council of the province for a divi

in person or by Attorney legally constituted." In the issue of the Lancaster In- telligencer of December 23, 1815, ap- peared the following, showing that the value of a bridge at McCall's Ferry was tried and proven, although there is none there to-day: "We have the pleasure of stating that the bridge

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has

Cooper's Hotel on many occasions. The late Alfred Sanderson some few years since stated in an article on �"Theatres in Lancaster," that he had witnessed the erection of the first building actually devoted to theatrical performances in this city. It was the Landis Theatre and Museum, on West Chestnut street