The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, December 1st, 1810. The Ship Conestoga By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IT is not generally known, perhaps, that a ship named the "Con- estoga",, so-called, doubtless, in honor of the famous Indian tribe for which the river in Lancaster county was named, once sailed

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

encouraged by the success that had at- tended its efforts, as well as by demands for a more widely ex- tended application of its benevolence, no longer hesitated to solicit the assistance of the public. The citizens of Lancaster were called upon, not on behalf of sturdy mendicants, idle vagrants, or juvenile

Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of the

Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

, as the purpose of the organiza- tion was a most worthy one. The Lancaster County Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Wednesday, March 25th, 1800, states that a large and respectable number of citizens

church building, but in this Miss Ayres was mistaken, for he was still in deacon's orders when the ceremony of consecration was performed. On December 2nd, 1820, the Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg, then in his twenty- fourth year, entered upon the cure of Saint James's, Lancaster. On Christmas Day, following, there

paid for sundry orders to the teachers dur- ing the past year, Sundry orders for lumber, carpenters' work, fuel, etc., Balance in hands of treasurer, 187.953/4 $180.75 89.40 $458.1034" The Lancaster Journal of Friday, August 17th, 1832, an- nounced that "at early candle light," on Saturday, August 18th

just described, another theatrical entertainment was given in Lancaster borough, being what we are led to believe was the third performance by Mr. M'Grath's company. The Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung and Anzeigs Nachrichten for Wednes- day, December 7, 1791, contains the following advertisement

THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Monday, December 30th, 1816, con- conontained an announcement that those favoring the organization of a German society, for the relief of distressed immigrants, were requested to attend a meeting at John Erben's