Shaffner, Esquire, Second Burgess, Jacob Krug, John Hubley, Jacob Frey, George Musser and William Ross, Assistants, it is concluded and agreed that the Commissioners of the County of Lancaster, with the approbation of the Judges of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, may erect a Building

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

position. May 2, 1814, Edward Davies, church warden, for the church, invest- ed in the stock of the Union Bank of Lancaster, $250, five shares at $50 per share. The above bank not going into operation, the $250 was returned to the church with $4.00 interest. Not a word is mentioned in the record book of

GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

day follow: He who, in the years that are to come, traces the pages of Lancaster county's historical lore will note with more than passing interest the record for the day September 8, 1910, and he will be apprised of the fact that its �then Historical Society conducted a celebration, notable and

report to this board." When the Court of Quarter Sessions for the County of Lancaster met on November 6, 1733, at its November Sessions, the following entry was ordered to be made, viz.: "The confirmation of the King's Road from Lancaster to Philadelphia being confirmed by the Governor in Council and

THE SUN FIRE COMPANY, The following interesting compila- tion from the minutes of the Sun Fire Company of Lancaster was written by the late Ferdinand A. Demuth, who was a member of the Historical Society: In compiling these extracts from the minutes of the Sun Fire Company, the writer has taken

where we are reminded that a Wil- liamson Park is one of the proud pos- sessions of Lancaster, England, it is to be remembered the wrongs of the colonies were the result of a weak monarch misled by a weaker Cabinet, rather than the crime or even the blunder of a great parent nation. Here, on this