to be provided for carrying six companies of Royal Americans during the march through Pennsylvania by way of Lan- caster. (740) Judge Yeates gives his impressions of Braddock's Field visited by him in 1776. He states that in 1758 the English buried 450 skulls and many more since. (740) Balance of

not we do not know) of Ghent (do., p. 319), and in 1369 John de Rupe (Scissa). Cassel says, page 378, that in the fourteenth century the Kaiser of Bavaria sup- pressed the opposition of the Roman Church against Protestantism. There seems to have been some cessation of the persecutions in parts of Ger

of Mr. Hacker, President of the Common Council of Philadelphia, Messrs. Dickey and Sheaffer got an interview with Colonel Wood, Lincoln's man- ager, near midnight on the 21st, who after their strong appeals decided to allow the train to stop eighteen min- utes in Lancaster and that Lincoln might

opposed the erection of the county and threw their political influence against the project. They sent two petitions to the Assembly praying that the new county be not erected, because the expense of local government here was unjustifiable, so long as the govern- ment of this section, as part of Chester

the Women Members of the Campaign Advisory Committee for Lancaster County, acting for the Dominant Party, in an article appear- ing in the New Era of November 13, 1920, there were 11,051 women who exercised the franchise in Lancaster County and City when given the first opportunity to do so that year

, on vote, Hibsh- man voted against it, and demanded slavery restricted out of the proposed new State (do. 1410). When the Senate proposed that two States be admitted—Maine free and Missouri slave—and sent that proposal to the House, Hibshman voted that they both be admitted free or Missouri be not

invented by Beissel and is the first hymn book in which all the hymns were of original composition. The work was presented to Beissel, as a token of love by the brethren. It is recorded that the brethren worked three-fourths of a year on it. Appar- ently the book was once in the possession of Benjamin

Miller. Ross' company was raised in and about Lancaster, Smith's in north- western and southern Lancaster County and in now Dauphin County and Miller's in Lancaster County, generally. Smith's company was sent in De- cember, 1775, through the snows of Maine and Canada to the siege of Quebec and fought

local history, it is evident that a needed service right now, is to index or digest the mass of historical data of our county so that those who wish to gather up and develop that history may find it a very easy matter to turn to such indices or digests in order to know where to find the historical mass

dated at Lancaster the 21st olay of October last, for taking possession of the effects of those who have gone over to the enemy, and for appointing Commissioners in the several counties for that purpose. December 24, 1777 John Woodhull of Leacock Township on November 17, took in a bay horse. Owner

Street. Jacob Folmer of Northumberland lodged at Henry Slaymaker's Spread Eagle Tavern on E. King Street, and Simon Snyder his only associate lodged at Peter Gonter's. The Westmoreland County men lodged at George Fisher's that is Jacob Powler and Michael Pugh did and Geo. Smith at Mr. Baily's on West

Maryland. There is evi- dence of carelessness, too, in other respects, in the lists. And it may be that persons of very little property, paying little tax, were not taken. In fact, no one who lived on Pequea and Conestoga creeks were called upon for eight years after the original date of settlement to pay