wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

September 1, 1869 NOTES 1. Old Lancaster—Tales and Traditions, by William Frederic Worner, p. 197, Lancaster, 1927. 2. A Biographical History of Lancaster County, by Alex. Harris, Lancaster, 1872. 3. Orphans Court Docket, 1855-1856, p. 713. August 19, 1856, Lancaster County Courthouse. 4. Ibid, p. 602. 5

later paper will deal with the history of many individual clocks, and the story of the famililes that have had them for generations, as I have uncovered many very interesting facts along these lines that would make good material for an historical paper. HOFFS—Among the clockmakers of Lancaster City who

papers, private memoranda and public annals, old fur- niture and older china, land-marks and sign-boards—a thousand tokens are to be noted on the road to a fitting, true and complete history os Lancaster county. This work, when finished, must be a literary and historical achievement, without a taint of

, where I took charge of four congregations. �"October 25th (*), I removed to New Holland, where I served four congregations. "July 25th, 1787, I removed to Lancaster and on the 19th of August, 1789, to McAllister},† where I served five congregations." What a modest recital for a man of such great

County Relations. Since the foregoing was written and read, I have had additional evi- dence of the continuing interest of the Ramsays of South Carolina in their Lancaster county relatives. Follow- ing is a copy of a letter written al- most fifty years ago—and yet nearly a-half-century after the one

official capacity, participating in a treaty making with the Indians. He resided for some years at Lancaster, Pa. where his second and third children were born. For a much longer per- iod and until 1768 he ma de his resi- dence at Carlisle, and was appointed by Governor Hamilton Judge of the Court of

deputies when he was the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He died in Lancaster, Pa., on November 28, 1851. Mr. J. Watson Ellmaker, of this city, is a son of Esaias Ellmaker, who was a younger brother of Amos, and the uncle of the late Nathaniel Ell- maker. He came into the possession of much valuable