. Daniel Hertz. He died August 10, 1877, and was buried in David's churchyard, Jackson Township, Northumberland County, but in 1870 the remains were reinterred in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. He married Matilda Regina Strine, October 26, 1828. She was born August 18, 1809, died August 10, 1877

, at Hotel Wallace, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, which bears on its face a plate marked "Made in London, 1674." This clock is an eight-day, shows the seconds, minutes, hours and days of the month, but not the moon movements. It is difficult to determine definitely just what date the first clocks were made

, served on the Sus- quehanna in 1858. He was a grandson of the famous Major James Hamilton, of Leacock Township, Lancaster County. Dr. John S. Messersmith, of Lancaster, was surgeon on the Susquehanna. �On May 17, 1853, Commodore M. C. Perry relieved Commodore Aulick and hoisted his flag on the

first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of

from the upper reaches of the Conestoga. ANALYSES AND CRITICISMS Critics of the clarity and palatability of the water supply are by no means of a modern order. In 1744, Witham Marshe was in Lancaster as secretary of the Maryland Commissioners, who, with those of Virginia and Pennsylvania, held the

players exchanged places. Duck off was a similar game, but in it a smaller stone was placed on a large one. Players, one at a time, would throw a stone in an effort to dislodge the upper stone. The one who was "it" would replace the stone when knocked off, then quickly endeavor to tag the thrower if he

that ter- ritory. From the year 1853 until the panic of 1857, John Brandt, Sr., with his sons, Abe and John, Jr., conducted the Works, and manufactured the fol- lowing twenty-seven engines for the State Railroad, which later came into the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This list

, "whose influence has carried on through the years in the splendid public school system we now have in Pennsylvania and the fine old coloniaI College of Franklin and Marshall." Dr. Schaeffer related how Rev. Mel- sheimer personally raised funds for the school building, which was erected on a plot of

fee simple, to be held of the said manor so as no further tenures shall be created, but further alienations shall be held of the same lord and his heirs of whom the alien did then before hold." The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1735, by letters patent, recorded at Philadelphia in

. The elegant bridge which spans the Schuylkill at the end of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, is a lasting and most creditable monument of his labor; the Pennsylvania and Northern Central railroads, as well as many other lines, testify to his success." �Mr. McGrann settled in Manheim Township in 1835