George Schaffner An American Revolutionist Who Died in the French Royalist Cause By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In 1938, your present essayist had the pleasure of reading before this society, a paper on the three Caspar Schaffners of Lancaster' whose joint lives covered practically the entire history

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best

THE SERVICES OF PETER SMITH, REVOLUTIONARY HERO. This is not the story of a great general nor has it to do with great deeds of valor, it is just the story of a man who wanted a good country to live in and who was willing, tnerefore, to help make a good country. As protection is one of the

the purpose of spinning kniting sewing &c they being a very Industrious People and withal very neat and Cleanly, they re- ceive great encouragement from the neighbors who bring them work and Likewise the Necessarys of Life. We then bid adieu and came away without seeing the brothers, who live within

day." It is of great interest to knoW hoW, from the day it was carried off by a Mexican from the Alamo, it finally came into the possession of Colonel Walter Finney Siegmund, of Olin Industries, who devoted more than twenty years searching out the history of the famous gun. "It has an overall length

duties on paper, glass and other articles.? Dr. Samuel Seabury, another prominent Loyalist, declared " My ancestors were among the first Englishmen who settled in America. I have no interests but in America. I have not a relative out of it that I know of. Yet, let me die ! but I had rather be reduced to

riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration." The country was not poor. Before the revolution, it imported tea of the value of two and a half million dollars annually, and many articles of luxury, and was well able to support the few thousands who served in the thinned ranks of the

, 1986), 173, 175, 176. 60. Bailyn, Bernard, Dallek, Robert et.al. The Great Republic: A History of the United States (Lexington, Massachusetts, 1985), 234-236, 262; Divine, Robert A., Breen, T.H., et.al. America: Past and Present(Glenview, Illinois, 1984), 164, 169-171; Tindall, George B. America: A

demands of the rebels hard to resist. It is said that Rev. Mr. Miller, who was a well-educated man, won the friendship of George Washington, who was said to sometimes visit the wounded American soldiers who were quartered in Ephrata during 1777. The other man at the heart of the story was Michael Witman

matter was laid directly before General Washington by Bishop Ettwein, who was at the head of the Moravian Church in the American prov- inces. The answer is notable for its calm dignity and kindliness. Written at a time when Freedom was a will o' the wisp in a swamp of despair, and when trials and