, Pa., Saturday, September 27, 1777. A letter of the 15th from General Gates, at the heights above Behman's; of the 15th from Colonel Gist, at Christiana Bridge; one, of the 16th, from Colonel Gibson, at Alexandria; one, of the 23rd, from General Washington, at Pottsgrove, were read. A letter from

shot to pieces. These remains were then buried in what was then a potter's field on the northeast corner of Duke and Chestnut streets, where afterwards the cut of the Pennsylvania railroad passed through. LED BY A MINISTER Proud states "the perpetrators of this deed were lead on by a Presby- terian

Lancaster County. As Commissary of Hides for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland he established workshops in Phila- delphia, Lancaster, Allentown and elsewhere for making boots, shoes, hats, cartridge-cases, etc., for the army.24 He was a financier, as is shown by his being Fiscal Agent of the

, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78 / by Prof. Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Military hospitals--Pennsylvania. Lititz (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Martin Meylin A Progenitor of the Pennsylvania Rifle By HERBERT H. BECK The Pennsylvania Rifle IN THE first half of the eighteenth century there was developed 1 in southeastern Pennsylvania a type of firearm that was new to the world. It revolutionized gunmaking. This firearm soon became known as

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

, Stiegel named the township for his wife. See the Names of the Townships, by Joseph H. Dubbs, Vol. I, No. 3, Lancaster County Historical Society. F. A. God- charles, in his Pennsylvania History, says the township was named for Queen Elizabeth. 2 The Horseshoe Pike, which was laid out from Downingtown to

wherein they stood, for the wives of their owners or in honor of various presidents of the United States. 1 Clarion Furnace, built 1828. Stood on Clarion river, just west of the mouth of Little Toby creek. Thirty feet high, by eight feet across the bosh. Owners, Henry Bear and Christian Myers; afterwards

. Finding that not all of the emigrants who continued to arrive were fitted for the restrictions and self- denials of these communities, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg re- solved to provide a third church settlement in Pennsylvania, found- ed on more liberal lines. In this community the congregation would be