Chestnut Level, Lancaster County, under the direction of the trustees-general. Francis Alison, who subsequently became professor of Moral Philosophy in the Academy of Phila- delphia, was chosen master, at an annual salary of £20, and his assistant was granted £15 per annum. Messrs. Boyd, McDowell, Moses

Wolf, Jr., David Summy, Lewis Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved

township, Lancaster county, near the Gap and Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road. The latter race was open to any horse, mare, or gelding in Lancaster and Chester counties.(7 The Lancaster Journal of Friday, October 6th, 1809, contained an an- nouncement that the Lancaster races would commence about

least to the extent cited in connection with Mr. Smith's life in Lancaster. FLAG PRESENTED TO LANCASTER FENCIBLES IN 1841 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In Vol. XXXV, pp. 73-89, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society is an article entitled, "Flag Presented to Lancaster Fen- cibles in

perils and hardships, his vessel en- tered the Thames at London and Mittelberger landed safely on the same day on which, four years before, he had trod the soil of North America. An African Lion in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A S early as 1727 a lion was exhibited in Philadelphia. (Scharf and

WORNER In a letter acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Vol. XXXV, pp. 97-110, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, in which appeared an article entitled, "Two Hundred Years of Farming in Lancaster County," Mr. William B. Bishop, a prominent citizen and successful farmer of

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

THE EARLIEST KNOWN ADVERTISEMENT OF A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner In Vol. 7, No. 2, of the Proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society, appears a very illuminating paper on the subject of "Early Lancas- ter Playbills and Playhouses." In this monograph

and massive remains to be erected. �"The managers trust that an expression of their heartfelt gratification with reference to the wide diffusion of temperance principles not less in the county than in the city of Lancaster, will not be viewed in the light of a departure from the objects which it may