Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to

SOME HELFFENSTEIN LETTERS. The Reverend John C. Albertus Helffen- stein was pastor of the Reformed Church of Lancaster from 1776 to 1779. He was born in the Palatinate, February 16, 1748, and died at Germantown, Pa., May 17, 1790. He was the sou of the Rev. Peter Helffenstein, Superintendent of

personally in great dan- ger. The city of Paris became excited, and a mob gathered around the Tuil- eries. In the palace everything was in confusion, and the howling multitude was not to be restrained. The crowd burst into the apartments of the Em- press, and there can be no doubt that if they had found her

the colonial government that established the �counties, at the same time granting to the district Courts authority to organize the townships. In the foundation of our own county of Lancaster these two processes may be said to have been in some sense united. There were a few early settlements w h i c h