Brethren's Church or Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) . He came to Pennsylvania in 1741, preached at Germantown for some time, established congregations at Beth- lehem, Nazareth and Lititz, promoted Christian communistic set- tlements, and preached at different points in Lancaster County, Pa. Zinzendorf

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

Life of William, Penn. Philadelphia, 1852. Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County. Description of the Prov- ince, pp. 59-71; Frames of Government, pp. 16-45 Appendix. Pound, Arthur. The Penns of Pennsylvania and England. New York, 1932. Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties. Lancaster

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

the days of old, and thousands of worshipers, as of yore, Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. — Psalm 100:4. �SOURCES OF MATERIAL Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 438, et seq. Klein's History of Lancaster County, vol. 2, p. 703, et seq. Memorial

, and his enthusiasm *The year is not given in the original paper. Probably, it should be 1785. f In 1763 Richard McAllister founded McAllister's Town, later known as Hanover, York County, Pa. ‡Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, 1883, p. 187. §Ibid, p. 225. �for the enterprise spread