Thornberg. Subsequently Mar- shall bought the Thornberg property also,and then owned five-eighth of the entire front on Orange street. His house was the third from the Lime street corner. It was a stately brick mansion, three stories high, with base- ment. It is still standing, but is now much changed. An

County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--19th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [72]-84 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 3 Call Number

HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, An Act of Vandalism. The following is an excerpt read by S. M. Sener, Esq., from "The Oracle of Dauphin," Harrisburg, Pa., under date of 6th of January, 1820: "The Lancaster Free Press contains an advertisement of the Trustees and Elders of the German Reformed Church in the

early as 1811. In all : I I fully 150 journals have from time to time been published in this city. There are at present four daily evening pa- · i • ·1 • lf./J� pers, one of which is in the German language, and one morning da1 y. iflil t.11, i{/// 40� Among the public institutions may be mentioned : two

have a de- cided value of their own, inasmuch as they throw new light on some points in the history of the Ephrata Brother- hood. The Letters. "The gentleman at whose house I am entertained is one of the people called Quakers, and a wealthy merchant in this city, to whom I had a letter from Mr. L . of

. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: 22 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.3 Location: LCHSJL

which he received for Clerk Fee from the townships on his examining the poor accounts 5 A contribution from Lea- cock township 1 5 Conrad Meyer,of New Hol- land, left by his 1 10 Jonas Withers 5 David Waltson, Esq., sub- scribed the cash he re- ceived from the over- seers of the poor for drawing a

, where I have been t o m e e t t h e G o v e r n o r . W e h a d a round-about journey, having pretty w e l l t r a v e r s e d t h e w i l d e r n e s s . W e li ve d nobly at the Ki ng's palac e a t Conestoga; from thence crossed it to the Schoolkill." Here we have direct proof that Penn was fully

fight raged most furiously and the dead lay thickest. But it is not the purpose of this brief paper to present to you the mili- tary or civil career of this skilful sol- dier, true patriot and wise statesman. The eloquent pen of history did that long ago, and to-day we can neither add nor detract from