The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City. It is to be regretted that our fathers and grandfathers were so indifferent to the important events of their time, to the many stirring scenes and occur- rences of that early period, as not to have put them on record for the in

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

Zantzinger, Matthias Slough and Abraham Witmer, of the county of Lancaster, Gentlemen, Commissioners to procure the proper books and receive the names of such �persons who desire to subscribe for stock and enter the same in the books. The shares were to be $300 each. Stock books were to be opened in Philadel

MARSHALL'S DIARY IN ITS RELATION TO LANCASTER CITY AND COUNTY. Of the many names associated with the Revolutionary annals of Lancaster county, few deserve to be held in greater respect, or are better entitled to remembrance, than that of Chris- topher Marshall. At the same time I feel I am quite

Kieffer, Michael Malone, Christopher Hager,Thomas Baumgard- ner, John Black, Elliot Lane, William Mathiot, David Longenecker, Charles Boughter, Edward S. Hubley, Michael Barry, Abraham W. Russel, William Carpenter, Jacob M. Frantz, Richard McGrann, Sr., Jacob Bausman, all of Lancaster, and John G. Brenner

THE NEWSPAPERS OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY. In 1896 1 was induced to attempt the compilation of a bibliography of the newspapers, magazines and other pe- riodical issues of the press in the city of Lancaster from 1752 down to that time. Two or three previous attempts, and very successful ones, too, had

no more inter- esting chapter in our local history than that which shall fully go into the details of the newspaper history of Lancaster county. There cannot be a more fruitful or interesting field. Has any one here any idea of the number of newspapers and other publications that have been born in

INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the