. William H. Bollman, who led the assembly in a prayer of gratitude, appreciation and hope. 0 God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home! The 122nd Psalm was read by Rabbi Daniel L. Davis. As he read the description of ancient Jerusalem

, dur- ing the trying times when the British overran Chester County and threatened Philadelphia .2 There was no satisfactory post route to Harrisburg, for in March, 1777, Judge Jasper Yeates wrote to Mr. Burd, of Philadelphia, seeking his aid for 1 History of Cumberland County, I. Daniel Rupp, 1846, p

degrees north 66 feet, etc.; 4 the second lot, 120 feet square, was assigned for a town hall and market house; the third, 120 by 148 feet, was the prison lot. Is this a disturbing fact, to note that the prison lot was larger than either the town square or the market place? The town claimed 200 inhabitants

, 1845. Shepherd, William Robert. History of Proprietary Government in Pennsyl- vania. Columbia University Press, New York, 1896. Proceedings Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 2, pp. 3-27, 223-237, vol. 11, p. 118. NOTE. This paper, abridged, was issued to the city and county schools as a service

County, can lay claim to a brief priority; the former by eight years, the second and third by one year. Early records show that Mary Prator, of Earl Township, in her will of April 11, 1741, bequeathed "to the Popish Church at Lancaster Borough the sum of two pounds, for the use and at the disposal of the

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

. HARTMAN was born two and a half miles east of Harrisburg, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1830. His father, who was a �farmer, died when Samuel was a mere child leaving the mother penniless with eight children—five boys and three girls—looking to her for support. An uncle of the children brought

, 111. 17 History of Chester County, Cope, 1881, p. 670. 18 Rupp's History of Lancaster and York Counties, p. 551. 19 Ellis and Evans' History, p. 363. �58 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOHN CHRISTOPHER DRAENKEL (TRINGLE) #38, 51 was a member of Trinity Church, and presented to the congregation in

to be a fascinating charm about the pot- ter and his wheel, and his ability to give form to various objects from his crude equipment, working with his thumbs and fingers on a plastic mass of wet earth. The Swop es Early in the history of Lancaster County the trade of the potter was not unknown. The