which it was used and what part of the early community life it contributed; and to clothe, upon the skeleton history of the very earliest days of our splendid valleys, the flesh and blood, and thereby to add the life of that history, and to reveal something more of the character, aims and general

The Early Settlement and History of Little Britain Township, Including Fulton Township The first survey and grant of lands in Lancaster county was in this town- ship, Little Britain, which included in its early settlement the territory now called Fulton township, and consti- tutes the extreme

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

account is copied from the Columbia Spy, to whom it was fur- nished, by "a highly respectable lady of the Society of Friends whose oppor- tunities for gathering facts, relating to the early history of the place have been numerous." Among the unusual points she makes are that the road to Lan- caster and

- ernment, to oaths, etc (do., pp. 265- 277). They early reached Northern Italy and the border of Switzerland (do., p. 279). About 1212 persecutions began to rage in Holland (do., p. 298), and at that time 108 Waldenses were burned in Strasburg, Germany (do.). Thus it raged throughout the thirteenth century

Wright; H. F. Eshleman's Map of Early Highways, and Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County. ²²Second Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 7, p. 464. ²³Holms' "New Sweden," Lindstrom's Map, and p. 157. �trade was carried on between the Swedes and the Susquehannas, or Minquas, as they called them thirty years

Frontiers" 1790 to 1796. Lancaster County had part in all of these matters. Volume 5 is wholly made up of papers and documents on the Early Colonies on the Delaware, 1638 to 1643. Our Indian History and some of our early trade and trade routes, form part of this history. Volume 6 is wholly composed of "The

our racial history presents differ- ences of blood and our religion ex- hibits diversity of sects. Under the sheltering roof of the Conewago, the Cornwall and the Brecknock hills there abide a composite citizenship and social life that hold within their settlement and their development a story of rare

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who