many of the foremost men of old Lancaster, came from England. He was a justice of the peace, register and surveyor and an early member of St. James', where his memorial tombstone is yet to be read of all men in the robing room. The monument to Edward Shippen is in the churchyard, behind the chan- cel

lasfting fruits, unfading flow'rs; Where saints and angels sweetly join, And tune their harps to love divine; Where God unveils his shining face, And all the riches of his grace— Which, to admire, adore, and praise, Demands eternal length of days!!!" �SWEET POLLY'S MAIL. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

vote was taken here for the local choice of State can- didates. James Pollock, for Governor, and Henry L. Mott, for Canal Com- missioner were the favorite candi- dates and had the local support. Pol- lock, be it remembered, became Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, by election as an American, just before the

EARLY LANCASTRIAN. WILLIAM TRENT. William Trent, son of William Trent, for whom the city of Trenton, N. J., was named, had a military ca- reer. In Cooley's Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, 1883, it is said at page 289: "Major Trent is again found July 6th, 1776, at Fort Pitt, in an

years an As- semblyman from this county—great- grandfather of the venerable Samuel Evans, and of the late Major Amos Slaymaker. On Christmas Day George Ross, General Hand and Hans Groff, of Lancaster, attended Christ Church with him; but it was in the Lutheran Church, October 11 of the same year, that