signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

her as a prize of war. In 1867 she was sold and renamed. In the spring of 1884 the former Harriet Lane was abandoned after grounding off the coast of Brazil. �WARSHIPS NAMED FULTON Robert Fulton, American inventor, was born in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1765. At the age of 13 he

December 19, 1889, aged eighty-one years. SAMUEL R. SLAYMAKER, son of Samuel Cochran Slaymaker, was born in Donegal Township on March 14, 1867, and died in Lancaster, November 28, 1940. For a number of years he was civil engineer for the Pennsylvania and other railroads, and at one time chief engineer of

September 1, 1869 NOTES 1. Old Lancaster—Tales and Traditions, by William Frederic Worner, p. 197, Lancaster, 1927. 2. A Biographical History of Lancaster County, by Alex. Harris, Lancaster, 1872. 3. Orphans Court Docket, 1855-1856, p. 713. August 19, 1856, Lancaster County Courthouse. 4. Ibid, p. 602. 5

persecuted Hussites at his Barony of Lititz. The suggestion to honor Zinzendorf and mark this old house came to The Lancaster County Historical Society from one of its members, Samuel H. Ranck, noted librarian of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doubtless the historical facts and importance of the place were brought

the Post Office in King's Street." (See fac-simile on page 4.) In 1756, the Pennsylvania Gazette advertised a list of unclaimed letters for Lancaster County folks held "at the post office in Lancaster." Previously, 1738 and 1741, the lists of letters were held at Philadelphia. Post roads were few in

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

, that he spent the prime of his life in Lancaster County and that he gave Pennsylvania two sons who followed closely in his footsteps. While he is also well known as an educator and a clergyman, I am concerned chiefly in his career as a scientist. We must admit that Frederick Valentine Melsheimer was

1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power

added the search for Indian arrow heads, arti- facts, etc., which abounded in the fields of Lancaster County. There is no envy for the advantages which the boys of the later years of the twentieth century enjoy. We had the more primitive, less developed conditions which never palled upon us. Lancaster