the county seat and the site upon which Lancaster city later was to be built) was formally unveiled and presented to the people of Lancaster by Milton Thomas Garvin, prominent merchant, philanthropist and civic leader, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into business. At a

some Friends �to give them a visit and to consider how far they may be capable to hold and keep meeting for worship with reputation." On May 1, 1754, James Hamilton deeded to Peter Worrall, Isaac White- lock, and Thomas Poultney, "trustees of the Quaker Society in Lancaster borough," two lots of ground

): Hamilton, James, 1710-1783. Presbyterian Church Corporation of Pequea (Pa.) Cemeteries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1920 Description: 39-51 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

MASSACRE OF THE CONESTOGA INDIANS BY THE PAXTANG BOYS-A POEM By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XVIII, pp. 169-185, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster 1 County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Mas- sacre of the Conestoga Indians, 1763: Incidents and Details." In this paper the

, Palatines, English, and Scotch-Irish. Many of them had come to Penn's Woods with their families to escape tyranny, intolerance, and every form of injustice. Thomas Cookson, the first burgess, had come to Lancaster in 1740. Sebastian Graff had moved here several years before the incorporation. Some of the

Thomas McKean Inaugurated Governor of Penn- sylvania in the Borough of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N the autumn of 1799, Thomas McKean, a signer of the immor- .1. tal Declaration of Independence, was elected governor of Penn- sylvania. The Republicans of the borough and county of Lan

Pennsylvania. Subsequent to the publication of that paper in May, 1930, I addressed the following letter to the secretary of Lodge No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons: Lancaster, Pa., November 7th, 1930. Mr. J. Fred Fisher, Secretary, Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., Lancaster, Pa. Dear Sir and Brother: It is not

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report