1744. During the excitement rampant on the fron- tiers owing to Indian incursions the inhabitants of Berks county sought shelter and some of them fled to Lan- �caster by this way in 1755. (Pa. Gazette, 10-30, 1755.) Hom James Veech, in speaking of the old stage coach and pike, said: , "It is a monument

distillation of whisky, which in later years required the registra- tion of the stills and was the source of a great amount of Provincial and Federal Revenues, began in Lancaster County. Mombert, in his history of Lancaster County, states that the friendly relations between England and the Colonies would

. William Addams was born in Lancaster county, April 11th, 1777, and moved to Berks county, where, after serving as a member of the State As- sembly, he was elected to Congress and served from March 4th, 1825, to March 4th, 1829. He died at Sinking Springs, Pa., May 30th, 1858. SYDENHAM ELNATHAN ANCONA

conference be held at Lancaster since there were few communities in Pennsylvania wherein George Washington had more close friends and former comrades in arms. In 1788, Pennsylvania had nineteen counties. In the census of 1790, Lancaster County was within a small margin of ranking second in population in the

Early Coin and Private Scrip of Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN In introducing the subject of this paper I wish to call your attention to the large variety of coin which circulated or was referred to in early Lan- caster County, and follow with brief reference to the origin and extent of issues of

referred to a committee where it evidently was successfully "pocketed." The proposed Conestoga county, for which erection the most persistent efforts were made, was to be formed from eastern Lan- caster, western Chester and southern Berks counties. The first effort to organize this area into a separate

that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, nothing could be more fitting nor of more local interest than a review of his connections with Lancaster and its citizens. Prefacing this, I wish to present evidence that Abra- ham Lincoln's ancestral family was represented in colonial Lan- caster county. John

to the advent of prohibition a large portion of the cost of maintaining the Federal Government was derived from the tax on distilled spirits. The distillers of the county were cautious and zealously guarded their interests, particularly during the first few decades of the last century. The citizens