about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

day wrote that the two most impressive men in all the city of Phila- delphia were Thomas McKean and his son-in-law, The Chevalier de Yrugo. David Paul Brown left us this picture of him. "He was tall and stately — 14 Thomas McKean was born 1734 in New London Township, Chester County. He was a member

Bishop Francis Asbury and The Reverend Henry Boehm George L. Heiges This account aims to be a brief record of the joint labors of two devout and zealous missionary preachers of the Protestant Church in America. One of them was Henry Boehm who was born in Lancaster County, scion of sturdy Swiss

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

profitable crop, and on the basis of the yield in Lancaster County, asserted that an acre of ground would yield 33 to 36 pounds of Saffron. For a picture of the Heinitsh store in the 90's we have this description by Edward Page: I went to the store in 1891. At that time, the store had bulk windows with

during the Revolutionary War. The Jonathan Potts Collection is particularly rich in such letters ; and because of this, it seems appropriate to first tell you something about Jonathan Potts. He was born in the year 1745 at Colebrookdale (Popo- dickon) in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and as a youth

gave a brief history of the origin of the Christian Association and also stated the objects to be accom- plished. A collection was lifted to defray the expense incurred for printing and for the use of the room (in the Court House)." —April 1, 1870 In the long history of the Y. M. C. A. in the United