1763 to 1765. Certain deeds to lots in Manheim refer to them as "shown on a certain draft or plan of the town of Manheim and lots adjacent, lately drawn by Thomas Lincoln, surveyor." It is of interest to know that in the progressive migration of this noted family from Hingham, Mass., where the

, in other parts of the United States, or in other lands, I have made an exhaustive examination of the subject and believe that in this paper I have presented the names of all Lancaster county born men who have been honored by election to Congress in districts other than our own. WILLIAM ADDAMS

given Michael and Mary by my ancestor is a notable kindness and charity to possibly the last remnants of the Native Americans in Lancaster County or South- eastern Pennsylvania. After residing with Christian Hershey for some few years, Michael, according to tradition, was the first to die. His wife

and enterprising farmer. Hav- ing a large family and believing that he could provide better for them in the new world, he determined to come to America. The fact that some of his brothers and uncles had already emigrated to Pennsylvania, some coming with Penn, induced Mr. Smith to settle in this

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

inhabitants of Lancaster county praying that that part of the county which lies south and east of the Big Conestoga, from its mouth to Witmer's bridge, and south of the Lancaster turnpike from Witmer's bridge to the Chester county line, be erected into a county to be called Conestoga. This petition was

of the Society by Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and others, who saw therein germs of a future aristocracy. These criticisms caused some branches of the general or National Society to disband. A letter by Stephen M. Mitchell, member of Congress, to Col. Wadsworth, dated