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more fortunate than their fellow-citizens here in Lancaster, who scored a partial success only. But I return to the first page of the record book,on which I find the follow- ing: "ANNO DOMINI 1786. "The Revd. Mr. Melsheimer, Minis- ter of the German Lutheran Congrega- tion at New Holland, after

the Lancaster Gazette. It had its birth in 1752 and was a fort- nightly publication, printed in alternate columns of Gcrman and English, by Miller & Holland. It went out of exist- ence the following year. No one was found courageous enough to start a new paper until the well-known printer, Francis

Independent, Columbia. The Star and News, Mount Joy. The Democrat, Columbia. 1873. The Clarion, New Holland. 1873. (About.) The Cabalistic Journal, Highville. 1874. West Earl Banner, Farmersville. 1875. Milton Grove News, Milton Grove. The Lititz Gazette, Lititz. The Adamstown Press, Adamstown. Ephrata Moun

Donegal in the Revolution Patriotism and Piety, A notable historic event in the his- tory of Lancaster county, binding the present to the past by an enduring chain of events, was the unveiling of a monument in Old Donegal church- yard, on Thursday, October 4th, 1899. This interesting memorial shaft

documents. In the account of its organization in 1736, the year in which the first church was built, we find the following: "Church Protocol of the newly built Reformed Church, here in the Island of Pennsylvania, in Cannastoken in the new town named Lancaster." The church itself was FIRST REFORMED CHURCH

hands. Pursch, the celebrated Swedish botanist, who visited the United States in 1799, says he found four botanical gardens in this country: Bartram's, in Philadelphia; Woodlands, near that city; Dr. Ho- sack's, at New York, and Marshall's, in Lancaster. Poor Market. On July 13 he records some trials he