the Conestoga Indians, of the visit of their dis- tinguished patron, William Penn, and of their ultimate destruction by the Paxton Boys. The details of this legend will presently be furnished by per- sons amply qualified, but the theme itself suggests a personal incident and a personal sentiment

, Wright as your dis- tinguished guest speaker will, no doubt, give you a detailed history of this famous Quaker, This town of Columbia has a rich historical background, It was first named Shawnee Town by the Indians, later Wright's Ferry, then on September 25, 1788, one hundred and fifty years ago today

Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXERCISES INCIDENT TO THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLET IN HIS MEMORY By M. LUTHER HEISEY The clear skies and crisp atmosphere of a delightful October day brought together an assembly of several hundred people to the celebration incident to the

. About the circular edge of the raised bronze work surrounding the head of Ful- ton is a fitting legend. It was the work of Tiffany's artists in New York. The other tablet is in the form of a conventional shield and is of bronze, of about the same dimensions as the one just mentioned. The accompanying

Signers And Ratifiers Of The Constitution Of The United States By MRS. CHARLES M. COLDREN Of the eight Pennsylvanians who attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and became signers of that immortal document, seven are shown on the plate opposite page 178. The upper four bear a direct

Historical Markers of the Heritage of the United Methodist Church in Lancaster County by The Reverend Abram W. Sangray The following Roadside Markers were put in place in Lancaster County, in the summer of 1984, as a bicentennial project of the United Methodist Church of Lancaster. Each description

current events, it is not always easy to forecast what may be of interest to subsequent generations. With the feeling that, perchance, someone may read these lines a hundred years hence, the recorder of these events in writing to you about that which took place in 1935, calls your atten- tion to the

crossing the Delaware, that awful and icy Christmas night, his portraits were always in profile. Exactly how and when Gen. Hand acquired "Rockford" the records in the Lancaster county Court House fully tell. It seems that on Septem- be- 14, 1785, the executors of James Davis, of Lancaster, for a considera

The Society of the Cincinnati in Lancaster By C. H. MARTIN Incorporated in the membership certificate of a society organized by officers of the American Army, at the time of its disbanding in 1783, are these words: "The duty of laying down in peace arms assumed for public defence, and of uniting in

DR. ALBERT DUFRESNE, A MAN OF MYSTERY There are certain words of the Divine Wisdom which are full of encourage- ment—be it reverently spoken—to those among us who know the care, research, time and patience required in the preparation of the briefest paper to be read before this society. "For there