THE SUN FIRE COMPANY, The following interesting compila- tion from the minutes of the Sun Fire Company of Lancaster was written by the late Ferdinand A. Demuth, who was a member of the Historical Society: In compiling these extracts from the minutes of the Sun Fire Company, the writer has taken

1929 A. K. HOSTETTER, C. H. MARTIN, H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, HERBERT H. BECK. Collections in Aid of Sufferers from the Fire in Lancaster in 1811 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L ATE in the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, or very early in the morning of the 2nd, the citizens of Lancaster borough were awakened

Fire Company No. 1 claims to be the oldest com- pany in the city and evidently was a continuation of the one in existence in the period of 1742 and later. Relics in the possession of the Lancaster County Historical Society, such as hats, leather �buckets and belts, show that this company was in service

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

respect, your obedient ser- vants, "Jeremiah Nelson, "Jacob Stone, "Isaac Adams. Selectmen of Newburyport." "To Adam Reigart, Jr. Esq., Chief Burgess of the Borough of Lancaster, Pa." The "calamity" referred to in the foregoing letter occurred on the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, when a number of