of that width northward a like distance. This conveyance was in trust "for erecting, keeping or holding a market within the Town of Lancaster for the ease and conveniency of the inhabitants thereof and others having oc- casion to resort thither." Just when a market house was first built upon this

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

THE STORY OF CAERNARVON, The township of Caernarvon is the most easterly of the townships that collectively make Lancaster county the keystone in agricultural wealth in the United States. Settled in Colonial days, peopled in the beginning by a sturdy race of men, its history in the almost 200 years

GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

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

Report of the Committee which Con- ducted the General Hand Cele- bration. Lancaster, Pa., October 2, 1912. To the Lancaster County Historical Society. Your committee to arrange and con- duct the public ceremonies comprising a celebration of "Lancaster County in the "War of the Revolution," with

HISTORY OF LOT 159 OF THE HAMILTON GRANT Those who do not look upon them- selves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform their duty to the world.—Daniel Webster. The town of Lancaster was sur- veyed and laid out by Andrew Hamil- ton, Esq., or James Hamilton, Esq. (1), his son