speakers here today, I will confine my task to quoting mainly the words of the recorded recitals, and giving the chain of title as it is recorded. Quoting from Book p. 28 etc., we find the following: "Richard Hill, Isaac Morris and James Logan, commissioners of property of Pennsylvania by rescript dated

that this gun, the best rifle in the world of its day, had its origin in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Authoritative works on the subject are "The Kentucky Rifle" by J. G. W. Dillin (1924), "Firearms in American History" by Charles Winthrop Sawyer (1910), and "Lancaster Rifles" by H. K. and G. L

later paper will deal with the history of many individual clocks, and the story of the famililes that have had them for generations, as I have uncovered many very interesting facts along these lines that would make good material for an historical paper. HOFFS—Among the clockmakers of Lancaster City who

north wall cut through the center of another trench. In a cess-pool excavation im- mediately northeast of the building, the bones of three individuals were found. Of the 110 buried thereabouts the remains of about twenty were uncovered. The remainder lie to the north, northeast and east of the house

about the Church. Individuals owned property and conducted busi- ness as they do to-day, though under the general oversight of a board known as the Aufseher Collegium, or Committee on Temporal Affairs. This was a powerful body made up of some of the wiser and more practical members of the congregation

Lancaster County. As Commissary of Hides for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland he established workshops in Phila- delphia, Lancaster, Allentown and elsewhere for making boots, shoes, hats, cartridge-cases, etc., for the army.24 He was a financier, as is shown by his being Fiscal Agent of the

composed numerous hymn tunes and part songs. These compositions, transposed into stand- ard notation, are quaint in melody, crude in harmony and entirely lack- ing in metre and rhythm; but they are remarkable as being original in fibre, as well as weave, and they form a most interesting chapter in the

, thirty feet high by eight feet bosh. Stood on Beaver Creek at Jefferson station. It was run very irregularly. Produced, 1845, eight hundred tons. In 1856, about 600 tons of forge metal out of lime; stone and bog ores. Abandoned in 1858 chiefly on account of lack of timber. 7 Clinton Furnace, 1841, on