, however, returning them to Virginia, where they arrived just as another English party was about starting up to their assistance. In 1640 another English party made ²Jenkin's History of Pennsylvanta; vol, I, p, 72. Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal; vol, I. �its appearance on the river, This time they

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

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

painter West. His son, John Joseph Henry, as a youth of seventeen years, accompanied Arnold's expedition to Canada, and wrote an excellent history of that ill-fated cam- paign. Later, on the death of Judge Atlee, he became Judge of the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania, which he held from 1793

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

village of New Holland, Lancaster county, offering a reward of $100 for the discovery and conviction of the person or persons concerned in entering the church about the 15th or 16th of December, 1819, and destroying the new organ of the church, by re- moving and despoiling the pipes thereof, and taking

Marshall has made one of the most valuable contributions to our local history that we possess. For many years he kept a diary, a "Remembrancer," as he was pleased to call it, which, I believe I risk little in saying, is the fullest, most trust- worthy and readable of all the similar productions of that