set them up in vacant places, and having gleaned the town, silently stole away." Many are familiar with Mathew B. Brady's gallery on wheels as he followed the fortunes of the Union Army in the field, and gave us a pictorial history of the great conflict. One such wagon 12 Lancaster Intelligencer

source of water supply, before the introduction of piped water, came from the numerous wells and pumps about the city. These were vital to the welfare of the city, and were pro-· tected by city ordinances. We can learn the location of thirty-one such pumps from an old history.* City councils on October 5

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

, West Reading, Pa., who spoke in place of Judge Benjamin C. Atlee, absent through illness, knew his subject well, and told many interesting stories about Sutter's life in Lititz. In his monograph on Sutter, printed in our Proceedings in 1913 (see Vol. XVII, p. 279), Rev. Landis expressed a hope which he

Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during

Life of William, Penn. Philadelphia, 1852. Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County. Description of the Prov- ince, pp. 59-71; Frames of Government, pp. 16-45 Appendix. Pound, Arthur. The Penns of Pennsylvania and England. New York, 1932. Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties. Lancaster

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor

fee simple, to be held of the said manor so as no further tenures shall be created, but further alienations shall be held of the same lord and his heirs of whom the alien did then before hold." The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1735, by letters patent, recorded at Philadelphia in

end. A cherished memento which he carried with him was a small Bible, thrown away by his captors, but later picked up and restored to him by his captain, William S. McCaskey. REFERENCES Lancaster Newspapers of contemporaneous date Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, vol. 2 Ellis and Evans