, William, 1715-1774. Indians of North America. Fur trade--United States. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [305]-326 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9

still another most discouraging feature of the struggle, the reluctance of the many to enter the ranks of the army and to remain there. As the war went on, it was found impossible to keep the ranks filled; in fact, they never were full. The professions and practice of most were not in accord. There was

the treaty stipulated that the creditors on either side should " meet with no lawful impediment " in endeavoring to recover their good debts. The fifth article stipulated that the Congress of the United States should "earnestly recommend " to the several states the restoration of the rights and

- chanted bow in the Arabian story that took its strength from the arm that �drew it. In a child's hand it was a toy to shoot at birds; in the hand of a war- rior it sent its shaft through shield and cuirass; but when drawn by the arm of a giant sent aloft a shaft that kindled with its swiftness and left a

report made to the Senate of the United States, said: "The Lancaster road, the first extensive turn- pike that was com pleted in the United States, is the first link of the great west- ern communication from Philadelphia." �ink and paper it can have had when it came from the press, it now turns up in the

cash," issued paper currency to the extent of six thousand pounds. �Massachusetts and South Carolina were the initial colonies in the United States to introduce the use of a paper currency without a metallic reserve to sustain it, and the others were not slow,on one pretext or another, to fol- low

HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, An Act of Vandalism. The following is an excerpt read by S. M. Sener, Esq., from "The Oracle of Dauphin," Harrisburg, Pa., under date of 6th of January, 1820: "The Lancaster Free Press contains an advertisement of the Trustees and Elders of the German Reformed Church in the

Generals which the Quak- er element contributed to the Revolu- tionary War, and one of the two born Generals, besides the Commander-in- Chief, who did gallant service in that struggle of the centuries. No General in the Continental army rendered his country better service. At the Bran- dywine, at Paoli, at