romance than the narrative �of history. The day after their arrival at Ephrata, McMeyer McDonald died of his wounds. His own soldiers buried him a little distance from the burial place where the monument is now placed. The last survivor of this gallant company died about three years ago. He was ninety-one

valleys of the Pequea and Conestoga. It is recorded in Rupp's "History of Lancaster County" that Martin Meylin erected a boring mill near the Big Spring, in 1719. These pioneers brought with them their ideas on the art of riflemaking and soon, necessity — their own protection — compelled them to invent

published history of St. Paul's Reformed Church. "During the pastorate of Rev. John Conrad Bucher, sometime between 1775 and 1779, the church was used as 1 Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 23, p. 5, and vol. 51, p. 127. �Monument to the memory of One Hundred and Ten Soldiers of the