some Friends �to give them a visit and to consider how far they may be capable to hold and keep meeting for worship with reputation." On May 1, 1754, James Hamilton deeded to Peter Worrall, Isaac White- lock, and Thomas Poultney, "trustees of the Quaker Society in Lancaster borough," two lots of ground

, Palatines, English, and Scotch-Irish. Many of them had come to Penn's Woods with their families to escape tyranny, intolerance, and every form of injustice. Thomas Cookson, the first burgess, had come to Lancaster in 1740. Sebastian Graff had moved here several years before the incorporation. Some of the

Brethren's Church or Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) . He came to Pennsylvania in 1741, preached at Germantown for some time, established congregations at Beth- lehem, Nazareth and Lititz, promoted Christian communistic set- tlements, and preached at different points in Lancaster County, Pa. Zinzendorf

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

the townships of Martic, Pequea, East and West Lampeter shall rendezvous at McCall's Ferry. The citizens of Conestoga and Lancaster townships shall rendezvous at Shenk's Ferry. The citizens of Manor and Millersville shall rendezvous at Safe Harbor. The citizens of Columbia Borough, East and West

SOCIETY caster, on a limestone rock, and yet all supplied with excellent water from the surrounding hills." An analysis and comparison of waters taken from hydrants,. wells and cisterns of Lancaster in 1884, and tested by Professor Thomas R. Baker, of the State Normal School, Millersville, Pa.,. showed

. This Thomas McGovern also was a builder of railroads and canals. Mrs. Reilly was first married to John McManus, and their second child, Thomas, was a railroad contractor, and resided in Lancaster. JACOB B. ROHRER was born at Middletown, Pa., August 31, 1857, son of the late Major Jeremiah and Mary

traffic noises, the assembly repaired to the high school auditorium, where the full program was followed. In presenting the tablet to the borough of New Holland, Dr. Beck, for the Lancaster County Historical Society, declared, "We have been the first to commemorate, honor, revive and perpetuate the memory