. In Charter Book 1, p. 34, in the Recorder's office, appears the following: Amendment to the Charter of the Society for the Promotion of Industry and Prevention of Pauperism. To the honorable the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county: The petition of Annie E. Henderson, Mary R. Patterson, Mary E

Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of the

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �The objects of the

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

as injurious to the general interest of the community in which the wrong is done. 4. "Resolved, That the committee appointed at the last meet- ing be a committee to prepare articles of association and rules for the government of the Mechanics' Society of the City and County of Lancaster, and make

the American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge; and on May 18th of the same year, he was admitted to membership in the American Philosophical Society. The following is a list of members of the American Philosophical Society from Lancaster county, with the dates on which they

passage apply to John Hemphill, 42 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa." Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0N Friday, July 19th, 1822, a number of ladies met in the Sun- day-school house of Saint James's Protestant Episcopal church for the purpose of forming

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report