Philadelphia, in 1816. It is found on page 47: "In the town of Lancaster, a place at that time (circa A. D., 1750) remark- able for its wealth, and which had the reputation of possessing the best and most intelligent Society to be then found in America. It was chiefly in- habited by Germans, who, of all people

LANCASTER IN 1772, The Lancaster County Historical So- ciety is indebted to the courtesy of Prof. Jacob N. Beam, of the Depart- ment of French, at Princeton Univer- sity, for the following extract from a notable pre-revolutionary diary, which will be found below. It has been deemed proper to give a