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

. 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

. Philadelphia, 1888. Buell, A. C. William Penn. Clarkson, Thomas. Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn. London, 1813. Colonial Records, vol. 2, p. 253. Fisher, J. F. The True William Penn. Philadelphia, 1900. Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. 1, p. 400. Janney, Samuel Macpherson. The

) in the Congressional Library, in a special philatelic display in June, 1940. The exact dimensions of the stamp are 21 x 14 mm. The United States Stamp Catalogue lists among the "locals": Barr's Penny Dispatch Lancaster, Pa. Established by Elias Barr for local collection and delivery, as well as to

- signated streets, lanes, alleys, numbers of lots, and table or index of names of original grantees, date of deed, yearly ground-rent, etc.," and the same was placed in care of the town clerk. The burgesses also directed that "the ancient draughts of the Borough of Lancaster having lately been found, it is

-1 By Thomas Cummings: Soldiers' Monument at Penn Square, Lancaster By D. B. Landis: Mill Creek, at Horseshoe Curve Mill Creek, near "Jew's Dam." �SKY•LIGHTDAGUERREANROOMS, IN KRAMPH'S BUILDING, Corner of North Queen and Orange Streets, LANCASTER 117"The only Sky-Light Room in Lancaster. LIIXTO W•4

second reference to a post office in Lancaster is found again in a printer's notice. Francis Bailey, publisher of the famous Lancaster almanac, advertises for sale the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, known as "Common Sense," at the printing and post office in King Street. The Pennsylvania Gazette

employees of the Norris Locomotive Works had time for politics. That was their recreation. We print here an interesting bit of correspondence between their secretary and former Presi- dent James Buchanan. Rooms of the Democratic Club, Lancaster Locomotive Works, Lancaster, October 11, 1864. To the Hon