NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM PENNSYLVANIA PACKET AND GENERAL ADVERTISER FROM NOV, 29, 1777, TO JUNE 17,• 1778, COLLECTED BY W. F. WORNER SUPPLEMENTARY TO SERIES OF H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. (Read Dec. 3, 1926.) In the series of Notes from the Pennsylvania Gazette contributed by H. Frank Eshleman to the

Items of Local Interest from the Pennsylvania Gazette, from 1761 to 1770.1 BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. 1761. The issue of January 15 recites that the French garrison at Detroit are at Lancaster, on their way to Philadelphia and also a number of the people that were prisoners there, are also in the

erection of our county in 1729, there are several sources of informa- tion. The letter of the original set- tlers here, dated 1710 in London, the statements of Melchoir Zeller, Hans Burki, and Benedict Brackbill, of 1710, giving lists of those going to Pennsyl- vania (Eshleman's German-Swiss An- nals, pp

12). At this time there were over 6,000 remonstrants from Philadelphia and other counties against the resolve of May 15th. (see issue June 12th) June 12, Pennsylvania assemblymen ordered its delegates in Continental Congress to vote for Independence. In the issue of June 26, there appears a full

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY'S HIGHWAY SYSTEM (From 1714 to 1760) By H. FRANK ESHLEMAN The writer purposes to set forth and to discuss h erein, a history of the roa ds and ·highways of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from 1714 to 1760, that being the scope of the records of the said roads contained

Items of Local Interest in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 4750 to 1760 Inclusive. COPIED BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. In our February pamphlet of 1918 appears the last installment of a series of items of local interest, and historical importance, found in the Pennsylvania Gazette, bringing those items down to

ready to deliver the minute the train stopped, but as Lin- �coin had been getting all kinds of ad- vice from all sources since his elec- tion, it seems, before reaching the station, from the window, he noticed the expectant orator standing on the platform with his manuscript opened and ready to begin