, calls this the critical period of American history ; and wrongly the schools give it very little attention. The service of Lancaster County in the French and Indian War, was indispensable. Our county was engaged in all of the classes of war services of that conflict. We furnished a major amount of the

expedition of 1758, died March 11, 1759, and was buried with military honors in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa., on the 14th. A full account of the procession appears in the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 15, 1759. (3 A. 579). IV. Lancaster County in the Pre-Revolutionary "Inter-Bellum" In this, the fourth