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

Locust street, Philadelphia, is an original paper,' yellow with age, which contains the following : "To the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware; and to the Honourable the

Compassville, a short distance east of the line that divides Chester and Lancaster counties. It was , kept for many years by John Miller. In the survey of the old King's Highway made by order of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania in �The Sign of the Bull, Compassville, Chester County

, / 1789, / aged 36 years. / An officer in the Revolutionary War. / First Lieutenant, 12th Pennsylvania, 1776. / Captain, 1777. / Retired, 1778. / First Worshipful Master / of / Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., / Lancaster, / 1785. 154. H. C. B. 155. M. N. C. 166. Amelia Landis Jefferies, / wife of Thomas

foreign power or resort to arms for the defense of all that can be held dear to freemen, the officers of the militia of Lancaster county, —feeling themselves happy under the influence of a government of their own choice, mild and equal in its operation, and perfectly satisfied that it has been, and

this worth-while organization. Lancaster In 1766 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Hon. Charles I. Landis, President Judge of the Second Judi- cial District of Pennsylvania, owns a rare treasure in the form of an original copy of "The Charter, Laws, Catalogue of Books, List of Philosophical Instruments

Pennsylvania. Subsequent to the publication of that paper in May, 1930, I addressed the following letter to the secretary of Lodge No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons: Lancaster, Pa., November 7th, 1930. Mr. J. Fred Fisher, Secretary, Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., Lancaster, Pa. Dear Sir and Brother: It is not

Lancaster, all of which came to the country during the four years of my sojourn there." "Three great roads," this observing German traveler wrote, "have been laid out in the province of Pennsylvania, all of which lead from Philadelphia into the interior of the country as far as it is inhabited. The first

DATE ON STATE HIGHWAY SIGNS CORRECTED By William Frederic Worner Students of our local history know that on May 2nd, 1729, the county of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, was created by the Lieutenant Governor, Patrick Gordon, and his council. By an Act of Assembly, passed May 10th, 1729, it was

secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: "I still continue in Lancaster county, in Pennsylvania, as there is no clergyman near that place, tho' I meet with a great deal of opposition ; neither can I yet have any church." Before June, 1749, the Rev. Mr. Locke, doubtless