. As an assistant to Bishop White, he was present at the consecration of Saint James's church, Lancaster, on Sunday, October 15th, 1820. On the afternoon of that day he preached. His sermon gave so much satisfaction that he was invited to become assistant to the Rev. Joseph Clarkson, rector of Saint

being the first citizen of Lancaster, issued a stirring appeal for contributions. This appeal appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Saturday, October 14th, 1797, and is as follows: "FELLOW CITIZENS AND BROTHER FARMERS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER:" "The calamity, with which it has pleased God to visit the

Pennsylvania Asso- ciators from Lancaster County.1 6 On December 8, 1777, he was appointed a first lieutenant of the Third Company, Seventh Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia commanded by Colonel John Boyd of Lancaster county, as the following com- mission now in possession of Miss Martha Bladen Clark, a lineal

American Revolution, the Province of Pennsylvania was divided into two great parties. The Proprietary party was led by James Hamilton. To it belonged the wealthiest and most influential men,—such as the Aliens, the Shippens, and all who were considered "the aristocracy of the country." The officers of the

Lightning Strikes Spire of Trinity Lutheran Church By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0 N Tuesday, May 13th, 1823, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the beautiful spire of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, pride of Lancaster, and an ancient land-mark, was struck by lightning

northeastern section of the borough, where they erected small cabins. That was in 1819. Two years later, one hundred manu- mitted slaves from Hanover county, Virginia, (originally the property of Sally Bell, a Friend, who emancipated them), came to Columbia and' were quartered at what was known as the Lamb

Pool, used as a Theatre from 1837 to 1847, �We now know, for a certainty, from the advertisements just quoted, tha as early as December, 1791, a professional company of "theatrical barn stormers" had appeared in plays in Lancaster borough, but where these per formances were given we are unable to state

, Chester county, Pennsylvania, a tract of land con- taining 250 acres in the Province of Pennsylvania, subject to a quit rent, described in the document as "yielding and paying therefore during the said terme unto the said James Philips and Elizabeth, his, wife, their heirs and assigns, the rent of one

fire companies were requested to appoint from among their members a suitable person as director or captain ; that the persons so appointed from each of the companies constitute the board of management; that they wear a badge or mark of distinction, by which they may be known to all ; and that they have