Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Volume XXX, No. 7, pages 89-91 of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, are the names of 164 sol- diers of the Revolutionary War, the location of whose graves in Lancaster county, are known

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

Pennsylvania (1797) and reappeared in Rupp's History of Lancaster County (1845), a Swedish missionary was stationed at the Indian village of Conestoga about 1710. This is the story as it appears in Proud's history: "In or about the year of our Lord, 1710, a Swedish missionary preached a sermon, at an Indian

Record of Soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of Others Who Gave Service During the Period of 1784 -1815 By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS and ELEANORE J. FULTON. Note—The following comprehensive list of soldiers, who served their country as active participants in the War of

MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the

STEINMETZ The following names of soldiers from Lancaster county, Pa., who served in the War of 1812, were copied from a military docket in the prothonotary's office in the court house at Reading, Pa., and are a continuation of similar important information to be found in Vol. XXXVI, pp. 161-165, of the Pro­

by the fact that Abraham Burkholder, a Swiss, who had arrived in Lancaster County in 1717 and settled at the mouth of the Pequea Creek, held some of his land under a Maryland grant. �the river to the west side, a good portion of which, in 1722, to prevent just such settlements, had been surveyed by

civilized intercourse with us, and for Euro- pean garments, which they can secure only by their exchange with the traders for beavers, but every one cannot get a beaver by hunting. (3 History of Lancaster County, Pa., by I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., 1844, p. 158. �"They acknowledge one God of Heaven

EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to