site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

AUGUSTINE HERRMAN, LANCASTER COUNTY'S FIRST MAP MAKER By HERBERT H. BECK A UGUSTINE HERRMAN was one of the leading figures of the lower Susquehanna Valley in the seventeenth century. He was the first man to chart this part of Eastern North America. He named Cecil County, Maryland, which adjoins

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

somewhere in the eastern end of the town south of Main street. The church records were indefinite on the subject. Careful an- nalists though they usually were on community affairs, the early diarists, whose piety inclined them toward pacifism, made but few entries on the portentous events of war about them

to stamp the barrels and locks of his pieces—H. E. Leman, Lancaster, Pa. Most of our other makers, if they marked their guns at all, and many of them did not, used their names only, without their town. Leman was an advertiser of his rifles and of Lancaster. Thus properly identified, Leman rifles are

the course and received forfeit." A year later, the Lancaster fall races were advertised to commence on Tuesday, November 10th, 1807. On the first day a race would be run for the Jockey Club purse No. 1, of 250 dollars; second day, purse No. 2, of 150 dol- lars; third day, purse No. 3, of 100 dollars

. Finding that not all of the emigrants who continued to arrive were fitted for the restrictions and self- denials of these communities, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg re- solved to provide a third church settlement in Pennsylvania, found- ed on more liberal lines. In this community the congregation would be