December, 1847, and were buried on the same day. I History of Lancaster County, by Ellis and Evans, 1883, page 374. 2 An Authentic History of Lancaster County, by J. I. Mombert, D.D., 1869, page 426. �Others living in this block were Herman Hirsh, Philip A. Metzger, Susan Carpenter Frazer, Elizabeth B

Herrnhut in 1732, and planted religious colonies over Europe. In 1734 he was or- dained a minister of the Lutheran Church. He was banished from Saxony in 1736, and then began to travel over the world. He gained the favor of Frederick William I, of Prussia, who caused him to be consecrated, by his own

R. Prowell, and published in 1903. History of York County, Pennsylvania, by George R. Prowell, 1907, v. 1, pp. 469-470, 522, 808. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, v. 11, pp. 283-284, first part; v. 11, pp. 261-263, second part; v. 12, pp. 201, 284, 342f, 391-392. Lutheran Church in

: 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

the college and seminary buildings at Gettys- burg were damaged in the battle and served as hospitals in the days follow- ing. Another local contact with Gettysburg is shown by the following lines from the minutes of the church council of Trinity Lutheran Church of Lan- caster: "September 7, 1863

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor

fee simple, to be held of the said manor so as no further tenures shall be created, but further alienations shall be held of the same lord and his heirs of whom the alien did then before hold." The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1735, by letters patent, recorded at Philadelphia in

of a fine spring"? Lot No. 730, of the Hamilton Tract, con- tained a spring; and a reservation concerning the lot stated that a line was to be drawn "so as to form a triangle at a spring, by cutting off ten feet from the eastern and ten feet from the southern �2 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY