, was from old Chester County; though the first Swiss settlement was begun by people from the old world .directly. Thus to explain the appearance of the Scotch-Irish and English, so prominent in the earliest settlement on Conestoga, about 1715, we must gc to some old Chester County records; while the

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the

Revenue tax for Lancaster county for the months of Sept., Oct. and Nov. 1862, the first three months of its operation, as shown by the assessors' returns was over $56,300.00. (Daily Evening Express 2-19- 1863.) The amount for Sept. being larger than that of Oct. or Nov. due t9 the first annual licenses

building belonged, return their grateful acknowledgments to the fire engine and hose companies, and to the citizens generally, for the prompt and vigorous efforts to save their Sunday-school house, from the fire of the 19th inst. All that was possible was done; and far more was saved than could have been