THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has

Pennsylvanians, Benjamin Franklin, was the promoter and proprietor of the first printing establishment in the city of Lancaster. His name was not known in the matter at the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of certain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing

, 1730, a petition was presented by "the magis- trates, grand jury and other inhabit- ants of Lancaster county,setting forth that not having the conveniences of any navigable water for bringing the produce of their labors to Philadel- phia, they were obliged, at a great ex- pense, to transport them by

ANN HENRY: LANCASTER COUNTY'S WOMAN TREASURER. Ann Henry, the treasurer of Lancaster county and wife of the Hon. William Henry, was the daughter of Abraham and Ursula Wood. According to the family records she was born In Bucks county, but the records of the Moravian Church, of Lancaster, show her

, but, as he was good natured at heart, everybody was his friend. For more than forty years he was the crier in the Lancaster Courts. Prior to becoming such he had been a tipstaff, and, in consequence, he had been an officer of the Court for a full half century. He was rarely sick, and never absent from

not with it as it is at present; rather would we call up some of the pale phantoms of the past. Between Graeff's Landing and Rei- gart's Landing, as we know them at present, was built in former days, now nearly two centuries ago, the very first mill in Lancaster county. As far back as 1718, one