contains an interesting account of a court martial held in Lan- caster borough during the Revolutionary war, at which time two spies were tried, found guilty and executed. From local sources, it is discovered that this trial took place before the middle of March, and yet an account of it did not appear in

, arrived here from headquarters, on his way to Congress. The joy depicted on the countenances of the inhabitants, on this occasion, and the attention shown him by many of our most respectable citizens, is the best possible proof that he deserves well of his country. This morning (February 5th) he proceeded

Country" honored the borough of Lancaster with his presence and assisted the good people fitly to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of American Independence, it was at the White Swan tavern that he was entertained. When President .Adams passed through Lancaster on his way to the Federal City, it was at

II. ITEMS FROM LETTERS (Relating to Early Events in Lancaster, Pa.) Made by Dr. John W. Jordan 1774 Nov. 24 Wm. Henry is getting better but very slowly. He dare not go out yet. There are many sick in the town. 1775 Jan'y 19 Early in the month Tobias Riem died, and shortly before three died in the

France until John Adams became President. •In the spring of 1793, France 'declared war against England. The sym- pathies of America were with France. On the day that the French minister landed on American shores Washington issued a proclamation of neutrality. In 1794, Chief Justice John Jay secured from

royalty so that mankind might rise from subject of Kings to citizens of nations and be subject only to their God. The Revolution restored, wherever its seeds have fallen the lost dignity of man over all the earth and shed happiness and hope like a great new-risen sun, upon peoples everywhere, great and

revived by the members of the Proprietary party, and they concentrated their energies upon it. In the years 1767 and 1768, it received as members many men of high �rank and talent. James Hamilton was elected president; and John Penn, the Proprietor, agreed to serve as patron. The revival of the American

land in America was good and the price low, Mr. Cresswell reasoned that agriculture, being in its infant state there, could be greatly improved. Obtaining the consent of his parents to leave England, Nicholas went to Liverpool. He kept a diary from the time he left his parental home in Edale on

14th, 1804, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, at Idridgehay, and was buried in Wirksworth Parish church, Derbyshire. Lancaster in 1777 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the early autumn of 1777 the borough of Lancaster was visited by a clever Yankee, who had undertaken a journey on horseback from

Congress are not yet met here several of the Members not being arrived, as soon as they do meet, and an opportunity offers I shall write you again more fully. . . . 6 John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, wrote a short letter to General Washington. A portion of it is as follows: Lancaster 26