Company, of which Major Light was clerks—which office remained in the family for four genera- tions,—was located just across the street from the rear of his residence. Another major—John Andre, widely known in American history as an enemy and a spy—was housed as a prisoner of war in this block in the year

in the states referred to. And what his difficulties were, especially in Ohio and Michigan, may readily be imagined when we remember the thirty years of Indian turmoil in this western region during the period of the French and Indian War, the Pontiac Conspiracy, and the American Revolution. We in the

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

, in August, 1846, Sutter took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America. Throughout that year and the following year, he maintained his own troops and kept order in the vast reaches of northern California. He did not receive a cent for his services during the war, nor were his soldiers

quoted. Between 1846 and 1847 his son, Dr. F. E. Melsheimer, contributed seven papers describing new North American beetles. In 1853 there appeared a Catalogue of the Descriptions of the Coleoptera of the United States, revised by Haldeman and Leconte. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer should be given some

Penn's Manors Their Origin, Location and Number By M. LUTHER HEISEY A grant given to William Penn on March 4, 1681, contained several powers to erect manors. The following July 11, he agreed with the "adven- turers and purchasers" in England, who were interested in his grant and the settlement of

hereafter, remove, cut down, or willfully break, injure, destroy, or in any way damage and injure the same, or in any way stop or prevent the same from being used, without the consent of the mayor of the city." Incidentally, the story of the drinking fountains for mall and the watering troughs for beast