known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

perfected or not is not known, as subsequent issues of local papers do not refer to the subject. Seven years later, citizens of Donegal and Mount Joy town- ships met for much the same purpose at Elizabethtown, Lancas- ter county, Pa. On their recommendation, and public notice hav- ing been given, a largely

nurses, and many inhab- itants died. Subscriptions for the relief of sufferers were solicited in the principal cities of the country. Lancaster city and county, never behind in deeds of mercy and charity, responded to the call for assistance from the afflicted inhabitants of the two Virginia towns. A

County, the Eden Spot of Pennsylvania." This was briefly responded to by a member of the Lancaster com- mittee. It would be interesting to know what became of this pitcher. If it is still preserved, it should have an honored place in Lan- caster's museum, when that fire-proof structure is erected. THE

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: "I still continue in Lancaster county, in Pennsylvania, as there is no clergyman near that place, tho' I meet with a great deal of opposition ; neither can I yet have any church." Before June, 1749, the Rev. Mr. Locke, doubtless

county, Pa. All persons wishing to become members thereof, will please call on Abraham Gipple, secretary of the association, in order that their names may be entered." 1 Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser, Saturday, November 16th, 1811. 2 Lancaster Journal, Friday, September 7th, 1821. �The officers were