conceived and well planned inter-county event. And as the official representative of The Lancaster County Historical Society, I cannot too strongly commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for erecting this fine bronze tablet to commemorate the first important ferry

Caecil County. (Herrman Manuscripts, 7, Maryland Historical Society). Thus he is regarded as the "illustrious founder of Cecil County of which he originated the name." (Johnston. History of Cecil County). Our illustrious neighbor and first map maker is buried at Bohemia Manor on what was originally his

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

were carefully collected by Morris Frederick, placed in a casket 24 by 18 by 10 inches, and interred in the memorial grounds 125 feet south of its entrance. The "corner of our lowermost field," according to Rickert's map which shows the surroundings, was against a woodlot to its south and east. This

. Henry Eichholtz Leman was born in Lancaster on March 8, 1812.* His ancestors on his father's side were French Huguenots, who had come to what is now Lancaster County as early as 1716 and had settled in the Paradise Township region. Several of these were gunsmiths about the middle of the eighteenth

first day's purse of one hundred guineas, was won by Mr. Bond's 'First Consul,' beating Mr. 7 Boy of any weight. Catchweight. "Feather" is an old English racing term. 8 The Lancaster Journal, Saturday, September 30th, 1797. 9 Lancaster Journal,Saturday, September 20th, 1800. 10 Saturday, November 5th

. Finding that not all of the emigrants who continued to arrive were fitted for the restrictions and self- denials of these communities, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg re- solved to provide a third church settlement in Pennsylvania, found- ed on more liberal lines. In this community the congregation would be