, a rifle company. This was announced in the Lancaster Intelli- gencer. "With pleasure we state that the Pequea Rangers, a volunteer rifle corps, commanded by Captain John Slaymaker, Jr. of this county, and composed of gentle- men of different politics, on Wednesday last, unanimously resolved to

years old. SOURCES "Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pa."—J. W. Jordan "Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, A History"—H. M. J. Klein Slaymaker Papers at White Chimneys THE AUTHOR S. R. Slaymaker, II, was born in Lancaster in 1923. He was educated in the public schools of Lancaster, Franklin and