this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the

. Merrill, James, 1790-1841. Merrill, Samuel. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 396-401 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

Pennsylvanians, Benjamin Franklin, was the promoter and proprietor of the first printing establishment in the city of Lancaster. His name was not known in the matter at the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of certain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing

with the more general introduction of beasts of burden, horses and oxen, came also the large farm wagons and other wheeled conveyances. These required something better than bridle paths. Traffic between the settle- ments and throughout the country and with the county metropolis was in- creasing rapidly