Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in

ALEXANDER WILSON IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner The name of Alexander Wilson, pioneer ornithologist in America, should be familiar to every well-informed school boy in the land; yet doubtedless many of our local high school students who turn to Wilson's books for in- formation on birds, do

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

The following description of the Dunkard Monastery indicates that Mit- telberger is mistaken in stating that the third road "runs to the left hand toward Lancaster and Bethlehem." Obviously, he meant Ephrata. At the latter place there was "a monastery and nunnery of Dunkers," described by

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has