Governor Wood, of Virginia. The interesting letter I have in my hands was purchased a few weeks ago by me at an auction sale of autographs and other library wares. It was writ- ten by James Wood, and although the writer was here in Lancaster, appar- ently on a special mission, our local annals have

LANCASTER BOROUGH. From the founding of Lancaster till 1742, it had been moving along with- out a charter, but, at this time, the in- habitants felt they needed a stronger form of Government. The town now having three hundred houses, and all kinds of manufacturing being repre- sented, the citizens

TERRITORIAL RAIDS ON LANCASTERCOUNTY. The fair domain of Lancaster county, with her nearly one thousand square miles of territorial area, with her thousands of water-courses to make green her fertile meadows, with her many elevated ridges and the magnifi- cent valleys that lie between, with her