Montgomery County. The embassy left Philadelphia about June 27, 1696, arrived at Conestoga on July 7, and returned to Philadelphia on July 14. Cock's report notes the Indians' satisfaction at the Province's concern, makes reference to the Conestogas' friendship with the Schuylkill Indians, and projects a

, the reporter gave his impres- sions of the Illinois man who had just been nominated by the Republican party. "Mr. Lincoln is by no means attractive in his appearance. He looks very much like a plain, overgrown, rawboned Lancaster County farmer — only more so. In the Philadelphia convention (1865) when

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the White House the band began to play a funeral march and continued to do so until we reached the Capitol." George Paules, aged 93 last August "I enlisted in the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry. We went to Philadelphia for a few months. Our Company was ordered to Gettysburg for guard duty when the

Chester county, Pa., with some additional facts rela- tive to Mr. Lincoln's political history and it became the basis of well written articles which practically all of the Pennsylvania papers published in January 1860. When the convention convened, among the names presented for the Presidency, was that of

selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

of Philadelphia crosses the same," praying that a law, entitled "An Act establishing a ferry and building a bridge across Conestogoe Creek, in the county of Lancaster" might be passed. Abraham Witmer at that time must have resided on the east side of the Conestogoe. As shown by the records, he owned

exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

George Hammonds, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley and Joshua Hammonds. I have good reason to believe they are in Chester or Berks county. I shall be obliged if you will send me this requisition as soon as possible. Address me at, therefore, Baltimore Co., Md. I wish you to appoint Dickinson Gorsuch to go for them