, " a Anne Marie Villars, a French girl, an Acadian, who had a brother and sister residing near Lancaster." An early record of burials at St. Mary's church, this city, contains an entry under date of December 15, 1798, of the burial of Jean Algliso, born an Acadian. The marriage records of St. Joseph's

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

see Beaumarchais' "Eugenie." Lieutenant Reeves records that his company performed "The Lying Valet" in Reading, 1781.4 Amateur play remained a favorite pastime in the American army. The Manuscript Department of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania preserves the notes of Thomas J. Baird5 on the