top, in large embellished script, the words, "Lafayette Ball," and underneath it and a little to the left of the center is a representation of the Goddess of Liberty, and to the left of this the American. Eagle, de- fiant. And to the left of the eagle a ship full sail. Just to the right of the center

LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO LANCASTER "Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was born in Anvergne, France, September 6, 1757. An orphan at thirteen, with a princely fortune, married at sixteen to the granddaughter of the Duc de Noail- les, he had only the choice left to him in

Lancaster, we went to Port Deposit, on the banks of the Susque- hanna, where we found a deputation from Baltimore, with which we em- barked, in order to reach this latter town. On the way we visited Havre- de-Grace, a little village, situated where the Susquehanna empties into Chesapeake Bay." �file

assisting in the reception to the Marquis De Lafayette, the nation's guest. �The Lancaster Journal, of Friday, September 24th, 1824, con- tained a news item relative to the Lancaster soldiers copied from the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, of Thursday, September 23rd, which was as follows: "Their appearance

Schriver, secretary and treasurer of the Harford Historical Society; he also gave a brief account of General Lafayette's passage through Harford county. Mr. Schriver stated that General Lafayette suggested the name of Havre- de-Grace, for the little town at the head of the Chesapeake Bay because it