The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

to the waste paper man,to "raise money for cigars," as Mr. Cope old me. The lists, of course, include only Conestoga (later East and West Conestoga), Donegal and Pequea townships, as these large, partly-or- ganized sections practically included the whole of the Lancaster county re- gion then

of the association. A meeting was called for Saturday, November 23rd, at which time rules and regulations for the government of the association were to be adopted.1 Ten years later, a meeting of inhabitants of East Hempfield township was held at John Hatz's tavern, in Lancaster city, for a similar

and the Indians. The borough was centrally located in the province, on the main route from Philadelphia to the frontier and convenient for communication with both East and West. Quite early in the war, it became "a safe and convenient place for the storage and distribution of war material."' Lancaster

Number Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Volume # Cemetery Number Page Number 1702 Allgaier Susanna Lutz July 28, 1788 January 27, 1815 In German Beard Graveyard East Hempfield 3 72 95 1713 Beaird Roberd June 6, 1749

on Mr. West's order. From all accounts he is like to turn out a very extraordinary person in the painting way, and it is a pity such a genius should be cramped for want of a little cash." Again, on October 16, 1762, Judge Allen wrote to the same parties : "Mr. Hamilton and I have employed Mr. West to

Henry, on February 7, 1760, for a house fronting on Market Place, twenty-two feet two inches, and one hundred and twenty five feet deep, to a fourteen-foot alley; on the east, by the house of Rudy Stoner; on the west, by another fourteen-foot alley. This alley was called "Moravian Al- ley," and ran out

Books for the Backcountry: Patrick Orr's Inventory, Lancaster, 1754 by Alan Tully Because of the longstanding interest of historians in the intellec- tual and cultural life of colonial Philadelphia we now have a clear idea of what the reading interests of that city's elite were during the mid-eight

Number Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Volume # Cemetery Number Page Number 16600 Brubaker Abraham August 30, 1773 April 6, 1840 pg 452-456 of transcription Brubaker Cemetery East Hempfield Township 13 182 90 16602

Number Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Volume # Cemetery Number Page Number 2014 Brubaker Adaline March 8, 1892 Brubaker Graveyard East Hempfield Township 3 76 187 2015 Brubaker Anna October 1, 1840 November 30, 1862