signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

, and for a short time under the firm name of Fortney 7 The Fortney family was part of the early French colony. Evidence from the oldest records of the First Reformed Church shows that the name was originally Fortunet. They were always closely associated With the Rotes and the Harmanys. Many members of

records tell us: "November 27 1788. By the Lutheran pastor [the Rev. Henry Ernst Muhlen- , s d " berg], on the English cemetery. A very old man - George an erson. Other Prominent Citizens GEORGE GIBSON #66, 68, 119, 120, 271, 272, 279, 280 was one of the first squatters on the site which became Lancaster

.; Lancaster, Pa., Transfer Station, located in a room in the old Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, where the transfer clerk was stationed, who tapped the depot letter boxes, and sorted the pouch and sack mail for the many trains; Lititz postmark, showing an envelope corner from the famous Beck Family School

cut away part of the Lancaster cemetery, which was first used about 1850, in the straightening process. The following are petitions of proponents and opponents of the change in the line of this street: "To the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County: A petition of the city of

Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly M. Luther Heisey Long before the Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly became famous the art of dancing is mentioned in the early archives of Lancaster County. When Witham Marche attended the Commissioers Treaty gathering in Lancaster he kept an interesting diary

unveiling of the tablet to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, at the home of D. Paul Hershey, located on the old Newport Road, one mile north of Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Oc- tober 11th, 1936. The actual unveiling was done by Mary Jane Hershey, the ten- year-old daughter of Mrs. Sue Snyder Hershey, whose family

Attorney to David Brookhard, a nephew, to make adjustments and collec- tions for the patent right. Brookhard was a descendant of the family which formerly resided in Lancaster or York County. A portion of the legal contract reads : "Know All Men by these presents, That whereas I the under- signed in the

M. LUTHER HEISEY EARLY SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Recently-purchased copies of Taylor's surveys provide a mine of data for the research worker in the Society's library. The extent of lands is listed in this article. In Manuscript Book No. 76213, Chester County Historical Society, made by Isaac

manuscript corrections and additions, partly made by the author and partly made by his eldest son, the Rev. J. F. Melsheimer, the correspondent of Thomas Say. The latest of these additions dates from the year 1825. A few notes and an index, written previously to 1834, are from the handwriting of Dr. F. E