only a few years earlier, the Conestoga community, or part of it, was resident on the Schuylkill River in present upper Montgomery County (the site of the town is marked on the return of a survey dated 1689). �The embassy was successful, and warmly approved by the Conestoga Indians. As Captain Cock

morning at 2½ o'clock, having enjoyed a happy time since leaving Pittsburgh Sunday morning. Through the exertions of General Shaeffer, the conductor placed a car at the entire disposal of the Lancaster County delegation. The following is a list of the delegation: Hon. T. Stevens, 0. J. Dickey, Col. S

early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

Lancaster, February 22, 1861.) Lancaster County has particular interest in the 75th anniversary of the now famous Gettysburg address. Among the estimated 15,000, who heard Edward Everett use about two hours in time to deliver a scholarly address, was one young man, now approaching his 97th birthday, Mr

1748, he sold land in New Jersey, which had been willed to him by his father. The recital in the deed shows that John Lincon (note spelling), "weaver" of "Carnarvin" township, Lancaster county, son and heir of Mordecai Lincon, deceased, sold 300 acres of land on Cranberry brook to Wm. Dye, yeoman, of

. The "Circular of Terms" for the Beck Family School for Boys is a case in point. �Moravian Family School for a Limited number of Boys, Abraham R. Beck, Principal. Litiz [sic], Lancaster County, Pa. Terms. "For tuition and all domestic expenses, $300 a year, to be paid half-yearly in advance, in

con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

poor, gave these exiles not only relief; but the con- solations which he as a minister of God could impart. According to Thompson �Westcott, more than half of these people died within a short time after their ar- rival in Philadelphia. In Lancaster County. In the early part of 1756 a number of these

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

Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in