massacres by Indians occur- ring during the days of the French and Indian War. This starts with an account of the attack on Rocky Springs. Now, whether Rupp 2 and Mombert 3 thought it referred to the local Springs is of course open to question, but later historians have assumed that it was the local Rocky

proposed to him that they should form a partnership, pool their issues, throw together their combined wisdom, wage a relentless war upon the refractory 'chemicals,' and triumph or fall together. Johnston readily assented ; the two orator-artists locked themselves up in the old Institute, read over the

, etc. Among those who gathered at Philadelphia for the meetings of the Ministerium, besides Pastor Schwert- feger, were Pastor Gerock and Adam Simon Kuhn of Lancaster, and Henry William Stiegel and his wife of Elizabeth Furnace, near Brickerville. All were greeted cordially by Pastor Muhlenberg. At the

; he was a captain of Associators in 1748, and commissary in the French and Indian War.21 JOHN FREDERICK LINNENBURGER (F RIED LUNBERGER) #427 came to America on the ship Thistle of Glasgow, on June 19, 1730, and qualified August 29, 1730. From the Trinity Church records we find that he was married on

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

cloud to appear on the horizon was the French and Indian War. There was a rumor—fortunately false—"that the French had made a raid into Pennsylvania in November, 1755, and had taken Lancaster." 17 A few years later (1762), David Zeisberger and Frederick Post, Moravian missionaries, came into Lancaster

Britain and France, the northern limit of this territory was fixed at the forty-ninth parallel of latitude, but after the French and Indian War, at the Treaty of Paris in 1763, this territory was ceded to the English. Henry Howe states: "The principal ground whereon the English claimed dominion beyond the

by profession and has the avocation of collecting the revenue stamps of the United States— with particular emphasis on the Private Die Proprietary Stamps of the Civil War period. Over the past seven years he has contributed 122 articles to the philatelic press covering the private die "Medicine

victories no less renowned than those of war"; but have we not always hastened to heap encomiums upon our famous sons outstanding in wars or in the forefront of political affairs and statecraft, often forgetting to honor the craftsmen of the shop and forge and record their achievements? Lancaster has