nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held

Friday evening I set our for Columbia, where I spent one day in vain. I crossed the Susquehanna on Sunday forenoon, with some difficulty, having to cut our way through the ice for several hundred yards; and pass- ing on to York, paid my respects to all the literati of that place without success." Before

county. Their descendants have figured quite prominently in the history of our county, one of whom was Emanuel Carpenter Reigert, the grand-father of Edward P. Brinton, Esq., a prominent attorney at our bar. 2. Barbara Carpenter was born in 1738 and was married to Jacob Ferree a descendant of one of the

subscribers from our own Lancaster county. From this list we are able to get some idea of the literary people of that day, and of those who, in all probability, were among the most influential in the community. The little town of Columbia, Pa., is represented as having seventeen sub- scribers, as follows: J

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

. " Our Pilgrimage, whatever some may dream The impress bears of PROVIDENCE SUPREME." Another bard has said in fewer words what it has taken our poet sixteen lines to convey: " There is a Divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we may." The poet makes mention on several occasions of what he terms

which General St. Clair wrote to Wayne, it is stated that a number of troops were obliged to pass through Lancaster on their way to York. While in Lancaster, they were to be supplied with pro- visions, and General Wayne was directed to give attention to this matter in order that the march might not be

sale of the L.J. Gilbert & Son collection, held at the former Brethren Church Building, 415 South 9th St., Lebanon, PA. 5 pages. 17 June 1940. Flyer for antique sale held at Kleinfelter’s auction rooms, 7th & Willow Sts., Lebanon, PA. 2 pages. 26 August 1940. Duplicate of above. Flyer for the sale of

Note: The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain