Company, of which Major Light was clerks—which office remained in the family for four genera- tions,—was located just across the street from the rear of his residence. Another major—John Andre, widely known in American history as an enemy and a spy—was housed as a prisoner of war in this block in the year

Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during

insect is so extremely rare in Pennsylvania that the late Rev. F. V. Melsheimer, the parent of Entomolgy in this country, and a very industrious collector, found but two individuals in eighteen years." This insect, though rare, is mentioned in the Coleoptera listed in Rupp's History of Lancaster County

later paper will deal with the history of many individual clocks, and the story of the famililes that have had them for generations, as I have uncovered many very interesting facts along these lines that would make good material for an historical paper. HOFFS—Among the clockmakers of Lancaster City who

Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

, West Reading, Pa., who spoke in place of Judge Benjamin C. Atlee, absent through illness, knew his subject well, and told many interesting stories about Sutter's life in Lititz. In his monograph on Sutter, printed in our Proceedings in 1913 (see Vol. XVII, p. 279), Rev. Landis expressed a hope which he

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor

fee simple, to be held of the said manor so as no further tenures shall be created, but further alienations shall be held of the same lord and his heirs of whom the alien did then before hold." The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1735, by letters patent, recorded at Philadelphia in

source of water supply, before the introduction of piped water, came from the numerous wells and pumps about the city. These were vital to the welfare of the city, and were pro-· tected by city ordinances. We can learn the location of thirty-one such pumps from an old history.* City councils on October 5