site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

with other Czechs fled with them, the father, mother, Augustine and three sisters took refuge about Zittau in Saxony. Augustine seems to have been the baby of this exiled family. Though recorded elsewhere as having been born in 1605, Herrman in his will, written in 1684, gives his age as sixty-three

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

north wall cut through the center of another trench. In a cess-pool excavation im- mediately northeast of the building, the bones of three individuals were found. Of the 110 buried thereabouts the remains of about twenty were uncovered. The remainder lie to the north, northeast and east of the house

Rifle Works." Leman's rifles probably killed more American buffaloes than any other arm in history. For a long period he made a specialty of short-barreled, large-calibred pieces designed for these great animals. He occasionally received buffalo meat and skins in trade for them. These Lancaster guns

township, Lancaster county, near the Gap and Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road. The latter race was open to any horse, mare, or gelding in Lancaster and Chester counties.(7 The Lancaster Journal of Friday, October 6th, 1809, contained an an- nouncement that the Lancaster races would commence about

. Finding that not all of the emigrants who continued to arrive were fitted for the restrictions and self- denials of these communities, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg re- solved to provide a third church settlement in Pennsylvania, found- ed on more liberal lines. In this community the congregation would be