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

, John Caldwell, Nathaniel Lightner and Jeremiah Brown, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : "Whilst the farmers of Lancaster county have ever been, and still are, willing to encourage domestic manufactures, the time has now arrived, they think, when efficient

nurses, and many inhab- itants died. Subscriptions for the relief of sufferers were solicited in the principal cities of the country. Lancaster city and county, never behind in deeds of mercy and charity, responded to the call for assistance from the afflicted inhabitants of the two Virginia towns. A

days, arrived safely in the harbor of Philadelphia. Under date of May 28th, 1804, President Jefferson wrote to Humboldt, inviting him to visit Washington. On Friday, June 15th, 1804, Humboldt arrived in Lancaster, where he remained until the following Monday. The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, June

Lancaster, which at that time was the capital of Pennsylvania. In a letter dated Pittsburg, February 22, 1810, and addressed to his friend and instructor Alexander Lawson, he refers to his sojourn in Lancaster in these words: 'From this first stage of my ornithological pilgrimage, I sit down, with pleasure

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose

The following description of the Dunkard Monastery indicates that Mit- telberger is mistaken in stating that the third road "runs to the left hand toward Lancaster and Bethlehem." Obviously, he meant Ephrata. At the latter place there was "a monastery and nunnery of Dunkers," described by

continued on their journey to Lancaster. The Lancaster Journal of Tuesday, February 16th, 1819, con- tains the following : "General Jackson with his suite, arrived in this city [Lan- caster] yesterday [Monday] morning at 3 o'clock, from the South, and started in about an hour after for Philadelphia." The

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of