Township in his book, "The Three Earls." One *From "History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans; published by Everts and Peck, Philadelphia, 1883; p. 310. The reference to "Heller's Lutheran Church" is not an error. What we now call Salem Reformed Church at Heller's, was

Americans are proud. (Signed) "Luther, German Ambassador." �The next speaker was Judge Benjamin C. Atlee, vice-president of The Lancaster County Historical Society. Judge Atlee, in calling attention to the part played by the Pennsylvania Germans in the making of our history, stated that New England has

ORGANIZATION AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE CONESTOGA NAVIGATION COMPANY By PROFESSOR HORACE R. BARNES The possible effect upon Lancaster and other cities and towns lying in the great valley of Pennsylvania, had the Susquehanna been a navigable river, has frequently been the topic of idle speculation

grant and two thousand by purchase,—which she divided among the settlers. It is recorded that her grandson was the first white child born in the Pequea Valley. Lydia Moore Reynolds, the mother of Admiral Reynolds, traced her an- cestry to the Protestant Irish, who early settled in Lancaster county

at Franklin & Marshall College and member of the Executive Committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Pro- fessor Barnes, in turn presented as the speaker of the day, Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and an authority on the history

The Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and Franklin College By DR. HORACE R. BARNES The four days, October 14 to 17 inclusive, will go down in the history of Lancaster County as one of the outstanding periods in the long and