DATE ON STATE HIGHWAY SIGNS CORRECTED By William Frederic Worner Students of our local history know that on May 2nd, 1729, the county of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, was created by the Lieutenant Governor, Patrick Gordon, and his council. By an Act of Assembly, passed May 10th, 1729, it was

left Mount Vernon May 10th, 1773, and young Custis joined him at the Calverts,' in Maryland. On the return journey, he passed through Lancaster. He was in Philadelphia in the early part of June, 1773, two years before the outbreak of the Revolution at Lex- ington. He returned to his home at Mount

Psalmody what it should always be an harmonious offering to the Deity, calculated to tranquilize the passions and inspire the vener- ation of man." It seems that after Mr. Dyer's departure from Lancaster, the Handelian Society disbanded, as subsequent issues of local papers contain no references to

Mittelberger's Notes on Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is an old and rare volume published in "Frankfurth und Leipzig," in 1756. It was printed in German, and is entitled, "Gottlieb Mittelberger's Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750; und

Representatives of the Freemen of the said Pro- 1 Miscellaneous Papers, Lancaster County, 1724-1772, Vol. 1, p. 157. �vince, in General Assembly met : The Petition of the Burgesses, Assistants, and other Inhabitants of the Borough of Lancaster "Most humbly sheweth, "That your petitioners did, sometime in the