House. Another itinerant, George W. Pinkerton, was born in Lan- caster, January 23, 1846, the son of George and Elizabeth Pinker- ton. He served in the Civil War in Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Regiment. He engaged in photography about 1871 to 1877, spending part of the time about Lancaster

selected as one of the first trustees. He deeded a piece of ground on East High Street, near his home, to the congregation on December 4, 1772. Here they built their first house of worship in the style of the times —of logs, with a brick floor and a gallery extending on three sides. Stiegel required a

it is true, but very reason- able we assume) a vast amount of clothing for the army in 1778. Now. in the following year, we are urged to believe that he had become entirely mer- cenary in his dealings, with little or no regard for the welfare of his country and fellow-countrymen. His early military

courthouse. FRANCIS NEFF (NAEFF) was a physician, brother of Dr. John Henry Neff. #2 THOMAS DOYLE #3 328 was � Catholic, who receipted for the legacy given to the Jocai Catholic congregation by Mary Prator in 1741. He died in 1791. THE BOROUGH FATHERS ANNA NUTT AND ROBERT GRACE #5, 47 57 were not residents

Assembly provided for a semblance of post service: "Every justice of the peace, sheriff, or constable within the respective countries of this province and territories thereof, to whose hands or knowledge any letter or letters shall come directed to or from the governor, shall dispatch them within three

covered waggons, which travel in great numbers 18Klein'sHistoryofLancasterCounty,p.856. 12 Rupp, p. 336. 20 Worner, Old Lancaster-Tales and Traditions, pp. 242-245. 21 L. Co. Hist. Soc., Scrap Book, #81, p. 194. 22 From the Charter of the Juliana Library Company. See Vol. 33, pp. 257, 258. �to

Britain and France, the northern limit of this territory was fixed at the forty-ninth parallel of latitude, but after the French and Indian War, at the Treaty of Paris in 1763, this territory was ceded to the English. Henry Howe states: "The principal ground whereon the English claimed dominion beyond the

to $125.00. A red stamp of this series was shown at the Lancaster Stamp Club exhibit in 1935, and the writer saw a specimen of the black on green paper (as well as the 4c S. B. Hartman and Co., "Mishler's Herb Bitters," internal revenue stamp—a description of which follows farther on in this article

on West King Street, but no record is found of his pottery or its products. It is thought that his son, John, was a surgeon in the Revolu- tionary War. The name Swab, later anglicized to Swope, persists 1 Isaiah 64:8, "We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the works of thy hand

worthy of record. Time has a relentless way of removing the last sources of information of the past, and it is usually the minor incidentals of yesteryear that are first to vanish. To save some of these in the Serpentine Barrens of the Southend, and related incidentals from other parts of the county, the