, 1727-1879, detail the exchange of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. Other family papers, 1799- 1871, include narratives about the Gibbons family, a membership certificate for the Independent Order of Good Templars, and

Church Journal was established at Lancaster in 1879, and published in the interest of St. John's Lutheran Church. Rev. Sylvanus Stall, A.M., edited this neat, eight-page monthly in 1882. The Criterion was put forth by Her- man E. Hoch, its editor of this city, every two weeks, for a period of months, in

refugees from religious persecution settled in what was then known as the 'Conestoga country' of Pennsyl- vania, but now Lancaster. It was a singular dispensation that brought this colony of rifle-makers to our soil under the auspices of the peaceful and non-combatant 'Proprietary' of Wil- liam Penn and