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

further violence. On the two following evenings, no recurrence of a similar disturbance was attempted. "We have heard various pretenses assigned for the commis- sion of this truly disgraceful outrage, an outrage which inflicts discredit on all concerned, but have understood that the principal

Carpenter, treasurer of the fund, promised to furnish the editor of the paper with a complete list of subscrip- tions when all the money was received. Subsequent issues of local papers do not contain such a list. A RELIGIOUS RIOT IN LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER C HURCH unity is a subject in which

a Lancaster Woman Exhibited at Franklin Institute By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, October 22nd, 1824, con- tained an announcement that a hat of grass, made by Mrs. Hopkins, of Lancaster city, was on display at the first annual exhibition of Franklin Institute. The hat

people are not baptized, which is done by immersion in deep water, until they are full-grown and can give an account of their faith. In- stead of Sunday they keep the preceding Saturday. Their convent-sisters aforesaid frequently bring forth living fruits in patience." On October 10th, 1754, after many

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

AN OLD ATLAS By William Frederic Worner Among the treasures preserved in the library and museum of the Lancas- ter County Historical Society, is an old volume entitled: The Life of George Washington Maps and Subscribers' Names 1807 It is a small volume, eleven inches long by nine inches wide; and

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It