signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

Office of Pennsylvania, October 3, 1801, to April 4, 1809. Trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., June 17, 1813. A booklet, called the "Development of the United States Cap- itol," issued as House Document, No. 35, of the 71st Congress, 1st Session, 1929, completely ignores, except for the survey

Indian Battle at Rocky Springs? By M. LUTHER HEISEY T HERE PERSISTS in the annals of every community histor- ical errors which are passed on by one writer to another, until the matter is accepted as fact. Through Lancaster County histories, Loudon's Narratives1 have been quoted to show the many

, �and made a tour of the county and some other parts of the state, continuing his business as an itinerant daguerreotypist for many years. When the war broke out in 1861, though fifty-one years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was hurt badly in a charge in

their suspicion, that Mr. Paul Zantzinger, 5 Pennsylvania Archives, Series 6, vol. 3, p. 463. 6 This and many other original lottery papers are found on file in the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society. �of the borough of Lancaster, in the State, merchant, who has lately gone hence for

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

occupied by the home of Miss Gertrude Hensel Haldy, the record- ing secretary of our Lancaster County Historical Society. Drs. Abram Breneman, senior and junior, grandfather and father of Major Henry R. Breneman, lived in the house later occupied by A. Herr Smith and his sister, Eliza. Both doctors died in

Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly M. Luther Heisey Long before the Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly became famous the art of dancing is mentioned in the early archives of Lancaster County. When Witham Marche attended the Commissioers Treaty gathering in Lancaster he kept an interesting diary