, April 19th, 1798. General Edward Hand occupied the chair, and John Hubley, Esq., acted as secretary. An address declaring confidence in the President of the United States, and the determination of the gathering to support the government, was agreed to and submitted to the people for signature. The

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

The following description of the Dunkard Monastery indicates that Mit- telberger is mistaken in stating that the third road "runs to the left hand toward Lancaster and Bethlehem." Obviously, he meant Ephrata. At the latter place there was "a monastery and nunnery of Dunkers," described by

EXHIBIT "A." The Ancestors of the Zimmerman-Carpenter Families of Lancaster County. BY ALBERT K. HOSTETTEIl. No incident connected with the settlement of the grand old Common- wealth of Pennsylvania has aroused greater interest in the mind of the his- torian than the immigration of the German

lost their homes; and were left without the common necessities of life. At that time, this was the most destructive conflagration that had ever visited the United States. Collections of money, food and clothing for the relief of the sufferers were made in many cities and towns of the country. The

is, in reality, a small atlas. lts title is altogether misleading, as one would naturally suppose it to be a biography of George Washington. It was published in con- nection with Chief Justice John Marshall's admirable life of the first President of the United States. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of this great

Laude Watts, A Poem, the author Edwin Augustus Atlee, M.D., Philadelphia." With regard to the subject of this biography he says in the first stanza: " Truth I shall write but think me not to blame If from your ken I hide his real name." and in the preface he says the Poem is part of the real biography

recruits arrived here; they also are marching west (on the march in a westerly direction)." This same issue of the paper contains the following: "Pittsburgh. On Thursday, Major General Anthony Wayne, commander- in-chief of the army of the United States, arrived here. On his entry, he was given a salute by