protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork

offered by him, "a daguerreotype apparatus, and materials of the best kind, for sale." 5 If he used 4 Ellis and Evans' History o f Lancaster County, p. 593. 5 Advertisement appearing in the Columbia Spy from September 18 to �the outfit, he follows Fahnestock and Damant as the next oldest photographer in

Church Re- view, 1905-1906. Original copy in the archives of Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading. Pa. Item furnished by George L. Heiges. �with the Muhlenbergs, he was instrumental in securing the services of Fred- erick Augustus Conrad, son of the patriarch, as first pastor. Stiegel, quite naturally, was

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

the Post Office in King's Street." (See fac-simile on page 4.) In 1756, the Pennsylvania Gazette advertised a list of unclaimed letters for Lancaster County folks held "at the post office in Lancaster." Previously, 1738 and 1741, the lists of letters were held at Philadelphia. Post roads were few in

, p. 368. Rupp's History of Y ork County, pp. 561, 563. 7 Hazard's Register, Vol. 5, p. 115. 8 The complete charter is printed in Hazard's Register, Vol. 3, p. 397. 9 Ellis and Evans' History, p. 372. �"The inhabitants are chiefly High-Dutch, Scotch-Irish, some few English families, and unbelieving

. HARTMAN was born two and a half miles east of Harrisburg, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1830. His father, who was a �farmer, died when Samuel was a mere child leaving the mother penniless with eight children—five boys and three girls—looking to her for support. An uncle of the children brought

Locomotives—Made in Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY As stated in the constitution of this Society, its object is, among other ramifications, to mark the growth and progress of population, wealth, educa- tion, agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce in the city and county. "Peace hath her

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King