selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE UNVEILING OF A BRONZE TABLET TO JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN By PROF. HERBERT H. BECK MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: I consider it a distinct privilege to represent the older of the two coun- ties, Lancaster and York, at this well

County Historical Society. AGNES NOBLE AGNEW By HELEN NOBLE WORST A GNES NOBLE was born January 30th, 1781, at Nobleville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Margaret McWhorter and James Noble, an elder in the Associate church of Octorara, and a granddaughter of William Noble, who

Prior to the Revolutionary War, and took a prominent part in the struggle sor independence. He was a member os the Provincial Con- vention, as a delegate srom Cumber- lany county, held at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1775, and again represented the same county when the convention was in

Andrew Snyder A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER WHO REACHED THE AGE OF 112 YEARS By OLIVER SNYDER SPROUT Andrew Snyder was born in Switzerland in the year 1733. Family tradi- tion states that he arrived on these shores during the year 1766. I. Daniel Rupp in his "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants," p. 368

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

An Outline with Excerpts from " The Life of Eugenius Laude Watts," A Poem by Edwin Augustus Atlee, M.D. By ADALINE BREAM SPINDLER. An incident as related some few years ago by our esteemed fellow mem- ber, now departed, Hon. W. U. Hensel, made quite an impression on the writer of this paper. He

building, known for many years as "The Ark," and the hill on which it stands as "Mount Ar- rarat." These names, it is said, were given by a noted wag of his day, named Longenecker, soon after the house was built. It was erected in 1790 by Martin Barr,and was his farm or manor house, being situated nearly

The Army Heart A War Incident tin Lancaster County By H. M. J. KLEIN I HAVE lying on the desk before me all available documents relating to a very interesting and important series of events which occurred in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after the United States entered the Second World

citizens of Lancaster, held in the Court House November 27, 1819, at which Hon. Walter Franklin presided, a commit- tee of three framed the resolutions, which were adopted. They protest- ed most vigorously against the exist- ence of slavery in, or its extension into, the territories or new States. with