10, 1818, in the seventieth year of his age. It is said that he was buried in the graveyard of Mellinger's Mennonite Church, on the Philadelphia turnpike. There is, however, no mention of his burial there in the church records, and no stone marks his grave. His will was proven July 28, 1818, and

people of Lancaster County. Further inves- tigation proved that the writer, " Clericus," was no other than the Rev. Thomas Barton, then Rector of St. James Episcopal Church, of Lancaster Borough. A letter, written by him to Thomas Penn, Jr., which appears among the files of the Historical Society of

CITY HALL AND ITS HISTORY. I have concluded that the legend of the building now known to us as City Hall and of the lot which it stands upon may have some special interest, at least to those who live in the city; and in view of misstatements which I have heard at times concerning them, I have

perches, thence East 19 Degrees, South 490 perches, thence South 41 Degrees, East 40 perches, thence East 27 De- grees, South 68 perches, to the aforesaid Division Line, near the English Church, and then being joyned by George Aston, Richard Buffington, William Marsh, Samuel Miller and Robert Parke, of

April 18,1836. His body is interred in the graveyard of the Church of the Epiphany, in Philadelphia. He was appointed by the Legislature to re- vise the laws of the Commonwealth and to frame a new compilation of the same, and in 1810 there was published by John Bioren, under the authority of the State

in 1776. Hunt Downing began keeping tavern at the "Sign of General Washington," in Downingtown, about 1786, and he con- tinued to follow that occupation there for many years. This tavern was the same as that which was formerly known as the "Sign of the King in Arms," the name having been pa

stock of the Philadelphia Turnpike / by Charles I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Roads--Pennsylvania--History. Stocks--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 93-100 p. ; 23 cm

was baptized in the church at Steinweiler on Septem- ber 28, 1701, and John, who was born in 1703, and was baptized in the church of Rhorbac on February 2, 1703. Katharine, her oldest daughter, had, in 1703, married Isaac Lefever,—he who had come with the family from France. She then had one child

meantime, on November 15, 1805, the following advertisement appeared in the Lacaster Journal: "To be sold by public vendue, at farm of Gen. Edward Hand, in Lampeter Twp., one mile from the Borough of Lancaster, on Sat- urday, the 23rd of November inst.: Wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, hay and potatoes