. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

address was as follows: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA. At this alarming crisis in our political existence, we approach you, Sir, to express our cordial approbation of the measures adopted by the Executive for the preservation of the

students of Mr. Beck's academy, Lititz, Pa., 30.00 B. Huber, 1.00 " citizens of Lititz, Pa., 50.00 " M. P. Cooper, Enterprise, Pa., 10.00 proceeds of Philharmonic concert, 59.35 " First M. E. church, Rev. D. W. Bartine, pastor, 34.16 " several widows, through Rev. J. A. Baldwin, 5.00 B. Champneys, Esq

, rector of Saint James's Episcopal church, is also entered under the list of subscribers from Pennsylvania. He was born in Lancaster, Pa., February 10, 1766, but at the time he subscribed to Wilson's Ornithology he resided in Philadelphia. Nathaniel B. Boileau, secretary of the commonwealth, to whom

instant by the Rev. Mr. Rogers, a clergyman of Susquehanna county, to be brought hither for the purpose. On the evening first mentioned, at the hour advertised, when a very large congregation, male and female, was peaceably assembling, the church was taken possession of by an evidently organized band of

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

that paper it is stated that Ann Moore served as postmistress of Lancaster, Pa., from July 1st, 1798, to April 11th, 1829, a period of 31 years. Since that paper was published, my attention has been called to the obituary of Mrs. Moore which appeared in the Lancaster Examiner and Democratic Herald of

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

." General Wayne died at Presque Isle (Erie) Pa., December 15th, 1796, at the age of 51, within less than six months after his last visit to Lancaster. He is buried in the rear of famous Old St. David's Protestant Episcopal churchyard, Radnor, near Philadelphia. It was of this church that the poet Longfellow

in writing it "James's." That the local congregation has been referred to as "St. James's" church for generations, is clearly proven by written records, legal documents, and published papers. We trust that these proofs, which cannot be successfully con- troverted, will serve to dispose of the claim