upon our country- man. But I have a few additional facts to relate concerning the career of Mr. El- licott. In 1792 he was appointed Sur- veyor General of the United States. In 1795 he superintended the construction of Fort Erie, at Presque Isle, now Erie, Pa., and was also employed to lay out the

established a nail sactory in the house on King street so long occupied by Ludwig Holtzworth, where all kinds of nails will be made, such as shingle, floor, lath and clapboard, and be sola both at wholesale and retail. John Dreudorss, of Elizabeth town- ship, insorms the public that certain medical articles

of the general subject of the Loyalist element in this State and country. John Connolly was born in Manor township, this county, about the year 1742 or 1743, on the farm at present in the ownership of Mr. George Brene- man, formerly Jacob Shuman's place. It was located within half a mile of the line

Donegal in the Revolution Patriotism and Piety, A notable historic event in the his- tory of Lancaster county, binding the present to the past by an enduring chain of events, was the unveiling of a monument in Old Donegal church- yard, on Thursday, October 4th, 1899. This interesting memorial shaft

the planting of a colony of white men �within the present borders of Lancas- ter county. In June of that year, Gov- ernor Gookin and several members of the Assembly visited the Indians at Conestoga, and †he Governor made the following brief address to the red men assembled, after having made them

and Vice Presi- dent of the United States met in the Senate Chamber, at the Seat of Gov- ernment. Present, Charles Thompson, Matthew Lawler, Robert McMullin, Wiliiam Brooke,Thomas Long, Francis Swaine, Henry Speering, James Boyd, - Peter Frailey, Casper Shaffner, Jr., John Bowman, William Brown

paper to make cartridges. was as late as 1809, so that the Society must have been the owners of very con- siderable tracts of land at the very time when this English writer declares they had only six acres. F. R. D. �general Washington sent an officer to seize all the paper and books he could fihd at

, explorer and general adven- turer, landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, He made several expeditions up the Chesapeake Bay, and came within a few miles of the Pennsyl- vania line, but historians are pretty well agreed that he never planted foot on Pennsylvania soil. Two years later I ndrick Hudson, also

the Government since Revolutionary times, and the question arose over the disposition of the stores in them at the period in question. �General Knox was born in Boston, on July 25, 1750, and was well edu- cated in the schools of that city. He early evinced a taste for military at- fairs and at the age

Massachu- setts; General Ebenezer Lamed, Gen. John Patterson, of Massachusetts; General George Weedon, of Virginia, who connected with General Peter Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, holding the extreme left of the line resting on the Schuylkill at a point near where the village of Port Kennedy is now located