desirable patronage was not forthcoming. That he did this lower class of work well may be taken for granted, but we have also strong testimony to the tact. In an appreciative, but all too meagre, biographical sketch of him in Harris' Biographical History of Lan- caster County we find the following, which is

exact site has been identified as located near or on the top of what is now called Spanish Hill, in Athen township, Bradford county, Pa., about five or stx miles north of Tioga Point, the junction of the Tioga and Susquehanna rivers."— Chas. A. Hanna's Wilderness Trail, Vol. 1, p. 31. �getting there

Jacob Eshleman Warfel, Painter. This promising artist, the son of John and Maria Warfel, was born in Paradise township, Lancaster county, on July 21, 1826. He developed a natural inclination towards art at an early age; so much so, indeed, that his youthful efforts in drawing and painting drew the

was a Colonel in the Pennsylvania Militia. " Ten procla- mations were issued for his apprehension." He was attainted and his estate confiscated. No mention is made in this article of Colonel John Connelly, although �he was born and raised in our County of Lancaster, and proved to be one of the most

paper / by Frank R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American loyalists. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 155-166 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

- tle book published by Noah Webster, the lexicographer, in 1815, tells us of the course pursued toward that endr He says: "But the scarcity of money finally called for a remedy, and some of the colonies attempted to remove the difficulty by passing laws to raise the nominal value of foreign coinsr This

-1921. Title: A plea for the Conestoga River / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Rivers--Europe. Conestoga River (Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 5-33 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

materials relating to the history of Lancaster county, and that the time has come for the organization of a County Historical Soci- ety, herewith take the liberty of inviting you, as one known to be interested in the subject, to meet with them on Tuesday, November 16th, 1886, at 10 o'clock, a. m. in the