, �and made a tour of the county and some other parts of the state, continuing his business as an itinerant daguerreotypist for many years. When the war broke out in 1861, though fifty-one years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was hurt badly in a charge in

gathering in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, June 29, 1762, at 7 o'clock, Squire Kuhn and Mr. Stiegel, of Lancaster County, arranged an artistic and pleasant program of church music. 2 Stiegel was an accomplished musician, having had a pipe organ in his mansion at Manheim, and was cap- able of leading his

dated the Ninth Day of October, 1769, joined together in Holy Matrimony Paul Zanzinger of the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster Gentle- man and Margar Graff of Borough and County aforesaid Spinster. "2 She was the daughter of Sebastian Graff, and died in 1772. His second wife was Esther

the Post Office in King's Street." (See fac-simile on page 4.) In 1756, the Pennsylvania Gazette advertised a list of unclaimed letters for Lancaster County folks held "at the post office in Lancaster." Previously, 1738 and 1741, the lists of letters were held at Philadelphia. Post roads were few in

south, the Long Swamp to the north, and the Roaring Brook rushing along what is now called Water Street! New Lancaster was on a "detour." The Great Conestoga Road, or Long Lane, passed some miles to the south of it; Old Peter Bezallion's Road and the Paxton Pike passed it many miles to the north. Even

Alleghenies was, that the Six Nations owned the Ohio Valley, and had placed it with their other lands under the protection of Eng- land. Some of the western lands were also claimed by the British as having been actually purchased at Lancaster,Pennsylvania, in 1744, at a treaty be- tween the colonists and the

them and their mother to Lancaster County, con- veying all their effects in a four-horse wagon. The family took possession of a log cabin in Manor Township, and the older children were apprenticed. Samuel lived for a time with his uncle, and was then sent to the home of John Charles, who became his

recognized to some extent her geniuses in arts and manu- factures. The skill of her craftsmen and the quality of their work have been fully recognized throughout the country in two particular lines of industrial endeavor. I refer to the makers of the famous Lancaster County rifles and the grandfather clocks

to be a fascinating charm about the pot- ter and his wheel, and his ability to give form to various objects from his crude equipment, working with his thumbs and fingers on a plastic mass of wet earth. The Swop es Early in the history of Lancaster County the trade of the potter was not unknown. The