Greene, than that he had two foxhounds, Music and Vulcan. To me, personally, this part of Hempfield township is the most picturesque and colorful, and, in many ways, the most important historical region in Lancaster county. It is that, chiefly, because it was the home of John Wright and his ferry

great inland peninsula between the Delaware and Susquehanna is brought before The Lancaster County Historical Society. Herrman's map of the Lower Susquehanna Valley was pub- lished with a paper entitled "The Location of the Susquehanna Fort" by D. H. Landis, in Vol. XIV, pp. 81-117, of the Proceed- ings

Township in his book, "The Three Earls." One *From "History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans; published by Everts and Peck, Philadelphia, 1883; p. 310. The reference to "Heller's Lutheran Church" is not an error. What we now call Salem Reformed Church at Heller's, was

that, although his burial plot is not marked, it is thought that he is buried in some spot on the Charming Forge estate. Judge Schaeffer proposed that the Berks County and The Lancaster County Historical Societies intensify their efforts to find the last resting place of Stiegel, in order that the

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

had lived in the town all of his life, did not know the exact site of the graveyard; nor did anyone else. It was only known that of the 120 privates and non-commissioned officers of the Continental army who died in the Brethren's House between Dec. 19, 1777, and Aug. 28, 1778, 110 had been buried

latter pronunciation was correct, and he had cousins in Lancaster County who spelled their name Leaman. However, he was regularly called "lemon" by his local contempora- ries, and his descendants still retain that name. As a child of * James C. Leman, a son of the riflemaker, furnished valuable data on

of fifty dollars. On Friday, October 27th, a sweepstakes, open to any horse, mare or gelding carrying a feather, except the winners of the preceding days, was advertised. The horses were to be entered with Peter Diller, and the fee was one shilling in the pound.(8) At Hinkletown, Lancaster county, a

years, all rights would be forfeited. Nothing was done under this charter, and in time it became inoperative. THE CONESTOGA SLACK-WATER NAVIGATION COMPANY March 28th, 1820, James Hopkins, a prominent lawyer of Lancaster, ob- tained a charter from the State of Pennsylvania giving him, his heirs, and

REAR ADMIRIAL WILLIAM REYNOLDS A DISTINGUISHED LANCASTRIAN. 1815-1879 By PROFESSOR HORACE R. BARNES William Reynolds, son of John and Lydia Moore Reynolds, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 10th, 1815. The characteristics which marked the lives of both Admiral William Reynolds and his