McAllister, in Paxton township, Dau- phin county, on the 19th of thE- pre- ceding October. These men came from Lancaster, York, Dauphin, Cum- berland, Northampton, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties in response to a circular, dated at Lancaster on Sept. 5. James Ewing, of York county, was made the chairman of

, 1730, a petition was presented by "the magis- trates, grand jury and other inhabit- ants of Lancaster county,setting forth that not having the conveniences of any navigable water for bringing the produce of their labors to Philadel- phia, they were obliged, at a great ex- pense, to transport them by

earliest record of his artistic life that I have found dates back to about the year 1820, when, at the age of twenty-two years, he opened a studio in the bor- ough of Marietta, where the late Judge John J. Liebhart became one of his students, acquiring no little pro- ficiency in portrait painting, and one

' History of Lancaster County that he had probably become addicted to a roving life in consequence of having accompanied the well-known trader and soldier, Colonel George Cro- gan, who, the same authority states, was his uncle, while on the latter's trading excursions into the regions be- yond Ohio. On this

State Legisla- ture permitted him, by a special act, to charge toll for animals and ve- hicles crossing it. The bridge was finally sold to the county of Lancas- ter, after which the payment of toll ceased. It is still in an excellent state of preservation and bids fair to outlive the present century

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

Execution," a thin octavo volume of 34 pages. The other was the "History of the Palatine Countess Genoveva," a story much admired and read one hundred years ago by our �grandfathers, and which was to be found in almost every household in the county. I remember reading it my- self when a lad, and believe I

discover, but as Lancaster, from as early a period as soon after the Revo- lutionary War, was accounted the largest inland town in the United States, and held that record until into the nineteenth century, it is only rea- sonable to suppose that strolling play- ers found their way to this ancient borough

an Indian nego- tiator, a Justice of the Peace and Sheriff and Treasurer of Chester county, served ten years or more in the Assembly and for a quarter of a century was a member of the Supreme Council. He was also an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Few names appear oftener in the early history