years an As- semblyman from this county—great- grandfather of the venerable Samuel Evans, and of the late Major Amos Slaymaker. On Christmas Day George Ross, General Hand and Hans Groff, of Lancaster, attended Christ Church with him; but it was in the Lutheran Church, October 11 of the same year, that

by the proud memorial raised within those venerable walls to a boy, who, for a brief period of our Revolutionary history, was a resident, if pot a citizen, of Lancaster and dwelt across the street from my own home. In an Illustrious Group. I forgot for a time the monarchs and statesmen, soldiers and