tablets, while serving in the position of Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature. He was born in a neighboring county at Hanover, December 4, 1866, the son of John Martin and Mary Barbara Clay. The family moved to Lancaster when the lad was very young, and here he ob- tained his common school

signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

Office of Pennsylvania, October 3, 1801, to April 4, 1809. Trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., June 17, 1813. A booklet, called the "Development of the United States Cap- itol," issued as House Document, No. 35, of the 71st Congress, 1st Session, 1929, completely ignores, except for the survey

east of the river, through the gaps in the South Mountains, coming close to Lancas- ter County at Paxtang, near Harrisburg; Quitipihilla and Swatara, near Lebanon ; and Tulpehocken, near Reading. The only direct invasion of Lancaster County (as at present constituted) occurred in Donegal Township

had an extensive practice in Lancaster, and was a member of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society from its founding in 1844. Always in advance of his times, he practiced magnetizing (hypnotizing) at the home of Judge Alex- ander Lawes Hayes and elsewhere, according to the diary of Mat- thias

their suspicion, that Mr. Paul Zantzinger, 5 Pennsylvania Archives, Series 6, vol. 3, p. 463. 6 This and many other original lottery papers are found on file in the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society. �of the borough of Lancaster, in the State, merchant, who has lately gone hence for

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

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

occupied by the home of Miss Gertrude Hensel Haldy, the record- ing secretary of our Lancaster County Historical Society. Drs. Abram Breneman, senior and junior, grandfather and father of Major Henry R. Breneman, lived in the house later occupied by A. Herr Smith and his sister, Eliza. Both doctors died in