l h a v e p o w e r t o Choose four Psons. to represent them afterwards forever and that ye Courts of Judicature shall be kept in the S. Chief Town which Town shall have a �Charter of Privileges for ye Good Government thereof and Benefit of ye People and ye S. County Shall be Called --and ye other

eye Like the plain tracings of a picture lie; Unutter'd thoughts, deep in the heart conceal'd, In strong expression stand to him re- veal'd; Thousands and twice ten thousands every day To him or feign'd or real homage pay: "Like clouds of incense rolling to the skies, In various forms their

when he was Secretary of War. It has interest as having been written by one of the most illustrious soldiers of the Revolutionary period, and a special interest in that it was written to General Edward Hand, an- other illustrious soldier of that war, a resident of this county, whose coun- try-seat

. �����������@�@@@��@���������@���������������������������@�@������� I England, Lancashire. Prior to this the land formed part of $ I Chester county, which, with Philadelphia and Bucks composed I i the three original counties of the Province. At the time of its I i erection into a separate county, Lancaster included all the conn- I I try to the north and west, now

some of them away, and otherwise cutting up and despoiling many parts of the same." A Visit to Lititz, Lancaster County, in 1799. In his diary, Jacob Peirce, of Long- wood, East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pa., thus describes his visit to the Moravians at Lititz, Lan- caster county: 1 Mo. 19

Berks county man—one George Zeigler—to supply the 3,000 oak shingles needed for the roof. It was also agreed "that the win- dows of the School house be made and constructed five by four lights of seven by nine glass, and that they be made so that they raise upwards." At a meeting held on October 3rd a

INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the

LANCASTER IN 1760, Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker,of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadel- phia, several days ago sent me the fol- lowing extract which he found in John Galt's "Life and Times of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, of London," a volume which was published in

here I take my leave of this most interesting chronicle. I have merely skimmed the surface, but even then its value as a narrative of events and a picture of the times in this city and county must be apparent to every one. The last entry is on September 24, 1781. As al- ready stated, he died in