EARLY FEDERAL REVENUES OF LANCASTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA FEBRUARY 3, 1922 By C. H. MARTIN The paper read before this society Feb. 4, 1921, of which subject this is a continuation closed, facing increased Internal Revenue duties with the outbreak of the second war with Great Britain, the licenses to

Governor of the Province the Conestoga In- dians wished to see him. Accordingly, Gov. Gookin with a few others visited Conestoga June 18, 1711, within a year after Herr's settlement, and after pre- senting some powder and shot and trinkets to the Indians addressed them in part as follows: Gov. Penn doubts

Lancaster Dist. comprised 35 counties of the State of Pa. including all counties east of a line extending from the western side of Bedford County on the Maryland border, to the western side of Potter County on the N. V. border, excepting eight counties adjacent to Phila. �Coll. Hershey was succeeded by Fred

A LANCASTER PRE-REVOLUTIONARY APPEAL FOR RELIEF FROM MONEY STRINGENCY By C. H. Martin By way of introductory statement, of conditions which superinduced the appeal, which is the subject of this essay, the author desires to call your at- tention to the directive trend of silver coin as a medium of

outbreak occurred in 1763. While Mr. Byerly was away from his cabin assisting in the burial of persons massacred by the Indians a few days earlier, a friendly Indian whom the Byerly family had befriended warned them of imminent danger. In a letter by Captain S. Ecuyer from Fort Pitt to Colonel Henry

Sept. 2, 1791 appears a lengthy notice for the attention of distillers within the counties of Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, Dauphin, York, Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon and Miff- lin, which counties comprised the 3rd Survey District of Pa.—of certain information so that parties concerned may not be

REMINISCENCES OF A COLUMBIA BOY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN By C. H. Martin About May 1, 1926, the fact, came to the author's attention, that Mr. D. J. Richards still living at Hazard, Kentucky, was in the Ford theater at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. Communication