known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

. J. H. Longenecker, Lewis Haldy. 1 Lancaster Examiner and Herald, Wednesday, September 12th, 1855. �The Lancaster Examiner and Herald of Wednesday, Novem- ber 21st, 1855, contained the following statement of monies col- lected for the Virginia sufferers : From citizens in the north-west ward

Carpenter was appointed vice-president and treasurer, and George B. Withers and E. W. Hutter, secretaries.1 Judge Lewis stated the object of the meeting, and read a circular from a committee appointed by the citizens of Allentown, detailing the extent of the calamity that had overwhelmed them. E. W. Hutter

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

citizens as to the legislature, which then held its sessions at Lancaster, that, on the decease of her husband, she was proposed as a candidate for the vacant place. Although the appli- cation was a novel one, the government was at length induced, by the urgency and respectability of those who pressed the

the design to serve the church and contribute all in their power �to make the house of God not only useful and convenient in its structure but also to add such decent ornaments to the same as becometh pious Christians." Apparently, the money received from the lottery in June, 1761, was not sufficient

of the association. A meeting was called for Saturday, November 23rd, at which time rules and regulations for the government of the association were to be adopted.1 Ten years later, a meeting of inhabitants of East Hempfield township was held at John Hatz's tavern, in Lancaster city, for a similar

John Haldeman, Esq., was appointed chairman, and Samuel White, secretary. James Hopkins delivered an eloquent and im- pressive address. A committee, consisting of James Hopkins, John Hubley, Samuel Bethel, Robert Maxwell, John Swar, Emanuel Dyer and Christian Herr (of Pequea), was appointed to

famous in its day, and which was attended by girls of the best families in Lancaster. Some of our older citizens will doubtless remember that this seminary stood on the site 42-44 West Orange street, now occupied by the American Seed company. Mr. Damant was a fine man, but being an Englishman, he could