outline and finish) and more than one hundred others. General Washington knew these rifles and the backwoodsmen who used them with such deadly aim and precision with Braddock's trained men in the French and Indian War so that he in all probability suggested to Con- gress the advisability of issuing a call

coming to Lancaster. No one knew more of the history being made in Pennsylvania during the Revolution than did Timothy Matlack, who served on many committees and as a delegate to many conventions. He knew much of the inside history and the transactions of the Continental Congress during the early years

Fire Company No. 1 claims to be the oldest com- pany in the city and evidently was a continuation of the one in existence in the period of 1742 and later. Relics in the possession of the Lancaster County Historical Society, such as hats, leather �buckets and belts, show that this company was in service

Conestoga Center. MILLER, John: d. Jan. 1, 1876, aged 87 yrs. Corp. under Capt. John Robinson, 5th Batt., 1st Brig., Pa. Militia, Sept, 5, 1814 — Mch. 5, 1815. Pa. Arch., S2 xii 439. Ellis & Evans, p. 79. Statement on Monument "A Soldier in War of 1812." Buried in Lancaster Cemetery. �MILLER (deMiller

circulated paper. "Amos Gilbert, Alexander H. Hood, Benjamin Herr and Henry Spiehlman, met one evening in the early part of the winter 1830-31, at the store of George Hoffman, Esq., in Strasburg, Lancaster county. The conversation turning upon the qualifications of teachers, the mode in which the children of

from one whom we all respect and honor Lancaster, Pa., June 15, 1928. My dear Mrs. L; You ask me if I recall Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan, who in my early boy- hood was rector of the Episcopal Church at Paradise, Lancaster County, Penna. I do, indeed. He was one of the men who impressed me most in those far