AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

." General Wayne died at Presque Isle (Erie) Pa., December 15th, 1796, at the age of 51, within less than six months after his last visit to Lancaster. He is buried in the rear of famous Old St. David's Protestant Episcopal churchyard, Radnor, near Philadelphia. It was of this church that the poet Longfellow

church, in 1821; and a past master of Masonic lodge No. 43 F. A. M.4 "Jeremiah Mosher lived on the south side of East King street, a few doors above Lime street. He died March 8th, 1830, and was buried in St. James's churrchyard,5 with the honors of war. A horse, carrying his regimentals and inverted

excerpt, which is taken from the Lancaster Journal, a newspaper published in Lancaster, Pa., under date of Friday, July 29, 1796, will show: "On Monday last [July 25, 1796] the celebrated orator and patriot, Mr. Ames, (of Massachusetts) arrived in Lancaster. He has been on a tour to the southward for the

arrival. (See Beveridge vol. 2, page 351.) On the afternoon of Monday, June 25, he arrived in Lancaster, Pa., accord- ing to the following excerpt (which is a free trans l ation), copied from "Der Deutsche Porcupein und Lancaster Anzeigs Nachrichten" of Wednesday, June 27, 1798: "On Monday afternoon [Tune

, 1706-1790. American Philosophical Society. Philosophy--Societies, etc.--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Philosophy--Societies, etc.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 38-40 p. ; 23 cm

on the old road from Phila- delphia to Lancaster, about one-fourth of a mile to the east of Old Leacock Presbyterian church. The house which was used as a tavern, is still standing, and, in 1916, was owned and occupied by Samuel P. Smoker. (See Proceed- ings of the Lancaster County Historical Society

14th, 1804, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, at Idridgehay, and was buried in Wirksworth Parish church, Derbyshire. Lancaster in 1777 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the early autumn of 1777 the borough of Lancaster was visited by a clever Yankee, who had undertaken a journey on horseback from

, to meet in Lancaster, Pa. To prevent them from being captured by the British, the governmental documents and the small amount of money then in the treasury, were sent to Bethlehem in wagons, carefully guarded by troops. Shortly after midnight, September 18th, or, more correctly, very early on morning

Revolution." Major .John Light—a Hero of the Revolutionary War By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In the beautiful old churchyard adjoining Saint James's Protestant Epis- copal church, Lancaster, Pa.. lie the mortal remains of Major John Light, a dstinguished soldier of the Revolutionary War, who died on July 2nd