protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork

afternoon in good light was 1/16 second at f :8 with a K2 filter. The Hyperchrome cut film was developed in DK-50. Print on Ilford Plastika, developed in D-72, 1:4." Photography could be called "the handmaiden of printing." Without it, the printed page or story can be dull and listless. A picture, it has

Baron " Stiegel and the Muhlenbergs By M. LUTHER HEISEY In February, 1762, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg visited Heidelberg, Tulpe- hocken, Lebanon (in dreadfully cold weather), Ephrata and Canestoge; all points within the early bounds of Lancaster County. He was engaged in visiting and consoling the

Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 10, p. 203. 4 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties, 1845, pp. 412, 413, 419. �11, �eminent property, and that officer was Captain Paul Zantzinger. A company of the Flying Camp was commanded by him in the Fall of 1777. He was a soldier in Captain John

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

people was much too large. The first United States census in 1790 gave Lancaster 3373; but then Reading had only 2235, York 2079, and Harrisburg 875. So this largest inland city was holding its own, yet it had its critics. One correspondent in the Lancaster Zeitung of July 27, 1791, writing about the

Britain and France, the northern limit of this territory was fixed at the forty-ninth parallel of latitude, but after the French and Indian War, at the Treaty of Paris in 1763, this territory was ceded to the English. Henry Howe states: "The principal ground whereon the English claimed dominion beyond the

East King Street;" in 1870, "Elias Barr, publisher, home Lime near Church Street." Mishler's 4c and 6c Internal Revenue Stamps The debts incurred because of the War Between the States were respon- sible for the inception of an organized revenue system in the United States. On July 2, 1862, President