were manumitted. Interesting corrobora- tion of this is supplied by the article of manumission of Giles Wallis, of whlch follows a literal copy. It ap- pears the age of thirty-one was the period of freedom: To all whom it may concern, Be it known that I, Edward Gorsuch, of Baltimore county, and State

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

, and who died in the County In- sane Asylum, was yet a law student. and likewise Washington Hopkins and Emanuel C. Reigart. The leader of the Bar was James Hopkins, and one of its brightest ornaments was his brilliant pupil, William Jenkins, �who was then in the fourth of his six successive three-year

township ( £200). 1799. Moravian Church, Lancaster (£260). 1801. New Holland, Pa,, Reformed ( £200); used ever since, and of its size as good as the best, Madison, Va. 1804. York, Pa., Christ Lutheran (£355). Tannenberg's successor, John Philip Bachman, also built an organ for Hanover, Pa, (German Reformed

concrete form in Lancaster county , and are ap• proaching a popular celebration which will commemorate and illustrate this mighty issue of American politics in the last century, it is fit we view the attitude toward this question of the two citizens and public officials of Lancaster county who, of all in