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

signal. It was ra- pidly relayed that the parade was on the move. The boy stationed at the old brick chapel of the Lancaster Cemetery was Wil- liam Frederic Worner (who later became the librarian of the Lancaster County His- torical Society), and he signaled to the lookout at the window of the third

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

demanded $95,500. The claim was finally settled in 1810 by the payment of $1,314.20. See ibid, vol. 2, pp. 113, 114. 4 This and following quotations were taken from the work of Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews, "Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters," New York, 1908. Copy in Fackenthal Library. �exertions

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

had an extensive practice in Lancaster, and was a member of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society from its founding in 1844. Always in advance of his times, he practiced magnetizing (hypnotizing) at the home of Judge Alex- ander Lawes Hayes and elsewhere, according to the diary of Mat- thias