Lancaster county is written the historian will have to �scheme detailed so fully in this old paper, and put on record how it was proposed to erect a county out of this garden spot two hundred years ago. Every scrap of writing of that early t i m e h a s i t s v a l u e . W e c a n h a r d l y overestimate

EPHRATA COMMUNITY 128 YEARS AGO. The writer of the following letters was the celebrated Jacob Duche, D. D., born in Philadelphia in 1737. He was a man of liberal education, and a graduate of the College of Philadel- phia (now the University of Pennsyl- vania), and he also studied at the Uni

in "Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution;" a sec- ond in Futhey and Copes' "History of Chester County;" a third in Volume 14 of the second Series of Pesnnsylvania Archives, and a fourth in the recently- issued Register of the Sons of the Revolution. The first three are com- paratively modern, while

. In the following year Lancaster was laid I out and made the county seat. In 1742 the place was incorporated as a borough. In 1754 it contained 500 houses I and 2,000 inhabitants. Ten years later it contained 600 houses. In 1784 it had 900. In 1799 Lancaster became I the capital of the State and

with him and started homeward rode 2 tavers fed then to Hollis fed then to Doe run fed took supper then home at bed time." Evidences of Masonic Activity in This City One Hundred and Sixty-Four Years Ago. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of F. and A. M., of Pennsylvania, on St. John's day (last Tuesday

credit even upon us, who have suc- ceeded them. The erection of Franklin College in this German community one hundred and eleven years ago was a reaching out after the higher educa- tion, which it was felt ought to supple- ment the schools of minor grade al- ready established. There were such not only in

INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the

. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: 22 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.3 Location: LCHSJL

great truth take the words of the wise man and apply them to my case: Prov. 31: 10, 11, 12." That is a pas- sage that reflects infinite credit on her of whom it was written and on him who wrote it. I may add that in the Pennsylvania Freeman's Journal of September 4, 1782, only a few years after this

families who have lived .in this county three or four generations who have not in some obscure and neglected corner, in box, or chest or elsewhere, a store of old papers that have been handed down for a century or more. It may be they have not been looked at for a hun- dred years. Their present owners do