went in turns from the East to the West. There was an effort made to orga- nize an amateur press association in Lancaster county, and the subject was well ventilated in its several papers; but the project fell through, owing, in part, to slower communica- tion in 1877 than now existing, when trolley

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

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the

Quaker, along with his uncle, bought a large �tract of wild land on the Patapsco river, in Maryland, in 1770, when An- drew was sixteen years old, and four years later, in 1774, erected dwellings and mills on it, and then and there founded the town of "Ellicott's Mills." Young Ellicott was of a

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

): Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [175]-194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.11

building in this county, and the country et large. A New Highway Called For. The foregoing brief account of the early road making has been prepared as introductory to an attempt made by the people of this city and county in 1770 to have a new King's highway built between Lancaster and Philadel- phia, by a

. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Goddell, Mary. Other Author(s): Zahm, Matthias, 1789-1874. Title: An old diary / by Miss Mary Goddell. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Zahm, Matthias, 1789-1874 --Diaries. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social

.) Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1908 Description: [71]-81 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.12 Location

, 1800, the above mentioned persons were admitted within two years after Lancaster county began caring for its own poor people. °Ellis and Evans, p. 212. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Bausman, Lottie M. Title: An old receipt book