known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

-attended meeting of inhabitants of Lan- caster county was held in the court house in Lancaster on Wednes- day, August 22nd, 1827. John Lightner was appointed chairman, and Jacob Hibshman and N. W. Sample secretaries) A committee, consisting of G. B. Porter, John R. Montgomery, John Rohrer, John Hoover

nurses, and many inhab- itants died. Subscriptions for the relief of sufferers were solicited in the principal cities of the country. Lancaster city and county, never behind in deeds of mercy and charity, responded to the call for assistance from the afflicted inhabitants of the two Virginia towns. A

fund of useful �information to men of science, and afford great pleasure to readers of every description." Der Americanische Staatsbothe and Lancaster Anzeigs-Nach- richten, of Wednesday, June 27th, 1804, a newspaper published in German, as its title indicates, contained the following : "Baron Von

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of distillers of Lancaster county was held at John Whiteside's tavern, in the borough of Lancaster, on Saturday, November 11th, 1815. Jacob Miller was appointed chairman, and John Rohrer secretary.' The distillers met for the purpose of preparing a petition to be circulated

secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: "I still continue in Lancaster county, in Pennsylvania, as there is no clergyman near that place, tho' I meet with a great deal of opposition ; neither can I yet have any church." Before June, 1749, the Rev. Mr. Locke, doubtless