. He had a for- tunate combination of qualities: Religious zeal, business enterprise and energy, administrative judgment and leadership. We like to think of John Wright, who named the county, started its first great business enterprise, governed its people and took active measures against encroachments

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

house is the oldest building in Strasburg to- day. The Pfoutz family later, in 1754, settled in the Pfoutz Valley, Perry County.8 The lives of Charles and Martha Pfoutz Cameron were a continuous struggle against poverty. The tailor trade which Charles established at Maytown was not sufficiently

." Hambletonian was foaled in 1849 and died in 1876. 11 Henry White, a former employee at the Speedwell Farms. A ravine immediately south of the race-track plateau, where the common carcasses were thrown, is known as the Luderloch (Carrion Valley). 12 Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lancaster County by

Conestoga Valley, and in despite of youthful opinions and modern innovations, many of the old-fashioned farmers cling to the use of the faithful horse that has so long been the boast and the pride of Lancaster County; and on occasions of public demonstration, such as cattle shows, fairs, political

, Philadelphia) shows, July 1, 1762, the following: Elizabeth Furnace and Lands 4000 pounds Charming Forge (Berks County), my half 3088 Lands and buildings in my possession 4451 Horses and retinue 208 Musical instruments 737 Store with 30 goods 887 Negro Cires (Cyrus) 80 Arms and 100 s.c. 102 Clothes and other

County Historical Society none has been in such general demand, from all over the country, as this. It was first read before the Historical Society on April 6, 1917. New paragraphs added to Mr. Magee's story are marked with this symbol-0, and were con- tributed by Dr. Herbert H. Beck, Mrs. Charles M

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who