CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL'S HOME IN WHICH HE LIVED AND WROTE HIS DIARY IN YEAR 1777 AND 1781 INCLUSIVE By D. F. Magee, Esq. On the date of the Sesqui-Centennial of the meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster, September 6th, 1927, there was placed upon the eastern end of the home of Mrs. Mary

Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant

Lancaster county and in bringing its name to the forefront, as the home of patriots, scholars and statesmen, than any other section of like extent or ter- ritory within our county's limits. Not only have they made the name of Lancaster county famous throughout the boundaries of our State, but its fame is

), Jr., which marriage certified in full was as follows, together with the names of the witnesses appended thereto: " WHEREAS Daniel Fierie of the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, and Mary Carpenter, daughter of Henry Carpenter of the County and province aforesaid, spinster

Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

most of these names were fathers and sons in continuous business. I shall confine the contents of this paper mainly to three heads: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, to the makers of Lancaster county, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history

river. It is located in the State of Mary- land, and connects the west shore of Cecil County with the eastern shore of Harford County, between nigh roll- ing wood clad hills on either side, and overlooking from its lofty heights a scene of beauty that Charles Emory Smith, the then famous Editor of the

settlement and the estab- lishment of the many industries, especially the iron manufacture in its several forms', and the clearing of the forest primerval that covered this vast tract of fertile lands included in the Townships of Bart, .Sadsbury, Coleraine, Little Britain in Lancaster County, and parts of

landing point at the �lower Hotel on the Lancaster County side, and the greater part of the shore available for landing on the York County side, together with warehouses and other bulidings on York Count y side and the hotel property on the Lancaster County side. Later the Hotel property was sold off at