fights at Trenton and �Princeton. On the north side are the names of the Donegal officers who participated in the Indian wars prior to the Revolution and also in the lat- ter conflict. The dedicatory services began at 11 o'clock, with an eloquent invocation by the Rev. George Wells Ely, which was

Bai- ley, from 1784 to brecht & Lahn, in 1790; 1787; Steimer, Albrecht Al- & Co., from 1790 to 1799; William & Robert Dickson, 1796; Christian Jacob Hutter, from 1799 to 1802; John Al- brecht, from 1800 to 1806; George and Peter Albrecht, from 1806 to 1808; Henry and Benjamin Grimler, from 1804 to

of February, 1802, entitled 'An act to direct the manner,time and piace of holding elec- tions for Eiectors of President and Vice President of the United States.' "Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Lancaster, this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

out the new lands, open up trade with the natives and to advance the interests of France generally. Before his return he visited Vera Cruz, the City of Mexico, and the Isthmus of Panama, where "his bold and active mind conceived the plan of a ship canal across the 5Francis Parkman, �Isthmus." In all

fifty-five guns were a most valuable addition to the be- sieging army and preparations were at once made to bombard Boston, but circumstances changed the plans. As a reward Knox was made a Briga- dier General of artillery, and until the close of the war was in command of that arm of the service. From

sup- plies of clothing for his soldiers. On May 18, the Supreme Executive Council of the State, sitting at Lan- caster, had a letter before it, from General Washington. The Command- er-in-Chief urged the necessity of a supply of arms for General Wayne's Division, and requested that about 300 stand

from the eastern part of this State to the country around the Ohio river, and who were also closely allied with the Iroquois Confederacy, or Six Nations. But their trade ex- tended northward to the Great Lakes and southward into Kentucky and Tennessee. The breaking out of the French and Indian War, in

Philadelphia, in 1816. It is found on page 47: "In the town of Lancaster, a place at that time (circa A. D., 1750) remark- able for its wealth, and which had the reputation of possessing the best and most intelligent Society to be then found in America. It was chiefly in- habited by Germans, who, of all people