William Henry's home. For a brief biography of Col. Henry, the reader is referred to Vol. 11, pp. 303-27, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. �Bronze tablet erected July 17th, 1931, on the building at No. 47-49 South Queen street, Lancaster, by The Lancaster County Historical

great inland peninsula between the Delaware and Susquehanna is brought before The Lancaster County Historical Society. Herrman's map of the Lower Susquehanna Valley was pub- lished with a paper entitled "The Location of the Susquehanna Fort" by D. H. Landis, in Vol. XIV, pp. 81-117, of the Proceed- ings

, with and on which he entertained many of his friends. The life and character of Donald Cameron are intimately connected with this house-boat ; as is a human interest incident worthy of place in Lancaster County history. The record of these subjects comes from Mrs. Mary Calder Appel, of Lancaster, who

than be on a bloody battlefield, ever thinking of their homes from which they were herded, never to see them again, the Hessian Ditch stands out as one of the historical features of Lancaster County. During the Revolution, when the furnaces of southeastern Pennsylvania were busy casting cannon, shot

, spread far and wide, and as a special designation that went with them they were called Conestoga horses, and the wagons were called Conestoga wagons, named after a creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where many large horses were bred. There was no particular line of blood to be followed, for a large

educated than most of the youth of Donegal. He was employed in the office of Prothonotary at Read- ing for two years. In 1766 he took a step which was to determine his ca- reer; he landed a clerkship with Curtis and Peter Grubb at the Hopewell Forges on the Hammer Creek, Lancaster County; he had entered

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

. The only record pertaining to the graveyard was that of Dec. 21, 1777, which says, "The question arose, where shall the dead be buried if any die in the lazaret? Later, after consultation with the Committee on Temporal Affairs, we determined to set apart a corner of our lowermost field." Unfortunately