protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork

set them up in vacant places, and having gleaned the town, silently stole away." Many are familiar with Mathew B. Brady's gallery on wheels as he followed the fortunes of the Union Army in the field, and gave us a pictorial history of the great conflict. One such wagon 12 Lancaster Intelligencer

sick, preaching and baptizing. Saturday, February 27, he journeyed to "Mr. [Henry William] Stiegel's iron works. Preached there on Psalm 22: 26, 27, and spent the night."1 On Sunday, he rode seven miles with Mr. Stiegel to Ephrata, and then three miles more to the "Canes- toge" church, where he also

others. James Hamilton laid out the town of Lancaster at the request of the proprietaries, but there is no record of a petition direct from the citizens for establishing a borough. Perhaps Hamilton's influence shows here. In and about Lancaster, as early as 1730, we find some licensed, at a tax of twenty

. 398. 2 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 36, p. 226. 3 Tradition tells us that this youthful post rider, Christian Wolf, while in Philadelphia in 1777, awaiting the mail for the journey to Lancaster, learned of the adoption by Congress of an American flag. He hastened on the return

Hills from about 1740 to about 1895. The Cornwall Furnace used charcoal until it went out of blast in 1883. (Cornwall Records, Edward M. Patton). After the decline of the local furnaces some charcoal was still made for blacksmiths and tin- smiths. Recently published accounts of Pennsylvania Iron

The Conestoga Horse By JOHN STROHM (1793-1884) AND HERBERT H. BECK. The Conestoga horse and the Conestoga wagon were evolved in and about that part of southeastern Pennsylvania which, before it was named Lancaster County, was known as Conestoga. The region was named for a river that has its main