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

- ing to do no great oppertunity of hearing debates Pet[i]tions for Turnpikes, fisheries, and Pensions seem to be the order of the day. Friday 13 Jany Bot a horse after some troubl[e] Started from Sleymakers in Lancaster at one o'clock afternoon for Pittsburgh. (From the Pennsylvania Magazine of History