- more, ss.: Be it remembered that on this eight- eenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, personally appear- ed before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the City aforesaid, Edward Gorsuch, party to the above manumission or

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

third is that of Henry Robert Reed, his fath- er, dated 1816. Mr. Ford's portrait was painted in 1812, and is, therefore, one of the earliest of the artist's works. A very considerable cluster of Eich- holtz portraits and the relations of a notable Lancaster family have been traced to and through Mr

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

friend. Why have I been so late acquainted with you? I regret the lost time of my dwelling in Lancaster, before your acquaintance. You possess all the qualities requiring in true friendship. How obliging you are! How gener- ous, and careful! From every line of �your letter flows something so de- licious

Carpenter and James Wright as a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, Hiltzheimer kept on buying and trading horses, attending barbecues and burials, drinking punch and buy- ing old furniture at widows' vendues; but something moved him to come to Lancaster on May 13, 1768. He set out before sunrise, and

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County