known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in

-attended meeting of inhabitants of Lan- caster county was held in the court house in Lancaster on Wednes- day, August 22nd, 1827. John Lightner was appointed chairman, and Jacob Hibshman and N. W. Sample secretaries) A committee, consisting of G. B. Porter, John R. Montgomery, John Rohrer, John Hoover

nurses, and many inhab- itants died. Subscriptions for the relief of sufferers were solicited in the principal cities of the country. Lancaster city and county, never behind in deeds of mercy and charity, responded to the call for assistance from the afflicted inhabitants of the two Virginia towns. A

fund of useful �information to men of science, and afford great pleasure to readers of every description." Der Americanische Staatsbothe and Lancaster Anzeigs-Nach- richten, of Wednesday, June 27th, 1804, a newspaper published in German, as its title indicates, contained the following : "Baron Von

Lancaster, which at that time was the capital of Pennsylvania. In a letter dated Pittsburg, February 22, 1810, and addressed to his friend and instructor Alexander Lawson, he refers to his sojourn in Lancaster in these words: 'From this first stage of my ornithological pilgrimage, I sit down, with pleasure