LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE VARIOUS WARS, In all the wars of our country Lan- caster county was always among the first to respond. In 1744 a company was raised in the Conestoga Valley for defense against the French in the war of France and Spain with England. Two companies were raised in Lan- caster

and Mount Joy Street Railway Company; Lancaster and Eastern Street Railway Company; Elizabethtown and Florin Street Railway Company; Christiana and Coatesville Street Railway Company. Recorded in Lancaster County, Charter Book, volume 6, page 438. Signed by Governor Gifford Pinchot, Secretary of the

(TRANSLATION.) 17 43 HERE LIES BURIED SAMUEL MILLER OLD JACOB MILLER'S SON. ALSO HIS WEDDED WIFE WHO WAS NAMED MAGDALENA HE LIVED WITH HER IN MATRIMONY 46 YEARS AND 18 DAYS. XHE DIED THE 4TH NOVEMBER 1739. HER FULL AGE WAS 78 YEARS '9 MONTHS AND 14 DAYS 1743. �1742 HIR LICHT BEGRA- BEN DER ALTE JACOB MILLER GE

month, but not the moon movements. It is difficult to determine definitely just what date the first clocks were made in this county. Tradition would place it, in one or two instances, early in the 1750's, and, while we know to a certainty that at least three men who later made many clocks were in

MADAME MARY FERREE AND THE HUGUENOTS OF LANCASTER COUNTY As we gaze over the beautiful landscape which surrounds this spot, memory unconsciously turns back to a far-off time, when a handful of French emigrants took up their abode upon it. To this land they came to better their condition and in