Pennsylvania in progress between 1834 and 1839. Later he studied law, practicing in the counties of Lancaster and York. But the promise of an active and brilliant career was frustrated by an attack of paralysis when he was but thirty-five years of age. The Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad, noted

, to continue his weekly stages, setting out every Thursday morning during the summer. Letters for Lancaster, York or Cumberland counties, and for the back parts of Virginia or for the army should be brought to the office before nine o'clock on Thursday mornings." It is evident that Lancaster was a

hours and five minutes—an astounding feat for that day. He was the trusted engineer of the "Clearfield," one of the fastest locomotives of the line. His fireman, William F. Lockard, later became a high official of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1850, Mr. Franciscus was employed by the New York and Erie

Life of William, Penn. Philadelphia, 1852. Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County. Description of the Prov- ince, pp. 59-71; Frames of Government, pp. 16-45 Appendix. Pound, Arthur. The Penns of Pennsylvania and England. New York, 1932. Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties. Lancaster

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

, �and made a tour of the county and some other parts of the state, continuing his business as an itinerant daguerreotypist for many years. When the war broke out in 1861, though fifty-one years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was hurt badly in a charge in

"to whom the English were under greater obliga- tion for valuable service and strict fidelity than Andrew Montour." The name persists in Pennsylvania annals through Montoursville and Montour County. �Prior Treaties Claims to a vast portion of the western continent were made by European monarchs

Heritage.” Published by the Commonweatlh of Pennsylvania, Department of Internal Affairs, 1944, p. 166. 25 Mombert’s Authentic History of Lancaster County, p. 486. �90 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY was tempered by spade, and trampled by men in their bare feet. When in proper plastic condition, the

County, can lay claim to a brief priority; the former by eight years, the second and third by one year. Early records show that Mary Prator, of Earl Township, in her will of April 11, 1741, bequeathed "to the Popish Church at Lancaster Borough the sum of two pounds, for the use and at the disposal of the

. HARTMAN was born two and a half miles east of Harrisburg, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1830. His father, who was a �farmer, died when Samuel was a mere child leaving the mother penniless with eight children—five boys and three girls—looking to her for support. An uncle of the children brought

, 111. 17 History of Chester County, Cope, 1881, p. 670. 18 Rupp's History of Lancaster and York Counties, p. 551. 19 Ellis and Evans' History, p. 363. �58 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOHN CHRISTOPHER DRAENKEL (TRINGLE) #38, 51 was a member of Trinity Church, and presented to the congregation in