Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

Brethren's Church or Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) . He came to Pennsylvania in 1741, preached at Germantown for some time, established congregations at Beth- lehem, Nazareth and Lititz, promoted Christian communistic set- tlements, and preached at different points in Lancaster County, Pa. Zinzendorf

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

Clockmaker's Company of London, and advertised this clock extensively �in "Commonwealth Mercury," a newspaper of London, on November 25, 1661. A picture of a Fromanteel clock in appearance is almost an exact counterpart of most of our Lancaster County grandfather clocks, which were first made in this county

December, 1847, and were buried on the same day. I History of Lancaster County, by Ellis and Evans, 1883, page 374. 2 An Authentic History of Lancaster County, by J. I. Mombert, D.D., 1869, page 426. �Others living in this block were Herman Hirsh, Philip A. Metzger, Susan Carpenter Frazer, Elizabeth B

, and his enthusiasm *The year is not given in the original paper. Probably, it should be 1785. f In 1763 Richard McAllister founded McAllister's Town, later known as Hanover, York County, Pa. ‡Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, 1883, p. 187. §Ibid, p. 225. �for the enterprise spread

g!lllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllll!: PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLI 1937 No. 1 The Water Supply of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "Ho, every one

, the following of local interest are described: Chart Name of Surveyed Y ear No. of County No. Manor for of Acres of Hempfield Proprietaries 1720 2,816 Lancaster 11 Conestoga William Penn 1717 16,000 Lancaster 23 Freame Thomas Freame 1741 10,000 Lancaster (On the Swatara Creek.) (now Dauphin or Lebanon